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Vlep

Vlep is a heklo pirate in the belt of the nowhere, and is the leader of the Cannonade Faction.
== History ==
=== Capturing Spensa ===
Vlep and a band of pirates ambushed Spensa Nightshade on a jungle fragment when she emerged from a nowhere portal, and eventually subdued her. Vlep questioned Spensa, who led him to believe that she was from the Superiority, and was searching for a fugitive, Gul'zah. Vlep searched Spensa, finding and pocketing her reality icon, her father's pin, as well as a handful of reality ashes. Others in the group proposed shooting Spensa, but Vlep argued that Spensa must be valuable to the Superioirty, and that they should ransom her at the mining base. They returned to their ships as Vlep talked with Spensa, but were interrupted when one of the Cannonade pirates collapsed, their face melting. Vlep tried using the reality ashes on the burl pirate, having the others tie Spensa up. As the burl's eyes began to glow white, the pirates decided to leave quickly, and Vlep moved to shoot Spensa with his rifle. He was distracted by the timely arrival of Chet, who charged into the camp on a grig. While Vlep and the others were distracted by the grig, Spensa tackled Vlep from behind and stole back her reality icon. Vlep managed to escape to one of his ships, and flee from the grig.
=== Pirate Faction Politics ===
When Hesho entered the nowhere, with no memories, he was picked up by Vlep and the Cannonade Faction. Vlep recognized his skill and recruited him, and Hesho quickly became the pirate champion, defeating Gremm. Before Spensa and Hesho’s duel, Vlep offered Spensa the chance to join his faction, not realize who she was. After Spensa won, and Peg spoke with the other faction leaders about a combined assault on Surehold, Vlep refused to listen, leaving the arena abruptly with the rest of his faction.
Though the other pirate factions sided with Peg and formed a combined assault on Surehold, Vlep allied himself with Lorn and the Superiority defense force. After Spensa defeated Hesho again during the battle, Vlep offered to leave the battle if Peg offered him immunity. Peg agreed, and Vlep gathered up his downed ships to leave. He tried to take Hesho with him, who refused and stayed with Spensa, changing his alliegience. Vlep was annoyed with Hesho, but left the battle with the rest of his faction. After the battle, when the pirates had taken control of Surehold, Peg still considered Vlep and the Cannonade Faction to be a possible threat.
== Notes ==
Vlxim

Vlxim is a Thaylen sailor and a helmsman of the Wandersail on Roshar.
==Appearance and Personality==
Vlxim has the long white eyebrows characteristic of his people. He is bald, and is known to play the mouth harp.
==History==
Vlxim and the others received training on how to sail the Wandersail through highstorms, and Vlxim claimed to have sailed through one.
For many months, Vlxim was part of a crew trained under captain Drlwan to sail the Wandersail, owned by merchant Vstim. When Vstim retired, the ship was inherited by Vstim's apprentice, Rysn Ftori, who assumed command of it and its crew.
In a mission led by Rysn, Vlxim sailed to Akinah as part of the crew of the Wandersail. Vlxim was the helmsman of the ship when it penetrated through the terrible storm around the island, and he successfully brought the ship safely to the other side. Vlxim had three other sailors standing by to help him with the wheel during the storm, even though it had a mechanism built in to help the helmsman. When the ship approached their mythical destination, Vlxim and the ship's captain, Drlwan, were the first to stare at the distant island in awe.
== Notes ==
Voidlight

Voidlight is a form of gaseous Investiture associated with Odium.
== Acquisition and Properties ==
A singer can sing the Song of Prayer to create a Voidlight sphere, though this would draw Odium's attention. It appears that this process is perhaps somewhat troublesome or time-consuming, as during battle, the Pursuer would go to someplace to fetch stored Voidlight instead of creating it directly. In the past, Ba-Ado-Mishram is said to have provided it. The Fused enter the Physical Realm suffused with Voidlight. Leaving gemstones out in Everstorm doesn't infuse them with Voidlight.
Voidlight is stored in gemstones similar to Stormlight, but these two types of light cannot be stored in the same gemstone. Voidlight leaks significantly slower than Stormlight.
Voidlight takes the form of dark, purple-on-black vapor, glowing violet. When a person is infused with it, Voidlight spreads over the surface of their skin rather than sinking in. On the skin, it can be made to pulse, and when a person infused with Voidlight moves, they leave behind trails of violet light. However, Voidlight does not leak from the Fused.
Voidlight has an emotional effect similar to Stormlight, but instead of a need to move, it causes a feeling of enhanced passion, and emotions become more vibrant. When drawn into the body of a singer, it infuses mainly the gemheart, rather than the entire body as with Stormlight. Humans can draw in Voidlight if they learn the correct tone and rhythm.
Its rhythm is described as "chaotic, but with a certain logic to it."
=== Anti-Voidlight ===
Anti-Voidlight glows faintly violet-black and appears to faintly warp the air around itself. When it interacts with Voidlight, both are converted into energy in an explosive reaction.
== Uses ==
Historically, the Regal forms of the singers are associated with Voidlight, which is said to come from the king of gods. Voidlight powers some, if not all, of Regals' special powers. In the present day, it's used by the Fused to access Surges, similarly to how a Surgebinder uses Stormlight. Also similarly, Voidlight provides healing to the person infused with it. However, Fused do not lose Voidlight when not using it, and it can power their Surges for far longer, albeit more weakly. Holding it has some sort of emotional impact, though different from Stormlight's.
Several Unmade are associated with Voidlight. Bonding with Yelig-nar causes a person to grow violet crystals, including a gemheart pulsing with Voidlight. The sphere containing Nergaoul glows dark purple. Moreover, when Dalinar sees Odium's true nature, the fire it burns with has the same coloring.
Larkin are capable of feeding on Voidlight, with no apparent ill effects.
== Trivia ==
* The appearance of Voidlight is inspired by Stygian colors, a type of chimerical colors. A chimerical color can be "perceived" when a person stares at one color until the cones in their eyes tire, then looks at another, with an afterimage causing the colors to mix into imaginary shades in the observer's brain. Stygian colors are a subset of those occurring when the second color is black.
== Notes ==
Vono

Vono is an Azish guardsman on Roshar that serves Prime Aqasix Yanagawn the First.
==Appearance and Personality==
Vono has light brown skin. He seems to use proper etiquette when given an audience with the Prime Aqasix, although he uses informal language.
==History==
Vono was likely a high-ranking guardsman, as he served on a ship that carried Yanagawn, Noura, Unoqua, Dalksi, and other Azish dignitaries.
After the Azish delegation decided to leave Thaylen City prior to the Battle of Thaylen Field, Vono was assigned to guard Lift in her cabin on Yanagawn's ship so that she would not attempt to join the battle. However, Lift escaped by kicking Vono in the groin, incapacitating him. She was able to hide Vono under the bunk in her cabin (presumably using the Surge of Abrasion) just before the ship left port.
Vono did not recover until the ship was underway, and he reported Lift's escape to Yanagawn and Noura. Yanagawn was angry, but managed to avoid shaming Vono. Vono's report caused Yanagawn to consider returning to Thaylenah, but moments later he received a message stating that the Sadeas troops led by Meridas Amaram had switched sides and were attacking the city.
== Notes ==
Vrandl

Vrandl is a Thaylen artifabrian on Roshar and a member of the Vriztl Guild.
== Appearance and Personality ==
She is a short woman who prefers havahs to traditional Thaylen dress. She wears her eyebrows in tight curls. She is older than her colleague Ulvlk. She is very loyal to her guild, and she questions the motives of Navani Kholin.
== Attributes and Abilities ==
As a member of the Vriztl Guild, Vrandl is knowledgeable regarding the known properties of Stormlight and fabrials, including certain "trade secrets" that are shared only among guild members. She serves in Queen Fen Rnamdi's court in Thaylen City.
== History ==
In , Vrandl and Ulvlk visited Urithiru to listen to Navani's lectures on fabrials. During their visit, Raboniel invaded the tower and fighting between the singers and humans commenced. Navani made contact with the Sibling and began receiving information about Raboniel's likely plans. As an expert on fabrials, Navani was aware that the two Thaylen scholars might have confidential information that would be crucial to defending the tower, and she kept them close by.
Acting on the Sibling's instructions, Navani sought a method to quickly transfer Stormlight between gemstones. Vrandl became suspicious since Navani needed very specific information that only she and Ulvlk could provide, and believed that Navani was trying to trick them into revealing their "trade secrets". Navani rebuked the Thaylens for withholding information that could potentially save humanity, but Vrandl remained silent. Ulvlk, however, decided to reveal the Vriztl secret of using a specific sound frequency created by tuning forks to transfer Light between gems. Vrandl was incensed; she maintained her position that Navani's motivation was a ruse. She told Ulvlk that she would be expelled by the guild for revealing their secret, although Navani reassured a nervous Ulvlk that she only wanted to stop the invaders. Vrandl was presumably persuaded by Navani, as the coalition scholars were soon provided with two tuning forks by the Thaylens.
== Notes ==
Vriztl Guild

The Vriztl Guild is a secretive guild of artifabrians based out of Thaylenah on Roshar.
== History ==
The Vriztl Guild, using knowledge passed down via tradition for centuries, developed a method to transfer Light between gemstones by using a tuning fork to vibrate the gems at the right frequency. They guarded the secret very closely, refusing to part with the knowledge even when Navani Kholin, giving a lecture on fabrial mechanics to the coalition of monarchs, pleaded for them to aid the war effort by doing so. During the singer occupation of Urithiru, Navani brought guild members Vrandl and Ulvlk with her as a group followed the Sibling's directions towards one of its nodes. As they were stalled trying to open a door by infusing its gemstone, Navani impressed on the two Thaylens the need for haste. Ulvlk finally told Navani the guild's secret, though Vrandl believed that Ulvlk would be expelled from the guild for revealing their secret to the Alethi.
== Notable Members ==
;Ulvlk: Reveals the secret of transferring Light between gemstones to Navani during the singer occupation of Urithiru
;Vrandl: Present during the singer occupation of Urithiru; resists revealing the guild's secret
== Notes ==
Vun Makak

Vun Makak is a deity in the religion of the people of the Purelake on Roshar.
Vun Makak is the younger brother of the true god of the Purelakers, Nu Ralik. Vun Makak is spiteful and jealous, and the Purelakers believe that they must trick him into thinking that they worship him instead of his brother. Therefore, they do not speak Nu Ralik's name outside of their holy grottos, always swearing by Vun Makak in their day-to-day interactions. 
Vun Makak is usually thought to blight or curse his "followers", and he is also associated with lying. One man invokes his name after he is paralyzed by Szeth. 
== Notes ==
Category: Religion
Vyre's knife

Vyre's knife is a bright golden raysium blade with a sapphire set into the pommel, used to kill the Herald Jezrien and trap his soul so that he couldn't be reborn.
== History ==
The circumstances of the knife's creation are unknown. It was given by the Fused Hnanan to Moash (later known as Vyre). Hnanan told Moash that Odium had tasked him with killing a god; Moash noted that the Fused appeared to be afraid of using the knife on Jezrien themselves. Moash then used the knife to kill Jezrien. After the murder, Moash removed the knife from Jezrien's body, but the subsequent fate of the knife is unknown.
== Mechanics ==
The knife can kill a Herald by trapping the soul, preventing the Herald from returning to Braize as a "conventional" Herald death would. Jezrien, while initially in a drunken stupor, quickly realizes that something about this death is different and claims to feel the knife drawing something from him into itself. Shalash and Kalak likewise instantly distinguishes it from previous deaths, as they could no longer sense Jezrien's soul.
The knife "traps" the soul so it can't be reborn. It functions by absorbing all of the Investiture that makes up the Cognitive Shadow of a Herald, running it down the length of the blade and into the gemstone set into the pommel. This process operates under similar principles to the Scadrian manifestation of Investiture known as Hemalurgy, where practitioners are able to steal part of an individual's spiritweb using metal spikes. It would cause debate among cosmere philosophers whether the knife's magical properties are in fact Hemalurgy or rather a related, but distinct, phenomenon.
Following Jezrien's death, the sapphire set into the knife takes on a "subdued glow". The sapphire in the knife's hilt is specifically for Jezrien. Whether the use of that specific polestone is mechanically relevant or only symbolic is unknown.
The knife shares characteristics with Nightblood, as they both bleed black smoke and leave blackened wounds.
== Notes ==
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Waber

Waber is the gardener at the citylord's manor in Hearthstone on Roshar.
== History ==
In , Waber was tasked by Roshone to gather the residents for a full town meeting when Amaram arrived on his recruitment drive. He and his assistants erected a canopy in the town square.
During the evacuation of Hearthstone to Urithiru on the Fourth Bridge in , Waber was part of a group that was attacked by Lezian and a few of his soldiers in order to draw the attention of the Windrunners. When Kaladin arrived, the singers retreated into the manor with Godeke, but they allowed Waber and the others to go free.
== Notes ==
Wade

Wade is a Reckoner, part of the Texas cell. He takes part in the invasion of Lux alongside Jax. He has primarily computer-focused skills, which he uses to hack into Lux's security systems. He doesn't have much training, and isn't very useful in a fight.
== Appearance and Personality ==
Wade has a peppy, cheerful attitude, and is easy going and lax. He loves video games, and occasionally brags about his skill.
== History ==
=== Early Years ===
Prior to being invited to join the Reckoners, Wade stayed in his bunker for a few years, often passing the time by playing video games. At some point, an Epic named Electrodyne caused all of his video games to be deleted from his computer, though Wade was able to find copies of most of them. He often petitioned the Reckoners, asking to join their ranks, but was always denied.
== Joining the Reckoners ==
After the disaster at Arlington, the surviving Texas Reckoners needed a tech expert to help with the eventual infiltration of Lux. They remembered Wade, and invited him to join them. He showed up at the Coop, but had absolutely no combat training. Jax trained him in the basics, and they also worked on motivators a bit together. Wade later takes part in the trap in Galveston, and is with Briggen when he gets his face mangled by shrapnel. Though the other Reckoners, especially Hershel, are originally annoyed by him, he earns their favor after he hacks into a pizza order and brings them several pizzas.
=== Infiltration of Lux ===
Wade was part of the team that infiltrated team. When the team climbed the ladders into Lux, Hershel made Wade go first, so that he could set the pace that all of them could follow. During the operation to attach the Wingflare motivator to the power grid, Wade worked to give advance warning when Ravens came. When Briggen betrayed them, Wade was captured by Lifeforce along with his fellow Reckoners. Jax broke them out soon after, and Wade hacked into the palace security to find out where Ravens were patrolling. He used that to design an algorithm that got them safely to Parik's lab without being seen. Once inside the lab, Wade hacked into the drawer system, opening the drawers that Jax requested.
Through all the other operations, Wade served as the team's tech expert. He helped them kidnap Lanugish, and was responsible for getting them into the palace for the eventual killing of Lifeforce. When Jax, Languish, and Paige went into the palace to confront Lifeforce, Wade and Hershel stayed behind to assault the main gates as a distraction.
=== Aftermath ===
After Lifeforce's death and Lux drifted into the bay, Wade and the others found an abandoned ice cream shop, which still contained some sherbet. After feasting on the sherbet, they took the unconscious Paige to Louisiana to see Doc Slush.
== Trivia ==
*Wade has an extreme fondness for both Twinkies and sherbet.
== Notes ==
Waelish

The Waelish are a people on the alternate medieval Earth. They are enemies of the Weswarans. They are ruled by a king, the Black Bear, who has ruled unnaturally long. His kingdom is a dark forest.
The war between the Waelish and the Weswarans led to the battle of Badon, where the monstrous wolf Fenris killed the goddess Friag.
The Waelish are this alternate dimension's version of the Britons. John West recognizes the word as related to "Welsh".
== Notes ==
Waffle

Waffle is a taynix found on Detritus.
Waffle was issued to a pilot belonging to the DDF. When the National Assembly tried to reach a truce with the Superiority, a delegation of politicians set out to meet with the Superiority and brought a box of the DDF pilots' taynix with them. FM listed Waffle as one of the taynix she thought might have been taken, suggesting to Alanik and Jorgen that they could try hyperjumping to Waffle to reach the Superiority ship.
== Notes ==
Walin

Walin is a prisoner at the Pits of Hathsin on Scadrial. Like most prisoners in the Pits he has many long cuts on his arms.
== History ==
Walin was sent to the Pits of Hathsin as punishment for trying to steal food from his plantation master.
He was barely fed at the Pits, his fingers kept searching for geodes instinctively and he was too tired to care about entering the mists or getting beaten. Walin usually climbed up to the surface to sleep, but as he was an older man, he had to look out for younger, stronger men who might attack him to steal his atium geode.
He wasn't sure if such a life was better than being dead.
Walin was eventually freed by Kelsier, who was about to destroy the mines, just after he managed to find an atium geode the final day of the week. Although he first thought that Kelsier wanted to steal his geode, after being encouraged by Kelsier, Walin left the Pits to sell the atium to secure his freedom.
== Notes ==
category: viewpoint characters
Wan ShaiLu/Gallery

== Official Art ==
Shai.jpg | by Alexander Nanitchkov On the US cover of The Emperor's Soul
Emperor's Soul Polish Cover.jpg | by On the Polish cover of The Emperor's Soul
Emperor's Soul CN cover.jpg | by On the Mainland China cover of The Emperor's Soul
Emperor's Soul CA Cover.png | by Catalan cover of The Emperor's Soul
AU Emperor's Soul.jpeg | by Ben McSweeney Shai using Forgery, Arcanum Unbounded interior art
Era2StickerPack.png | by Hayley Lazo The Lost Metal themed stickers
== Portraits ==
Sel-2-Shai.jpg | by 
TES Shai.jpg | by Shai holding her chisel and stamp
TES Full Cast.jpeg | by With The Emperor's Soul cast (center)
Shai by Shuravf.jpg | by 
Inktober Shai by Shuravf.jpg | by 
Shai by paintweaver.png | by 
Shai by jurassicpencil.jpg | by 
Shai by Connor Chamberlain.jpg| by 
== Scenes ==
TES - Shai and Gaotona by Johanna Rupprecht.jpg | by Speaking with Gaotona
Shai by Elisgardor.jpg| by Blowing off a stamp
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Wandering Leaf

Wandering Leaf is an abandoned flying military platform, similar to the defensive shells around Detritus. It was abandoned after the Second Human War, centuries ago. It used to move through the miasma controllably, but now it simply drifts. It is equipped with an array of autoturrets, which shoot at anything within range, as well as having a taynix box which can be used to fire enormous mindblades. It has oxygen generators on board, so that inhabitants don’t breathe in the toxic miasma. It floats in the miasma of ReDawn, near the Hollow. The UrDail who populate the Hollow monitor Wandering Leaf closely, in case it grows to near to the settlement.
== History ==
During Alanik and Skyward Flight's uprising against the Unity faction, they boarded Wandering Leaf, hyperjumping underneath the turret’s range. They temporarily made it their base of operations, figuring out its mechanisms.
== Notes ==
Wandersail

The Wandersail is a legendary ship on Roshar.
It was captained by Derethil, who had the ship built to travel through highstorms. The ship sailed into the open ocean in an attempt to find the origin of the Voidbringers. It was shipwrecked on a ring of islands in the middle of the ocean that surrounded a giant whirlpool "where, it is said, the ocean drains".
Derethil and his men met a people known as the Uvara, or the People of the Great Abyss. The crew of the Wandersail were welcomed by the Uvara, and the ship was repaired in their shipyards. Eventually, Derethil and the crew uncovered some disturbing aspects of Uvara society and quickly left the islands on the Wandersail, using the momentum of the whirlpool to get them away from it. They were accompanied by a single Uvara woman named Nafti.
== Historicity ==
The story of Derethil and the Wandersail was written by Ishar around three thousand years ago. It was told to Nale by Kaladin, and to Kaladin by Hoid. The Wind was also present and assisted both times the tale was told. Ishar claims that much of the story was likely fabricated and has not found any physical evidence supporting the existence of the island of Uvara, but Hoid answers cryptically when Kaladin questions the story's authenticity, so it may still contain some elements of truth.
The tale is known in Thaylenah, as Vstim gifts a newly built ship named after the Wandersail to his former apprentice Rysn Ftori. Rysn considers the story of the original Wandersail nothing more than a fanciful myth, while Vstim believes in the message of the story, if not the specifics. 
== Notes ==
Category: Myths and Legends