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{!{character |image=Jasnah.jpg |family=House Kholin|parents=Gavilar, Navani|siblings=Elhokar |world=Roshar|nation=Alethkar |abilities={!{tag+|elsecaller}} |titles=Princess of Alethkar (?) |profession=Historian
Scholar |groups=Veristitalians |born=1139 |books=The Stormlight Archive }} Jasnah Kholin is an Alethi princess on Roshar. She is the sister of King Elhokar, daughter of the late King Gavilar and Navani, and niece of Highprince Dalinar. She is known widely as a brilliant scholar and for her denunciation of Vorinism. She is a member of the Veristitalians, an order of historians dedicated to reconstructing unbiased and factual accounts of the past in order to better understand the present. She is training Shallan Davar as her ward.

Appearance and Personality

Jasnah is a reserved and statuesque woman. She is widely praised for her beauty, always graceful and dressed immaculately. She is tall and slender with a full chest. She has tan skin and deep black hair that, when unbound, reaches the middle of her back. She has a squarish face and pale violet eyes with an Plantilla:Wp.

• Stern
• Occasional wry humor
• Occasionally brusque and rude
• Stubborn
• Atheist
• Open-minded
• Intelligent, wise
• Loves learning, wants others to love it as well
• Always encourages Shallan to question
• Thinks visual arts are frivolity
• Tough
• Can be merciless if she thinks it warranted
• Possible sexual abuse victim (?)

Attributes and Abilities

Surgebinding

Jasnah has a Nahel bond with an unknown spren which gives her the ability to Surgebind. She has access to the Surges of transformation and transportation. As with all Surgebinders, she has superhuman speed, strength and healing when she holds Stormlight. She has demonstrated her ability to Soulcast multiple times, though her other abilities remain yet to be seen. She is in the process of becoming a Knight Radiant from the Order of Elsecallers.

Soulcasting

Jasnah can use Soulcasting in various ways with great precision, ranging from burning letters into a page, to transforming boulders into smoke, and purifying Shallan's blood from a poison called backbreaker powder. She also used Soulcasting as a very deadly weapon when she and Shallan was attacked by four footpads in Kharbranth and she Soulcast their assailants into fire, crystal and smoke. She has expressed that she is not very capable of Soulcasting organics and she was unable to successfully Soulcast the strawberry jam that Kabsal brought to Shallan's hospital room.

She has also shown the ability to Soulcast multiple targets at distance. In this method of Soulcasting, bolts of Stormlight can be seen traveling towards the intended target. When Jasnah used this ability to transform two men into smoke, it caused the smokestone she used to shatter, indicating that this method may use more Stormlight than regular Soulcasting. This ability may be a specialized version of Soulcasting or a distinct ability resulting from manipulating a combination of the Surges of transformation and transportation.

Jasnah uses a fake Soulcaster fabrial to disguise her Surgebinding abilities from the public.

Quotes

“I have kept a journal since I was a child, in order to practice my writing skills.”
“Congratulations. Should I need someone to write a treatise on their stuffed pony or give an account of an interesting pebble they discovered, I shall send for you.”

—Shallan and Jasnah

“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.”

—Jasnah to Shallan

“...a woman’s mind is her most precious weapon. It must not be employed clumsily or prematurely. Much like the aforementioned knife to the back, a clever gibe is most effective when it is unanticipated.”

—Jasnah to Shallan

“Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere’s great catalysts for change... To be young is about action. To be a scholar is about informed action.”

—Jasnah to Shallan

“Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can—what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.”

—Jasnah to Shallan

“I always forgive curiosity, Your Majesty. It strikes me as one of the most genuine of emotions.”

—Jasnah to Taravangian

“A true scholar must not close her mind close on any topic, no matter how certain she may feel. Just because I have not yet found a convincing reason to join one of the devotaries does not mean I never will. Though each time I have a discussion like the one today, my convictions grow firmer.”

—Jasnah to Shallan

“When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us—adults, leaders—will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.”

—Jasnah to Shallan

“You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others—heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian—are equally closed-minded.”

—Jasnah to Shallan

“Let the Vorin believe as they wish—the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.”

—Jasnah to Shallan

“It strikes me that religion—in its essence—seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.”

—Jasnah on why she researches Voidbringers

Trivia

• In The Way of Kings Prime, Jasnah was a viewpoint character with as many chapters as the other characters. Brandon decided too many viewpoints was too distracting and cut Jasnah's parts in the final version.
• Jasnah will probably get a flashback book of her own.
• Brandon read a lot of atheist message boards and talked with atheists he knew while developing Jasnah.
• Brandon thinks having Sazed and Jasnah together could lead to some great discussions of philosophy.
• Jasnah has never met Shallan's stepmother, Malise Gevelmar, even though she revealed that she knew Malise had married Shallan's father when she meets Shallan.

See Also

• Jasnah's notebook

Notes

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