Lift

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Lift
por Katie Payne
Nacido en	1160
Capacidades	Danzante del Filo, Portador de esquirlada🐱︎, Antigua Magia
Vinculado con	Wyndle
Oficio	Ladronzuela
Grupo	Banda de Huqin (anteriormente), Caballeros Radiantes🐱︎ (Danzante del Filo)
Nacionalidad	de las islas Reshi
Mundo natal	Roshar
Universo	Cosmere

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“Alguien tiene que preocuparse. Muy poca gente lo hace, hoy en día. ”

—Lift

Lift es una ladronzuela reshi que trabaja en la ciudad de Azimir en Azir, Roshar. Es una potenciadora que pertenece a la Orden de los Danzantes del Filo, vinculada con Wyndle.

Apariencia y personalidad

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“Soy pura. Soy una niña y todo eso. Soy tan pura, tormentas, que prácticamente eructo arcoiris. ”

—Lift a Wyndle

Lift tiene trece años cuando empieza la Auténtica Desolación. Tiene el pelo negro, larga y liso, que luce hasta la cintura. Su piel es bronceada y tiene las facciones redondeadas de los reshi. Sus ojos eran originalmente de color marrón, pero para cuando Dalinar la conoce en Azimir, sus ojos son de un color claro y pálido, seguramente como resultado de ser una Danzante del Filo. Lift siempre guarda un marco de diamante en su bolsillo, ya que considera que le da suerte.

Como es de esperar en alguien de la edad de Lift, a menudo se comporta como una niña. Por ejemplo, durante su preadolescencia, ella afirma tener diez años porque cree que cualquier número que no pueda contar con sus dedos da mala suerte. En muchas ocasiones, Lift es sarcástica e irreverente, lo que molesta a sus compañeros ladrones azishianos. También disfruta burlándose de su spren, Wyndle, al que llama Portador del Vacío en lugar de spren porque sabe que esto le molesta y no debido a que no le guste el spren. Lift también muestra poca paciencia ante las explicaciones extremadamente técnicas que Wyndle hace sobre la Teoría Realmática que hay tras sus habilidades. A pesar de las burlas, a Lift realmente le gusta Wyndle y está verdaderamente preocupada por él cuando cree que Oscuridad la está siguiendo para intentar matar a Wyndle.

Lift tiene una perspectiva muy interesante sobre la moralidad que hay en sus hurtos. A ella no le parecen mal porque no hace daño a nadie. Lift no está interesada en robar cosas tan típicas como oro, joyas, esferas o cualquier cosa de valor. A ella le gusta asaltar sitios para comerse su comida. Roba comida como un desafío más que para obtener algún tipo de riqueza para sí misma. En sus hurtos, habitualmente utiliza la Potencia de la Abrasión. También mantiene la regla de no robar a las personas que no tienen mucho.

A pesar de todos sus defectos, Lift tiene un buen corazón. A lo largo de su vida, ha sido testigo de muchas muertes, pero todavía le impacta mucho cuando alguien que conoce muere. Por ejemplo, cuando Gawx fue herido de muerte, ella se preocupó lo suficiente como para volver atrás e intentar salvarlo, a pesar de que se arriesgaba a que la capturaran y la mataran por ello. Lift se preocupa por las personas porque cree que alguien tiene que hacerlo, lo que parece ser una característica que comparte con otros Danzantes del Filo. En una ocasión, posiblemente durante su estancia en Rall Elorim, Lift intentó dejar de preocuparse por los demás, pero renunció a ello porque era peor que estar muerta.

Características y habilidades

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Deslizándose por el suelo mediante Abrasión

Hurto

Incluso sin ningún tipo de ayuda mágica, Lift es una hábil ladronzuela. Puede escalar paredes fácilmente y es una carterista lo suficientemente habilidosa como para robar todas las esferas que quiera sin que suponga ningún tipo de desafío. Su gran dominio del robo es lo que, probablemente, la impulsa a irrumpir en lugares muy protegidos para robar algo tan poco convencional como comida.

Potenciación

Lift ha establecido un vínculo Nahel con Wyndle, lo que le otorga la habilidad de la potenciación, aunque Lift no está del todo segura si cree en esto. Al igual que el resto de potenciadores, Lift obtiene fuerza y velocidad sobrehumanas cuando dispone de luz de vida, así como la capacidad de curarse con rapidez de heridas que no sean mortales. Cuando Lift está investida con luz de vida, se refiere a ella como su “maravilla”. Forma parte de la Orden de Radiantes conocida como Danzantes del Filo. Esto le da acceso a dos Potencias, la Abrasión y la Progresión. Lift también posee la habilidad, excepcional y posiblemente única, de convertir los alimentos en luz de vida al metabolizarlos. Si bien esto puede parecer una bendición, carece de la habilidad de obtener luz tormentosa de gemas y otras fuentes, aunque desconocemos si esto también se aplica a las esferas que contienen luz de vida.

Abrasión

La Abrasión le permite manipular la fricción de su cuerpo con el entorno. Ella se refiere a esta habilidad como hacerse “resbaladiza”. Lift utiliza esta habilidad para escabullirse con rapidez. Reduce la fricción en todas las partes de su cuerpo excepto en las plantas de sus pies y en las palmas de sus manos, luego se arrodilla y se impulsa velozmente hacia adelante con las palmas de las manos. Esto es especialmente útil cuando Lift está escapando de sus perseguidores, ya que es casi imposible que la atrapen. También puede usar esta habilidad para aumentar la fricción de sí misma, lo que le permite escalar fácilmente paredes, incluso las que casi no tienen asideros. ^{[Falta cita]}

Progresión

La Potencia de la Progresión concede dos tipos distintos de habilidades. La más básica de las dos se conoce simplemente como Crecimiento. Lift puede utilizar la luz de vida para aumentar el crecimiento de las plantas. Cuando Lift usa el Crecimiento, la vida vegetal que ella ilumina crece a un ritmo extremadamente acelerado, y ella ejerce cierto control sobre la forma en la que crece. Tiene menos práctica en esta habilidad, pero la utiliza para cosas como hacer crecer enredaderas para forzar una ventana cerrada. Se desconoce si esto permite que Lift aumente el crecimiento de los animales o no.

La Potencia de Progresión también le otorga a Lift otro poder, conocido como Regeneración. Le permite curar a otras personas de lesiones graves que de otra forma serían letales. Cuando Lift utiliza la Regeneración, exhala nubes de luz de vida que fluyen hasta la boca de la persona herida, curándola.

Resonancia

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Como Caballera Radiante que tiene acceso a dos Potencias, Lift también tiene una resonancia. Se sospecha que los Danzantes del filo, como Lift, tienen una resonancia que les permite comunicarse especialmente bien, aunque no está claro si esto es cierto.

Antigua Magia

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Lift comiendo

“¡Esta creación tiene el objetivo específico de desafiar mi voluntad! ”

—El Padre Tormenta acerca de las habilidades de Lift

La visita de Lift a la Vigilante Nocturna tiene como resultado un rasgo bastante único, uno que no se encuentra entre los poderes típicos de los Danzantes del Filo. Lift existe parcialmente en el Reino Cognitivo, lo que le otorga algunas habilidades especiales. La primera de ellas es que puede tocar spren, algo que se supone imposible, ya que existen principalmente en el Reino Cognitivo. Esta habilidad ayuda enormemente a Lift con su actividad de ladronzuela, ya que Wyndle adquiere la forma de una enredadera. El spren puede crear asideros o aumentar la superficie de las repisas en los sitios en los que Lift necesita apoyarse, pero nadie más es capaz de verlo o tocarlo. También es una de las pocas personas que siempre puede ver a Syl, independientemente de si ella quiere que la vean o no.

El otro poder de Lift es aún más impactante. A diferencia de la mayoría de los potenciadores, que son capaces de extraer luz tormentosa de fuentes externas, Lift metaboliza los alimentos directamente en luz de vida, y utiliza esta luz de vida para avivar sus Potencias en lugar de luz tormentosa. Aquellos alimentos que puede metabolizar más rápido, como el pan, pueden convertirse en luz de vida más rápido que algo como unas salchichas, pero proporcionarán menos luz de vida al tener menos calorías. Su cuerpo produce luz de vida en lugar de azúcar. Sin embargo, esto está limitado a sustancias que normalmente pueda metabolizar en nutrientes. También es capaz de convertir las reservas energéticas de su cuerpo en luz de vida. Con acceso a las artes metálicas, hipotéticamente también podría hibridar bendaleo feruquímico en luz de vida. Estas habilidades son exclusivas de Lift. Sin embargo, esta habilidad también puede ser peligrosa, ya que a menudo corre el riesgo de desnutrirse cuando quema toda su energía extra. Como Lift solo puede obtener luz de vida mediante su metabolismo de la comida, está limitada por la cantidad de alimentos que ha ingerido. Es posible que sea la única persona que haya tenido una de estas habilidades, o todas ellas, y es probable que no fueran posibles hasta que visitó a Cultivación. Lift siempre pensó que metabolizaba luz tormentosa, desconociendo la existencia de la luz de vida hasta que fue capturada por Mraize.

Lift pidió permanecer igual y no convertirse en otra persona, y aunque la bendición y la maldición real aún las desconocemos, como resultado de uno u otro, su red espiritual tiene la capacidad de convertir directamente masa en Investidura.

Según el Padre Tormenta, la bendición de Lift es única, ya que le permite controlar las visiones que Honor le confió a él. Lift es capaz de entrar en las visiones sin la ayuda del Padre Tormenta y de salir de ellas y llevarse consigo a Yanagawn. Esto enfurece al Padre Tormenta, ya que supone que la Vigilante Nocturna ha menoscabado su autoridad.

Aviar

Durante la batalla de Urithiru, Lift presenció una pelea entre dos pollos. Curó al pollo rojo y lo defendió del pollo verde. El pollo rojo tenía una conexión especial con su dueño, lo que permitió al aviar conducir a Lift hasta él. Cuando el pollo rojo encontró a su antiguo dueño muerto, esto le causó una gran angustia. Tras la liberación de la torre, Lift y Wyndle cuidaban del pollo.

History

Early Life

Despite Lift's race, she was not born in the Reshi Isles. The only reason that she knows that she is Reshi is because her mother told her so. She never lived there or knew her people. Lift grew up in the city of Rall Elorim, the City of Shadows, in Iri. Lift had a difficult childhood there. It appears she grew up on the streets there, learning to move through crowds with ease. It is possible that Lift learned her thieving skills in Rall Elorim. She eventually left Rall Elorim for unknown reasons, possibly due to her difficult life. It also seems likely that this was the time in her life when Lift attempted to stop caring.

“When everything else is going wrong, I want to be the same. I want to stay me. Not become someone else.”

—Lift's request of Cultivation

Lift visited the Valley to see the Nightwatcher and ask a boon of her, though she saw Cultivation instead. It is unknown what Lift's boon or curse are, but her request was to not change. Her boon does not appear to have stopped her from aging, but it is possible she is incapable of growing up. Wyndle believes that Cultivation altered her to exist partially in the Cognitive Realm. Due to this incredible power bestowed upon Lift by their mother, the Ring decided that Wyndle should be sent to bond with her, so he could mold her while she was still young. This granted Lift her Surgebinding abilities.

Lift spent some time in Marabethia, where she was hunted by Darkness, because he believed that her Surgebinding could bring another Desolation to Roshar. She fled Marabethia and went to the capital of Azir, Azimir. There, Lift fell in with a crew of thieves. The crew was made up of Tigzikk, who Lift called Tig, Huqin, his nephew Gawx, Maxin, and two unnamed brothers who were quick with knives. Tigzikk was the only one Lift knew well. An informant told him which night would be good for robbing the Bronze Palace, while the vizerate was busy choosing a new Prime Aqasix, following the death of the last two at the hands of Szeth. Lift could have robbed the palace on her own, but she felt like she owed it to Tigzikk to help him, and she wanted to make sure that he would be safe.

Sometime between visiting the Nightwatcher and the events of the Bronze Palace heist, Lift met Hoid.

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Lift in the Bronze Palace

Bronze Palace Heist

“What's the point of sneaking into a palace if not to get in trouble? ”

—Lift

When the crew entered the grounds of Bronze Palace, Lift spotted Darkness in the streets near the palace and quickly climbed the wall to escape. She used Wyndle to gain access to a room which the thieving crew began ransacking for clothes and shoes. Lift was supposed to keep watch in the room with Gawx, but she left in search of food, and he followed. They disagreed about where to go; she wanted to go to the Prime's quarters where she could find food, but Gawx wanted to go to the Vizers' quarters, which he thought would be mostly empty. They each went their separate ways.

Lift managed to successfully sneak into the Prime's quarters because of the commotion caused when Gawx was caught. However, before she could eat much food, Darkness arrived, along with two associates, bearing forms that gave him the authority to arrest and execute her. Lift was briefly captured and managed to escape, but during the process one of Darkness's men cut Gawx's throat. Despite the fact that she was safely away, Lift decided to return to try to heal Gawx from his wound.

“I will remember those who have been forgotten. ”

—The Second Ideal of the Edgedancers

Lift stated the second ideal of the Edgedancers and performed Regrowth for the first time to heal him. Consequently Darkness captured her and dragged her away to execute her. However, the viziers thought that Gawx healed himself, and believed that it was a sign from the Heralds that Gawx was to be their new Prime Aqasix. They thought it meant that he could survive future attacks from the Assassin in White. Gawx hurriedly pardoned Lift for her crimes, and Darkness was forced to release her.

Yeddaw

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Lift arriving in Yeddaw

Arriving in the city

After some time in Azimir, Lift left for Yeddaw, uncomfortable with how she was settling in at the palace. While attempting to enter the city she interrupted a local guard, Hauka, while she was reviewing a smuggler who was also trying to enter the city. Lift avoided capture after being discovered in the smuggler's pile of tallew, and then tipped the cart over into the immigrant district of the city. She then jumped off the ledge after it and avoided death by grabbing onto Wyndle to slow her descent.

She then went in search of urchins to find a place where she could eat, since she expended most of her Stormlight evading the guards. She met a girl who told her of the Tashi's Light Orphanage, a place where she could potentially get a meal if she got on the good side of the woman who ran it.

When Lift arrived at the orphanage she was told to wait which upset her. While waiting she saw a mother come by the orphanage to drop off her child, as he was hurt and she could no longer care for him. When the Stump came to bring the child in, Lift was told that she would be given only three meals at the orphanage. After getting her first meal, she talked with an old man sitting on one of the stone benches in front of the orphanage. He told her that the woman who ran the orphanage liked to trade spheres, and that if she could find someone who would trade with her then she might let Lift stay at the orphanage.

Hunting Darkness

After she left the orphanage, Lift set out in search of the guard she met at the gate. She found Hauka and followed her to her home, where she saw Darkness go in to question her on her altercation with Lift. She then tailed Darkness to his base of operations within the city. After eating his food, she spied on Darkness and learned that he had two recruits in addition to Szeth. She overheard them talking about searching for her and for another person within the city who was a potential Surgebinder.

After this, Lift returned to the orphanage to claim her second meal from the Stump. While she was there she saw the boy whose mother dropped him off during her first visit. She noticed that his condition seemed to have significantly improved. The Stump blamed this on him faking his injury all along so he could take from the orphanage. She also had another conversation with the old man outside the orphanage.

Lift went off in search of a place where records in the city were stored. She traded for information with a woman who pointed her to the Grand Indicium at the center of the city. She traveled to the large building to find information about the other Surgebinder in the city. She went straight to the front of the building, and told the scribe at the desk that she was a friend of the emperor of Azir. The scribe did not believe her so Lift used a spanreed to contact the Aquasix in Azimir who bade the scribes to assist Lift. She ordered the scribes to search the information for any strange events that have happened in the city recently, but none of them seemed pertinent. The scribes abandoned the search due to the incoming Everstorm. Lift realized that Darkness' minions likely got the same idea to track down the Surgebinder as she did, and heads off in search of where in the building they might be.

When she found the room where Darkness' lackeys were looking for the information, Lift had Wyndle follow them inside to listen for who they were targeting. She stayed outside the room which was guarded by Szeth, who was sitting in the hallway outside the door. Wyndle did not gather much information other than the fact that the Skybreakers had found their target, so Lift followed them when they left the room. She was confronted by Szeth who partially unsheathed Nightblood. Outside the building Szeth had a conversation with Lift, he informed her that he did not attack her in the hallway because Nightblood liked her. He told her the other Skybreakers were in search of the old man who often sits outside the orphanage. There were rumors that he could change his appearance and he was marked as a potential Lightweaver. He told her she had no chance of catching up to them in time, but Lift set out after them anyway.

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Lift hugging Nale in the Everstorm

Confronting Nale

When Lift reached the orphanage, she heard a scream that made her believe she had come too late. The Stump confronted her outside the orphanage, believing her to be the source of the scream. Lift asked for the last of her three meals to replenish her Lifelight before going off to confront the Skybreakers

Outside Lift found that instead of the old man being the one harmed, it was in fact the two Skybreakers who lay dead on the ground. The man revealed himself to be Arclo, a Dysian Aimian. He went on several tangents about philosophy before revealing that Darkness would go after the other Surgebinder if she were to flee. Arclo then guided Lift to the conclusion that the Stump was the other Surgebinder, leaving Lift to go back running towards the orphanage.

She arrived at the orphanage to find that Darkness had beaten her there. They fought and he ultimately trapped her with his knife until the Stump came back down from the roof of the orphanage. The Stump struck Darkness with a wood board, which allowed Lift to free herself. Darkness stabbed the Stump and left her to bleed out while he chased Lift. Wyndle encouraged Lift to "Say the Words". Lift said that she'd spoken them in her heart, but wondered how they could help. They ended up on the roof, where Wyndle formed a shard weapon to block Darkness' Shardblade. As Nale taunted her, Lift spoke aloud the third ideal of the Edgedancers. She urged Nale to view the raging Everstorm and parshmen transformed into Stormform Listeners which convinced him that the Voidbringers were back, and that there was no point in killing Surgebinders.

“I will listen to those who have been ignored. ”

—The Third Ideal of the Edgedancers

Lift was able to help Stump heal, and explained to her some of the abilities she has, like the ability to heal herself and those around her. Lift then left to head back to Azimir.

Meeting Dalinar

Lift next appeared during a vision Dalinar was sharing with Yanagawn. She advised her friend not to trust Dalinar, as she sensed he had a bloodthirsty past, before helping the emperor leave the vision early. By then, she and Yanagawn had a close bond — he always listened to her opinions and took them into account when making his decisions.

She reappeared in the vision where Odium visited Dalinar, though only making herself known after the Shard left. This time, she talked with Dalinar at length and was more willing to listen to him, even agreeing to visit Urithiru as long as she would be provided with good food. The two met again in Azimir when Dalinar arrived to negotiate, and she recognized — supposedly by his smell — that he too had visited the Nightwatcher. As with most people, she stole his food; however, after chatting with him, she decided to share some of it back. She came to Urithiru sometime afterwards along with Yanagawn, and then traveled with him to Thaylen City aboard Azish ships.

Following the revelations of Eila Stele, the coalition that Dalinar had built fell apart, and the Azish fleet sailed away at the urging of Yanagawn's other advisors, despite Lift insisting that they remain. Though she was aboard as they left, she knocked out her guard and escaped to rejoin the other Radiants in the city.

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Trying to save Szeth at the Battle of Thaylen Field

Thaylen Field

During the Battle of Thaylen Field, Lift initially joined Dalinar; however, he tasked her with retrieving Honor's Drop, a perfect gemstone that the Fused had recently stolen from the city's gemstone reserve. Though neither of them understood its importance at the time, Lift agreed, and departed before Dalinar could meet Odium.

She spent most of the battle chasing after it, initially alone with Wyndle, then accompanied by Szeth and Nightblood once they arrived at Thaylen Field. However, when Szeth unsheathed Nightblood, the sword went out of control, attempting to devour his Investiture and destroy him. Lift attempted to heal him from the damage it was causing; however, when she touched him, she was trapped by Nightblood's tendrils and almost overcome as well until Dalinar's Perpendicularity provided enough power to sate the blade, allowing Szeth to re-sheath it.

With the danger of being devoured past, she and Szeth returned to their hunt for Honor's Drop and, after extensive chase, managed to obtain it. To throw the Fused off their trail, Lift took the Drop to Shallan and had her create a Lightwoven copy on a regular rock, then allowed the Fused to steal the fake. At Szeth's urging, Lift was the one to enter the Thrill and give the Drop to Dalinar. Afterwards, she remained to see him trap Nergaoul.

Knight Radiant

A year after the battle of Thaylen Field, Lift was one of the Edgedancers on the Fourth Bridge during the evacuation mission to Hearthstone. When leaving the airship, she missed the jump and tripped over a rock that the other Edgedancers had avoided. A while later, she sneaked into the manor where Kaladin was fighting against a Fused. She tried to drag the injured Godeke out of the room. At Kaladin's request she disabled the suppressor fabrial that was preventing the Radiants from using their powers. She told him that she had seen Roshone enter the manor with Godeke but that he hadn't come out yet. Kaladin would search while he ordered Lift to get Godeke out and bring the fabrial to Navani.

Living in Urithiru

Some time later during a meeting of the rulers of the coalition, Navani noticed Lift was present by the state of the snack table. As there are no more honorspren willing to bond a Radiant, the coalition wants to send an envoy to them. When Dalinar suggests sending an Edgedancer, Lift emerged and volunteered. The rulers tried to tactfully decline as they wanted someone more mature, while Lift pointed out that Wyndle was famous on account of his chair collection. Godeke spoke up and was sent instead.

Several weeks later, Lift is stealing food in Urithiru. It was not as much fun as it used to be, as people left food out for her to 'steal'. She moved through air vents along the ceilings and walls. She had the feeling "everything" was wrong, which she always had during the everstorm. Lift looked what was in the basket left by Gift. When Wyndle asked, Lift snapped that she was not supposed to be liked and she was a mysterious shadow. She and Wyndle made some more jokes while she moved through the tower. She noticed how there were more tight squeezes she needed awesomeness for than a year ago. She then reached her nest. After eating, she went to the wall and used Wyndle to measure her height, she had grown an inch since last measurement. She suggested to stop eating to stop growing, but her spren doubted she could. They then talk of Lift's visit to the Nightwatcher, and Cultivation. Lift admitted to asking not to change. Wyndle asked why changing bothered her so much, to which she replied she was her mother's little girl. She was very uncomfortable with the changes in her body. The last time she felt right was when she was with her mother. Wyndle wrapped himself around the girl to comfort her. Suddenly he says something happened and something is very wrong. Lift noticed she couldn't make her body slick anymore. At the perimeter of the tower she could not see anything wrong, until they noticed fallen Windrunners near the Oathgate.

Captivity

Looking out, Lift noticed a red and a green Aviar fighting in the sky. She used Wyndle to climb along the tower, to the spren's dismay. The red chicken fled onto a balcony, where the Edgedancer found it on the floor. She tried to summon Wyndle as a blade to ward of the oncoming green chicken, but he couldn't become a weapon. When it hit her in the face, she bit it and it flew away. Her light healed her face and then she healed the chicken but had to push through a resistance. While she healed, Wyndle scouted and noticed Radiants dropping unconscious. The chicken indicated Lift should follow them, and lead her to the corpse of an old Alethi man with a knife wound to the chest. The chicken went to the body and mourned. Lift deduced the chicken could feel the men and was no ordinary chicken. Wyndle remembered the man as a minor functionary who used to wear rings. This made Lift recall she had seen him when visiting the old people in the tower. Suddenly something moved, and a tall man appeared with the green chicken on his shoulder. Lift started running while the man started laughing. He managed to catch her and put her in a cage, likely surrounded with aluminum. Later, he brought her to Raboniel as a gift and mentioned she was fueled by Lifelight instead of Stormlight.

After a few weeks, Lift was freed by Venli, who made her promise not to tell anyone about her willshaping powers. Lift wanted to run, but the Singer persuaded her she was needed to save Kaladin. Venli led her to a room to wait for Rlain and Dabbid, who were happy to see her. Dabbid asked if Lift could still heal, and when she confirmed immediately led her away to go to Kaladin. They took different paths to the tenth floor, and Lift made jokes when Rlain and Dabbid arrived. They wanted to hurry, and made it to the hiding place. After she opened the door with Light, they found Kaladin very sick. Lift went and healed him, which was the hardest she had ever done. When Rlain started to question Dabbid on why he never spoke before, the Edgedancer defended him. While the others talked, Lift also healed Teft to the surprise of the others.

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Lift and her "red chicken"

Healer

Later, Lift visited Kaladin and Teft, and re-healed the latter to prevent him from slipping back into a coma. She had managed earlier to speak with one of the scholars to learn that Navani had been isolated for two weeks. While Kaladin was questioning what they should do, Teft made it clear they needed to rescue the sleeping Radiants. Lift said she could wake them, but they would not be able to fight and she would need a large amount of food. They decided to wait and try to contact the queen.

When the last node was attacked, they triggered their plan. Lift and Teft sneaked to the room where the Radiants were held while Kaladin fought as a distraction. At the door, they were stopped by a Regal who was keeping the crowd out. Teft attacked the Regal and pushed him inside while Lift closed the door. She had to heal Teft when the stormform put a lighting bolt through the Windrunner. Finally, Teft managed to strangle the enemy. While Teft went to seal the door, Lift went to the fallen Radiants to wake them. Before she reached them one of the bodies on the floor leaped up and swung a Shardblade at her and ruined her legs. It was Moash. He kicked Lift to the wall and went on to fight Teft. While Teft fought him, Lift woke and dragged herself to the Radiants. Moash killed one of the Radiants and threatened to kill Lift until Teft took the fight. Moash managed to kill both Teft and his spren.

Lift was bound up and laid next to Kaladin's parents. She was brought to the infirmary with her head bleeding and dead legs. Dabbid tried to give her Stormlight but it did not work. Later, Dalinar remarked she was doing fine, as his lunch was gone. They had found her spren after the tower recovered. Lift and Wyndle were seen carrying around the red chicken.

Relationships

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Lift and Wyndle

Wyndle

“You're my pet Voidbringer, and no lies are going to change that. I got you captured. No stealing souls, now. ”

—Lift to Wyndle

Wyndle was assigned to Lift by the Ring, the ruling body of the Cultivationspren. The two start off on the wrong foot, as Wyndle doesn't appreciate Lift's particular train of thought, while Lift considers him - perhaps half-jokingly - to be a voidbringer. She enjoys teasing him and making fun of him, and he admits that he'd much rather pick someone calmer to bond, if it was up to him. Though Wyndle knows a lot about Realmatics and the mechanisms of Radiance, Lift isn't interested in listening to him, and will sometimes withhold information from him in turn.

Over time, their relationship vastly improves. Wyndle learns to understand what hides beneath Lift's bravado and grows to care for her well-being, while she starts treating him like an actual partner rather than a portable ladder, and eventually stops calling him a voidbringer. By the time of Thaylen Field, the two form a highly capable duo, despite the fact that Wyndle still prefers to transform into a rod rather than a Shardblade.

Yanagawn

Lift met Gawx when she joined Huqin's crew in Azimir. The two infiltrate the Brass Palace together, and when one of Nale's apprentices kills Gawx, Lift rescues him, and the freshly-minted Prime Aqasix pardons her. This forges a strong bond between the two; following those events, she remains in Azimir at his side, and when she does briefly leave for Yeddaw, he's ready to grant her his authority with the local government.

By the time Dalinar begins to curry favour with the Azish, Yanagawn considers her one of his closest and most valuable advisors, even if he must on occasion listen to others; she, in turn, strives to aid him as best she can. While he does have a guard stationed by her quarters as the fleet leaves, he doesn't begrudge her knocking them out and leaving.

Dalinar

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Dalinar and Lift sharing snacks in the Bronze Palace waiting room

“Your butt is too nice. Old guys shouldn’t have nice butts. It means they spend way too much time swinging a sword or punching people. You should have an old flabby butt. Then I’d trust you. ”

—Lift to Dalinar

When Lift first sees Dalinar, she is highly mistrustful of him, both because of his past as the Blackthorn and because he is unlike other government official she's familiar with (in her words, "his butt is too nice"). She is more open to listening to him after seeing his first confrontation with Odium. She steals his food when he's waiting for the officials' decision in Azimir. That he does not begrudge her for it seems to earn him some points with her, and she even agrees to share some of the stolen food back.

Following their face-to-face meeting, Lift's opinion of Dalinar is drastically better. She argues for him with Yanagawn after the Azish choose to pull out of the coalition and is ready to face Odium by his side and follow his orders without question. He, in turn, treats her like another soldier rather than a child, and trusts her to do her job, which might be why she takes a shine to him.

Szeth and Nightblood

Lift first encounters Szeth in Yeddaw as one of Nale's apprentices; she's also the only person known to see the "afterimage" he leaves behind as the after-effect of his resurrection. Her first interaction with Nightblood has her feel nauseous - the mark of a "good" person according to the sword. Though she and Szeth are nominally on the opposite sides and she considers him exceedingly strange, they aren't hostile to each other, and Szeth wishes her best of luck in attempting to foil Nale.

Lift is one of the few people among the Radiants to trust Szeth. During the battle of Thaylen Field she is happy to work with him and Nightblood on recovering Honor's Drop, and attempts to rescue him when Nightblood begins devouring him. She perceives the sword as having a female voice.

Nale

The herald Nale has been hunting Lift for some time by the time of the Bronze Palace heist, though she only knows him by a moniker she gave him, "Darkness". As with all non-Skybreaker surgebinders, he's initially highly antagonistic, and attempts to kill her, under the pretense of executing her for thievery. However, he gives up on it after she is pardoned by the Prime Aqasix. Lift, however, does not forget him, and spends some time attempting to track him down by rumours and reports after he leaves Azimir. When she locates him in Yeddaw, she leaves the palace to find him again and protect other people from him.

It's only in Yeddaw that Lift finds out that Darkness is, in fact, a Herald. After tracking him down again, the two have a confrontation where Lift manages to bring him back to a semblance of sanity and get him to acknowledge that the True Desolation is here. Though she's naturally afraid of him, she's capable of reaching out to him, even giving him a hug as he breaks down. However, his own thoughts on her are unclear.

Gift

Rock's son Gift seems to have a crush on Lift, something both she and Wyndle seem to be aware of. Gift leaves out baskets of food for Lift to "steal", though she likes to pretend he does not know she is taking them. This is undercut by Gift leaving a note reading "love" in one of the baskets. Though Wyndle encourages Lift to talk to Gift, her desire to avoid growing up makes her hesitant.

Development

Lift is a character that Brandon Sanderson has had in his head for quite a while. She is a classic example of what he is hoping to do with a broader series, such as the Stormlight Archive. With the extra space a multi-book series allows, he wanted to create a world full of cultures and characters that are less common in fantasy and science fiction. Lift is an outgrowth of this desire, as Sanderson wanted the Knights Radiant to be something different than classical European knights -- young, white men swearing oaths of chivalry and valor. Rather, he was looking for a character that would be interesting and popular, but no-one's first idea when they thought of a knight. Lift, a thirteen year old girl on a thieving crew with a weird sense of morality, is the result of that. Sanderson hopes that playing with concepts like these, and stretching our ideas of what a fantasy book and it's characters should look like will allow him to avoid the staleness that is a common complaint in science fiction and fantasy.

Sanderson decided to write an interlude featuring Lift in Words of Radiance as a sort of "seed" for her future appearances. She is one of the flashback characters for the second five book arc in the Stormlight Archive, something that Sanderson has planned for a long time. As such, she will become even more prominent as the series continues. Sanderson intends to perhaps even write a few more short stories featuring Lift before he publishes her books.

Trivia

• There are foods Lift hates, but they are hard to find, though bacon is one of them.
• Lift sees Wyndle as a slightly longer vine in the Physical Realm than most Edgedancers see their cultivationspren, but the difference is slight.
• It is significant that Lift "stopped aging" at 10 years old.
• Lift would be able to steal the Lord Ruler's lunch.
• Lift would be very good at video games.
• "Lift" is a translation of her name from the original language, which means "to elevate or raise up".

Notes

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