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{{quote|It is you. (...) I have found you at last.|Eshonai to Dalinar at the Battle of the Tower.{{book ref|sa1|68}}}}
'''Eshonai''' is a [[Parshendi]] [[Shardbearer]]{{book ref|twok|68}} who lives in [[Narak]] on the [[Shattered Plains]] of [[Roshar]] during the [[War of Reckoning]]. She is one of the first Parshendi to come in contact with [[Gavilar Kholin]]'s soldiers in the [[Unclaimed Hills]].{{book ref|wor|i|1}}
==History==
Eshonai was an explorer, and often traveled the wilderness of [[Natanatan]]. She started out exploring alone, creating maps and expanding the Listeners' world, and ended up exciting and leading her people on expeditions as early as her teenage years. Her exploring lead to the Listeners' first contact with humans, encountering an Alethi expedition to the south of the Shattered Plains lead by [[Gavilar Kholin]] in the year 1165 of the [[Vorin]] calendar.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}{{book ref|sa1|45}}
Eshonai was involved with the decision to assassinate Gavilar. Though she was at the time not yet on the Council of Five, the council had given her a vote and listened to her counsel. She voted in favour of killing him, in order to keep the Listeners free of their gods and to affirm the decision made by their ancestors -- the [[Last Legion]] -- centuries ago when they decided to embrace dullform in order to be free of their gods.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}
===The War of Reckoning (1167-1173)===
;Narak
Sometime between the assassination of Gavilar and the Battle of the Tower, Eshonai was placed on the Council of Five and made the general of the Listener armies. She lead their strike forces onto the plains in skirmishes with the Alethi for gemhearts after they had relocated their population to [[Narak]] and chosen to begin a war of attrition in hopes of the Alethi growing bored.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}
;The Battle of the Tower
During the battle, Eshonai duels [[Dalinar Kholin]] as the army is making it's retreat. She defeats him in combat, and recognises him as the Alethi Shardbearer she's been searching for, but is stabbed in the leg by [[Kaladin Stormblessed]], who makes his escape with Dalinar before she has a chance to speak with him. As the army makes it's retreat from the [[Tower]], she salutes Dalinar as a gesture of respect. She allows the Alethi to escape the battle without attacking them once they clear the Tower.{{book ref|twok|68}}
;The Everstorm
In an attempt to test the newly rediscovered [[Parshendi#Forms|Stormform]], she is the first to adopt it, despite reluctance about using it -- and after doing so undergoes a major shift in personality, becoming more warlike and determined to wipe out the [[Alethi]], despite originally wanting peace; it is implied that the form exerts the change over her, and that she is trapped and unable to take control of herself.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}{{book ref|sa2|i|5}}{{book ref|sa2|i|8}}{{book ref|sa2|i|11}}
Her new, aggressive personality even makes her willing to kill Parshendi who do not obey her, including the soldiers in her own division, those she considered close friends, as well as her own family; [[Venli]] and her [[Eshonai's mother|mother]]. She goes so far as to have dissidents among the population of Narak rounded up to be killed.{{book ref|sa2|i|11}}
In the [[Battle of Narak]], she lead a Parshendi population of stormforms to battle in an attempt to destroy the Alethi. Her current status is unknown after her defeat at the hands of [[Adolin Kholin]], where she is pushed into a nearby chasm.{{book ref|sa2|i|13}}{{book ref|wor|84}}
She is one of the five on the [[Council of Five]] who voted on the assassination of King Gavilar, they all voted yes.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}▼
Her original intent in her search for Dalinar Kholin was to broker a peace between the
== Quotes ==
{{quote|This is progress. (...) Progress is learning to control your world. Put up walls to stop the storms, choose when to become a mate.|Eshonai convincing herself of the necessity for capturing spren.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}}}
{{quote|Our people are crumbling. (...) We're being weathered away. We moved to Narak and chose a war of attrition. That has meant six years with steady losses. People are giving up.|Eshonai trying to decide what to do about Venli's discovery of stormform.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}}}
{{quote|I will agree to this test. (However, (...) I must be the one who tries the new form first.|Eshonai offering herself as a test for stormform in case something goes wrong.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}}}
{{quote|With enough of us bearing this form together, we could bring it. We could '''bend''' the storms to our will, and could bring bring them down upon our enemies.|Eshonai upon returning to Narak in stormform.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}}}
▲She is one of the five on the Council of Five who voted on the assassination of King Gavilar, they all voted yes.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}
{{quote|The humans will leave their warcamp together, in one large army that intends to reach Narak during the lull. They will be completely exposed on the plains, with no shelter. A highstorm at that time would '''destroy''' them.|Eshonai's plan for winning the War of Reckoning, in stormform.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}}}
▲Her original intent in her search for Dalinar Kholin was to broker a peace between the Listeners and the Alethi.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}
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