Nale
First appears in The Way of Kings.
The Stormlight Archive
Summary
One of the ten Heralds, the Herald of Justice, and the last of them to accept the Skybreakers as their patron. He holds that following a chosen code without wavering is the only path to honor, and hunts Surgebinders as the worst crime. He recruits Szeth, kills those he judges, and in Yeddaw confronts the young Edgedancer Lift, only to break down when the Everstorm proves the Desolation has come.
Book by book 8 events
Before
- After the Last Desolation was won, he walked away from the Oathpact together with all the Heralds except Talenel.
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
- He tracks down and kills Ym, a budding Surgebinder, with his Shardblade.
- He chases the young thief Lift from Marabethia to the palace in Azir and corners her, until the new Prime pardons her and he stands down.
- He watches the end of the fight between Szeth and Kaladin, revives the fallen Szeth with a fabrial, and offers him a place among the Skybreakers and a new blade.
Edgedancer
- In Yeddaw he captures and kills Tiqqa, announcing himself as a deputized agent with authority across the kingdom.
- He tells Szeth that the Voidbringers do not exist and that the Everstorm means nothing, while Lift listens in.
- In the orphanage during a highstorm he fights Lift and the Stump, then sees the Everstorm-lit parshmen outside, admits he has failed, weeps in Lift's arms and vanishes into the sky.
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