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'''Venli''' is a [[Parshendi]] scholar in [[Narak]] during the [[War of Reckoning]]. She is [[Eshonai]]'s sister and was partners with [[Demid]] during their time as both mateform and nimbleform. She is a [[Knight Radiant]] bonded to [[Timbre]]. ▼
| I feel like a relic. Already I seem like a cast-off ruin from a nearly forgotten day.
| Venli{{book ref|sa3|i|11}}
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▲'''Venli''' is a [[
== Appearance and Personality ==
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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 undiscovered scholarform.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} She often smiles while wearing stormform.{{book ref|sa2|i|13}}▼
| Why should I continue to obey your orders, spren? You should obey me.
| Venli to [[Ulim]]{{book ref|sa3|i|3}}
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She is ambitious, but she cares about her people. Her sister's death causes her to regret her ambition and participation in summoning the [[Everstorm]].▼
▲She is ambitious, but
<gallery caption="Images of Venli">
Venli Chapters.svg | <center><small>by [[Isaac Stewart]]</small></center> Venli's chapters header▼
Venli-Coad.png | <center><small>by {{a|Ashley Coad}}</small></center> Venli in [[stormform]]
Venli.png | <center><small>by {{a|Ashley Coad}}</small></center>
▲Venli Chapters.svg | <center><small>by [[Isaac Stewart]]</small></center> Venli chapters header
Venli - XVI. The Tower .jpg|<center><small>by {{a|taratjah}}</small></center> With her [[spren]]
Venli and Eshonai by Tara Spruit.jpg | <center><small>by {{a|taratjah}}</small></center> With [[Eshonai]]
== History ==
=== Early life ===
Venli is the sister of [[Eshonai]], and though her age is unclear, it's implied she's the elder. When the two were children, Venli would often stay at home and help their [[Eshonai's mother|mother]] while Eshonai travelled.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}} Both sisters wore [[workform]] at the time. At some point, Venli and [[Demid]] became mates, and though the relationship did not produce any children, they remained together even after changing into different forms.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}
Over time, Venli settled into the role of a scholar. After the listeners first made contact with humans, she created a written script, recognizing the value of recording information on paper. Over the next five years, she and her team wrote down all listener song and stories to be preserved and cross-referenced. Through this, they also discovered nimbleform, which Venli took on and joined listener leadership as its representative.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}
[[FILE:Venli - XVI. The Tower .jpg|thumb|left|150px|<small>by [[Coppermind:Artists/taratjah | taratjah]]</small> Venli and her two spren]]▼
=== War of Reckoning ===
[[File:Venli-Coad.png |thumb|right|250px|<center><small>by {{a|Ashley Coad}}</small></center> In [[stormform]] ]]
On the day of the peace treaty with the [[Alethi]] and the [[Assassination of Gavilar]] Kholin, the Alethi king, Venli and another listener, [[Klade]], were lead by an unknown voice -- possibly [[Ulim]] -- to purchase [[Szeth]], which led to the killing.{{book ref|sa3|prologue}} Following that event, Venli and Ulim worked together on discovering new forms.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} Though she claimed to Eshonai that she was researching mediationform to treaty with humans, in reality, Venli sought to capture a [[stormspren]] and unlock the associated [[stormform]].{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}{{book ref|sa2|i|11}}{{book ref|sa3|i|6}}
Upon succeeding, Venli intended to test the form herself, and was angry when [[The Five]] decided to let Eshonai do it instead. Though they did so out of concern, fearing the loss of Venli and her talent if the form turned out to be defective, she was jealous, and thought that her sister was distrusting her, and trying to steal her discovery.{{book ref|sa3|4}} After Eshonai's thoughts get altered by the stormform and she begins to enact the plan to transform all listeners, Venli also reacted badly, believing her strategies to be too aggressive. She intended to seize control from her sister, and suggested killing the listeners who refused to adopt the new form.{{book ref|sa2|i|11}}
[[File:Venli Portrait - Envoyform by Marie Seeberger.jpg|thumb|left|200px|<center><small>by {{a|Marie Seeberger}}</small></center> In [[envoyform]], with [[Timbre]] in hands ]]
=== True Desolation ===
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| How long can you keep being two people, Venli? How long will you vacillate?
| Venli's thoughts of Eshonai{{book ref|sa3|i|11}}
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After the [[Everstorm]] was created, Venli, led by Ulim, sought to find her sister, gone missing during the battle. She was heartbroken upon finding her dead, and stunned when Ulim told her that he only sought the [[Shardplate]] Eshonai was wearing at the moment of her death. The event somehow unlocked her ability to attune to the old, pre-stormform Rhythms. While stripping the Shardplate off Eshonai, Venli spotted a strange [[spren]] escaping from underneath the corpse.{{book ref|sa3|i|3}}
When nine remaining listeners were chosen by Ulim to receive "new forms", Venli and Demid were among them. In the Everstorm, the [[Fused]] replaced the souls of all of them, possessing their bodies, with Venli being the sole exception. Proteted by [[Odium]] himself, she was instead gifted the [[envoyform]]. After realizing that the others were effectively dead, Venli once more spotted the strange spren, and hid it from the Fused.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}}
Afterwards, Venli became Odium's chief propagandist, first in [[Kholinar]], then in [[Marat]], telling the tragic tale of the listeners who, according to the new narrative, sacrificed themselves to free the [[Parshmen]] of their mindless slavery. During that time, she was kept apart from other singers to maintain her mystique; in lieu of contact with her people, she began chatting at her mute spren, whom she nicknamed [[Timbre]]. At Timbre's urging, she finally admitted that summoning the old gods was a horrible mistake, and that she wished she should be like her sister.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}{{book ref|sa3|i|9}}{{book ref|sa3|i|11}}
While she's in Marat, [[Dalinar Kholin]] pulled her into one of his visions, and attempted to negotiate; Venli, however, refused all overtures of peace. The conversation was cut short by [[Odium]] breaking into the vision space, with Dalinar managing to send Venli out just before his arrival.{{book ref|sa3|109}} After that event, Venli boarded one of the ships heading to [[Thaylen City]].{{book ref|sa3|i|12}}
=== Surgebinder ===
During the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]], Venli remained mostly out of the battle, serving as a translator instead.{{book ref|sa3|115}} She accompanied Odium to witness Dalinar's presumed fall from grace.{{book ref|sa3|118}} After he managed to recover and summon [[Honor's Perpendicularity]], she crept away and returned to the ships, where she swore the [[Immortal Words|Fist Ideal]], bonding with [[Timbre]] and becoming a [[Surgebinder]]. This allowed Timbre to live inside her [[gemheart]] and capture the [[voidspren]] there, letting Venli retain her Odium-derived red eyes.{{book ref|sa3|120}}
Following the battle, Venli remained on the Thaylen ships. Upon hearing the former [[Parshmen]] note that they have no idea who their people are, she decided to tell them the real story of the [[listener]]s.{{book ref|sa3|121}}
== Attributes and Abilities ==
▲[[
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| Venli's eyes always seemed to have an extra depth of secret knowledge to them.
| [[Eshonai]]{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}
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Venli is a highly skilled scholar and researcher; she has managed to create a functional writing system from scratch, and has discovered, among others, the [[nimbleform]], as well as [[stormform]].{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} She can think of her feet and make quick judgement calls.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} She also has some skills as a craftswoman, having constructed and decorated the home where she and her family lived in Narak.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} As a [[singer]], she has a [[gemheart]], and can bond with different spren to attain different forms.
=== Forms ===
As a [[nimbleform]], Venli is agile and precise, as well as keen-minded. Assuming [[stormform]] makes her significantly stronger and tougher, almost enough to rival a person wearing [[Shardplate]]. It also lets her shoot red lightning from her hands.{{book ref|sa3|i|11}} Those abilities go away once the [[envoyform]] is thrust upon her, though she makes her even taller. Instead of casting lightning, she gains the ability to speak and understand any language, both human and singer, on [[Roshar]]. She also mentions having other, lesser gifts, though those are unspecified.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}
=== Surgebinding ===
With envoyform being one of the forms of power, Venli has a [[voidspren]] in her gemheart; however, she's also bonded with [[Timbre]], a [[Reacher]], making her a [[Willshaper]]. Though this allows her to breathe in [[Stormlight]], it's uncertain if she has all the abilities that a human Willshaper would. As she has only just said the First Ideal, she is yet to be seen using any [[Surge]]s.{{book ref|sa3|120}}
Though the voidpspren within Venli's gemheart remains there, Timbre has it trapped. This allows Venli to retain her envoyform abilities and switch between red and normal eyes at will, letting her blend in with Odium's forces.{{book ref|sa3|120}}
== Trivia ==
* Venli will be the focus character of ''[[Rhythm of War]]'', although the flashbacks will be split between her and Eshonai.{{wob ref|13302}}
* Brandon has planned to kill off [[Eshonai]] and put more emphasis on Venli from very early on in the story's development, having always considered her to be the more interesting of the two sisters.{{wob ref|11666}}
* At present, Venli is one of only three [[singer]] viewpoint characters in the [[Stormlight Archive]], alongside her sister and [[Rlain]].
== Notes ==
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