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|titles=Master Skybreaker
|abilities={{tag+|skybreaker}}, {{tag|Shardbearer|cat=Shardbearers}}
|bonded=[[Winnow (Roshar)|Winnow]]
|groups={{tag|Knights Radiant}} <small>([[Order of Skybreakers|Skybreakers]])</small><br />
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
|first appeared=[[Oathbringer]]
}}{{spoilers|book=sa3}}
}}
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| I have decided to take you as my squire. In all honesty, there was an argument among us over who would have the privilege.
| Ki to [[Szeth]]{{book ref|sa3|92}}
}}
'''Ki''' is a master [[Skybreaker]] on [[Roshar]] during the [[Era of Solitude]].{{book ref|sa3|92}} She is bonded to the [[highspren]] [[Winnow (Roshar)|Winnow]] and takes Szeth as her squire during his training.{{book ref|sa3|92}} She is formally referred to as '''Master Ki'''.
 
== Appearance and Personality ==
Ki is a tall and imposing woman with golden hair.{{book ref|sa3|90}} Like all Skybreakers, she wears the clothes of the local lawkeepers, so in [[Marabethia]] she chooses to wear a colorful skirt-like wrap and a cloth tied around her chest. She also wears the patterned shoulder cloak{{book ref|sa3|90}} of a Marabethian high judge.{{book ref|sa3|92}}
 
Ki is a calm and orderly woman woman who is well-suited to the Skybreakers.{{book ref|sa3|90}} She is appreciative of skill and thoroughness, seeking to make those hopefuls that impress her into her squires.{{book ref|sa3|92}} She also seemed to have a decent sense of humor, seemingly amused by Szeth's assertion that he had won the lashing drill because of a loophole.{{book ref|sa3|98}} She is also reverent of [[Nale]]{{book ref|sa3|90}} and obedient to his orders.{{book ref|sa3|98}}
 
== Attributes and Abilities ==
As a Skybreaker of the Fourth Ideal, Ki has access to the [[Surge]]s of Gravitation and Division.{{book ref|sa3|90}} This allows her the ability to make use of the basic and reverse lashings,{{book ref|sa3|part=ars}} as well as the ability to degrade objects.{{book ref|sa3|107}} She also has the ability to take in [[Stormlight]], allowing her to recover from all but the most severe of injuries.{{book ref|sa3|33}} She also almost certainly has access to a Shardblade, although this has not been confirmed.
 
== History ==
=== Early Life ===
At some point in her life, Ki was recruited to the [[Skybreakers]]. She eventually bonded the [[highspren]] [[Winnow (Roshar)|Winnow]].{{book ref|sa3|92}} After years of training and the completion of some sort of personal quest, Ki swore the first four [[Immortal Words|Ideals]] of the Skybreakers, reaching the rank of master.{{book ref|sa3|90}} She operated out of the Skybreaker fortress near the [[Purelake]] and seems to have primarily worked as a trainer to nascent Skybreakers.
 
=== Training Hopefuls ===
 
Ki accompanied Szeth and Nale and most of the other Skybreakers on their journey to Marat, flying southward for three days.{{book ref|sa3|106}} Upon their arrival in Marat, she landed and conferred briefly with Nale and the other masters before flying to a nearby town with all the Skybreakers except for Szeth and Nale.
== Attributes and Abilities ==
As a Skybreaker of the Fourth Ideal, Ki has access to the [[Surge]]s of Gravitation and Division.{{book ref|sa3|90}} This allows her the ability to make use of the basic and reverse lashings,{{book ref|sa3|ars}} as well as the ability to degrade objects.{{book ref|sa3|107}} She also has the ability to take in [[Stormlight]], allowing her to recover from all but the most severe of injuries.{{book ref|sa3|33}} She also almost certainly has access to a Shardblade, although this has not been confirmed.
 
== Notes ==
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