Difference between revisions of "Shallan Davar"

Shallan grew up as the only daughter in the minor noble family. After first manifesting her [[Surgebinding]] abilities, her mother and her lover attempted to kill her, forcing to Shallan to fatally wound her mother out of self-defense. HerWhile her brothers were unaware of the Shallan's part in the death of her mother, her father was aware that his daughter killed her. Shallan's father, [[Lin Davar]], took responsibility for the murder of [[Shallan's actionmother]], showing that that he did care for her daughter. After dealing with public scrutiny and the slow decline of his family, Lin Davar became an abusive father and would often beat his sons and servants, even blaming Shallan for his actions. {{book ref|wor|88}} Fed up with her father's abuse, sheShallan and her brotherbrothers arranged his death and eventually successfully murdered their own father.

While Shallan had a poor relationship with her parents, she seemed to have a close relationship with all four of her brothers. Out of all of them, she seemed to be closest to her eldest sibling, [[Helaran]]. Helaran was shown to constantly bring gifts for Shallan and even visited the house despite his poor relationship with his father. When she was informed of her brother's visits, Shallan would often look forward to his company and the gifts he would bring for her. After learning about the death of Helaran at the hands of Kaladin, Shallan became extremely depressed and even briefly resented the dark-eyed soldier, later revealed to be [[Kaladin]], responsible for his death. While not as close with her other brother, [[Balat]], Shallan careddeeply cares for him and was shown to often communicate with him often despite his disturbing fixation with killing small animals. Shallan was shown to be the only one to care for her other brother, [[Jushu]], when he suffered from his gambling addiction, even going as far as to sell her Soulcasted necklace and convince her brothers to give up their daggers to pay off his debt. While this did not pay all of his debt, Shallan convinced the debt collectors to let him go by sharing that he comforted her when her mother died. {{book ref|wor|48}} After this, the two siblings became much closer to one another. [[Wikim]], the twin brother of Jushu, was often the target of their father's abuse and Shallan would often comfort him during his periods of depression. She was shown to be able to cheer him up by gifting him with sheets of mathematics.{{book ref|wor|45}} Despite not being to close with Wikim, Shallan still cares for her brother.

Despite her miserable childhood, Shallan had maintained a amicable personality until she was forced to confront her past. It is likely that the confrontation of her past experiences with her family, namely her parents, triggered the manifestation of her dissociative identity disorder.

When Jasnah resurfaced and eventually made her way to [[Urithiru]], Shallan was relieved to know that the scholar was not dead. Jasnah expected that Shallan would continue her duties as a ward; however, Shallan did not really want to return to her old role. While attending meetings of the Knights Radiant, Shallan expressed her frustrations with the scholar and even displayed her annoyance when around Jasnah. Despite this, Shallan and Jasnah still remain on good terms. Eventually Shallan even proposed the idea that Jasnah should be crowned queen of [[Alethkar]] following the death of the former king, [[Elhokar]].

Shallan and [[Kaladin]] are the first two publicly-revelealed [[Knights Radiant]] in centuries. They initially had a strained relationship. During their first meeting, Shallan was forcedconvinced by [[Tyn]] to lie to Kaladin, leading to her humiliating Kaladin and taking his new boots. During their later meetings, Shallan believed that she was being treated unfairly by Kaladin, who was holding a grudge against her for events beyond her control. This clash of personalities is reflected in their respective spren, as the [[Cryptic]]s and [[honorspren]] (to which Kaladin's spren [[Syl]] belongs) are involved in a complex spren conflict.

Later, when stranded in the chasms of the [[Shattered Plains]], they grew to respect and admire one another. They reveal some of their personal history and deep secrets to each other, including the fact that Shallan has a Shardblade. Due to this time, they both suspect each other of being a Knight Radiant. While Shallan and Kaladin both showed some romantic interest in one another towards the end of the second book, both of their feelings for one another seemseemed to have dissipated by the end of the third book. After learning that Kaladin killed her eldest brother, Helaran, Shallan has mixed-feelings towards him.

[[Adolin Kholin]] was causally betrothed to Shallan after Jasnah proposesproposed marriage between the two adolescents to secure the stability the Shallan needed for her family. She acceptsaccepted the offer, hoping to use his power to save her family. They meet on the [[Shattered Plains]] and Shallan is immediately smitten by his looks. As they spent more and more time with one another, Shallan was quickly able to bebecome comfortable around Adolin, sharing her true self with him and even revealing her identity as a Knight Radiant to him. After Shallan revealsrevealed herself to be a Knight Radiant, he teaches her how to fight with a [[Shardblade]]. The two have shown a profound amount of trust for one another as seen when they both exchange their deepest, darkest secrets with one another. Shallan revealed to Adolin that she suffers from dissociative identity disorder due to her dark childhood while Adolin shared his part in the murder of Highprince [[Torol Sadeas]]. At the end of [[Oathbringer]] they are married by the Vorin church. {{book ref|sa3|122}}

Shallan first met [[Wit]] atas a child while attending the [[Middlefest Fair]] about three years ago when he comforted her after she became distraught while thinking about the state of her family and the seemingly dark dealings her father was involved in. Since then, Shallan is shown to think highly of the court jester and seems to be the few people able to tolerate him in Roshar. She was even excited to see him again when they encountered one another in the Shattered Plains as seen when she affectionately hugged him much to the surprise of Adolin and Kaladin. {{book ref|wor|55}}