Jezrien (The Stormlight Archive)



"Better that one man should suffer than ten."

- Jezrien's response to Taln's abandonment

Summary
Jezrien, also known as Jezerezeh'Elin, Yaezir and Yaysi is one of the Ten Heralds of the Almighty, and the Patron of the Order of Windrunners. He fought in countless Desolations over the millennia, protecting mankind from the Voidbringers, and returning to Braize to be tortured by Fused in order to uphold the Oathpact. Over the Millenia he broke and after nearly 5,000 Years during the Aharietiam, where he, along with the rest of the Heralds barring Talenel, whom they abandoned, spread across Roshar and abandoned their duties.

Over the millennia that followed he gradually lost his mind and became a nearly incoherent drunkard, taking on the name of Ahu, and for a period was a close drinking buddy with Dalinar Kholin.

He was eventually slain by Vyre, his Soul being taken into the Raysium Dagger and decaying within the crystal until it completely faded away, leaving him truly dead.

Powers and Stats
Name: Jezerezeh'Elin, Yaezir, Yaysi, The Stormfather, Ahu

Age: Around 8,000 Years Old

Gender: Male

Classification: Herald of the Almighty, Shardbearer, Cognitive Shadow, Herald of Kings, Kadasix of Kings, Prime Kadasix, Patron of the Windrunners

Powers and Abilities:

Herald = Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Limited Durability Negation and Soul Manipulation via his Honorblade, Regeneration via his Honorblade, Weapon Mastery with his Honorblade, Gravity Manipulation via the Surge of Gravitation, Adhesion Manipulation via the Surge of Adhesion, Immortality, Resurrection, Resistance to Poison Manipulation via his Honorblade Post-Aharietiam = Immortality

Herald =

Honorblade
He received from Honor a special form of Shardblade known as an Honorblade. This is made directly from the essence of Honor himself and by using them they draw upon his power.

They do not act as ordinary blades in that they do not cut living flesh, but rather effervesce and pass through it, leaving the flesh unharmed and instead cutting the Spiritweb itself. If the Blade cuts the core of a person's limb, the person feels a flash of incredible pain and then the limb turns gray and becomes limp and numb. If an internal organ is pierced by a Shardblade, it may be killed or cease to function. If the spine or head is cut, the eyes of the person blacken and burn out with a dark smoke rising from them.

When cutting through something not classified as alive, they still cut far better than any other sword, able to cut through any non-Invested material with relative ease. A cut from a Honorblade, or even a Shardblade for that matter, leave distinctive perfectly clean cuts.

Surgebinding
From his Honorblade, he gains the power of Surgebinding, capable of using the Surges of Adhesion and Gravitation.

Unlike most Knights Radiant, they receive power directly from Honor through the blade, therefore do not need to collect Stormlight. Due to this they also have access to raw power far beyond that of any normal Radiant.

Surge of Adhesion


The Surge of Adhesion can be manipulated to bind things together. This is considered the "Surge of Binding and Oaths", and is deemed to be "Honor's Truest Surge", and as a result it is more difficult to suppress.


 * Full Lashing: This ability creates an extremely powerful temporary bond between two objects. This is used by infusing a surface with Stormlight, and after the infusion anything touching it would become bound to the infused surface. This is such a powerful binding that most objects would break apart before the binding itself does. The duration of this bond is determined by the amount of Stormlight infused.

Surge of Gravitation


The Surge of Gravitation can be change the direction and strength of an object's gravitational attraction.


 * Basic Lashing: This ability alters an object's or being's spiritual gravitational bond to the planet below, instead temporarily linking it to a different object or direction. This allows one to run up walls, or send objects or people flying off into the air. As this only effects the gravitational pull, all objects are pulled at the same velocity regardless of mass.

Using this they could also employ partial lashings in order to change their effective weight.

Using a Basic Lashing can allow one to fly at great velocities.


 * Reverse Lashing: By combining the Surges of Gravitation and Adhesion, a Windrunner can create a bubble around a surface that imitates its spiritual link to the ground beneath it. That is to say, it creates its own spherical gravitational pull in a localized area. The pull of this can be powerful enough to tear the head of a Fused off its body. This requires comparatively little Stormlight compared to a Basic Lashing.

Immortality
The Heralds, Jezrien included, have a very potent form of Immortality. They do not age, allowing them to survive for millennia, and when attacked they are far more difficult to kill than an ordinary human, able to heal from significant wounds that would be fatal to most beings.

Even if killed, they would return to Braize and resurrect.

However, they can perish under special circumstances. With a specially crafted Raysium dagger, which upon being stabbed by it, would have their soul trapped into the gemstone at its hilt. With the Oathpact severed and Honor Splintered, they can not survive long without a body, and would fade away and perish within weeks. This is ultimately how Jezrien himself perished.

Cognitive Shadow Nature
He is no longer human, but rather, is a Cognitive Shadow. He naturally lacks a body, but gets a new one returned to him with every Return.

As a Cognitive Shadow, he is Connected deeply to the Rosharan System, and is thus incapable of leaving it by any normal means. Post-Aharietiam = After the Ahrietiam he abandoned his Honorblade, and with it lost his access to Surgebinding and a valuable weapon. Leaving himself comparatively weak and defenseless as he hid away over the millennia.

Along with this, his mind began to deteriorate leaving him largely incoherent and erratic much of the time. Nowhere near his originally intelligent and wise self.

Immortality
The Heralds, Jezrien included, have a very potent form of Immortality. They do not age, allowing them to survive for millennia, and when attacked they are far more difficult to kill than an ordinary human, able to heal from significant wounds that would be fatal to most beings.

Even if killed, they would return to Braize and resurrect.

However, they can perish under special circumstances. With a specially crafted Raysium dagger, which upon being stabbed by it, would have their soul trapped into the gemstone at its hilt. With the Oathpact severed and Honor Splintered, they can not survive long without a body, and would fade away and perish within weeks. This is ultimately how Jezrien himself perished.

Cognitive Shadow Nature
He is no longer human, but rather, is a Cognitive Shadow. He naturally lacks a body, but gets a new one returned to him with every Return.

As a Cognitive Shadow, he is Connected deeply to the Rosharan System, and is thus incapable of leaving it by any normal means.

Weakness: Cannot leave the Rosharan System | Has gone mad, and is quite incoherent and erratic, has an addiction to alcohol, and lacks any of the abilities of his former self

Key: Herald | Post-Aharietiam