El

El is a Fused on Roshar. El has no title and cannot hear the Rhythms.
== Appearance and Personality ==
=== Appearance ===
El has horns. At each rebirth, he removes his carapace and replaces it with metal. The metal heals and integrates into his body through a combination of Voidlight healing and his own, currently unknown, abilities.
=== Personality ===
El expresses an admiration for humans. He considers them strong, intense, determined, brilliant, and bright. He studies human art forms, including writing his own ketek. He looks forward to ruling humans, and sees them as effective weapons that channel their Passion. He at one point believed that humans should not be killed, but rather repurposed to further the goals of the Fused.
Other Fused, even one as powerful and dangerous as Lezian the Pursuer, are wary of crossing or complaining to him. El is clever, esteemed by the Heralds as one of the best of the singers, and is said, by Leshwi, to rarely lie. He is willing to kill his own kind simply as a way to experiment with the effectiveness of anti-Voidlight. He finds joy in being feared, primarily by humans.
== History ==
===Heraldic Epochs===
El was one of the most powerful and talented singers before the Oathpact was founded. He was stabbed by Jezrien, before becoming a Fused, which serves as a warning to the future Heralds about the danger of the Fused. At some point in the past, El suggested that humans should not be killed. He instead wanted to unite all of Roshar under Fused rule for a future war. As punishment, his Rhythms and title were stripped from him. Prior to this point, he had the title Vyre, which translates to He Who Quiets; Lezian considered it disrespectful that this title was later given to a human, Moash, though El himself did not appear to be bothered.
===The True Desolation===
When El returned during the True Desolation, he began once again studying human art from the time he was on Braize. He particularly notes the way humans depict Fused as Voidbringers in the centuries before the True Desolation. He wrote a ketek to celebrate the return of the Sibling. El appears to have increased in favor when Taravangian killed Rayse and took up Odium. He expresses admiration that this Odium was recently human. After Lezian's death in Urithiru, Odium accelerated his return to give El a suitable subject for testing anti-Voidlight; El permanently killed Lezian, confirming its reported properties.
He later finally killed Jezrien, destroying the gemstone, out of respect of their friendship. He then spoke with Odium, identifying him as Taravangian. He was chosen to lead a second force to the Shattered Plains and use Dai-Gonarthis to create an Elsegate there, and, if succeeding, to rule the humans.
Before seizing the Shattered Plains, El's army agreed to a truce with Venli and the Listeners. The next day, Venli revealed that due to the deadline of the Contest, the Listener force held the Shattered Plains. Another Fused was enraged, but slain when El summoned and drove his Shardblade through their head. He agreed to the truce and left the Plains.
== Musings ==
== Trivia ==
* His name is derived from the same root as the term "Nahel".
* The word 'El' (אל) means 'god' in hebrew, and is also the name of an ancient middle eastern deity
== Notes ==
Category: Viewpoint characters
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