[23], *That Shardblade was Testament, Shallan's first Cryptic. Shallan took off after the Unmade, summoning Pattern during the chase, however, the creature lost them, and escaped into the towers ventilation system. From everything I know about DID, Shallan absolutely does not fit that disorder category at all. Due to her memory loss, Shallan did not remember and acknowledge this until the year 1175. "One is almost certainly a traitor to the others.". To view an earlier version of the wiki without spoilers for a book, go to the Time Machine! Shallan says her motherhated her. [3], Some time later, Shallan went to find Jasnah to borrow some of the woman's infused spheres for light to read by. Did anyone else feel really betrayed after you found out that Pattern was the traitor. Pattern moved, disappearing from the drawing when Shallan touched the page, and caused the young woman to jump in fright. The storm agitated Pattern, who buzzed angrily and ranted in a foreign tongue, spooking the soldiers whom Shallan had invited to shelter in her cart. He is a member of the race of spren called the Cryptics. As the group began to cross the beads, he helped Shallan reach the beads, steadying her when she had to lean down over her temporary platforms. ** She also perceives Pattern as a monster during this time. [4], "I find sleeping very odd," Pattern said. "But" said the male initiate. This is far from proof though, just what I think the most reasonable conclusion is for the identity of the "spy.". Tyn, who had been hired by the Ghostbloods to assassinate the Alethi princess, attacked Shallan when she learned of her identity, with the intention to kill her. Mmmm. [3], When she finishes, the pattern rises before her and she hears a distinct sigh from the paper, as if in relief. When Vathah and his men reached the tent, they found Shallan, Patternblade in hand, who instructed them to search Tyn's belongings. Of course it's not entirely impossible that Wit has a Seon. Of course, that was useless. [66], When the group reached Celebrant they split in two, with Pattern joining Shallan, Azure and Mayalaran to try and find a ship willing to transport them. There's a conversation where she totally ignores him for a few minutes and shuts the whole thing out of her mind. Pattern translated during discussions, however the group had no luck in finding a vessel that would sail towards Cultivation's Perpendicularity. The only storming one. Especially until part 4 when this is explained. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The next day, Pattern debated the meaning of 'truth' with Shallan, who found herself frustrated with the biases shown by past scholars. In WoR chapter 6 : Terrible Destruction; Shallan asked Pattern what was the first thing he remembered, and Pattern replied "With you. Unintentionally, Pattern began to mention that he only had a limited amount of time in which to learn of humans, before cutting himself off. She noticed Shallan's powers and tried to kill her to push her over the edge to become a Radiant. When she found one of her drawings in the bottom of Jasnah's trunk, her first drawing of the Alethi princess, Shallan broke down in tears. She died before her husband, who was later remarried to Malise Gevelmar. [22] (Stormlight is meant to be contained by appropriate physical objects or entities. Pattern explained that he had come to the understanding that he could not hate Adolin for having a blade, as humans, he concluded, did not care about the dead. I'll RAFO that, but yes, there is some external influence there. I'm with Nameless here, I don't think the blade was there at all. Her freckles mostly faded as she reached young womanhood, but some are still visible, dusting her cheeks and nose. [5] On occasion he can also manifest as a floating three-dimensional mass of twisting lines. Determined in spite of her killing Testament. Nale obviously has nearly unshakable trust in Ishar, despite massive amounts of evidence contradicting everything he said. Looking directly at him, he begins to fade, but she takes a Memory of him, then applies her charcoal pencil to paper, yet quickly switches to pen and ink for crisper, sharper lines. He says that patterns are eternal, as is fire, as is the wind, are all spren. 3) One of the simplest explanations of why a spren would choose to bond with a child is bad intentions. "They break. Later that night, the highstorm came again, however, unlike the last storm, which had caused Pattern agitation, this one caused him fear. [10], Pattern softly hums a reply: Indulge. Again he vanished, seen only for a brief moment. . The second man, Shallan's mother's lover, was associated with the Skybreakers and convinced her to kill Shallan because she was a budding Radiant. And if you count an Unmade being there as being corrupted there was an Unmade in the Davar household. You vanished as soon as he closed the strongbox. "Unfortunately, no," Darkness said. was he truly that loyal to her? [16][17], "Lightweavers make no oaths beyond the first . She could also be saying that Dreder was an individual in a group her mother knew and Shallan wishes none of them had come to the house. After several hours the illusion disintegrated and the pair headed back to the warcamps. Of wishing they'd hurt you instead of those around you. Pattern accompanied her into the warcamps, under the strict instruction that he remain still and quiet while she was around other people. We also know that Ishar was instrumentalin the original creation of the Knights Radiant: "But as for Ishi'elin,his was the part most importantat their inception; he readily understood the implications of Surges being granted to men, and caused organization to be thrust upon them; as having too great power, he let it be known that he would destroy each and every one, unless they agreed to be bound by precepts and laws." Wit is sequestered away with Jasnah a lot of the time. Seeing a pattern rising like an embossment from the page of her sketchpad, Shallan did not initially understand that she was interacting with the Cryptic, thinking instead that she had done something herself or that the pattern had appeared as a side effect of drawing the Cognitive Realm. "Mmm . That he was not aware. For more details, see our spoiler policy. You fear nonexistence, but is not unconsciousness the same thing? I don't think I could have taken it if Pattern's goal had truly been to betray Shallan. Spren are creatures of nature. Pattern believed that Shallan's reaction was due to her hatred of him and offered to die and have the Cryptics send another in his place if that is what she wanted. I honestly believed that Pattern was evil for a while there, and that made his dialogue shift for me. That was how Mraize knew things., You talked to Wit, Shallan whispered. After Shallan was able to slip away, Pattern led her to the Herald, unlocking the door and allowing her to gain entry to the room. You must become something. Jasnah wore the Davar Soulcaster for some time, not realizing it was broken since her own Soulcaster was a decoy. [20], I thought I saw something in the water, just now. He thinks he could understand peoplethrough the lies they want to be told. spren are elements of the Cognitive Realm that have leaked into the physical world. Pattern approached the hired coach driver, who had been tasked to wait for the young woman's return, and, imitating Shallan's voice, instructed him to return her to the warcamps. I don't honestly know. If Shallan didnt meet Pattern till the ship then she only swears her second oath at the end of Words of Radiance. Knowing Brandon Sanderson, most of the major character moments (Shallan's Truths, Kaladin's Oaths, Dalinar's singular character moment at Thaylen field), were probably recorded in notes somewhere before he even started on WoK. ), Shallan un-bonds Testament (or maybe gem is destroyed). She didn't say she feared her. What she has going on is something fundamentally diferent. [7], While a Shardblade, Pattern often takes the shape of a thin, long sword with a slight curve in it. Not all of her memories were restored. That would've been interesting. Similarly, Pattern had not responded to her suggestions to stay inside and hidden and soon became known to the other occupants of the ship, who found the Cryptic discomforting. But Cryptics were there. That they always change, but only in the same way, over and over. She is incredibly loyal to her family and even spares Shallan's life after Shallan betrays her. Ars Arcanum: The only thing we get to observe in this chapter is the Stormlight healing Shallan's feet, but there are two other allusions worth mentioning: One, there are a couple of references . [8], **Pattern might not have been alone in that strongbox.[24]. After confronting Iyatil, who had been watching the tree, Shallan travelled with the woman to Dalinar's warcamp, having Pattern distract Iyatil, while she gained them access. 2. Your truth is what you see. They knew after the first deadeye that as long as they kept sending spren to bond her and advance her Oaths (or Truths rather), it wouldn't matter how many she "killed" because eventually she would be able to restore them all. Until WOR Shallan thought pattern was her old blade but so did pattern. was he truly that loyal to her? [2] Shallan started calling him "Pattern" while she was studying him upon Jasnah's orders. Op is asking about Tyn, the ghost blood kind-of-agent that Shallan traveled with onthe way to the Shattered Plains and killed with a blade, not Lin her father. Remember too that Jasnah had heard of Shallan's mother and that there is a WoB that Shallan's mother was a person of some importance. I still don't think this is the case, but crazier theories have been right before. Suddenly all the wierd things he said felt more alien and scary, and not as funny or friendly as usual, which goes to show how much context can change things. I support the theory that Shallans mother was a Herald. But later on in Oathbringer Patternblade is ALSO described as Silver. He managed to overcome Shallan's father in a fight so i would guess he was trained in combat but i can't remember if there was a decent description of him but i think if a had to choose between the factions i would probably choose the Diagram faction sisnce they are the ones for saving humanity supposedly. The things I told him, another heard. I'm not really sure what Dreder refers to, but it is only lightly implied and not stated that he was the person accompanying Shallan's mother during the incident. Score: 4.3/5 (7 votes) . Shallan initially describes Pattern as " a sequence of complex lines with sharp angles and arrowhead shapes." Pattern is a spren on Roshar. That the transition wastraumatic. She manages to use Lightweaving when she meets Wit as a child. Pattern disagreed with Shallan's assessment that truth was universal, instead claiming that it was based on an individuals experiences. [13], Her attempt at building a fire a failure, Shallan decided to walk inland, Pattern at her feet and eventually the pair stumbled upon the campsite of Tvlakv and his fellow slavers, where Shallan, exhausted, collapsed. Maybe general secret organizations feud or maybe the skybreakers are afraid that the ghostbloods action also might bring the desolations (although we haven`t seen it mentioned when we saw szeth with them). None of the men, however, brought up the incident, which Shallan attributed to their expectation for strangeness during the highstorm. that said I think Pattern killed tyn. Shallan Fan art by ex-m. Shallan has pale skin lightly dusted with freckles. Shallan has always been an unreliable narrator and prone to creative delusions. [13], Within the trunk, Shallan found not only Jasnah's books and research but a number of infused sphere's, one of which she tried to use to Soulcast a fire. I don't think that Shadow's absence is necessarily the problem with her being a Skybreaker so much as the fact that Young Shallan is unlikely to have committed sufficient criminal acts to act as a fig-leaf justification for her execution. Spoilers all the way through Rhythm of War. You went to all this trouble to seed the information and find the spy. During her stay on the ward, Shallan noticed the spren several times, adding them to sketches she did of the room. When she tried to hide in her room, Pattern pushed her to summon him as a Shardblade, however Shallan refused instead creating an illusion of herself with Pattern's help. Shallan's questions shifted the conversation towards the existence of spren and in turn to the Voidbringers. [2], Raised, like an embossing, it had a complex pattern with a haunting symmetry. Of course, the sword likely vanished soon after, as Shardblades are wont to do. Jasnah was murdered by mercenaries associated with Tyn who were trying to get into the Ghostbloods. [7] Veil, Radiant thought. With her husband and five children. It's not too far of a stretch--especially for a young child--to believe that the sword 'took' her mother's soul away and that it remains with the sword; conjuring up a delusion of her mother's spirit "shining" from its hiding place. What better way to protect your daughter than to join the very organization you are afraid of. [18][19], Upon Shallan speaking her Truths, Pattern bonded her and transitioned from the Cognitive Realm to the Physical, losing much of his mind in the process. Based on what we know, I believe he did in fact find them. This mixed with Radiant not wanting to admit she killed Ialai, and the whole conspiracy gets unraveled as nothing. Started by That points towards Beryl, yet, as far as we know, Beryl never used the Seon nor had the opportunitysince Pattern admits to the instances ofdisturbing the box. But for anyone to reach Wit without prearranging a time, Wit would have to keep it close at all times, yet there's never been a hint of that. Food. After all, Shallan possessed powers, unseen from the times of the Radiants, and the only thing worse than a Radiant are Voidbringers according to Vorinism (at least my impression of it). Initially separated during their jump into the beads, Pattern found Shallan and Kaladin in a small room on the sea floor, that had been created by Shallan. Pattern and Shallan gave chase, following Re-Shephir through the halls of Urithiru, where it tried to escape, first by hiding within the shadows then squeezing through a hole in the wall. However, the only verifiable delivery was very small in size and there is no indication that Ahlers knew about people in hiding in the Secret Annex. 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