Szeth

A Shin man declared Truthless and passed from owner to owner as a slave and assassin, then used by Taravangian to kill rulers across Roshar while wielding an Honorblade. He kills Gavilar, fights Kaladin on the Shattered Plains and is restored by Nale, who gives him Nightblood. He later trains as a Skybreaker squire and swears himself to Dalinar.

1. Aged twenty-seven, Szeth is judged to have betrayed his people, named Truthless, cast out of Shinovar and sold to the trader Vstim. source

1. Serving the Parshendi, Szeth storms the palace at Kholinar, kills many soldiers and mortally wounds King Gavilar, then leaves the body and a message behind. source
2. Szeth murders King Hanavanar of Jah Keved and the king's four highprinces among some thirty people, a killing he later calls a true massacre. source
3. After killing all but the last name on his list, Szeth finds Taravangian was behind the killings and is ordered to kill Dalinar Kholin. source

1. Szeth attacks the Pinnacle on the Shattered Plains during a highstorm, fights Adolin, Kaladin and Dalinar and flees after Kaladin shows he is a Surgebinder. source
2. Szeth returns to the Shattered Plains during the battle with the stormform Parshendi, beats Adolin and Dalinar and kills Roion by Lashing him into the sky. source
3. Kaladin defeats Szeth in the air; Szeth accepts that the Radiants have returned and loses his Honorblade to Kaladin. source
4. Nale restores Szeth to life with a fabrial and gives him a black sword, which is Nightblood. source

1. Szeth accompanies Nale to Yeddaw in Tashikk, where Nale's underlings hunt Lift and another Surgebinder. source
2. Szeth tells Lift that the Lightweaver the underlings are chasing is an old philosopher she knows. source

1. Taken on as squire by Master Ki, Szeth swears the Second Ideal of the Skybreakers beside the Purelake. source
2. Szeth trains with other Skybreaker squires near the Purelake, flying in a contest he loses. source
3. Szeth swears to follow the will of Dalinar Kholin and to cleanse the Shin of their false leaders if Dalinar agrees. source

Home of

Shinovar

Enemy of

Dalinar Kholin, Kaladin, Roion

Wields

Jezrien

Allied with

Taravangian, Nale, Dalinar Kholin, Lift

Travels to

Kholinar, Jah Keved, Shattered Plains, Yeddaw, The Purelake