Pralla

Pralla, known as Pailiah in Vorinism and nicknamed Pali, is one of the ten Heralds of the Almighty on Roshar. She is the patron of the Order of Truthwatchers.
== Personality and Appearance ==
=== Appearance ===
Pralla has tan skin, and is stated to look similar to a Veden woman. She sometimes wears green cloth garments.
=== Personality ===
She is stated to be a good person, but to be flawed in her love of secrets.
== Attributes and Abilities ==
Before becoming a Herald, Pralla was a scholar. 
=== Surgebinding ===
==== Odium Surges ====
Before becoming a Herald, she possessed prolonged life and decelerated aging due to the effects of the Surges granted to her by Odium. 
==== Honor Surges ====
As a wielder of an Honorblade, a fragment of Honor, she has access to two Surges. Her powers manifest as the Surges of Progression and Illumination.
However, she has abandoned her Blade at the Aharietiam, losing her access to Stormlight and Surgebinding. Whether she has Surgebinding abilities in the Era of Solitude is uncertain.
=== Herald of the Almighty ===
As a Herald, she's an immortal Cognitive Shadow, and every time she dies, she travels to Braize. There, she's tortured until she or one of the other Heralds breaks, returning them to Roshar. 
Her slowed aging was turned into stasis and immortality upon becoming a Herald, as Vedel used her Connection to Honor to create a constant influx of Investiture into her soul, keeping her at the same age forever. Jezrien states that she is able to see the truth, as it might be. 
Like the other Heralds, over time, she developed the ability to draw upon the power of Roshar itself, not simply the Surges of Honor. Around four thousand five hundred fifty years before the Night of Sorrows, Honor granted her, and the other Heralds, greater access to the power of the Surges and to the powers of Roshar. Following this, they were referred to as being Unchained. However, what powers she gained from Roshar are currently unknown.
== History ==
Like the other Heralds, except for Talenel, Pralla was born on Alaswha and was likely involved in the territorial wars that ravaged the planet between eight thousand and seven thousand one hundred years before the Night of Sorrows. She served as a scholar. She was granted Surges, be it by Honor or Odium, which tremendously slowed her aging. It is unknown if she was on the side of Odium's empire or part of the resistance faction led by Makibak. Following the scouring of Alaswha, renamed Ashyn, by the Surges, she made the trip to Roshar along with a large group of survivors. 
When the Desolations began, she was one of the ten people made Heralds by Honor and given a Honorblade.
Along with all of the Heralds but Taln, Pralla abandoned the Oathpact at the end of Aharietiam.
== Culture ==
In the Vorin culture, Pralla is associated with number 5 (Palah), the essence Pulp, and the attributes of Learned and Giving. The grand library in Kharbranth, Palanaeum, is named after her.
Pailiah features in several Rosharan idioms, such as "Pali's mind" and "Pailiah knew...", referencing her nature as Learned. There are temples to her in major cities on Roshar, like Kholinar and Thaylen.
== Trivia ==
* In 2017, someone reported that Brandon had personalized one of their books with confirmation that the old ardent Shallan sees in the Palanaeum is Pralla. However, no photo of the personalization was ever provided and when others asked Brandon for confirmation, he was only willing to say that there is a female Herald in close proximity to Taravangian, though not in his inner circle of associate commonly seen on-screen and that she is the only Herald currently influencing him, though there had been others in the past. It seems likely that the Heralds Pralla and Battar got mixed up in the original question.
* Pralla appears to be named after Prallah, one of the Silver Kingdoms in The Way of Kings Prime.
* Pralla's portrait used in the chapter arches is called the Scholar by the Dragonsteel Entertainment staff.
== Notes ==
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