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===Working on the Dawnchant===
After [[Navani Kholin]] provides the key to the Dawnchant that she recovers through [[Dalinar's visions]], scholars in the monastery, including Ellista, begin to decode the old texts that they had in their possession. Ellista is glad to have Navani's information, but refuses to believe that the visions were real.{{book ref|sa3|i|2}} ▼
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|Look, there’s easy proof here that the same writing system was once used all across Roshar... Not a diaspora of texts, but real evidence they wrote naturally in the Dawnchant.
|Ellista to [[Urv]] on the historical use of the [[Dawnchant]]{{book ref|sa3|i|2}}
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▲After [[Navani Kholin]] provides the key to the Dawnchant that she recovers through [[Dalinar's visions]], scholars in the monastery, including Ellista, begin to decode the old texts that they had in their possession. Ellista is glad to have Navani's information, but refuses to believe that the visions were real.{{book ref|sa3|i|2}}
The coming of the Everstorm distracts many ardents from their translation work, but Ellista persists.{{book ref|sa3|i|2}} She believes that she has found evidence that Dawnchant was once used as a unified written language across ancient Roshar, supporting a theory posited by [[Jasnah Kholin]] in ''[[Relic and Monument]]''. She vehemently disagrees with earlier arguments (including those made by [[Fiksin]]) that written Dawnchant texts all originated in a single region. Through her studies, she has also been able to determine that the cataclysmic [[Desolation]]s caused Dawnchant to fall into disuse. Individual nations began to use the Dawnchant to phonetically record their spoken language, and later developed their own glyphs, abandoning Dawnchant altogether.{{book ref|sa3|i|2}}
{{image|Ellista botanicaxu.jpg|side=right|width=250px}}
===Encounter with Urv===
While attempting to read ''[[An Accountability of Virtue]]'', Ellista is interrupted by several ardents arguing about the movements of the Everstorm. Hoping for some peace and quiet, she leaves her reading nook in the monastery's library and makes her way to a reading desk in a nearby hallway. Unfortunately, she is again interrupted by discussion of the new storm and is forced to move. After having no luck in the lower buildings, Ellista ventures into the forest where she was at last alone, and could read uninterrupted.{{book ref|sa3|i|2}}
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