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'''Yalb''' is a [[Thaylen]] sailor
== 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
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
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== History ==
He traveled on the ''[[
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}}
▲{{image|Shallan and Yalb by Elisgardor.jpg|side=right|width=300px|[[Shallan]] and Yalb in [[Kharbranth]]}}
After the sinking of the ''
▲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 a 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|The Wind's Pleasure]]'', Yalb survived along with two other sailors. Because of his experience, he is not able to sail with the other survivors as rumors have spread that the ''Wind's Pleasure'' was a ghost ship. Yalb found himself working on a ship under Capitan [[Smta]] alongside [[Alethi]] sailors. Despite his misgivings on such a thing, 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''.{{book ref|sa3.5|prologue}}
== Relationships ==
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
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}}
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