Difference between revisions of "Jasnah Kholin"

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=== Parshendi Betrayal ===

She attended the feast that was held in the [[Kholinar]] Palace after the treaty with the Parshendi was signed in {{date|1167|EoS}}. While walking to a meeting with an assassin named [[Liss]] with the intention of having Elhokar's wife, [[Aesudan Kholin|Aesudan]], killed, she noticed her [[Spren|shadow]] behaving oddly which discomfited her. She walked past Highprince [[Torol Sadeas|Sadeas]] and a [[Shinovar|Shin]] [[Szeth-son-son-Vallano|servant in white clothing]], and subsequently came across her father and [[Meridas Amaram]] having a quiet conference. Once Amaram left, Jasnah asked Gavilar what he commanded Amaram, but Gavilar deflected the question and hastily left Jasnah, leading her to wonder if he knew about her plans regarding Aesudan. Walking onwards, Jasnah's shadow again acted oddly, and this time, formed into a man-shaped oily blackness with an unsheathed sword. In panic, Jasnah went into [[Shadesmar]] for the first time, and there the shadowy figure sheathed its sword in satisfaction, and Jasnah fell into the sea of glass beads. Before being drowned, she managed to find the glass bead corresponding to the Kholinar Palace, and using that as her guide, willed herself to rise to the surface. She stood upon a platform made of glass beads locked together. From the beads, she formed the corridor she stood in the [[Physical Realm]], and when the shadowy figure stepped onto her platform with its sword drawn, she formed a statue of [[Talenel|Talenelat'Elin]]. She confronted the figure, and it saluted her by raising two fingers to its head and bowing. After this, Jasnah returned to where she was in the Physical Realm, to find the spheres lining the walls of the hallway without [[Stormlight]].{{ref|b|sa2|prologue}}

 

 

=== Return to the Shattered Plains ===

During their days sailing, Shallan occasionally asked Jasnah about the Ghostbloods, but she claimed to know very little of them beyond the fact that they wanted her research, and were willing to kill for it. After the first few days of their journey, which she spent mostly in her cabin, Jasnah contacted Navani via spanreed, without informing Shallan, to ask whether Shallan's Soulcaster could be fixed. She also requested Navani arrange a betrothal between [[Adolin Kholin|Adolin]] and Shallan. Navani answered positively to both, however Dalinar stipulated he would not agree to marriage before Shallan and Adolin met. She also arranged a relatively small of money to be sent to the [[House Davar|Davar family]]. Later that day, she came up to the deck while they were traveling through the [[Longbrow's Straits]] to find Shallan watching a [[santhid]] that was following the ship even though she was supposed to be reading. She joined her ward, and started looking through her sketches. She came to a sketch of Shadesmar, and seeing it was bothering her, she explained the nature of Shadesmar and the spren to Shallan at length, showing a good understanding of the [[Realmatic Theory]]. She claimed that meeting was not an accident, that the spren had guided Shallan to her, and that the old ways were returning because spren sensed an impending danger and were trying to preserve themselves. When she mentioned that their attention must be on the Shattered Plains and the relics of Urithiru, and that it would be a long time before Shallan was able to return home, Shallan expressed worry about her family. Jasnah was hesitant and anxious to tell about the betrothal because she had not consulted Shallan beforehand, but she told Shallan about the arrangements she had made with her mother that morning. Rather than being offended like Jasnah had expected, Shallan was very happy about it. Seeing that, Jasnah relaxed and said she expected Shallan to be distressed because a marriage would mean the restriction of her freedom and being beholden to a man. She told she would let Navani know Shallan's response, and that they would have a [[causal betrothal]] in a day. Shallan was afraid that she wouldn't fit the Alethi court, but Jasnah told her that she would teach her, and then started teaching by explaining that perception of power is as important as welt or power to command armies or to Soulcast. After that, she left for her cabin, saying Shallan had the day free because she needed to consider how best to teach about Shadesmar. Soon afterward, she heard a commotion coming from the deck, and went back. She watched as Shallan had the sailors lower her into the water so she could take a look at the santhid underwater.{{ref|b|sa2|c|1}}