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|titles=Queen of [[Alethkar]]
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|groups={{tag|Knights Radiant}} <small>([[Order of Elsecallers|Elsecallers]])</small><br />{{tag|Veristitalian}}s
|born={{Rosharan date|1139}}{{book ref|sa1|3}}{{book ref|sa1|36}}
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|It strikes me that
|Jasnah on why she researches [[Voidbringers]]{{book ref|sa1|72}}
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'''Jasnah Kholin''' is the queen of [[Alethkar]] on [[Roshar]].{{book ref|sa3|122}} She is a [[Surgebinder]] and [[Elsecaller]], with access to the [[Surge|Surges]] of [[Transformation]] and [[Transportation]], sometimes called "Elsecalling."
== Appearance and Personality ==
=== Personality ===
{{quote
|You two are a pair of nails in the same
|[[Navani]] about [[Dalinar]] and [[Jasnah]]{{book ref|sa1|28}}
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Jasnah is generally a stern and serious person, although she occasionally shows a wry sense of humor,{{book ref|sa1|29}} and allows familiarity among those she is close with.{{book ref|sa3|15}} She sometimes acts in a brusque manner, and can be exceptionally rude when someone gets on her bad side.{{book ref|sa1|33}} She is determined, confident, and often stubborn.{{book ref|sa1|8}} She has a brilliant mind and shows wisdom and care in her studies.{{book ref|sa1|3}} She is very passionate about scholarship and wants others to share in her passion as well.{{book ref|sa1|29}} She often encourages her ward, Shallan, to come up with answers on her own, rather than simply giving them to her.{{book ref|sa1|36}} She considers history to be the most important literary sub art. She is prejudiced against the visual arts, going so far as to call them frivolities, although having Shallan as her ward may have changed her opinions on the subject.{{book ref|sa1|5}} She can be extremely tough and ruthless, as she showed when she killed four footpads that attacked her and Shallan. She harbors a deep hatred towards men like them, possibly because of something that has been done to her in the past.{{book ref|sa1|36}}
She has also been shown to have some sort of aversion to darkness, or at the very least shadows, as seen when she became uneasy while staring at a shadow.
Jasnah is an atheist.{{book ref|sa1|29}} This has caused her not an insignificant amount of problems and led to her being ostracized a bit, but she has never compromised in her beliefs for the sake of appearances.{{book ref|sa1|28}} While she is confident in her lack of faith in the [[devotary|devotaries]], like the true scholar that she is, she also always keeps an open mind to the possibility of being wrong. She is content to keep her beliefs to herself, and doesn't particularly care about converting anyone else.{{book ref|sa1|29}}
==== Transportation ====
Jasnah can transport herself into and out of the Cognitive Realm
==== Resonance ====
==== Parshendi-Voidbringer Theory ====
Jasnah was among the first to predict that the Parshendi were the Voidbringers and that the Desolation was coming,{{book ref|sa1|74}} along with organizations such as the [[Ghostbloods]] and the [[Diagram (literature)|Diagram]]. Until it was proven,{{book ref|sa2|81}} the theory relied heavily on metaphorical texts and folk tales, both thousands of years old and translated through many [[Wikipedia:Proto-language|proto-languages]].
== History ==
==== Parshendi Betrayal ====
In {{Rosharan date|1167}}, Jasnah attended the feast held in the [[Kholinar]] Palace after the signing of the Parshendi treaty. While walking to a meeting with an assassin named [[Liss]] with the intention of killing Elhokar's wife [[Aesudan Kholin|Aesudan]], she noticed her shadow pointing toward the light. 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 in quiet conference with [[Meridas Amaram]]. Once Amaram left, Jasnah asked Gavilar what he commanded Amaram, but Gavilar deflected the question and left hastily, leading her to wonder if he knew about her plans regarding Aesudan. Walking onward, Jasnah's shadow again acted oddly, and this time formed into a "man of midnight blacknes [with] a certain reflective cast, as if he were made of oil."{{book ref|sa2|prologue}} He carried an unsheathed sword. In panic, Jasnah went into [[Shadesmar]] for the first time. There, the shadowy figure sheathed its sword, and Jasnah fell into the sea of glass beads. Before she drowned, Jasnah managed to find the glass bead corresponding to the Kholinar Palace, and using that as her guide, willed herself to rise to the surface, standing on a platform of glass beads. From there, she formed the corridor she'd stood in before leaving 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 and bowed, then left. When Jasnah returned to the Physical Realm, all the spheres lining the hallway walls were dun.
Jasnah met with Liss but decided not to assassinate Aesudan, instead ordering Liss to survey her. Jasnah asked Liss about the servant she wanted to show off, but Liss answered that she had sold her Shin servant to a slaver weeks ago for being too good a slave. Hearing that the servant was Shin, Jasnah recalled the servant in white clothing and decided to look into him.{{book ref|sa2|prologue}}
Jasnah hesitated in returning to the party after she heard the music in the dining hall stop abruptly. She ran into two "ambassadors from the west": the one with the birthmark on his right cheek was [[Nale|Nalan]],{{book ref|sa2|99}} and his companion is widely believed to be [[Kalak]], deduced after process of elimination.{{
Hours later, they discovered that the admission and the surrender of those three of the [[Council of Five]] covered the escape of the rest of the Parshendi. Dalinar sent several failed expeditions after the escapees. After refusing to divulge information, the three Parshendi were hanged. Jasnah interrogated Liss and the King's guards about the Assassin in White to no avail, and for the next half-decade would turn to [[The Way of Kings/Epigraphs#Jasnah's Notes|ancient books]] for her answers.{{book ref|sa2|prologue}}
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. Jasnah contacted Navani via spanreed 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. She also arranged a relatively small amount of money to be sent to the [[House Davar|Davar family]]. It was on the ship that 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. Jasnah also explained about the perception of power.
Jasnah was seemingly murdered by either the Ghostbloods or mercenaries working for [[Tyn]]. Stabbed through the heart, she was able to escape to Shadesmar using the [[Surgebinding#Transportation|Surge of Transportation]], then heal herself with Stormlight.{{
=== Return to the Physical Realm (1173—) ===
After her travel through the Cognitive Realm, Jasnah returned to [[Urithiru]] to resume her fight against the [[Voidbringers]]. She attempted to rally the [[Vorin]] army, and took part in meetings with current Rosharan leaders. While she reunited with her former ward, [[Shallan]], Jasnah observed the girl's slow mental deterioration which Ivory also warned her about.{{book ref|sa3|53}} During this time, she also took notice of Renarin's strange behavior and began investigating his Nahel Bond and the proper spren for the [[Order of Truthwatchers]].{{book ref|sa3|53}}{{expand}}
When she later took notice of Renarin's strange behavior, Jasnah and Ivory realized that her cousin had bonded with a corrupted spren, a feat previously believed to be impossible. Jasnah decided she must kill her cousin, but failed to do so in the end; an event that leads Renarin to conclude that his visions can be wrong and that his father could prevail against Odium.{{book ref|sa3|53}}{{book ref|sa3|116}}{{book ref|sa3|118}}▼
==== Battle of Thaylen Field and Aftermath (1174) ====
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After Dalinar opened [[Honor's Perpendicularity]], Jasnah took part in the battle and showcased her skills as an Elsecaller. When Shallan began to run out of Stormlight, Jasnah aided her. During the battle, Jasnah found it incredibly easy to Soulcast, as the Cognitive and Physical realms were much closer together as a result of Dalinar opening Honor's Perpendicularity.{{book ref|sa3|119}}{{book ref|sa3|120}}
Following the battle, [[House Kholin]] had to decide who would succeed [[Elhokar]] as the Alethi monarch. [[Gavinor]], Elhokar's heir, was too young to rule and the next people in line to the throne, Dalinar and Adolin, both did not want to take the throne. At Shallan's suggestion, Jasnah was then crowned Queen of [[Alethkar]].{{book ref|sa3|122}}
== Quotes ==
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|Shallan|I have kept a journal since I was a child, in order to practice my writing skills.
{{quote
|Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we </em>do<em> nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we
|Jasnah to Shallan{{book ref|sa1|29}}
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{{quote
|When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be </em>as it should<em>. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around
|Jasnah to Shallan{{book ref|sa1|36}}
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{{quote
|You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who </em>truly<em> seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All
|Jasnah to Shallan{{book ref|twok|48}}
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{{quote
|Let the Vorin believe as they
|Jasnah to Shallan{{book ref|twok|48}}
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