Moss-son-Farrier

Moss-son-Farrier is the Lightweaver Honorbearer in Shinovar. He dies in 1175, when Szeth kills him and the other Honorbearers with Nightblood.
== Appearance and Personality ==
Moss's physical appearance is not specifically described, but he is a younger Shin man, like Szeth.
He is Szeth's closest friend among the Honorbearers, treating him like a colleague from the beginning. Though he is prone to boasting and showing off, he is still friendly and caring. After his corruption by Ishar, he is more brutal and mocking.
== Attributes and Abilities ==
As the Lightweaver Honorbearer, he has access to the Surges of Illumination and Transformation. This allows him to create illusions and transmute objects. Like all Honorbearers, he is trained in the use of all ten Surges, though Illumination and Transformation are his specialty. It is possible, as an advanced Lightweaver, that he has learned substantiation.
Ishar, in his corruption of the Honorbearers, made him and his colleagues into human Fused, which allows him to be reborn after being killed through most means. Similar to the Fused, this requires the body of a living human, though, unlike the Fused, the process is very painful and takes several days. Moss and the other Honorbearers are abnormally strong with their Surges, and can access them without using any Stormlight. This may be a power granted to them by their Connection to Ishar, similar to how the Heralds received power directly from Honor.
Moss is clever, something Szeth considers a staple of Lightweavers. He devises a multi-layered riddle to challenge Szeth in his monastery, one designed such that almost no matter what Szeth does, Moss will win. Only with Syl's help did Szeth overcome the riddle.
== History ==
Moss went on his pilgrimages sometime during the 1150’s and became an Honorbearer about four years before Szeth did, in approximately 1161. Like most of the other Honorbearers of the time, he was groomed for his role by Pozen, and by an extension Ishar. He and Szeth became close friends, with the year that Szeth spent at his monastery being one that Szeth treasured.
Over time, he was corrupted fully by Ishar. He ruled over his monastery and the surrounding region, enforcing Ishar’s control, until Palahanah 1175, when Kaladin and Szeth came to Shinovar to complete Szeth’s fourth ideal. On the sixth of the final ten days, after visiting Rit in Taln’s monastery and Sivi in Kalak’s monastery, they came to Shalash’s monastery to confront Moss. He presented them with a riddle: thirty copies of Shalash, standing still in the center of the monastery. Each of them was imperfect in some way, he said, but he was hidden behind the illusion that was perfect. Twenty-nine of those standing were safe, while one was dangerous.
Szeth searched all of the illusions thoroughly, unable to decide which one would be Moss. Only once Syl came up to him and helped him think through it did he realize that Moss would have intentionally built the puzzle to be essentially unwinnable. After a moment of thought, he realized that Moss was hiding underneath the floor, which had a large depiction of Shalash’s face. Acting on impulse, he stabbed through the floor with 12124, killing Moss. Moss’s final trick was standing among the illusions; the Truthwatcher Honorbearer was one of the people disguised as Shalash and attempted to attack Szeth after Moss's death. Kaladin, with a warning from Syl, was able to save Szeth’s life.
Over the next few days, as Szeth and Kaladin continued Szeth's quest, he was reborn, taking an unknown Shin person’s body. By the tenth day, he was reborn and stood ready with Ishar and the other Honorbearers at the Bondsmith monastery. At Ishar’s command, he and the others attacked Szeth, nearly killing him. As Szeth was lying on the ground, injured, out of Stormlight, he finally chose to accept agency, swearing his fifth ideal. He promptly broke his oaths with 12124, before using Nightblood to kill the Honorbearers. Because Nightblood consumes all aspect of things he attacks, when he killed the Honorbearers, they died permanently. Moss died second, after Pozen. 
== Notes ==
Category: Rosharans