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'''Lezian''', '''the Pursuer''' is one of the nex-im, a rare [[Fused]] brand which has access to the [[Surge#Transportation|Surge of Transportation]].{{book ref|sa4|14}}▼
|Any time he is killed, Lezian ignores everything else until he has claimed the life of the one who killed him. Seven thousand years, and he’s never failed.▼
|[[Leshwi]] explaining Lezian's tradition{{book ref|sa4|14}}▼
▲'''Lezian''', '''the Pursuer''', is one of the ''nex-im'', a rare [[Fused]] brand on [[Roshar]] which has access to the [[Surge#Transportation|Surge of Transportation]].{{book ref|sa4|14}}
== Appearance and Personality ==
Lezian is described as being easily seven feet tall. He has hair the color of dried blood, and it seems to meld into his clothing, which is woven out of his hair. His skin is pure black, with lines of red marbling around his softly glowing red eyes. He also has a markedly wicked-looking jagged carapace, with a strange pair of carapace fins/horns rising above his ears.{{book ref|sa4|1}} Kaladin describes him as a hulking mountain of chitin and dark brown cloth, with eyes glowing a deep red.{{book ref|sa4|59}}
It is unknown which of these characteristics (other than his skin color and patterning) are uniquely his, over being shared with other ''nex-im''.
=== Personality ===
== Attributes and Abilities ==
=== Surgebinding ===
As one of the ''nex-im'', Lezian has access to the [[Surge#Transportation|Surge of Transportation]]. This allows him to leave his body behind and shoot out of it as a spren-like flying ribbon of red-violet light, which can then expand to re-form a new body elsewhere. The old body collapses as if it was a dead corpse, and disintegrates into ash within minutes.{{book ref|sa4|2}} This effectively allows Lezian to teleport, using the ribbon of light to transfer between locations. Lezian can do four such "jumps" before completely running out of [[voidlight]], and typically uses three of them in battle, using the fourth to retreat and resupply.{{book ref|sa4|2}}
Once Lezian leaves a body, the "corpse" that he leaves behind starts turning dry and fragile, with colors fading. The flesh turns to a light and porous stone, and the whole body (including the carapace) disintegrates into ash soon after.{{book ref|sa4|2}}
== History ==
=== Previous Desolations ===
▲|Any time he is killed, Lezian ignores everything else until he has claimed the life of the one who killed him. Seven thousand years, and he’s never failed.
▲|[[Leshwi]] explaining Lezian's tradition{{book ref|sa4|14}}
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Lezian was the first Fused to have ever been killed by a human. To avoid the shame that came from this, he went into battle seeking only the human that had killed him, ignoring all orders and rationality, and succeeded in killing him. This started his tradition - every time someone managed to kill him, Lezian would single-mindedly chase them and claim their life.{{wob ref|14215}} He never failed at this, always successfully managing to find and kill the humans who had bested him before every Isolation. Once an Isolation began, he would kill himself to avoid having to return to Braize without killing his killer in turn.{{book ref|sa4|14}} When not actively pursuing a previous killer, Lezian would seek to go after the strongest enemy Radiants, effectively creating a cycle of either chasing after and killing the strongest enemies, or getting killed by them, and then pursuing them until they die, then picking some other strong Radiant, and so on and forth.{{book ref|sa4|14}} Lezian was good enough at this that no human or singer had ever managed to best him and kill him twice.{{book ref|sa4|59}}
He was so successful at this that the other Fused encouraged his tradition, giving him leeway to act and Pursue his quarry even outside normal command structures, though he was also reckless enough to have endangered others' plans, ruining missions and undermining strategies.
{{image|Kaladin vs. the Pursuer by Joshua Carrenca.jpg|side=right|width=300px|[[Kaladin]] battling Lezian}}
=== The True Desolation ===
==== The Evacuation of Hearthstone ====
Lezian first appears at [[Hearthstone]] in 1175, just before the [[Knights Radiant]] and the forces of the
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Lezian leads a small squad of [[Singer#Warform|warforms]], and is able to successfully find and identify Kaladin from his description, who takes to the skies.{{book ref|sa4|1}} Lezian engages him immediately, and his novel powerset and his brutal and expert fighting style give Kaladin a hard time. When Kaladin eventually starts predicting and reacting to Lezian's jumps, Lezian leaves him, warning Kaladin to watch for him from the corner of his eye.{{book ref|sa4|2}} He shows up again later, when Kaladin and his windrunners are engaged with Leshwi and the rest of the
▲Lezian leads a small squad of [[Singer#Warform|warforms]], and is able to successfully find and identify Kaladin from his description, who takes to the skies.{{book ref|sa4|1}} Lezian engages him immediately, and his novel powerset and his brutal and expert fighting style give Kaladin a hard time. When Kaladin eventually starts predicting and reacting to Lezian's jumps, Lezian leaves him, warning Kaladin to watch for him from the corner of his eye.{{book ref|sa4|2}} He shows up again later, when Kaladin and his windrunners are engaged with Leshwi and the rest of the Shanay-im, but Kaladin sees him coming, and Lezian retreats without engaging.{{book ref|sa4|5}} He then gathers a squad of [[Singer#Warform|warform]] [[singers]], and starts accosting a group of civilians, as well as [[Godeke|Godeke the Edgedancer]], to lure Kaladin to him.{{book ref|sa4|6}}{{book ref|sa4|7}} When Kaladin lands and challenges him, Lezian takes Godeke, and retreats into the manor with the remaining squad of parshmen, saying he will fight him inside. Once Kaladin follows, they trigger the suppressor [[fabrial]] powered by [[voidlight]] to stop Kaladin from summoning Syl or using his powers. Lezian assumes that Kaladin would not be used to fighting without his powers and mocks him, but Kaladin quickly overpowers four of the warform Singers, and then proceeds to kill Lezian by successfully predicting where he would teleport to.{{book ref|sa4|7}}
Lezian is then reborn again, soon after, and is summoned by the [[Nine]] to provide a report on what happened at Hearthstone. He refuses to take blame for losing the device, and immediately claims his right to Pursue Kaladin by his tradition. He is angered, and lashes out when Leshwi challenges his sanity and his right to Pursue Kaladin, which undermines his claim, and leads to the [[Nine]] allowing Leshwi - or someone else if the situation demands it - prior claim on Kaladin's life. Lezian storms out of the meeting, and is later seen conferring with [[Raboniel]] soon after the invasion on [[Urithiru]] is decided upon.{{book ref|sa4|14}}
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