Pai
| Pai | |
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| Fallecido | Ejecutada en ? 1173[1] |
| Oficio | Fervoroso del Devotario de la Negación |
| Residencia | Kholinar |
| Mundo natal | Roshar |
| Universo | Cosmere |
“ Los fervorosos de la reina le dicen solo lo que quiere oír. ”
Pai es una fervorosa miembro del Devotario de la Negación.[1] Fanática vorin, Pai está dispuesta a sacrificar cualquier cosa por su causa y se ha preocupado por las recientes acciones de la reina alezi. La denuncia de Pai contra la reina y el gobierno alezi provocó su propia ejecución y disturbios en las calles de Kholinar.
Apariencia y Personalidad
“ ¿Se preocupa alguien entre la élite alezi por el Todopoderoso? Claro, maldicen en su nombre. Cierto, hablan de los Heraldos, queman glifoguardas. Pero ¿qué hacen? ¿Cambian sus vidas? ¿Escuchan los Argumentos? ¿Se transforman, rehaciendo sus almas en algo más grande, algo mejor? ”
— Pai a Lhan[1]
Se desconoce el aspecto de Pai, pero es una mujer joven.[1] Suele hablar en voz baja o susurrando.
Pai siente una enorme pasión por su fe y por los pobres de Alezkar.[1] Quiere que la gente se esfuerce por transformar su vida en algo mejor siguiendo las enseñanzas vorin y escuchando a los fervorosos. Teme de verdad por el bienestar espiritual de los ojos claros, y siente que no creen realmente en el Todopoderoso. No sabe cuándo dejaron de actuar de acuerdo con las creencias vorin, y empezaron a simplemente hablar como si fueran verdaderos creyentes. También se pregunta si la Hierocracia estaba actuando de acuerdo con la voluntad del Todopoderoso, ya que éste no envió a sus Heraldos a detener a los fervorosos. Pai cree que hay algo profundamente equivocado en Alezkar, aunque no está segura de qué es lo que está mal. Pai también es una gran defensora de los pobres. Se siente profundamente enfadada y asqueada por el exceso y el despilfarro del estilo de vida de los ojos claros mientras los pobres se mueren de hambre en el campo.
Pai es también una joven muy disciplinada y decidida a llevar un estilo de vida sencillo de acuerdo con su fe.[1] No desea los lujos y privilegios que disfrutan el resto de los fervorosos de la reina, y la sola mención de su estilo de vida la enfurece. Pai es obstinada e inflexible en sus creencias, y no está dispuesta a consentir la corrupción en el corazón de la monarquía alezi, incluso si eso le permite ayudar a algunos de los pobres y hambrientos. Su pasión es tal que no teme en absoluto el daño físico. Pai dice lo que piensa sin importarle las consecuencias, condenando abiertamente al gobierno y al trono alezi, aceptando que sus palabras la llevarán al martirio.
Historia
Early Life
Nothing of Pai's early history is known. It is uncertain when she joined the ardentia, but she chose the Devotary of Denial as her sect of Vorinism.[1] She began living a life of asceticism and abnegation around the year 1168, eating only simple meals of boiled tallew with the occasional piece of fruit on special occasions. Around the year 1172, Pai began serving as an ardent in the Alethi capital city, Kholinar. She requested with some persistence to be assigned to be a member of the retinue of the Alethi queen, Aesudan Kholin, and after a year working in the city her request was granted in late 1173. Pai's superiors were worried that her zealotry and her principles of self-denial would cause trouble in the court. They asked Lhan, another ardent already in the queen's retinue, to speak to her.
Member of the Queen's Retinue
“ I don't know what I'm suggesting. Only that something is wrong. All of this is just so very wrong. ”
— Pai to Lhan[1]
Pai met Lhan in the morning, at the monastery next to Kholinar Palace.[1] They walked through the Circle of Memories and into the eastern wing of the palace, conversing about Pai's new position within the queen's retinue. Lhan tried to explain to Pai that a life of luxury was now hers, but Pai was more concerned with the queens recent actions, canceling the Beggar's Feasts, leaving food to rot while the poor starved, and her general excess and debauchery. Despite Lhan's explanation that the queen gave her ardents easy lives because she feared that the Almighty was displeased with her, Pai maintained that they were merely sycophants and needed to be honest with the queen.
Lhan took Pai to the service yard behind the kitchens to show her a number of piles of rotting food, explaining that the extra food there had once been distributed to the poor by another ardent who had died.[1] Lhan told Pai that if she kept quiet and did not interfere with the ardents' lives, she could do a great deal of good for the needy of the city by regularly distributing this food. He also told her that if she made too much of a commotion, nothing would change and she would simply be sent away. He asked Pai to think about her decision, and left her sitting by the piles of rotted food.
Pai sat and stared at the food until that evening, when Lhan returned to speak with her asking after her decision.[1] Pai asked him what he thought of the spiritual cost of his actions. She wondered if any of the Alethi elite even cared for or believed in the Almighty anymore. She also asked him why no one heard from the Almighty anymore, why the Heralds had not returned to denounce the Hierocracy if it had been so evil. She told Lhan that she had decided that she would remain in Kholinar to do good and try to be an example for others to follow.
Protesta y Ejecución
Pai left Lhan and went to the People's Hall, the location from which the monarch typically addressed the people of Kholinar.[1] Working by spherelight through the night, she wrote the glyphs of the ten foolish attributes before the dais upon which sat the Common Throne. Beneath each glyph Pai wrote explanation of how the queen exemplified the attribute. These paragraphs were not just an attack on the queen, but a denouncement of the lighteyes and the government itself. Pai remained bowed there before the Throne until she was discovered by Lhan and the other ardents in the morning. Pai was executed the morning of the very next day for her actions. Queen Aesudan would later falsely claim Pai had been trying to refound the Hierocracy.[2]
Legado
In the evening after her execution, the citizens of Kholinar began to riot.[1] It is uncertain what precisely set off the riots, or whether it was in support of Pai's denouncement of the government, in anger over her execution, or both. However, Pai's actions certainly played a heavy role in causing the rioting, which exacerbated the chaos when the Everstorm first hit Kholinar.[3] The riots continued through the end of 1173 and were ongoing in the first few days of 1174, when Highprince Dalinar Kholin heard of them via spanreed.