Difference between revisions of "Rysn Ftori"

 

== Appearance and Personality ==

Rysn has the long, white eyebrows typical to the Thaylen that she tucks behind her ears. She wears a glove on her [[safehand]], although she finds the practice of covering safehands a silly tradition resulting from [[Vorin]] cultural dominance. She usually prefers to wear vests over long-sleeved shirts and ankle-length skirts.{{book ref|twok|i|4}}

 

Five months into her apprenticeship, Rysn traveled with her [[babsk]] to [[Shinovar]]. There, they offered [[Soulcast]] metal, which the Shin valued highly because no stone was broken in the process of acquiring it, in exchange for chickens, cloths, and exotic dried meats.

Rysn thought Shinovar very strange because of its different plant life, lack of [[spren]] and strange culture. She called the Shin grass imbecilic, and couldn't understand how it survived [[Highstorm]]s. Her babsk made her take a pot of it and told her to care for it until she no longer found it odd, claiming that it would make her a better trader.

 

Despite Rysn's initial concerns, the goods they bought from the Shin proved to be very profitable. Rysn ended up naming her pot of grass ''[[Tyvnk]]'' -- meaning "sullen" in Thaylen -- because, rather than being sullen at being so overtly wrong while Vstim was right, she let her grass be so.{{book ref|sa2|i|2}}

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Rysn and Vstim's next adventure was in the [[Reshi Sea]]. They made their way with a caravan of sixteen longboats laden with people and goods purchased cheaply in lands rimming the [[Purelake]], guided by a Purelaker named [[Gu]]. Rysn acted as the trademaster because of Vstim's sickness. Rysn was astonished to learn that the "islands" the [[Reshi]] lived on were really the backs of gargantuan [[greatshell]]s called [[Tai-na]]. Like in Shinovar, she viewed local customs as primitive and was dismissive of them. Once they landed, Vstim told Rysn that she would have to trade with the Reshi. Vstim's illness made him weak, and that would ruin the deal. He told Rysn that the Reshi appreciated strength boldness. On her way with [[Kylrm]] and [[Nlent]] to the meeting with the Reshi trademaster, she saw people jumping from the shell of the Tai-na to the sea. An [[Aimian]] named [[Axies the Collector]], who was hanging upside down and tied by his feet to a shell nearby as a punishment for asking the king about the soul of his god, informed her that the Reshi did this to show their courage. Rysn continued climbing all the way up to the head of the ''Tai-na'' to meet the King, who, to Rysn's surprise, turned out to be a woman. A man named [[Talik]] spoke for the King and introduced their island's god as [[Relu-na]], then asked why Vstim was not attending. Rysn informed him she was authorized to handle the trade, but Talik told her that the deal was off. Rysn continued trying to convince Talik to take the deal, and managed to impress the king enough to speak with her directly, although all she did was inform Rysn that she would not complete the trade, choosing instead to wait for Vstim to recover from his illness. Rysn, believing that Vstim's illness was fatal, was desperate to close the deal. Deciding there was only one way to show her boldness, she climbed down the rope used to feed the Tai-na and pleaded her case directly to the island's god. She hung there for a time in direct disobedience with the King's orders, but Relu-na's motions to catch the rope snapped it in two, leaving Rysn to fall. For a split second she saw the greatshell's eye, then felt a rush of wind as she crashed into the sea, then fell unconscious.

 

* The writing process of one of Rysn's interludes in ''[[Words of Radiance]]'' were recorded and released as a series of YouTube videos.{{url ref|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSH_xM-KC3ZviGuhA9pT7ETB481Fw-VEL|text=Brandon's livestream|site=Youtube|date=29 Jun 2014}}

* [[Brandon Sanderson|Brandon]] wants to have an interlude with Rysn every book, though each book can only have so many interludes and there may not always be enough slots for her.{{wob ref|1992}}

 

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