Szeth (The Stormlight Archive)

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Summary
Szeth-son-Honor, formerly Szeth-son-son-Vallano or Szeth-son-Neturo, Truthless of Shinovar, is a Shin man from Roshar. He is known better as the Assassin in White, the infamous assassin who killed Gavilar Kholin and various other monarchs across Roshar, setting into motion the events of the Stormlight Archive.

He is of the Order of Skybreakers, granting him the Surges of Gravitation and Division, and, due to a history of stringent training, he is greatly skilled with the blade, martial arts, and the use of Surges, even able to overcome master swordsmen in one-on-one combat.

Powers and Stats
Name: Szeth, Szeth-son-Honor Szeth-son-Neturo, Szeth-son-son-Vallano

Origin: The Stormlight Archive

Age: 37 (40 Earth-Years)

Classification: Skybreaker, Truthless

Powers and Abilities: Surgebinding, Gravity Manipulation (Type 1, 2) via Surge of Gravitation, Adhesion Manipulation, Regeneration, Martial Arts Mastery with Kammar, by using his Shardblade he gets Soul Manipulation (Can severe the Spiritwebs of those he strikes), and Durability Negation (Bypasses physical resistance to directly hit the Soul) |

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Kammar
Due to his years of training, he is an expert in the Martial Art Form known as Kammar, a peaceful form based around grappling the opponent and immobilizing them by using their own weight against them.

These grabbing motions are ideal for infusing the target with Stormlight, therefore Szeth can use it in conjunction with Gravitation to Lash his foes.

Regeneration
Through the use of Stormlight, he is capable of regenerating from nearly every wound he experiences, capable of regrowing entire limbs, recovering from severe brain damage, or curing himself of diseases or poisons. This is also able to heal from injuries to the Soul. The amount of Stormlight used is in direct proportion to the severity of the injury healed, spiritual damage takes an especially great quantity of Stormlight to be regenerated from.

This heals one to better match their ideal Spiritual Self, meaning that if one sees a wound or injury as part of themselves, they would be unable to regenerate from said injury. This would cause significant changes to the body to make it match ones Spiritual Identity, however, Szeth does not make use of this capacity.

Surge of Gravitation
With the Surge of Gravitation he is capable of shifting the vector of gravitation as it effects an object or individual. It allows the Surgebinder to run up walls, or send objects or people flying off into the air. He is limited by only being able to effect those that he physically touches.

This changes the direction in which the target is pulled through a process known as "Lashing", wherein one Lashes a target and specifies a direction for them to be pulled. This object can be anything, though Invested objects, especially Shardplate, resists Lashing, and thus can be harder to, if not impossible to, effect.

By placing multiple lashes on an object, he can cause it to be pulled in multiple directions simultaneously, or to be pulled in one direction with a greater force. He can also do only a partial lashing, which pulls upon the target with a lesser force, a Half-Lashing makes an individual effectively weightless, and a Quarter-Lashing halves ones weight. This can be taken advantage of to give him the ability to, in essence, fly.

As this is a changing of gravitational force, it's effects do not change with the mass of a target.

Post-Words of Radiance =

After the events of Words of Radiance he loses Jezrien's Honorblade, and is given Nightblood in replacement, and would go on to serve under  Nale and join the Order of Skybreakers.

He still possess the Surge of Gravitation, but loses the Surge of Adhesion, instead getting the Surge of Division.

Nightblood
An imperfect replica of a Shardblade created by Vasher and Shashara, granted power and sentience through the art of Awakening, being infused with the Command of "Destroy Evil". This was originally wielded by Vasher, but eventually came to Nale, and passed onto Szeth himself.

Holding it greatly enhances the strength of the user, and one simply need to slightly unclasp it to get the increase in strength. Enough so that Szeth could easily break the spine of a man by smashing him in the back, and a prison guard on Nalthis could run it through his own chest while still sheathed.

If anything is so much as nicked by the blade, they would burst into black smoke and have all of their Investiture absorbed. This brings about destruction in all Three Realms. It was powerful enough that it was capable of killing Rayse, a Shard of Adonalsium ; collapsing a Perpendicularity, and putting a nick in an Honorblade. As Souls are essentially of Investiture, this can also permanently kill Fused by consuming their Soul beyond its ability to resurrect.

As it is so oversaturated with Investiture, it leaks it out as black smoke, corrupted and fouled by the blade. It is this which got the sword its name. It consumes even the Investiture of the wielder itself, and if it consumes all they have, it would absorb their soul and spark of life. Due to this, he rarely pulls upon it as he is aware of the danger it poses to himself.

Surgebinding
As he lost Jezrien's Honorblade, he stopped pulling upon the Surges of Windrunners, but was instead brought into the Order of Skybreakers. Which gave him access to the Surges of Gravitation and Division.