El Hermano
| El Hermano | |||||
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| Capacidades | Vínculo Nahel, magia Forjadora de Vínculos | ||||
| Vinculado con | Navani, Melishi (previamente)[1] | ||||
| Especie | Spren | ||||
| Mundo natal | Roshar | ||||
| Universo | Cosmere | ||||
“There is ... a third sibling. They are not with us. ”
—The Stormfather[2]
El Hermano es un spren notable en Roshar.[3] Tienen el mismo poder que el Padre Tormenta y la Vigilante Nocturna, y es el tercer spren históricamente asociado con la Orden de los Forjadores de Vínculos.[4][5] El Hermano se manifiesta físicamente como muchos fabriales dentro de la torre de Urithiru y tiene control sobre ellos, siendo el pilar de cristal el corazón.[6] Actualmente está vinculado a Navani Kholin.[4][5]
Atributos y Habilidades
Se sabe que el Hermano ha estado vivo al menos cuatro milenios y medio y es funcionalmente inmortal.[2] El Hermano no se considera a si mismo como poseedor de género y encuentra la noción de que los spren sí ridícula.[7][8] A pesar de haber vivido miles de años, sigue siendo algo ingenuo. Los spren de la Puerta Jurada siguen las órdenes del Hermano y se refieren a él como un padre.[9]
Investidura
El Hermano es capaz de producir su porpia Investidura conocida como Luz de torre, una mezcla de Luz de vida y Luz tormentosa, la cual usa para darle poder a los fabriales de Urithiru.[10] Necesita poder armonizar las canciones de Honor y Cultivación para producir Luz de torre.[4]
Vínculo Nahel
El Hermano es uno de los tres grandes spren Forjadores de Vínculos.[3] Formando un vínculo Nahel con ellos otorga las potencias de Tensión y Adhesión.[11] Mientras que un Forjador de Vínculos puede usar la Adhesión como un Corredor del Viento lo haría,[12] también pueden usar sus poderes de diferente manera, más en lo Espiritual. Usando la Adhesión Espiritual, un Forjador de Vínculos puede formar una Conexión entre ellos y otra persona, permitiéndoles hablar su idioma.[13] También parecen ser capaces de escuchar los aspectos espirituales de los objetos y usar esto para devolver cosas rotas a su estado completo.[14] Navani es capaz de asistir al Hermano en hacer de nuevo Luz de torre en cantidades suficientemente grandes para restaurar al completo la funcionalidad de Urithiru.[4]
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Para vincular con el Hermano, se debe tocar el pilar de cristal.[10] El Hermano sabe cómo terminar el vínculo Nahel, y lo ha hecho en el pasado.[15] Mientras que la Vigilante Nocturna y el Padre Tormenta se sabe que están conectados, respectivamente, a Cultivación y a Honor, el Hermano es el hijo de éstos, creado específicamente para oponerse a Odium.[16] El Padre Tormenta considera a los tres como "hermanos", y el hecho de que son los únicos spren capaces de vincular con Forjadores de Vínculos[17] indica que comparten algunas características.
Urithiru
“She saw the tower now as an entity, with lines of garnet very like veins and arteries. And she inhabited that entity. It became her body. She saw thousands of closed doors the scouts had missed in mapping the tower. She saw brilliant mechanisms for controlling pressure, heat — No, stay focused. ”
—Navani Kholin[6]
The Sibling is essentially the Tower of Urithiru and controls the many fabrials within.[6] They are capable of manifesting in the Physical Realm as both metal and as Polestones. The Sibling can also fully power and control every fabrial that makes up the tower.[18] The temperature becomes warmer since heating fabrials become more potent, for example.[5] The Sibling is able to see everything within the tower.[1][6] Their Bondsmith is also able to do so, as well as comprehend the mechanisms of Urithiru and speak through the veins of garnet in the tower as the Sibling does.[19][6]
The red garnet vein within the wall strata serves as means of communication.[20] It can light up and, upon being touched, the Sibling will be able to mentally speak with a person or spren,[21][22] although this can be eavesdropped through unknown methods.[23] This also allows people to communicate with each other if they are both touching the garnet vein.[8] The Sibling can also talk to people in weak mental state.[8] The line of garnet will give off a small amount of light when the Sibling wants it to.[24][25] This can be moved within the garnet veins to guide people.[1][26] The Sibling can open, close or lock the fabrial doors in Urithiru.[21] They are even able to key them to certain people.
The tower is very bright and due to the highly Invested nature of the tower, it glows brightly in the Cognitive Realm, making it hard for people to see specific spren while there.[20][6] Its highly Invested nature also makes it near impossible for the detection of kinetic Investiture.[27] Voidspren are unable to remain invisible while in the tower, though regular spren can.[10][28] Previously, the outer halls of the tower were coated in aluminum.[29]
- Without Towerlight
When Ba-Ado-Mishram was imprisoned, the Sibling lost the rhythm of Towerlight, which stopped most of Urithiru from functioning.[8] In this state, the Sibling was only able to see patches of the tower and a small area around people who are Connected to them, mainly the Radiants.[1][8] Without hearing the correct rhythms, their Bondsmith would also be unable to produce Towerlight.[10] If the Sibling cannot generate Towerlight, they will be left open to be corrupted by Voidlight and Odium's tone.[8]
Without Towerlight, most of the fabrials were dysfunctional.[30][31] Functioning fabrial systems include those for increased pressure,[31] temperature,[32] and general conditions encouraging plant growth.[31] Navani also theorized that the air circulating through various shafts was powered by some sort of fabrial.[33] In addition, the fabrial elevators connecting Urithiru's floors begin running when gemstones were inserted.[34] Basic suppression of Fused powers remained active.[29] Gemstones to open walls still worked if infused with Stormlight, though the Sibling could not keep certain people from opening it, only able to lock or unlock them.[35][21]
Crystal Pillar
Deep inside the tower, there is a large monolith crystal pillar that serves as the Sibling's heart.[6] It is made of thousands of different gems.[36] The pillar is where the Sibling is most exposed, and is where they can be bonded or corrupted.[36][10] While functioning normally, the pillar glows the color of Towerlight.[36] If the Sibling is being corrupted with Voidlight, the color will darken.[37] The Voidlight and corruption can be pushed out by the rhythm of anti-Voidlight.[4]
In order to protect the crystal pillar, Melishi created a blue barrier that can surround it.[24][38] This is done by giving four sapphire fabrial nodes hidden throughout the tower Stormlight.[1][27] The barrier is strong enough to stop humans, singers, and even Unmade from breaching it.[1] It even has a way of silencing itself to Fused.[27] It can also be used to corrupt and unmake the Sibling remotely by infusing the nodes with Voidlight.[1] Since it was added later, the fabrial does not connect to the entirety of the tower.[27]
The shield is made using the Surge of Transformation; Soulcasting air and persuading it that is is glass.[8] When attacked, the section of the shield will evaporate and will then restore itself almost immediately.[38] Each node is accompanied by a glass globe, wrapped in metal wires.[39] The globes have a reproduction of the crystal pillar room inside them, which helps the Soulcasting think the air around it is glass.[38] This makes the Soulcasting not a full transformation, but more of a half transformation. It needs a constant stream of Stormlight via the nodes to keep functioning, and takes in much more than a typical fabrial of its size.[8][1] If a node is destroyed, the shield will weaken.[24] The more it is weakened and corrupted, the more its color goes from bright blue to dark violet.[40] If all four are destroyed, the shield will be destroyed.[8][37]
The first node was located close to the pillar and was destroyed by Navani.[1][8] The second node was built near the second level of the tower, so it can easily absorb Stormlight from highstorms.[28][39] It was destroyed by Kaladin.[39] The third node was in the center of the Breakaway market on the first floor.[10] It was hidden in a well near the pump mechanisms and was destroyed by Kaladin.[22] The fourth node was hidden in the infirmary room, inside the model of the tower.[37] It was destroyed by Moash. More nodes were meant to be installed, as well as higher up into the tower, but Melishi did not have time to do so.[10]
Suppression Fabrial
The Sibling has a large suppression fabrial built into Urithiru, much more powerful than a normal one.[20] It is built into a construction of garnets and destroying them will remove its effects.[41] It normally incapacitates Fused, Regals, and Unmade while inside its range.[42][6] Some of the Unmade are able to resist the effects, as well as other highly Invested individuals.[24][42] This fabrial can have varying power levels, from merely stopping some of the Fused from Surgebinding to knocking them unconscious.[29] When in effect, rhythms are disrupted.[20]
- Inverted
If the Sibling is corrupted, the suppression fabrial can be inverted, instead incapacitating Radiants.[42][36][8] While in effect, Radiants inside of the range (roughly hundreds of yards from the tower) will fall unconscious.[43] Their spren will also be pushed back into the Cognitive Realm, put into a deep sleep-like state.[20] Those who have bonded a dead Shardblade will be unable to summon it, though an unbonded one will remain unaffected.[44][45] The suppression fabrial also greatly limits the Stormfather's ability to see the tower and will inhibit his visions.[44][46]
If a Radiant is far enough in their oaths, they may be able to resist the effects, as well as keep their spren in the Physical Realm.[42][24] Those able to resist will instead feel an external oppressive pressure of darkness.[20][22] They are still able to take in Stormlight and it will continue to heal them.[47] The worse the corruption of the Sibling, the weaker the healing gets.[38][22] If a Radiant is also a Regal, they will be mostly unaffected by the suppressor, even at the First Ideal.[48] Those using an Honorblade will still be able to Surgebind and summon their blade.[49][37]
Windrunners (due to their Surge of Adhesion being a true Surge of Honor) will remain less unconscious, instead shaking and having muscle spasms.[24] Those close to or above the Fourth Ideal will remain awake and will still be able to draw in Stormlight.[8][45] They are also able to pull their honorspren back into the Physical Realm, though they are unable to form a Shardblade for longer than a than a few seconds.[20][50] Their honorspren's radius that they can travel from the Windrunner also decreases dramatically, going from miles to only about a floor.[20] While their Adhesion Surge will still work, Gravitation will not.[20] Due to Adhesion not being affected, it is likely that a Bondsmith would have similar resistance against the suppression.[44]
Lift, due to her Old Magic, will remain conscious and can continue to produce Lifelight.[51][8] Wyndle also remained in the Physical Realm, but was unable to become a Shardblade. Lift is still able to use the Surge of Progression, but not Abrasion. Lift is able to heal other Radiants, waking them up.[52] If she doesn't re-heal them within at least ten hours, they fall back into unconsciousness.[53] Despite this, her internal healing worked as a regular conscious Radiant's would and can get worse the longer the Sibling is corrupted.[48]
Fabrials will stop working while inside the range of the suppressor fabrial.[24] Fabrials made from Enlightened spren will still work, but only with Voidlight.[54][38] The Oathgates remain unaffected, and can still be used by an Honorblade.[20][41]
History
“My research into the cognitive reflections of the spren at the tower has been deeply illustrative. Some thought that the Sibling had withdrawn from men by intent—but I find counter to that theory. ”
Heraldic Epochs and Era of Solitude
The Sibling was capable of forming a Nahel bond. There could never be more than three Bondsmiths; there were long periods where only one existed, which might have referred to the Sibling's Bondsmith, as they were vital for Urithiru to properly function.[55] They were very particular with their bond, often spending years evaluating Bondsmith squires.[10]
The Sibling was the key to certain magical aspects of the tower city of Urithiru that served as the base of the Knights Radiant. Notably, the Sibling's presence was linked to the climate of the city, allowing the temperature to stay unnaturally warm given Urithiru's elevation. This allowed the Radiants to cultivate crops in the city to sustain the large population there.[30][31] At some point, the Sibling began to withdraw from the tower. The Sibling's withdrawal caused some—but not all— of the city's magical systems to fail; it soon became uninhabitable, and the Radiants were forced to abandon the city.[56][31][57] It is not clear why the Sibling disengaged with mankind; an Elsecaller who left notes in the gem archive argued that the spren's disappearance was neither intentional nor a result of internal strife among the Knights Radiant.[30][31][58] The Sibling was wounded by the imprisonment of Ba-Ado-Mishram; this wound resulted in the Sibling losing the rhythm of Towerlight, which in turn stopped Urithiru functioning.[8]
After the Sibling's departure, they were not hiding but rather "slumbering" in the millennia following the abandonment of Urithiru and the Recreance.[2] The Stormfather has generally been reticent to discuss the Sibling with Dalinar because they were somehow harmed by mankind in the past.[17][2]
True Desolation
The Sibling first made contact with Navani Kholin through a purposefully placed spanreed ruby.[59] Initially, Navani and the Sibling were at odds due to their differences in morals regarding fabrial technology.[59][60] Throughout the occupation of Urithiru, the Sibling revealed that they have several nodes to protect them from enemy invasion.[8] Their last Bondsmith wanted to install several more but was only able to install four nodes across the first few levels of the tower.[10] The Sibling was hesitant to tell Navani the location of the nodes, and only gave them up when Navani convinced them it was vital to protect them from further corruption.[38][10] However, the Sibling's fears were not unwarranted; after the reveal of the third node, Raboniel revealed that she had been listening in the entire time Navani and the Sibling were communicating.[23] The Sibling then refused to talk to anyone until their final node was in danger, when they called on Kaladin for help to protect them from full corruption.[26] While Kaladin fought against the Fused, Navani attempted to push the Sibling towards bonding Rlain, as suggested by Kaladin and Navani. However, there was not enough time to find Rlain, so Navani suggested herself.[4] While hesitant initially, the Sibling accepted the bond, and working together they were able to expel the Voidlight corrupting the Sibling and restore Urithiru to full power.[4][6] When the Sibling bonded Navani, they were finally able to create Towerlight after being unable to hear Honor's tone, or by extension that of Towerlight, since his death.[4]
Notes
- Footnotes
- References
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 42#
- ↑ a b c d Juramentada capítulo 111#
- ↑ a b El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 3#
- ↑ a b c d e f g h El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 110#
- ↑ a b c El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 116#
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 111#
- ↑ Skyward Pre-Release AMA
— Arcanum - 2018-11-03# - ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 49#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 22#
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 69#
- ↑ Surgebinding Chart
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 28#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 65#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 59#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 87#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 42#
- ↑ a b Juramentada capítulo 64#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 112#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 113#
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 39#
- ↑ a b c El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 55#
- ↑ a b c d El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 70#
- ↑ a b El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 72#
- ↑ a b c d e f g El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 40#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 89#
- ↑ a b El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 100#
- ↑ a b c d El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 56#
- ↑ a b El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 58#
- ↑ a b c El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 37#
- ↑ a b c d Juramentada capítulo 68 Epígrafe#
- ↑ a b c d e f Juramentada capítulo 69 Epígrafe#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 53#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 28 Epígrafe#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 8#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 44#
- ↑ a b c d El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 38#
- ↑ a b c d El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 105#
- ↑ a b c d e f El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 61#
- ↑ a b c El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 59#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 92#
- ↑ a b El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 41#
- ↑ a b c d El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 14#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 50#
- ↑ a b c El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 71#
- ↑ a b El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 101#
- ↑ General Reddit 2020
— Arcanum - 2020-11-30# - ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 43#
- ↑ a b El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 109#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 102#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 104#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra interludio I-5#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 85#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 91#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 53#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 67 Epígrafe#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 65 Epígrafe#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 72 Epígrafe#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 70 Epígrafe#
- ↑ a b El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 9#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 28#
