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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 is probably of a pagan religion as he mentions the “[[Passions]]”. ”{{book ref|sa1|8}}

He traveled on ''[[Wind's Pleasure|The Wind's Pleasure]]'' with [[Shallan]] and was selected by the [[tozbekTozbek|captain]] to accompany her to the [[Kharbranth]]´s 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 rejecterrejected her;, he convinces her to try a third time and helps her gettingfind a book merchant. While she was shopping, he bumpedcame ininto the shop and helped her to 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 to getgo underwater to see a [[santhid]], which is a rare sea animal.{{book ref|sa2|1}}

They later picked up a new member for the crew at [[Amydlatn]], who was actually a member of the [[Ghostbloods]] with the mission of killing Jasnah. Many sailors were killed by him and the rest likely drowned when Shallan set the ship on fire to try to save them. Yalb’s whereabouts are unconfirmed but Shallan considers him dead. {{book ref|sa3|82}}

He has a talent to cheat at “game of kabers” and uses it to beat lawmen like the city guards of Kharbranth. {{book ref|sa1|8}}

AsLike all sailors, he has a flirting way with Shallan that makes her blush, even though she is aof 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 getfind a bookstore and a good price for the books. She pays herhim 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}}

Chapter 8 in WOK is written to make Yalb shine. In another type of story, he'd be one of the main characters. {{wob ref|8801}}