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|abilities=[[Regal|Forms of Power]], {{tag+|willshaper}}
|bonded=[[Timbre]]
|titles=The Last Listener{{book ref|sa4|11}}<br />Voice of Lady Leshwi{{book ref|sa4|11}}<br />Voice of the Lady of Wishes <small>(former)</small>{{book ref|sa4|104}}<br />Voice of Odium <small>(former)</small>{{book ref|sa4|14}}<br />The Traitor<br />The Broken Sister<br />
|species=singer
|nation=listener
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|first appeared=[[Words of Radiance]]
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'''Venli''' is a [[listener]] scholar in [[Narak]] and [[Eshonai]]'s sister. During the [[True Desolation]], she bonds with [[Timbre]] and becomes a [[Surgebinder]] of the [[Order of Willshapers]].
== Appearance and Personality ==
As a [[singer]], Venli has a [[gemheart]], and can bond with different [[spren]] to attain different forms.
In [[nimbleform]], Venli is agile and precise, as well as keen-minded. Assuming [[stormform]] makes her significantly stronger and tougher, almost enough to rival a person wearing [[Shardplate]]. It also lets her shoot red lightning from her hands.{{book ref|sa3|i|11}} Those abilities go away once the [[envoyform]] is thrust upon her, though she grows even taller. Instead of casting lightning, she gains the ability to speak and understand any language, writing and signals, both human and singer, on [[Roshar]]. She also mentions having other, lesser gifts, though those are unspecified.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}
=== Surgebinding ===
Venli is the sister of [[Eshonai]], and though her age is unclear, she is younger by a year.{{book ref|sa4|83}} When the two were children, Venli would often stay at home and help their mother, [[Jaxlim]], while Eshonai travelled.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}} Both sisters wore [[workform]] at the time. At some point, Venli and [[Demid]] became mates, and though the relationship did not produce any children, they remained together even after changing into different forms.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}
Eventually, Venli settled into the role of a scholar. After the listeners first made contact with humans, she created a written script, recognizing the value of recording information on paper. Venli received a gemstone from [[Axindweth]] which contained [[Ulim]].{{book ref|sa4|52}} Over the next five years, she and her team wrote down all listener song and stories to be preserved and cross-referenced. Through this, they also discovered nimbleform. Venli took it on and joined listener leadership as its representative.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}
{{image|Venli-Coad.png|In [[stormform]]|side=right|width=250px}}
|[[Raboniel]] about Venli{{book ref|sa4|14}}
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On the day of the peace treaty with the [[Alethi]] and the [[Assassination of Gavilar]] Kholin, the Alethi king, Venli and another listener, [[Klade]], were informed by the [[Herald]] [[Nale]] that Gavilar intended to betray the listeners; he directed her to purchase [[Szeth]], which led to the killing.{{book ref|sa3|prologue}}{{book ref|sa4|77}} Following that event, Venli and Ulim worked together on discovering new forms.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} Though she claimed to Eshonai that she was researching mediationform to treaty with humans, in reality, Venli sought to capture a [[stormspren]] and unlock the associated [[stormform]].{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}{{book ref|sa2|i|11}}{{book ref|sa3|i|6}}
Upon succeeding, Venli intended to test the form herself, and was angry when [[The Five]] decided to let Eshonai do it instead. Though they did so out of concern, fearing the loss of Venli and her talent if the form turned out to be defective, she was jealous, and thought that her sister was distrusting her, and trying to steal her discovery.{{book ref|sa3|4}} After Eshonai's thoughts got altered by the stormform and she began to enact the plan to transform all listeners, Venli also reacted badly, believing her strategies to be too aggressive. She intended to seize control from her sister, and suggested killing the listeners who refused to adopt the new form.{{book ref|sa2|i|11}}
When nine listeners were chosen by Ulim to receive "new forms," Venli and Demid were among them. In the Everstorm, the [[Fused]] replaced their souls and possessed their bodies, with the sole exception of Venli. [[Odium]] himself protected her, and she was given [[envoyform]] instead. After realizing that the others were effectively dead, Venli once more spotted [[Timbre|the strange spren]], and hid it from the Fused.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}}
Afterwards, Venli became Odium's chief propagandist, first in [[Kholinar]], then in [[Marat]], telling the tragic tale of the listeners who, according to the new narrative, sacrificed themselves to free the [[Parshmen]] of their mindless slavery. During that time, she was kept apart from other singers to maintain her mystique; in lieu of contact with her people, she began chatting
While she was in Marat, [[Dalinar Kholin]] pulled her into one of his visions, and attempted to negotiate; Venli, however, refused all overtures of peace. The conversation was cut short by [[Odium]] breaking into the vision space, with Dalinar managing to send Venli out just before his arrival.{{book ref|sa3|109}} After that event, Venli boarded one of the ships heading to [[Thaylen City]].{{book ref|sa3|i|12}}
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