Notum
| Notum | |
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 por Ben McSweeney
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| Capacidades | Astilla de Honor |
| Títulos | Capitán (anteriormente) |
| Oficio | Marinero |
| Especie | Honorspren |
| Residencia | Shadesmar |
| Mundo natal | Roshar |
| Universo | Cosmere |
“¡Honor no está muerto mientras viva en los corazones de los hombres! ”
—Notum.[1]
Notum es un honorspren de Roshar que sirve como capitán del barco Sendero de Honor.[2] Tras aceptar ayudar a Syl a escapar de los Fusionados en Celebrant, es desterrado y enviado a patrullar el área que rodea Integridad Duradera.[3] Más tarde, abandona su discurso preparado para defender a Adolin Kholin en su juicio, arriesgándose a sufrir daños personales y volver al exilio.[1]
Apariencia y personalidad
“Yo también hice un juramento. A Honor, y a las verdades que seguimos.”
Notum es un honorspren alto que se asemeja físicamente a un alezi y se manifiesta vistiendo ropa acorde con su posición.[2][3] Tiene el mentón afeitado pero luce barba y un fino bigote que se conectan con prominentes patillas, de forma muy parecida al estilo de vello facial de los comecuernos.[3] Como todos los honospren, Notum tiene un comportamiento arrogante y brilla con un suave color blanco-azulado.[2]
Notum es la personificación de lo que significa ser un honrospren. Ha hecho un juramento a Honor y hace todo lo posible por vivir según ese ideal, creyendo que los juramentos y las promesas son esenciales. Es un leal servidor del Padre Tormenta, reacio a comprometer sus creencias, pero que puede ser persuadido por argumentos que involucren juramentos que otras personas han hecho. Notum es un spren prudente; entiende que la fortaleza de la humanidad radica en sus personalidades dinámicas, aunque sigue creyendo que el vínculo Nahel conlleva riesgo de desastre.[2] Habla de forma formal pero, a su manera, considerada.[3]
Como capitán, Notum se preocupa profundamente por su tripulación y los defiende fervientemente. Se enfrenta al hecho de que al permitir que Syl escape, pone a su tripulación en peligro.[4] Está dispuesto a considerar que está equivocado cuando se le presentan evidencias; después de que Adolin lo salve, se da cuenta de que los humanos no son todos despreciables y lo defiende, a costa de un alto precio personal, en su juicio.[1]
Historia
Vida temprana
Notum nace después de la Traición, cuatro generaciones después de que el Padre Tormenta se ponga a crear más honorspren.[2] En algún momento de su pasado, hace un juramento a Honor y a las verdades que siguen los honorspren. Notum pasa algún tiempo en la capital de los honorspren, Integridad Duradera, obedeciendo las órdenes del Padre Tormenta, durante el cual llega a conocer a Sylphrena.[4]
Capitán del Sendero de Honor
Notum at some point became the captain of Honor's Path. In early 1174, Notum and his crew took port in Celebrant.[5] After a disturbance in the city, the ship was preparing to flee, but after Syl called out to his ship, revealing her identity, he took her and her companions aboard the ship. Notum initially confined the Radiants and their spren to their quarters; however, after a week's travel, he released all of them but Syl because he claimed that it was dishonorable to hold people who were not prisoners against their will. He kept Syl in captivity, though, intending to deliver her to the honorspren capital. Upon her release to the deck, Notum gave Shallan permission to bring the Cognitive aspect beads on the deck and practice visualizing them. He briefly explained to her how the beads work in Shadesmar.[2]
“Yo no soy un altospren. Comprendo que la variedad entre los humanos es lo que os confiere fuerza. Vuestra capacidad de cambiar de opinión, de ir en contra de lo que antes pensabais, puede ser una gran ventaja. Pero vuestro vínculo es peligroso, sin Honor. No habrá los suficientes controles sobre vuestro poder. Os arriesgáis a una catástrofe.”
—Pensamientos de Notum sobre el vínculo Nahel.[2]
Days later, Notum attempted to remove Kaladin from the upper deck of his ship while Kaladin again tried to convince him to release Syl from her quarters. Notum threatened to lock Kaladin up again or throw him overboard. He explained to Kaladin that he considered Kaladin's relationship with Syl to be inappropriate and dangerous. He also explained that Syl was one of the Stormfather's first children and was the only honorspren survivor of the Recreance, which was why the Stormfather was so protective of her. Notum also believed that the Nahel bond was dangerous without Honor and that Kaladin and Syl should separate. Kaladin tried again to convince Notum to free Syl, and he walked away but allowed Kaladin to remain on deck. When some windspren took an interest in Kaladin, Notum watched them and exclaimed that he had never seen windspren in person before. Kaladin used this opportunity to ask Notum to help them reach Dalinar Kholin in time, explaining that he had sworn an oath to protect the Bondsmith. Notum was shocked to hear that Dalinar had bonded the Stormfather and agreed to consider helping them. Shortly afterward, a member of the crew spotted eight Fused in pursuit of the ship.[2]
After several hours spent trying to outrun the Fused, Notum agreed to help. He freed Syl and had his crew unlatch a section of the hull for the Radiants and their spren to escape through. Azure asked him to have his crew cut bales of cloth into specific shapes, and Notum gave the order even though he did not understand the reason. Notum allowed them to escape the ship, despite the danger it posed to his crew, so that Syl could escape the Fused. He believed that his crew would be captured and tortured shortly thereafter;[4] in fact, he spent five months in prison before being demoted to the lowest rank possible, exiled from Lasting Integrity, and assigned two centuries' time patrolling the empty land surrounding Lasting Integrity. He wandered the area with a small group that included a few armed Reachers, able to see Lasting Integrity but unable to visit it.[3]
“Tu pueblo es un pueblo criminal. El único motivo de que no hubiera un castigo inmediato fue que matasteis a todos los spren que podrían haber actuado en vuestra contra.”
Exilio
Notum and his caravan happened to patrol through Nameless at the same time as the arrival of Unativi's barge with the coalition's emissary in 1175. He spoke with Unativi as Adolin was returning from town, then confronted Adolin with condescension and displeasure. Adolin surprised Notum by describing the diplomatic goals of their trip, but the spren immediately dismissed any chance of their success and tried to explain the hopelessness of the mission by illustrating a hypothetical situation that compared the Radiants to thieves. He sincerely wished to convey to Adolin that they had no chance with the honorspren so long as the spren felt as they did about the Recreance, but he got riled up so badly that he stalked away towards his caravan. Adolin called after him, mentioning his ship, so Notum explained to him about his punishment. When he asked whether they had at least been able to save Dalinar, Adolin was forced to admit that really it had been the other way around. Notum left, intending to try again to dissuade Adolin from visiting Lasting Integrity if they met again on the road.[3]
As Notum and his group traveled on the road towards Lasting Integrity, the diplomatic group followed behind a little ways. The other group noticed that there was a caravan of Tukari trailing them, so Adolin sent a messenger forward to Notum to ask about them. Despite Adolin's worry, Notum told Adolin that there was nothing wrong with the Tukari using the road. He did, however, ask to be informed if they did anything threatening.[6] At a certain point, Notum could go no farther west lest he get too close to Lasting Integrity, so he rode over on a magnificent glowing white horse-like spren to tell Adolin and Shallan that he would instead turn to go south. He tried again to tell them not to go to the capital and told them to give his best to Syl.[7]
As Notum and his caravan turned south, the Tukari group pursued them. When they caught up, they captured and bound Notum and three Reachers, then began stabbing Notum over and over faster than he could heal. Adolin tumbled to their plan and came to his rescue, managing to drive off the Tukari soldiers with Maya's and Gallant's help.[8] When he awoke, Notum expressed his utter shock that humans would attack a spren in such a manner. He didn't want to go with the group to receive aid at Lasting Integrity, no matter Adolin's urging, but the delegation from Urithiru put him on a horse and took the rest of his group back to their camp, where they immediately packed and left for the honorspren capital. On the way, Notum asked Adolin how he had trained Maya to fight alongside him and simply could not accept that Maya had jumped into the fray of her own volition. Despite their efforts to keep the honorspren from noticing Notum, the three who approached the party from the capital saw him and implacably stated that not only was he not welcome, but his presence in the group further degraded his reputation in their eyes. As Adolin, Maya, Shallan, and Pattern entered the fortress, the rest of the group made camp nearby and tended to Notum.[9]
Retorno a Integridad Duradera
“Te han ofrecido acabar tu exilio, ¿verdad, Notum? ¿A cambio de una pequeña puñalada trapera?”
The honorspren sent Stormlight to the camp so Notum could be healed, after which the party there assumed he returned to patrol. In reality, the honorspren approached Notum with an offer to testify against Adolin at his trial, promising to end his exile and return him to a higher rank. They called him in as their third witness, gave him back his uniform, and provided him with a prepared speech that he began to read after refusing to meet Adolin's eyes. Notum trailed off after a couple of sentences, giving Adolin the opportunity to admit quietly to him that the humans had gotten the spren in trouble and to encourage him to be honest. After finally meeting Adolin's eyes, Notum declared in a carrying voice that "Honor was not dead so long as he lived in the hearts of men."[1]
Notum repeated the words as several honorspren officials ran at him, dragging him out of the forum. As he left, however, quite a few in the crowd were chanting the phrase as well.[1] Neither Notum nor those sympathetic to his cause were allowed to return to the forum the following day, though several of them crowded the top of the wall to watch.[10]
Relaciones
Adolin
“Adelante. Te metimos en líos, Notum. Lo justo es que tengas la oportunidad de contar tu versión. No puedo pedirte nada más que sinceridad. ”
Notum, como honorspren, tiende a formarse una opinión y no desviarse de ella. Es suficientemente abierto de mente como para darse cuenta de que es una fortaleza de los humanos poder ser convencidos de una verdad didferente, pero no desea esa habilidad para sí mismo.[2] Esto cambia cuando Adolin acude a su rescate y lo salva de un grupo de tukari.[8] Notum se enfrenta a la idea de que los hombres todavía son honorables, habiendo desechado esa idea durante toda su vida. Sin embargo, su propio e innato sentido del honor le fuerza a admitir el hecho, especialmente después de que los honorspren lo sobornen para difamar a Adolin y sus acompañantes Radiantes y spren. Esta lucha interna culmina con su defensa pública de Adolin durante el juicio en Integridad Duradera.[1]
Sylphrena
“Si no nos vemos después de que te rechacen, dale recuerdos míos a la Antigua Hija. Me… alegro de que no esté atrapada en la fortaleza. No encajaría con ella. ”
Syl tiende a menospreciar a Notum debido a su ferviente obediencia al Padre Tormenta durante sus días en Integridad Duradera.[4] Sin embargo, él la tiene en alta estima debido al aprecio que el Padre Tormenta le tiene a ella. Al principio, Notum usa esto como excusa para encerrar a Syl en su barco tras partir de Celebrant e incluso llega a plantearse matar a Kaladin para que Syl pueda liberarse del vínculo Nahel que tiene con él. Sin embargo, en el fondo de su corazón, sabe que no es una acción honorable.[2] Cuando se da cuenta de que los Fusionados los siguen de cerca, acepta dejar que Syl y los demás escapen y afronta el castigo por sus acciones.[4][3] Notum llega incluso a alegrarse por la libertad de Syl a pesar del alto precio que paga por ello.[7] Al final, su aprecio tanto por Syl como por el Padre Tormenta es probablemente un factor que le influye para cambiar de opinión y aliarse con los honorspren que se están vinculando con nuevos Radiantes.[1]
Curiosidades
- El nombre de Notum, al igual que el de varios otros honorspren, deriva de la lingüistica del mundo real relacionada con el viento.[11] Específicamente, su nombre está basado en Noto, el antiguo dios griego del viento del sur.
- en El ritmo de la guerra, Notum afirma que su padre vive en Integridad Duradera como un ojomuerto; esto es un error, ya que en Juramentada se dice que Notum y su padre son descendientes de un honorspren que el Padre Tormenta creó después de la Traición.[2][9] Brandon mezcló temporalmente a Notum con Ico, cuyo padre sí que es un ojomuerto, aunque no vive en la fortaleza. Dragonsteel planea cambiar está línea en el libro.[12][13]
Notas
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 87#
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Juramentada capítulo 108#
- ↑ a b c d e f g h El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 30#
- ↑ a b c d e Juramentada capítulo 110#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 102#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 32#
- ↑ a b c El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 34#
- ↑ a b El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 35#
- ↑ a b El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 36#
- ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 90#
- ↑ General Reddit 2018
— Arcanum - 2018-02-19# - ↑ General Reddit 2022
— Arcanum - 2022-01-25# - ↑ General Reddit 2022
— Arcanum - 2022-05-19#