Venli
| Venli | |||||||||
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| Especie | Cantor | ||||||||
| Mundo natal | Roshar | ||||||||
Venli is a Parshendi scholar in Narak during the War of Reckoning. She is slender, with a thin face and red and white marbled skin. She wears her hair long, down to her waist, where it is kept tied in three places. Her eyes are dark and glassy like all Listeners, as well as being keen and appearing violet in the right light. She utilizes nimbleform as a substitute for the as of yet discovered scholarform.[1]
She is Eshonai's sister and was partners with Demid during their time as both mateform and nimbleform. After the Parshendi first made contact with humans, Venli created a written script for the Parshendi, recognizing the value of recording information on paper. She also discovered nimbleform alongside her team of scholars.[1] She often smiles while wearing stormform.[2]
She researches new forms and believes that she is close to discovering some. She deceives Eshonai, leading her to believe that she is trying to discover artform or meditationform when she discovers the stormform. She later advocates trying stormform in an attempt to destroy the Alethi and win the war despite the dangers of the form, opting to ignore them.[1][3][4] She identifies the captured stormspren as the spren required to adopt stormform. She quickly grows irritated when Eshonai offers to test stormform herself, believing that she is attempting to steal the glory of the discovery from her. She also believes that Eshonai does not trust her.[3] Under stormform, when Eshonai begins to convert the Parshendi people to stormform, Venli reacts badly, believing that the strategy is too aggressive and abrupt to work. She also plans to attempt to seize control from her sister and is the one to suggest killing the Parshendi who refuse to adopt stormform.[4]
After the Everstorm is created, Venli is led by Ulim to find her sister. Assuming this means Eshonai is still alive, she is heartbroken when she finds Eshonai's dead body. For the first time since gaining Stormform, she is able to attune one of the Old Rhythms, the Rhythm of the Lost. Her team retrieves Eshonai's shardplate, and as Venli grabs the shardblade, she spots a strange spren coming out from under Eshonai's body.[5]
Nine Parshendi are chosen to receive new forms, Venli and Demid among them. In the Everstorm, the Fused replace each of their souls – except for Venli, who is protected from the change by Odium himself, who has a purpose for her. She instead gains a different form of power. She then spots the spren she saw on Eshonai, and hides it from being destroyed by the Fused. [6]