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=== Shallan's Childhood ===
Worried about the return of the [[Voidbringers]], the [[Cryptic]]s elected to send one of their own to bond a human. DespiteA believingCryptic itnamed would[[Testament]] enddecided in his death, Pattern nominatedto himselfgo, crossing into the [[Realmatic Theory#Physical Realm|Physical Realm]] and bonding with Shallan when she was just a child. After their bond began to form, PatternTestament would spend time with Shallan while she sat and drew in gardens of her fathers estate. By the time she was eleven, their bond had progressed far enough for Shallan to summon PatternTestament as a [[Shardblade]].{{book ref|sa2|6}}{{book ref|sa2|13}}{{book ref|sa2|88}}{{wob ref|5899}}
When a [[Skybreaker]] acolyte persuaded Shallan's mother that [[Surgebinder]]s had to be killed, she attacked Shallan. Her father tried to intercede to protect his daughter, but was stopped by the man before he could help Shallan. When her mother came after her with the man's fallen knife, Shallan summoned PatternTestament as a Shardblade in self defence, killing her. His wife's lover subdued, [[Lin]] took the bladeBlade from his daughter and locked it in his strongbox. Shallan, in a state of shock, saw a glowing light seep through the cracks of the safe, from what she came to believe was the monster that had been locked away inside. Although PatternTestament disappeared from the safe shortly afterwards, Shallan continued to see light being emitted from the box for years after the incident.{{book ref|sa2|10}}{{book ref|sa2|27}}{{book ref|sa2|88}}
The state of distress and shock caused by the incident with her mother led Shallan to resent Testament, who she killed, turning her into a [[deadeye]]. Shallan suppressed her memories of the spren. Later, Pattern returned, and suppressas hersome of Shallan's memories of her bonding a spren led her to believe that Pattern was the spren that Shallan had bonded as a child, and that after using him to kill her mother, causingShallan's resentment of him caused their bond to weaken, and Pattern to retreatretreated mostly back into the [[Realmatic Theory#Cognitive Realm|Cognitive Realm]], when in reality Testament was killed. After this, Shallan could no longer use Surgebinding, though could still use her enhanced mnemonic abilities.{{wob ref|5609}}{{wob ref|5675}}
=== Kharbranth ===
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