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==Curse==
Contrary to popular belief, it is not possible to avoid the curse by carefully phrasing a request--or even to predict the curse that the Nightwatcher will bestow. Interestingly, it does not appear that balance is carefully maintained through an individual blessing and curse--often, highly visible curses are the result of relatively minor boons. The curses can be quite thorough, however--[[Dalinar]] lost all memory of his wife, and cannot even focus when her name is mentioned in conversation. In another case, a man lost all feeling in both of his hands until the day he died. Whether these curses follow some cosmic justice, or are merely the result of a capricious spren, is unknown, as is the true nature of the Nightwatcher.
==List of known Blessings/Curses==
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Blessing
!Curse
|-
| [[Dalinar Kholin]]
| Unknown
|All the memories of his wife have been removed from his mind. Even when someone mentions her name, all that he hears is a 'whoosh' of air (i.e.: [[Brightness Kholin|''Shshshsh'']]'').''
|-
| [[Av]]'s Father
| A heap of good cloth; sold to keep his family from starving during the lurnip famine.{{ref|b|twok|i|7}}
| Sees the world upside down.
|-
| [[Taravangian]]
|
"Did I ever tell you what I asked for?" he whispered. ... "Capacity," he whispered. The capacity to stop what was coming. The capacity to save humankind."{{ref|b|wor|i|14}}
He wakes up each day with a different level of intelligence. Sometimes he's a genius, sometimes he's an idiot. His boon was Capacity - to be intelligent enough to prepare for the coming [[Desolation]] - which allowed him one day of extremely lucid insanity (The Diagram). Similar to Dalinar, he believes he must unite the people (of Roshar altogether, we don't yet know), but he has definitely taken control of significant territory by the end of [[Words of Radiance]].
|The curse associated with this boon is the intelligence to make the decisions which need to be made while retaining compassion to feel the consequences of those decisions.{{ref|b|wor|i|14}}
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|[[Lift]]
|Can physically interact with spren, and directly process food into [[Stormlight]].{{ref|b|wor|i|9}}
|Unknown
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==Theories and Speculation==
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