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{{character
|image=Yalb-Bowing.jpg
|world=Roshar|nation=Thaylenah▼
|#profession=sailor
|books=[[The Way of Kings]]▼
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
}}
{{quote
|Merchants are like fish. Where you find one, you’ll find others.
|Yalb to Shallan in Kharbranth when looking for a bookstore{{book ref|sa1|8}}
}}
'''Yalb''' is a [[Thaylen]] sailor on [[Roshar]]. He is a crew member of the ''[[Wind's Pleasure]]''.{{book ref|sa1|3}}
== Appearance and Personality ==
Yalb is a young sailor who usually wears an open-fronted vest and a pair of loose trousers.{{book ref|sa2|1}}
Yalb has a lazy contentedness and a smirk.{{book ref|sa1|7}} He speaks with a thick rural Thaylen dialect, has an affable voice{{book ref|sa1|7}} and speaks with the gentle flirtation of a sailor.{{book ref|sa1|3}}
Yalb believes in the [[Passions]] to some extent.{{book ref|sa1|8}}
Yalb takes it upon himself to look after new sailors, but enjoys winning spheres off of them.{{book ref |sa3.5 |prologue }}
== Attributes and Abilities ==
He has a talent to cheat at [[kabers]] and uses it to beat lawmen like the city guards of Kharbranth.{{book ref|sa1|8}} He is also able to detect ships on the horizon at an unusually long distance.{{book ref|sa3.5|prologue}}
{{image|Yalb and Shallan by Graeme Brandham.jpg|side=left|width=300px|With Shallan}}
== History ==
He traveled on the ''[[Wind's Pleasure]]'' with [[Shallan]] and was selected by the [[Tozbek|captain]] to accompany her to the [[Kharbranth]] Conclave where she would meet [[Jasnah]] for the first time. He earns her trust, and she asks him to wait for her, giving him a ruby mark.{{book ref|sa1|3}} When she comes out of the Conclave and lets him know Jasnah rejected her, he convinces her to try a third time and helps her find a book merchant. While she was shopping, he came into the shop and helped her get a much better price for the books.{{book ref|sa1|8}}
His crew is selected by Jasnah for taking her and Shallan to the [[Shattered Plains]]. Yalb helps the latter go underwater to see a [[santhid]], a rare sea animal.{{book ref|sa2|1}} The ''Wind's Pleasure'' later picked up a [[new kid|new member]] for the crew at [[Amydlatn]],{{book ref|sa2|6}} who was actually hired by [[Tyn]] to kill Jasnah.{{book ref|sa2|34}} During an attack carried out by [[Tyn]]'s assassins, a number of sailors were killed and the rest likely drowned when Shallan soulcast the ship into water to try to save them.{{book ref|sa2|7}} As a result, Yalb is presumed dead.{{book ref|sa2|7}} However, shortly after the sinking of the ''Wind's Pleasure'', Shallan sketches [[Shalash]] destroying a statue of herself, despite having no knowledge of Shalash's actions post-[[Aharietiam]]; at the same time, she also does a sketch that shows Yalb and a few other crew members helping each other out of the water near a rocky shoreline. Shallan dismisses this sketch as simply the product of a worried mind, however,{{book ref|sa2|30}} and, when depressed by her role in the death of [[Grund]], thinks of Yalb as dead.{{book ref|sa3|82}}
After the sinking of the ''Wind's Pleasure'', Yalb survived along with two other sailors. He was not able to sail with the other survivors as rumors have spread that the ''Wind's Pleasure'' was a ghost ship and sailors were uncomfortable sailing with them. Yalb found himself working on a ship under Captain [[Smta]] alongside [[Alethi]] sailors. He gave a traditional sailor's welcome, complete with hazing, to [[Dok]], one such Alethi sailor. As he was convincing Dok of the existence of [[sailorspren]], Yalb spotted the crewless ''[[First Dreams]]''.Yalb was tasked to board this ship due to his experience with ghost ships. A search returned with nothing of value but Yalb believes that the value of the ship itself in war means the captain will put him on it to bring it home.{{book ref|sa3.5|prologue}}
== Relationships ==
=== Shallan ===
Like all sailors, he has a flirting way with Shallan that makes her blush, even though she is of much higher rank than he is.{{book ref|sa1|3}}
He translated the driver’s city information for her and later confronts the driver for wanting to increase the price and split the earnings with him. She treated him as a master servant, and instead of being offended he laughed. She gave him a ruby mark out of gratitude and asked him to wait for her.{{book ref|sa1|3}}
He later convinces her to try one more time to become Jasnah's ward and helped her find a bookstore and a good price for the books. She pays him with a portrait of him with the porter. By the end they do seem to be fond of each other.{{book ref|sa1|8}}
She kept a sketch of him and his figure was used by her when creating the army to fight [[Odium]]; he was displayed with a glowing Shardspear.{{book ref|sa3|120}}
== Trivia ==
* Chapter 8 of ''[[{{b|sa1}}]]'' is written to make Yalb shine. In another type of story, he'd be one of the main characters.{{wob ref|8801}}
== Notes ==
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