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'''Shallan Davar''' (<small>Alethi pronunciation:</small> [[Wikipedia:Help:IPA|[ʃə·ˈlan dəˈvar]]] [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key|''sha-'''<small>LAN</small>''' da-'''<small>VAR</small>''''']]), also known as '''Veil''' and '''Radiant''', is a [[lighteyed]] [[Order of Lightweavers|Lightweaver]] of the [[Knights Radiant]] from [[Jah Keved]]. Shallan is an emerging scholar whose greatest achievement is the discovery of the legendary city [[Urithiru]]. She is also renowned for her extraordinary talent of accurately reproducing even fleeting scenes with photographic accuracy. This ability, however, is affected by the presence of the [[Unmade]].
Hailing from a mid-level noble house in Jah Keved, Shallan
Ever since childhood, Shallan has shared a bond with the [[Cryptic]] [[Pattern]], allowing her to manifest Pattern as a [[Shardblade]]. Years later, this bond also allows her to access her powers as a [[Surgebinder]]. Eventually, during the [[Battle of Narak]], her bond with Pattern allows her to become the first Lightweaver to be revealed as a Knight Radiant since the Recreance.
After spending more time with [[Jasnah]], Shallan found that she was enjoying her warship with Jasnah but it was also becoming increasingly harder for to steal her Soulcaster. She later received word from her family in [[Jah Keved]] via [[spanreed]] that the servant in their household who knew how to field the [[fabrial]] had died in their sleep and men were also visiting the house to ask about the whereabouts of their secretly deceased father and the Soulcaster they came to collect. Pressured by the news, Shallan came to the conclusion that she must steal the fabrial soon but was still uneasy about plan.{{book ref|twok|29}} While out for a stoll, Shallan witnessed Jasnah Soulcast four street thugs by turning ones essence into fire, another into pure quartz, and even two into smoke as they attempted to flee the scholar. After the ordeal, Shallan finally mustered the courage to steal the Soulcaster as she felt Jasnah did not deserve such a tool. {{book ref|twok|36}}
Shallan
==== Discovering her Surgebindings ====
When they arrive at the source of the smoke, Shallan and the slavers encountered [[Tyn]] and [[[Vethat]], the leader of a group of deserters, fleeing from a battle between a group of bandits. After using stormlight to make herself appear more noble, Shallan convinced the deserters to fight, and they eventually win the battle but not without losing a few deserters and [[Bluth]], one of Tvlakv's mercenaries that Shallan had become fond of. {{book ref|wor|20}}{{book ref|wor|21}} She later freed the parshmen that had been enslaved and offered them a job as servants.
Shallan quickly becomes a prominent figure among the deserters and even befriends a few of them, including [[Gaz]] and [[Red]], as they respect her and are grateful for the words of encouragement she gave to them prior to their battle. Shallan promised to grant them a pardon for their desertion, but they doubted she would hold her word. After receiving a summons from Tyn, the con artist
As Tyn continued to teach Shallan the skills needed to be a con artist, she gave advice to Shallan on how to approach Adolin, believing their marriage arrangement to be a love scam, and tells Shallan that she would like to introduce her to her associates. {{book ref|wor|30}} When Tyn is reading a [[spanreed]] from her associates, she discovered that Shallan is truly who she claimed she was and demanded to know if Jasnah is really dead from the shipwreck, revealing herself to be connected to Jasnah's assassins. Shallan is quickly attacked by Tyn, but [[Pattern]] distracted the con artist long enough to conjure an illusion to catch her by surprise and summon her Shardblade to kill Tyn. When Vathat, Gaz, and the other deserters enter the tent, Shallan revealed her Sharblade and assumed command of the group, telling them to search through Tyn's belongings. While reading the message written from the spanreed, Shallan realizes that Tyn's associates were actually the Ghostbloods and they ask if Tyn is ready for another job which Shallan readily accepts, under the pretense that she is Tyn. {{book ref|wor|34}}
Shallan retrieves clothing and spheres from Tyn belongings while Vathat and the deserters burn Tyn and her boydguards' bodies and their remaining belongings. They finally arrive to the Shattered Plains where they encounter Kaladin who is acting as the bodyguard of Elhokar, the Alethi king. When Shallan attempts to announce her identity and betrothal to Alodin, Kaladin brings up her previous lie where she claimed to be a [[Horneater]] princesss, which Shallan argues she said to remain anonymous. Shallan quickly provided the documents including Jasnah's handwriting and requested for its authenticity to be analyzed by [[Navani Kholin]], Jasnah's mother. Kaladin soon returned and summoned Shallan to enter the palace where Elhokar is in a conference with his uncle, [[Dalinar Kholin]]. {{book ref|wor|36}}
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Entering the palace, Shallan would meet Dalinar and Navani Kholin, the latter whom almost immediately disapproved of the girl. Shallan retold the moments leading to Jasnah's death, leaving out the fact that she Soulcasted ''Wind's Pleasure''. Navani berated Shallan when she told them that she set fire to ship in order to prevent the assassins from killing her and escaping. Dalinar defended Shallan's actions and Navani quickly apologized before leaving the room. Shallan then gave Dalinar a quick recount of her journey to the Shattered Plains and informed him of Jasnah's proposal to marry Adolin to the young girl. Adolin comes to meet Shallan, and the two exchange awkward introductions. When Shallan first laid her eyes Adolin, she was almost immediately attracted to the young prince. Seeing that the two were interested in one another, Dalinar agreed to the betrothal but postponed their marriage for a later date.
Several highprinces enter the room, interrupting their discussion, and they begin to resume their meeting. When the highprinces became of Shallan's appearance, they begin to argue with one another to gain intel from the Veden noble. Not wanting to be used by the highprinces, Shallan lies by saying that she had already accepted the invitation to stay with [[Turinad Sebarial]], one of the Alethi highprinces. Despite knowing that she lied, Sebarial played along with her deception, knowing that it would upset the other highprinces. Before she left the palace, Shallan obtained writ of pardon as she promised for the deserters, something they are grateful for.{{book ref|wor|38} For the duration of her stay in the Shattered Plains, Shallan would live in Highprince Sebarial's warcamp along with his mistress [[Palona]]. {{book ref|wor|40}}
==== Infiltration of the Ghostbloods ====
While staying in Sebarial's warcamp, Shallan taught Pattern more about the human language and how to better communicate. As she was teaching the spren, she later received a message from the Ghostbloods informing her that Tyn would be expected to attend a meeting with her employers later that evening. Shallan informs them that she (Tyn) is sick and that the con artist would send her apprentice in her place. Shallan used her Lightweaving abilities to conjure a disguise as the [[darkeyed]] apprentice named Veil who would come in Tyn's place. {{book ref|wor|42}}
Shallan, disguised as Veil, arrived at the tenement building where she would meet the Ghostbloods. She met a man known as [[Mraize]], who initially doubted her identity. When she successfully convinced the assassin, she met five other Ghostbloods including a masked woman, later known as [[Iyatil]]. Mraize infroms Shallan that her next target would be [[Amaram]] and she would need to scavenge for new information in his manor. As Shallan leaves the meetingplace, Pattern informed her that she was being tailed by the masked woman. Shallan successfully loses her by using her Lighweaving abilities to conjure a wall to hide her. After her stormlight dissipated, Shallan ditched her disguise and stealthily returned to Sebarial's warcamp. {{book ref|wor|43}}
==== Date with her Betrothed ====
When Adolin and Kaldin, the latter serving as the former's bodyguard, arrived to meet with Shallan at Sebarial's warcamp, Shallan is excited to see that [[Wit]] was their carriage driver. Shallan reveals that she had a past relationship with Wit as the court jester comforted her when she was a child. As Wit quickly disappears, the Shallan and Adolin decide to go visit the local menagerie. Despite being in the company of the stony-faced bodyguard, Shallan found that she enjoyed flirting with her Adolin. {{book ref|wor|55}}
==== Battle of Narak and Aftermath ====
As the [[Parshendi]]] arrived to battle the Alethi, Shallan was asked to leave with the other civilians. Shallan proclaimed that the Oathgates were real and JAsnah believed so do. While reluctant, Dalinar orders a group of soldiers to accompany Shallan while she looks for the oathgates as they may be needed should things worsen. {{book ref|wor|80}} After realizing that the Oathgate was a large fabrial, Shallan revealed herself to be a Knight Radiant and asked for them to give her their stormlight-infused spheres. Shallan discovered the long forgotten city known as Urithiru after consuming a large amount of stormlight and using her shardblade to open the Oathgate, making her the first person to use in centuries. {{book ref|wor|86}}
When Shallan returned to her room, she received a letter form the Ghostbloods informing her that they were aware of her true identity and her association with the Knight Radiant. They tell her that she would now be working for them despite Shallan's duty as a Knight Radiant. She later meets with [[Mraize]], who informs her that she would be acting as the broken soulcaster they still needed from her family. When Shallan threatens the assassin, he informs her that she will need their assistance if she wanted to protect her family and learn more about the Knight Radiant and their organization. Shallan decides that she will work as both a Radiant and a member of the Ghostbloods. {{book ref|wor|89}}
Shallan, Kaladin, Dalinar, and Renarin, all reveal themselves to be the first new Knight Radiants in centuries. Now that the Knight Radiant had been reformed, she was tasked by Dalinar to save as many as people as they could before the impending [[Desolation]]. {{book ref|wor|89}}
=== Urithiru (1773-1774) ===
Adolin and Shallan build their relationship while in the tower city. Adolin begins to teach her how to use a shardblade. Shallan cannot bring herself to use the blade so she creates a new personality, one she calls Brightness Radiant or just Radiant, to take on while using the shardblade. {{book ref|sa3|15}}
Dalinar asked her to learn as much as she can about her powers. She begins to better control her creations and can now cause them to move. She puts on a play for Pattern using just her
==== Veil's Investigation ====
==== Encounter with Re-Sephir ====
With Adolin and Bridge Four's help she attacks the Unmade. She forces the Unmade out of Rep-Shephir. While Shallan recovers from her encounter with the Unmade, Adolin barges into her room to inform her that
==== Jasnah's Return ====
After Jasnah comes back and Shallan realizes that she is still her ward Shallan begins to dislikes it.{{book ref|sa3|33}} She schemes on ways to get out of it. As Veil she meets [[Ishnah]], who was once a spy, and begins to learn from her{{book ref|sa3|25}}{{book ref|sa|40}}. While training, Vathat and the others are revealed be potential squires under Shallan. As Isnah teaches her how to observe her surroundings, Shallan realizes he is late for her meeting and runs and begrudgingly continues her duties as a scribe. When [[Renarin]] is being taunted by [[Janala]], Shallan stood up for him, which he greatly appreciated. The two get closer and she begins to realize her way out of Urithiru after Renarin tells her that she should stand up to Jasnah more or just not be around her anymore. {{book ref|sa3|44}} She managed to convince Elhokar to let her go and help take back Kholinar after offering herself and her spies to accompany the king and telling him that they are not Dalinar's subjects and they can do as they please {{book ref|sa3|51}}.
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When Shallan begins to doubt her actions taken to provide for the poor citizens in Holinar, [[Wit]] arrives and comforts her. While talking, they discuss the meaning of power, eventually giving Shallan the advice she needed to infiltrate the [[Cult of Moments]]. After this, he leaves her with the bill for the food he ate, much to her displeasure. {{book ref|sa3|68}}
While in Shadesmar, they find themselves accompanied by their now fully-sized sprens as well as [[Maya]], the dead spren tied to Adolin's Shardblade. {{book ref|sa3|88}}
==== Battle of
As they return to Kholinar, Shallan aids the army by summoning illusions of all the people she drew in her sketchbook to attract the Voidbringers. {{book ref|sa3|2}} During her period switching between Shallan, Veil and Radiant, Shallan has an identity crisis that borders on dissociate identity disorder, unable to determine which version of her is really herself. {{book ref|sa3|120}}
*Shallan has been confirmed to be bisexual.
*Shallan is the first person to interact with a [[Cryptic]] in centuries.
*Shallan is also the first person to utilize an Oathgate in centuries.
*Shallan is one of the first Knight Radiant belonging to the [[Order of Lightweavers]] in centuries.
== See Also ==
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