Ivory

Ivory
by Sheep
Abilities	Nahel bond, Elsecaller magic
Bonded With	Jasnah
Species	Inkspren
Homeworld	Roshar

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Ivory is an inkspren on Roshar. He most often takes the form of a small man with jet black coloring. Ivory formed the Nahel bond with Jasnah Kholin, granting her the ability to use the Surges associated with the Order of Elsecallers.

Appearance and Personality

In the Physical Realm, Ivory takes the shape of a well-dressed man. He wears a stiff, formal suit with a long coat. His features are extremely sharp and too angular to be human, with eyes that have no pupils. Both his clothing and features are inky-black with a prismatic sheen, like marble covered in oil. Ivory has a noble bearing, with stiff, commanding posture and a clipped voice. He is able to change his size but not his shape, except when manifesting as a Shardblade.

As a Shardblade, Ivory is long and thin. In the Cognitive Realm, he carries a sword of his own.

Ivory holds Jasnah in very high regard, saluting her during their first interaction in the Cognitive Realm and admiring her logical nature. Although he is very devoted to her, offering her counsel and spying on people for her, he grows anxious if she talks about him to other people and does not like appearing in front of others. He is straightforward, both in speech and in gestures. Ivory has a rebellious streak, as evidenced in his bonding Jasnah against the other inksprens' wishes, and taking the paradoxical name of Ivory as a symbol of defiance.

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History

The Recreance

Ivory and his generation had been the spren equivalent of children at the time of the Recreance.

Bonding Jasnah

Ivory appears to Jasnah Kholin on the night of Gavilar Kholin’s assassination. When she is walking down a deserted hallway of the palace, figures begin to form from the distant shadows, one of which takes the shape of a man. This man, Ivory, strides toward her, unsheathing his sword, but hesitates when Jasnah stands her ground. Jasnah then transfers from the Physical Realm into Shadesmar without realising what she is doing, falling backwards into the sea of beads. Ivory hovers over her, satisfied, and sheaths his sword. However, Jasnah manages to create the palace hallway they had been in out of the beads using the Surge of Transformation, and is able to rise out of the sea. Ivory steps onto the platform she created, unsheathing his sword, but hesitates again when Jasnah uses the beads to create the statue of Talenel’Elin from the palace, making it move its sword. She then stands. Ivory watches her, then raises two fingers to his forehead and bows in respect. The figures behind him turn to each other, whispering, before Ivory and Shadesmar both fade and Jasnah returns to the Physical Realm.

The Wind’s Pleasure

Shallan accidentally sees Jasnah and Ivory outside the door of her cabin on The Wind's Pleasure. He appears as a small man in Jasnah’s left palm, and melts into shadow as soon as he is seen. Jasnah tells Shallan he doesn’t like when she speaks of him as it causes him anxiety. She suspects the Recreance killed many spren, and that the other inkspren see Ivory bonding Jasnah as a betrayal, although he refuses to speak on either topic.

When the ship is attacked by the Ghostbloods in an attempt to kill Jasnah, she is badly wounded. Ivory helps her move from the Physical Realm to the Cognitive Realm, saving her life.

Travelling with Wit

When Ivory and Jasnah Elsecall back into the Physical Realm, Wit is waiting for them. Jasnah summons Ivory as a Shardblade, though she dismisses him upon realising it poses no threat to Wit. They travel with him at least to the nearest town.

Urithiru

Soon after Ivory and Jasnah arrived at Urithiru, they read the recorded words of the madman from Dalinar’s warcamp, whom they suspected was a Herald. Ivory confirmed the speaker was Talenel, going on to suggest they search for him in Shadesmar as it would be easier to find him there. They discussed the time they had lost, and Odium’s intention to kill both spren and humans. Jasnah and Ivory then talked about Shallan, as well as contemplated the idea of insanity, bringing up the spren who went mad following the Recreance as well as the Heralds. They returned to discussing Shallan, as well as Pattern, both of whom Ivory found to be troubling. They also talked about the Knights Radiant, and finally deliberated over whether knowledge they had learned from Wit should be shared with others.

Some days later, Ivory spied on the Stormwardens for Jasnah in the library under Urithiru after she realized they were discussing Renarin.

Abilities

Surgebinding

Ivory grants Jasnah the powers of the Elsecallers, an order of the Knights Radiant. This gives Jasnah access to the Surges of Transformation and Transportation, which allowed her to Soulcast and travel instantaneously from place to place, as well as to and from Shadesmar.

Notes

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