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== History ==
=== Exploration ===
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 {{Rosharan date|1165}} of the [[Vorin]] calendar.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}{{book ref|sa1|45}}
=== Assassination of Gavilar ===
On the day of his assassination, Gavilar speaks to Eshonai privately. She is the first Listener to learn Gavilar wants to bring back the Listeners' old gods. He gives her a dark spren trapped in a gemstone and tells her to give it to
Eshonai helps the Five decide to assassinate Gavilar. Though she was at the time not yet on the Council of Five, the council gave her a vote and listened to her counsel due to her role as an interpreter. She voted in favor 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}}{{book ref|sa3|prologue}}
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