Sja-anat
First appears in Words of Radiance.
The Stormlight Archive
Summary
One of the Unmade, called the Taker of Secrets, who alters any spren she touches. She appears as a black shadow with white eyes. Her spy swims the Purelake, and in Kholinar she warns Shallan from a mirror that the Oathgate is a trap, then makes the crossing to Shadesmar safer. She insists she is no longer Odium's servant and is not an enemy.
Book by book 5 events
Words of Radiance
- Her shadow-faced spy is described swimming through the Purelake with a knightly escort.
Oathbringer
- Shallan glimpses something in a palace mirror in Kholinar turn and look at her with sudden surprise.
- Sja-anat tells Shallan she is not an enemy and that the heart is a trap.
- From a mirror in the Oathgate control building, she names herself and warns Shallan that the gate is trapped and will not work as hoped.
- Her touch on the corrupted spren in the gate makes the crossing of Shallan, Adolin, Kaladin and Azure to Shadesmar safer.
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