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|nation=Thaylenah
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|first appeared=[[The Way of Kings]]
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|Merchants are like fish. Where you find one, you’ll find others.▼
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'''Yalb''' is a [[Thaylen]] sailor
▲'''Yalb''' is a [[Thaylen]] sailor from the ''[[Wind's Pleasure|The Wind's Pleasure]]'' crew.{{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.
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
{{image|Yalb and Shallan by Graeme Brandham.jpg|side=left|width=300px|With Shallan}}
== 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}} 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}}
▲== Abilities ==
▲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}}
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 ===
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.
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
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▲|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}}
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== Trivia ==
* Chapter 8
== Notes ==
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