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Throughout their journey towards the Shattered Plains, and even afterwards, both Shallan's handling of her Lightweaving powers and Pattern's understanding of human behavior slowly grew with each other's assistance. Aside from Surgebinding, Shallan found creative ways of utilizing Pattern's unique nature, from espionage{{book ref|sa2|15}} to trickery through voice mimicry.{{book ref|sa2|34}} Pattern also found that he could disengage locking mechanisms{{book ref|sa2|52}} and translate ancient texts{{book ref|sa2|47}} for Shallan, as these things have patterns that he could easily understand.
=== The Truth of the Shardblade ===
Although Pattern and Shallan's relationship seemed healthy, there were several problems. First, because of the [[Recreance]], Pattern believed that oath-breaking is a universal human trait, and that therefore Shallan will one day betray her Oaths and kill him.{{book ref|sa2|17}} The fact that Shallan repressed her memories of Pattern for so long, weakening their bond, probably did not help. Pattern insisted that Shallan's betrayal is inevitable{{book ref|sa2|75}}, and while she firmly disagreed with this claim{{book ref|sa2|17}}, she did hide a secret hatred for Pattern.
For a long time, Shallan's mind refused to register anything Pattern said that
Upon discovering the [[Oathgate]] in the ruins of [[Stormseat]] and finding that a Shardblade was required for it to work, Shallan soon realized that dead Shardblades could not activate the Oathgate.
Once they had all moved into the ancient city, Pattern executed a plan to make Shallan say a powerful Truth, believing that Shallan needed to be stronger now that the [[Desolation]] has come. He convinced [[Adolin]] to give Shallan a room that resembled the room where her mother died. When Shallan entered it, he covered the room in an illusion of the death scene.
After this, Shallan was no longer able to forget the memory of killing her mother no matter how hard she tried. This was apparently something that happened to Truths spoken by Lightweavers.{{book ref|sa3|13}} Pattern felt guilty for what he did, and at one point even offered to be killed by Shallan so that another Cryptic could take his place. Nonetheless, Shallan tried to bring her relationship with Pattern back to normal, although she still hated using him as a Shardblade. Eventually, she created an illusory persona she called Radiant to take her place whenever she had to wield the Shardblade.{{book ref|sa3|15}}
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