Ellista
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Oficio | Fervoroso en el Devotario de la Mente |
Residencia | Jokasha Monastery |
Mundo natal | Roshar |
Universo | Cosmere |
Ellista es una fervorosa y erudita en el Monasterio de Jokasha en Jah Keved, en Roshar.[1] Es parte del Devotario de la Mente.[1] Ella es una lingüista diacrónica y una de las académicas involucradas en la traducción del Canto del alba.[1]
Apariencia y personalidad
Como la mayoría de fervorosos, Ellista tiene la cabeza rapada. Nunca le gustó lidiar con su cabello, lo que lleva a sus padres a bromear diciendo que se convirtió en fervorosa solo para poder afeitárselo.[1]
“Una gran franja de árboles de allí fuera había quedado arrasada por la tormenta nueva, ¡pero no era motivo para que todos se alteraran tanto!”
—Reflexiones de Ellista sobre la tormenta eterna[1]
A Ellista no le gusta la interrupción ni la distracción y generalmente prefiere que la dejen sola. Tiene una actitud práctica y puede ser escéptica y crítica. Cuando escucha a otros fervorosos discutiendo sobre la tormenta eterna o hablando de eventos políticos en todo Roshar, no muestra interés. Cree que todos están exagerando con respecto a la tormenta eterna.[1]
Está bien versada en su campo y parece ser una investigadora y lingüista talentosa, ya que Urv la llama "brillante" y señala que hace un progreso increíble al traducir fragmentos del Canto del alba recopilados por Bendthel.[1]
Es una fan de las epopeyas atrevidas alezi.[1]
Historia
Ellista moved to the Jokasha Monastery at some point before Dalinar Kholin began receiving visions during 1173. She considers herself lucky to have a place in Jokasha, as it is a desirable location for many ardents. Before becoming an ardent, she thought that scholars did not bicker, but has since realized that was a misconception.[1]
Trabajando en el Canto del alba
“Look, there’s easy proof here that the same writing system was once used all across Roshar... Not a diaspora of texts, but real evidence they wrote naturally in the Dawnchant. ”
After Navani Kholin provides the key to the Dawnchant that she recovers through Dalinar's visions, scholars in the monastery, including Ellista, begin to decode the old texts that they had in their possession. Ellista is glad to have Navani's information, but refuses to believe that the visions were real.[1]
The coming of the Everstorm distracts many ardents from their translation work, but Ellista persists.[1] She believes that she has found evidence that Dawnchant was once used as a unified written language across ancient Roshar, supporting a theory posited by Jasnah Kholin in Relic and Monument. She vehemently disagrees with earlier arguments (including those made by Fiksin) that written Dawnchant texts all originated in a single region. Through her studies, she has also been able to determine that the cataclysmic Desolations caused Dawnchant to fall into disuse. Individual nations began to use the Dawnchant to phonetically record their spoken language, and later developed their own glyphs, abandoning Dawnchant altogether.[1]
Encuentro con Urv
While attempting to read An Accountability of Virtue, Ellista is interrupted by several ardents arguing about the movements of the Everstorm. Hoping for some peace and quiet, she leaves her reading nook in the monastery's library and makes her way to a reading desk in a nearby hallway. Unfortunately, she is again interrupted by discussion of the new storm and is forced to move. After having no luck in the lower buildings, Ellista ventures into the forest where she was at last alone, and could read uninterrupted.[1]
In the forest, Ellista is soon found by another ardent at the monastery named Urv who hoped to check on her progress with the Dawnchant translation. Much to her dismay, Urv does not leave after she hands over her notes, instead settling down nearby to review her translations. Ellista gives Urv a synopsis of her research on the Dawnchant, and he is suitably impressed. While they talk, Urv notices that Ellista is sitting on her copy of An Accountability of Virtue in an unsuccessful attempt to hide it. Urv comments that he has read the book himself, and offers to lend Ellista the sequel in exchange for her help translating the Covad Fragment. He claims that he is working on the fragment at the request of an unnamed patron.[1]