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== Endowment ==
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== Edgli ==
 
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|My eyes are not those of some petty noble, to be clouded by a false nose and some dirt on the cheeks.
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|It was agreed that we would not interfere with one another, and it disappoints me that so few of the Shards have kept to this original agreement.
  
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|Edgli{{epigraph ref|sa3|35}}
 
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'''Endowment''' is one of the sixteen [[Shard|Shards of Adonalsium]]. The Shard's Vessel is [[Edgli]].{{wob ref|2106}} She is located on [[Nalthis]], and is the only Shard present there.{{wob ref|10050}}
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'''Edgli''' is the Vessel of the [[Shard]] [[Endowment]].{{wob ref|6590}}{{wob ref|2106}} The [[Tears of Edgli]] are named after her.
   
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== Appearance and Personality ==
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== Intent ==
  
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Endowment's intent is not entirely clear; it's likely related to giving or bestowing gifts or talents upon others. The intent does not seem to influence [[Edgli]] in all matters, as she is still capable of refusing giving aid to [[Hoid]].{{epigraph ref|sa3|41}} The prime example of the intent's influence is in the magic system of [[Awakening]], as [[Breath]] can only be given, and cannot be forcefully taken.{{book ref|wb|prologue}}
  
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Notably, Endowment is the Shard Hoid would have taken if he wanted to become a Vessel.{{wob ref|9845}}
  
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== Associated Magic ==
  
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{{image|Vivenna by Ari Ibarra.jpg|side=right|width=250px|An [[Awakener]] using her [[Breath]]}}
  
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=== Breath and Awakening ===
  
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Nalthis' only known magic system is [[Awakening]] -- the use of [[Breath]], Endowment's [[Investiture]] in its gaseous form, to enact a variety of effects, typically tied to animating inanimate objects. Every Nalthian is born with a single Breath, and can bestow it onto other people or objects. Giving away one's Breath makes one into a drab, which makes a person prone to depression and sickness.{{wob ref|7340}} By contrast, holding more Breath grants a variety of benefits, the number of which increases with the number of Breaths held; the tiers of acquiring new abilities are called [[Heightening]]s.{{book ref|wb|part=ars}}
  
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Breaths are bestowed upon others with [[Command]]s. The primary command is "My life to yours. My Breath become yours." However, hundreds of other Commands can be used to bestow Breath onto inanimate objects or dead bodies, Awakening them. Awakened objects perform specific task, dictated by their Commands, which can range from simple, such as "hold when thrown" to complex, such as "fetch keys".{{book ref|wb|46}} The more complex the Command, the more Breath it requires.{{book ref|wb|21}} Additionally, animating objects with Breath requires color; a nearby source of vivid color is required, and will be bleached, in order for the Command to take effect.{{book ref|wb|21}}
  
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Breaths can also be used to manipulate and store memories, although specifics of how are unclear.{{book ref|sa4|epilogue}}{{book ref|wb|49}}
  
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=== Divine Breath and the Returned ===
  
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|Good riddance.
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|He remembered a voice, calm and comforting, offering him an opportunity. To Return.
  
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|Edgli on [[Uli Da]]'s death{{epigraph ref|sa3|40}}
 
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Edgli's appearance and even species are unknown; when speaking to the [[Returned]], she has a calm, comforting voice. To them, she is gentle and kind, offering the possibility of coming back without pressuring them into it.{{book ref|wb|57}} In private, however, she's a lot less personable. She's uninterested in meddling with the [[cosmere]] beyond [[Nalthis]], and dislikes the idea of [[Shard]]s interfering with one another; at the same time, she meddles with Nalthis itself extensively through the Returned.{{wob ref|7652}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|39}} She's said to be erratic, particularly when it comes to the manner in which she picks the people to Return.{{wob ref|3443}}
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Endowment can create [[splinter]]s of herself called Divine Breaths, and bestow them upon the recently deceased.{{wob ref|4486}} This brings them back to life; such people are known as the [[Returned]]. The Returned have little to no memory of their previous life, but they do retain any skills they've had while alive.{{wob ref|5062}}{{book ref|wb|30}} Their appearance also changes, in accordance to how they perceive themselves and the influence of local culture on their image of a "god". With some skill, the Returned can change their appearance to some extent, though it is no true shapeshifting.{{wob ref|5840}}
  
   
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Though she calls [[Hoid]] "Dearest Cephandrius", she seems to dislike him quite heavily; she is frustrated with his visits to her territory, chastises him for refusing to become a Vessel, and generally tells him off for trying to interfere with the matters above what she perceives to be his weight class.{{epigraph ref|sa3|33}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|41}} She appears to be more amicable when speaking with [[Harmony]].{{epigraph ref|sa4|24}} While it might be due to both of them being Shards, she does not extend the same courtesy to [[Uli Da]], and is dismissive of [[Aona]] and [[Skai]]'s fate.{{epigraph ref|sa3|40}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|37}}
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The Divine Breath immediately grants the Returned the effects of the Fifth [[Heightening]]. However, the Returned must consume at least one Breath a week; otherwise, after their Divine Breath is consumed and, with nothing to support their existence, they die.{{book ref|wb|3}} Endowment does not discourage this, and is fine with her Breath being used to feed the Returned.{{wob ref|3312}}
 
   
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== Abilities and Attributes ==
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They can also choose to bestow their Divine Breath upon others, which typically results in a massive feat of power, often tied to healing, though it will kill the Returned.{{book ref|wb|12}} Giving up their Divine Breath is often the reason they were Returned in the first place -- a potential Returned is shown a vision of the future by Endowment, and chooses to come back based on that, although the memory of it fades away until it is needed.{{book ref|wb|57}}
  
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As a Vessel of the Shard [[Endowment]], Edgli is immortal and immensely powerful; she can even bring the recently-dead back to life through bestowing her [[splinter]]s, Divine [[Breath]], upon them.{{wob ref|6724}}{{wob ref|143}} Like other Shards, she is capable of perceiving the future, though it's unknown how good she is at it.{{book ref|wb|57}} She does, however, rank higher than most in being able to spot [[Hoid]], as she declares herself perfectly capable of detecting his "intrusions" on [[Nalthis]] regardless of what disguise he uses.{{epigraph ref|sa3|35}} It's unclear whether this is some capacity granted to her by her particular Shard, or simply her own keen mind.
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=== The Tears of Edgli ===
  
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The [[Tears of Edgli]] are a special flower that grows only in [[Hallandren]], near Endowment's [[perpendicularity]].{{book ref|wb|22}}{{wob ref|13871}} They come in a variety of colors and make for extremely good dyes; they are also more efficient when used as a source of color for [[Awakening]].{{wob ref|7969}} This is because, having grown near the perpendicularity, the Tears contain some of Endowment's Investiture seeping out of the ground.{{wob ref|13871}}
  
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Endowment has some capacity to perceive the future and bestow those visions upon others; she communes with people as a disembodied voice to do so.{{book ref|wb|57}} She also has the ability to smite people on her planet.{{wob ref|11815}} Perhaps related to this, she appears to have keen awareness of who enters and leaves Nalthis; she can detect [[Hoid]]'s presence while other [[Shards]] have trouble spotting him on their own worlds.{{epigraph ref|sa3|35}}
  
   
 
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Like all Vessels, Edgli is a native of [[Yolen]].{{wob ref|7939}} She participated in the [[Shattering]] of [[Adonalsium]], and took up one of the Shards, [[Endowment]].{{msh ref|3|2}} Honoring the deal that the Vessels made, to each go their own ways, she set out of Yolen and eventually wound up on [[Nalthis]], Investing herself in it and becoming its sole Shard.{{epigraph ref|sa3|39}}{{wob ref|1120}}
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{{image|Endowment and Hoid by Heatherly.png|side=right|width=200px|Endowment ignoring [[Hoid]]}}
  
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Like all [[Shard]]s, Endowment was created at the [[Shattering]] of [[Adonalsium]], and contains one sixteenth of him.{{msh ref|3|2}} The people present at the Shattering agreed to all go separate ways after taking their Shards.{{epigraph ref|sa3|39}} And so, when Endowment was picked up by [[Edgli]], she took it from [[Yolen]] and eventually settled on [[Nalthis]].{{wob ref|2106}}{{wob ref|1120}}
 
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At some point, unknown amount of years or centuries later, the people of [[Chedesh]] landed on the shores of the land that now houses [[Hallandren]]. It was then that Endowment first created a Returned in [[Vo]], who managed to have five Visions and father a child before dying a week later. From then on out, Returned began appearing in other parts of the world.{{book ref|wb|32}} Among others, Endowment Returned the [[Five Scholars]], including [[Vasher]] and [[Shashara]], who together created [[Nightblood]], and [[Lightsong]], who saved the Hallandren from a continent-wide war by restoring the power of the god-king.{{book ref|wb|29}}{{book ref|wb|57}}
  
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Around the time of [[True Desolation]] on [[Roshar]], [[Hoid]] began contacting various Shards in an attempt to build a resistance to [[Odium]], then held by [[Rayse]]. Endowment, still annoyed at the Vessels who chose to settle down in pairs in violation of the original pact, declined.{{epigraph ref|sa3|39}} Believing Rayse to be of little concern, she chided Hoid for dabbling with matters far outside his scope, and suggested that if Odium were to become an issue, he would be dealt with promptly -- as would Hoid himself.{{epigraph ref|sa3|37}}
 
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Some time later, [[Harmony]] contacted Endowment at Hoid's behest. She was willing to communicate, though it's unclear what precisely she had told him.{{epigraph ref|sa4|24}}
  
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Despite being Nalthis' only Shard, the planet's inhabitants seem by and large unaware of her existence, even through religion. Of the known cultures, only the [[Pahn Kahl]] have any knowledge of her; and even then, she is known only as the voice that brings back the Returned.{{wob ref|4498}} While the people of [[Idris]] are monotheistic, their god, [[Austre]], is not based on Endowment.{{wob ref|6590}}
  
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Regardless, she is capable of influencing Nalthis through her Returned. She communicates with select few dead as a disembodied voice, and presents them with chosen visions of the future before asking them to Return and act on this vision. Although the Returned come back amnesiac, their memories do come back when needed.{{book ref|wb|57}} Through this, Endowment can indirectly steer the course of history; most notably, Returning [[Vo]] caused the creation of [[Hallandren]] and Returning [[Shashara]] led to the creation of [[Nightblood]]. Endowment also had some additional level of involvement in Nightblood's creation, above simply her Investiture being used.{{wob ref|10871}}
  
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Despite her involvement in Nalthis, Endowment appears to be uninterested in reaching beyond the planet and meddling with the greater [[cosmere]].{{wob ref|7652}}
  
   
 
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* Edgli is the author of the first of the [[letters]] in ''[[Oathbringer]]'' epigraphs.
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* If Brandon were to become a Vessel, Endowment would be his second choice, after an as-of-yet-unrevealed Shard{{wob ref|8935}}
  
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* The "E" in her name is pronounced as "eh", like in the word "echo".{{wob ref|847}}
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* In the Well of Ascension's original ending, Endowment was one of many Shards which saved [[Sazed]] from [[Marsh]].{{wob ref|1492}}
  
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* In ''[[wikipedia:Magic: The Gathering|Magic: The Gathering]]'' colors, Endowment would be mono-green.{{wob ref|11057}}
  
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'''Edgli''' is a woman who is the Vessel of the [[Shard]] [[Endowment]].{{wob ref|6590}}{{wob ref|2106}} The [[Tears of Edgli]] are named after her.
  
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She purposefully [[Splinter]]s herself in a controlled manner to create [[Returned]], though how she chooses who returns is not yet known at this time.{{wob ref|3443}}
  
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There are customs to go through in [[Nalthis]] in the [[Cognitive Realm]]{{wob ref|9501}}, though it is not known if Edgli had a hand in creating this.
  
   
 
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Latest revision as of 20:57, 17 January 2021

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Edgli[edit]

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“My eyes are not those of some petty noble, to be clouded by a false nose and some dirt on the cheeks. ”

—Edgli[1]

Edgli is the Vessel of the Shard Endowment.[2][3] The Tears of Edgli are named after her.

Appearance and Personality[edit]

“Good riddance. ”

—Edgli on Uli Da's death[4]

Edgli's appearance and even species are unknown; when speaking to the Returned, she has a calm, comforting voice. To them, she is gentle and kind, offering the possibility of coming back without pressuring them into it.[5] In private, however, she's a lot less personable. She's uninterested in meddling with the cosmere beyond Nalthis, and dislikes the idea of Shards interfering with one another; at the same time, she meddles with Nalthis itself extensively through the Returned.[6][7] She's said to be erratic, particularly when it comes to the manner in which she picks the people to Return.[8]

Though she calls Hoid "Dearest Cephandrius", she seems to dislike him quite heavily; she is frustrated with his visits to her territory, chastises him for refusing to become a Vessel, and generally tells him off for trying to interfere with the matters above what she perceives to be his weight class.[9][10] She appears to be more amicable when speaking with Harmony.[11] While it might be due to both of them being Shards, she does not extend the same courtesy to Uli Da, and is dismissive of Aona and Skai's fate.[4][12]

Abilities and Attributes[edit]

For the powers of Endowment, see Endowment#Associated Magic.

As a Vessel of the Shard Endowment, Edgli is immortal and immensely powerful; she can even bring the recently-dead back to life through bestowing her splinters, Divine Breath, upon them.[13][14] Like other Shards, she is capable of perceiving the future, though it's unknown how good she is at it.[5] She does, however, rank higher than most in being able to spot Hoid, as she declares herself perfectly capable of detecting his "intrusions" on Nalthis regardless of what disguise he uses.[1] It's unclear whether this is some capacity granted to her by her particular Shard, or simply her own keen mind.

History[edit]

Like all Vessels, Edgli is a native of Yolen.[15] She participated in the Shattering of Adonalsium, and took up one of the Shards, Endowment.[16] Honoring the deal that the Vessels made, to each go their own ways, she set out of Yolen and eventually wound up on Nalthis, Investing herself in it and becoming its sole Shard.[7][17]

For subsequent events, see Endowment#History.

Trivia[edit]

  • Edgli is the author of the first of the letters in Oathbringer epigraphs.
  • The "E" in her name is pronounced as "eh", like in the word "echo".[18]

Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ a b Oathbringer chapter 35 epigraph#
  2. ↑ Shadows of Self Lansing signing
    — Arcanum - 2015-10-13#
  3. ↑ General Signed Books 2015
    — Arcanum - 2015-12-23#
  4. ↑ a b Oathbringer chapter 40 epigraph#
  5. ↑ a b Warbreaker chapter 57#
  6. ↑ Calamity Philadelphia signing
    — Arcanum - 2016-02-20#
  7. ↑ a b Oathbringer chapter 39 epigraph#
  8. ↑ /r/books AMA 2015
    — Arcanum - 2015-06-06#
  9. ↑ Oathbringer chapter 33 epigraph#
  10. ↑ Oathbringer chapter 41 epigraph#
  11. ↑ Rhythm of War chapter 24 epigraph#
  12. ↑ Oathbringer chapter 37 epigraph#
  13. ↑ Warbreaker Annotations
    — Arcanum - 2010-09-09#
  14. ↑ JordanCon 2016
    — Arcanum - 2016-04-23#
  15. ↑ Words of Radiance Philadelphia signing
    — Arcanum - 2014-03-21#
  16. ↑ Mistborn: Secret History part 3 chapter 2#
  17. ↑ 17th Shard Forum Q&A
    — Arcanum - 2012-09-26#
  18. ↑ General Twitter 2016
    — Arcanum - 2016-06-28#     
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