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Venli.png | Portrait by [[Coppermind: Artists/Ashley Coad|Ashley Coad]]

Venli Chapters.svg | Venli chapters by [[Isaac Stewart]]

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She researches new forms and believes that she is close to discovering some. She deceives Eshonai, leading her to believe that she is trying to discover artform or meditationform when she discovers the [[Parshendi#Forms|stormform]]. She later advocates trying stormform in an attempt to destroy the [[Alethi]] and win the war despite the dangers of the form, opting to ignore them.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}{{book ref|sa2|i|11}} She identifies the captured [[stormspren]] as the spren required to adopt stormform, with the secret help of the Voidspren named [[Ulim]]. She quickly grows irritated when Eshonai offers to test stormform herself, believing that she is attempting to steal the glory of the discovery from her. She also believes that Eshonai does not trust her.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}} Under stormform, when Eshonai begins to convert the Parshendi people to stormform, Venli reacts badly, believing that the strategy is too aggressive and abrupt to work. She also plans to attempt to seize control from her sister and is the one to suggest killing the Parshendi who refuse to adopt stormform.{{book ref|sa2|i|11}}

 

After the [[Everstorm]] is created, Venli is led by Ulim to find her sister. Assuming this means Eshonai is still alive, she is heartbroken when she finds Eshonai's dead body. For the first time since gaining Stormform, she is able to attune one of the Old Rhythms, the Rhythm of the Lost. Her team retrieves Eshonai's shardplate, and as Venli grabs the shardblade, she spots a strange spren coming out from under Eshonai's body.{{Book ref|sa3|i|3}}

 

Nine Parshendi are chosen to receive new forms, Venli and Demid among them. In the Everstorm, the [[Fused]] replace each of their souls &ndash; except for Venli, who is protected from the change by [[Odium]] himself, who has a purpose for her. She instead gains a different form of power. She then spots the spren she saw on Eshonai, and hides it from being destroyed by the Fused. {{book ref|sa3|i|6}}

Venli uses her new form, Envoyform, to tell her tale and convince people to join Odium's cause. She is brought to Kholinar to continue, while she spends more time with her spren- called [[Timbre]]. During the Everstorm, she is reprimanded by Odium for not telling her story well enough. She mourns not being like her sister, and her own ambition. {{Book ref|sa3|i|7,9,11}}

[[Dalinar]] is informed of there being a Singer who has some Honor. Venli and Timbre are brought into one of the Visions. Dalinar attempts to negotiate, but Venli refuses. Odium begins ripping into the vision, and Dalinar lets her out before she is caught by Odium. {{book ref|sa3|109}} Venli is taken to Marat to continue telling her story, and then boards ships to invade Thaylenah. {{book ref|sa3|i|12}}

Venli acts as a translator during the battle of Thaylenah. {{Book ref|sa3|115}} She witnesses Dalinar's struggle and creeps away from the battlefield. As she does so, she realizes she can be a better person, and swears the First Ideal. A Fused surprises her and checks her for spren, but finds nothing-- Timbre has entered her Gemheart and captured the Voidspren she had bonded earlier, allowing her to remain disguised despite now being a budding Knight Radiant. She is very likely to be a [[Willshaper]]. {{Book ref|sa3|120}}