Difference between revisions of "Nale"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(→Ulim) |
|||
|
Nale was born on [[Ashyn]], either before or during the great calamity that befell it and forced the human population to leave around 7000 years before the True Desolation.{{book ref|sa4|14}}{{book ref|sa4|76}} Like most others who would eventually become [[Herald]]s, he travelled to [[Roshar]] to settle there.{{wob ref|11945}} He was either a king, scholar, or general before becoming a Herald.{{book ref|sa3|38}} Sometime afterwards, when the [[Desolation]]s began, Nale joined the [[Oathpact]], becoming a Herald of the [[Almighty]].{{book ref|sa1|prelude}} It appears that, at the time, he and [[Jezrien]] were enemies, though the precise nature of the confict between them is unknown. Eventually, Nale was proven right, while Jezrien turned out wrong. Impressed with Nale's integrity, Jezrien approached Nale about his participation in the Oathpact, to which Nale graciously agreed.{{book ref|sa4|47}}
When the [[Surgebinder]]s began appearing, Nale was initially reluctant to take them under his patronage, even though the nascent [[Skybreakers]] named him their master. Following some sort of the disturbance in the toparchy of [[Revv]], however, he agreed to do so, becoming the last Herald to formally accept his [[Knights Radiant]].{{epigraph ref|sa2|43}} He eventually ended up bonding a [[highspren]] and joining his own Radiant Order, becoming the only Herald to have done so.{{book ref|sa3|106}}{{book ref|sa4|47}}{{wob ref|12600}} It unclear whether his highspren followed him to [[Braize]] or was left in [[Shadesmar]].{{wob ref|15649}}
Some time after bonding his highspren, Nale instituted the [[Right of Travel]], which is still present in Rosharan laws as of the True Desolation.{{book ref|sa4|47}}
Like all other Heralds besides [[Taln]], in time Nale grew too exhausted to keep participating in the Oathpact. He and the others left their [[Honorblade]]s behind and abandoned the Oathpact in an event later known as [[Aharietiam]], around 4500 years before the [[True Desolation]].{{book ref|sa1|prelude}} Unlike the others, with the exception of [[Ishar]], Nale eventually recovered his Blade.{{book ref|sa3|106}}{{book ref|sa4|111}}
| |||