Lift

A small Reshi thief who gains the Edgedancer powers of Abrasion and Progression through her bond with the cultivationspren Wyndle. She slips into the Azish palace, saves the new Prime Aqasix, then flees to Yeddaw in Tashikk, where she faces down the Herald Nale. By Oathbringer she helps Dalinar and Szeth in the Thaylen City battle and acts as an informal advisor to Azir.

1. Using Abrasion, Lift gets into the Bronze Palace of Azir with a band of thieves, steals food, and is chased by the Herald Nale, whom she calls Darkness. source
2. Lift saves the new Prime Aqasix, Gawx, from a cut throat with Progression, speaks the Second Ideal of the Edgedancers and earns a pardon. source

1. Lift slips out of the palace at Azimir because the attention on her feels like being consumed, and crosses into Tashikk. source
2. Lift reaches the city of Yeddaw to hide, knowing that Nale is already there. source
3. Lift watches Nale seize and kill a girl named Tiqqa and cannot bring her back, and vows to remember her. source
4. Inside the Grand Indicium, Lift uses a spanreed to reach Gawx in the Bronze Palace and slips away from scribes and guards. source
5. Lift is spotted by Szeth in the Grand Indicium, and he lets her go; she comes to trust him as he answers her questions about Nale. source
6. On the roof of the orphanage in Yeddaw, Lift turns Nale back by showing him the storm, speaks the Third Ideal, hugs him as he leaves, and heals the Stump. source
7. Lift heals refugees at the city gate and sets out to return to Azimir, sensing something larger is coming. source

1. Lift turns up in Dalinar's shared visions with Yanagawn and says she does not trust Dalinar. source
2. Hiding in a vision, Lift watches Dalinar meet Odium, comes to trust Dalinar, and resolves to visit Gawx. source
3. Lift obtains permission from the Azish court to unlock the Oathgate from its Azish side. source
4. After the leaders meet in Thaylen City and fighting breaks out, Lift chases a Fused who stole a large ruby and is rescued from a Thunderclast by Szeth. source
5. Lift feeds life into Szeth when his sword drains him, taking gray vine-like marks on her arms once the blade is sated. source
6. Lift and Shallan swap the stolen gemstone for an illusion-covered rock, and Lift carries the real one to Dalinar. source

Allied with

Wyndle, Gawx, Szeth, Dalinar Kholin, The Stump

Enemy of

Nale

Travels to

Tashikk, Yeddaw, Azir, Thaylen City