Shallan Davar

A Veden noblewoman and artist who becomes the ward of the scholar Jasnah Kholin, then a Lightweaver Knight Radiant bonded to the spren Pattern. She hides a violent childhood behind alternate selves, spies on the Ghostbloods, helps open the Oathgates, and marries Adolin Kholin at the close of the fourth book.

1. In childhood, her mother turns on her when her Surgebinding appears, and Shallan kills her in the struggle. source
2. After her father's violence turns on the family, she poisons him and then strangles him when the poison fails. source

1. She sails from Vedenar with Captain Tozbek, catches up with Jasnah in Kharbranth, and wins a place as her ward on the third attempt. source
2. Sketching with Kabsal, she sees strange symbol-headed figures and Soulcasts for the first time without knowing how. source
3. Kabsal dies of the poison meant for Jasnah, which also sickened Shallan. source
4. Pattern lets her reach Shadesmar after she speaks a truth, and Jasnah pulls her out of the sea of beads. source

1. She leaves Kharbranth with Jasnah for the Shattered Plains, with a conditional betrothal to Adolin arranged by letter. source
2. An attack on the ship leaves Shallan wrecking the Wind's Pleasure and washed ashore, stranded in the Frostlands. source
3. Learning that Tyn sent the assassins after Jasnah, Shallan kills her with a Shardblade. source
4. Arrived in the warcamps, she takes the guise of Veil to infiltrate the Ghostbloods and meets Mraize. source
5. She shows Dalinar she is a Knight Radiant and refuses to be sent back to safety, insisting on finding Urithiru. source
6. By driving her Shardblade into the Oathgate's mechanism she learns how to operate it. source

1. On the expedition to Kholinar she disguises Adolin and shelters with the tailor Yokska, then spends weeks infiltrating the city's underworld and the Cult of Moments. source
2. In Shadesmar she finds that the spren seen in the physical world are only part of a larger ecosystem of beings. source
3. At the end of Oathbringer she marries Adolin, making Dalinar her father-in-law. source

Home of

Jah Keved

Allied with

Jasnah Kholin, Pattern, Gaz, Azure, Tyn, Vathah, Sja-anat, Yalb, Tozbek

Enemy of

Tyn, Re-Shephir

Partner of

Adolin Kholin, Kabsal

Mate of

Adolin Kholin

Travels to

Kharbranth, Shadesmar, Shattered Plains, Kholinar, Lasting Integrity

Parent of

Lin Davar