Rysn Ftori (The Stormlight Archive)

"This is my consequence—payment for a contract I entered into willingly the moment I climbed down the side of that greatshell."

- Rysn to Vstim

Summary
Rysn Ftori, also known as Rysn Ftori bah-Vstim is a young woman from Thaylenah on Roshar. She is a tradesmaster and the rebsk of the Wandersail, along with the Dawnshard of Change. Previously she was an apprentice merchant under her babsk Vstim.

Shinovar
She and Vstim travelled to Shinovar to meet with Thresh-son-Esan for a trade. She found the grass present in Shinovar very odd and didn't understand how it survived highstorms, in response to this Vstim made her take a pot of it and told her to care for it until she no longer found it odd, claiming that it would make her a better trader. She watched as Vstim and Thresh bargained, and showed great confusion at how they were downplaying the worth of their own goods, through this Rysn realized that the Shin are a humble people, and in their culture, it was viewed as more honest -- and therefore more moral -- to devalue your products than to overstate their worth.

The goods they received from Thresh proved very profitable.

Reshi Isles
Some time between her travels to Shinovar and the plans to travel to the Tai-na Relu-na in the Reshi Sea, Vstim caught a sickness that left him weak and not fit to carry out the trade. Therefore he choose to send her as the Trademaster, sending her along with Kylrm and Nlent.

She made her way to Relu-na, on a caravan of sixteen longboats led by Gu. Much like as she saw the people in Shinovar, she viewed the practices and culture of the Reshi people to be primitive and backward. Upon getting to the Tai-na she climbed up to the top of it to meet the king, Ral-na. Who turned out to be, what appeared to her to be, a woman. A man named Talik, son of Ral-na, spoke for the King and introduced their island's god as Relu-na, and asked why Vstim didn't come, to which she informed him about his sickness. In response to this Talik called the deal off.

She pushed at it, trying to make sure the deal could go through despite Vstim's absence, and managed to impress the king enough to speak with him directly, although he only said the same thing his son did. Which led Rysn to try to do something to prove her boldness, and got a rope to climb down and feed Relu-na, to try to plead her case with the God, but Relu-na's motions to catch the rope snapped it in two, leaving Rysn to fall. The fall made her fall unconscious.

Rysn woke up back on a longboat, where Vstim told her Relu-na had slowed her fall and saved her life. However her legs were shattered in the fall, and she would never be able to walk again. Vstim informed her that he wasn't as sick as he appeared and that Talik was his apprentice, that the entire meeting was set up in order to give Rysn a chance to practice negotiation in a controlled environment. Her bravery greatly impressed Relu-na and the Reshi, so instead of giving her a Larkin corpse, they decided to give her a live one, one of the last living larkin on Roshar. Who she named Chiri-Chiri

Thaylen Gemstone Reserve
She felt great shame at her broken legs, thinking her freedom and career as a trader was over, so believing this she decided to take the job at the Thaylen Gemstone Reserve offered to her by Vstim. She took down most of the relics she acquired from her travels because they reminded her too much of what she’d lost. However she kept her pot of grass, and continued to care for Chiri-Chiri, having grown close to the Larkin.

During some point in time she went to a Radiant to try to get her legs healed, although she had been paraplegic for so long that it had become a part of her identity, and thus couldn't be healed.

On Jesabah 1175 (1175.2.7.5), shortly before the Battle of Thaylen Field she was visited by Vstim, He offered her the captain’s cord to an expensive ship called Wandersail, along with a crew. So that she could act as a merchant despite her disability.

She opened the Gemstone vault for Vstim, and had the guards carry her to Vault Thirteen, the vault which held the King's Drop. However, the guard pushing her wheelchair was killed by a Queen's Guard, knocking her to the floor. The traitor quickly grabbed the King's Drop. Rysn was forced to drag herself along the floor, tying the King’s Drop to her leg using the captain’s cord after the gemstone was dropped by the thief in a fight. She made her way to grab a crossbow and made it back into the wheelchair, shooting the traitor, who turned out to be a Singer that disguised itself with a Surge.

She was later found lying next to Vstim's injured body by Dalinar Kholin after the Gemstone Reserve had come under further attack. She informed him that the King's Drop was stolen.

Voyage to Aimia
Over the months following the Battle of Thaylen Field, she noticed that Chiri-Chiri began to grow weak and sick. Causing her to greatly worry about her pet's health. In her worry she requested the presence of Talik. He informed her that she had to return to Akinah on the island of Aimia, the homeland of the Larkin, in order to help restore it to health. Around the same time, Navani Kholin put out a call for a ship to mount an expedition to Aimia, following the finding of the First Dreams without a crew.

Hearing about this, she travelled to Urithiru with Nikli to speak with Navani concerning the terms under which she would commit the Wandersail and her crew to such a dangerous mission. She agreed to the terms under the conditions that Lopen and  Huio were to go along with them for protection;  the Ardent Rushu to discuss the possibility of a fabrial mobility device for Rysn; and as long as  Queen Fen were to sign a royal mandate to accept the voyage.

On the voyage she struggled with her relationship to the crew, especially with Drlwan, who despised her due to how Vstim gave Rysn the position of rebsk instead of her. However, she did grow close to Lopen over their shared experience with disability.

She began to gain respect as she began to deal with various "omens" very well, such as when grain was infested with worms, she had the ship sailed to Hexi to trade with the nomads, who accepted the Worm infested grain and in return got jerky. This made the crew begin to respect her far more. She gained further respect when she twisted the appearance of a dead Santhid, one of the worst of omens possible to Thaylen Sailors, into a good omen. However to everyone's horror it crumbled apart into insects.

Eventually they landed at Aimia. And while fleeing the ship from an angered and dangerous Niklisorm, they found a cavern which contained a set of shardplate, eight soulcasters, and a mural depicting the shattering of Adonalsium. In object in the centre of the mural, the Dawnshard, left the mural and entered her body, becoming part of her. But she didn't realize what had happened at the moment.

They eventually managed to form an agreement with the Sleepless, and created a cover story to hide what truly happened. With this she and her crewmates were allowed to leave.

Despite her non-disclosure agreements, she confided in Vstim about the truth. And he agreed to keep what she told him a secret. After he left, she told Chiri-Chiri that she needed something to eat. In response to this Chiri-Chiri attempted to speak in the human tongue, beginning with Rysn's name. At first she thought she was just hearing things, but upon the repeating of her name she dropped her cup of tea in shock.

Personality
She has a great fault of prejudice against other nations and cultures, although she is trying her best to work past this issue and learn to be more open-minded and accepting.

As shown by her experience with Ral-na she has difficulty understanding or accepting transgenderism. This is not out of bigotry, but rather out of ignorance and inexperience with such concepts. This connects to her overall struggle to accept and look fondly upon foreign ideas and cultures.

Despite finding the idea of covering the safehand to be a silly tradition born from Vorin Cultural Dominance in Eastern Roshar, she still partakes in the tradition and wears a glove over it.

She struggles with the way people see her as a result of her paraplegia, hating how they treat her as if she were fragile. She wishes to be seen as an equal, and not be seen as her disability.

Appearance
Rysn has the long, white eyebrows typical of Thaylens that she tucks behind her ears. She wears a glove on her safehand, and usually prefers to wear vests over long-sleeved shirts and ankle-length skirts

Her skin is tan, and she possesses epicanthic folds.

Chiri-Chiri
She raises Chiri-Chiri as a pet, and loves her, taking great care of her and always keeping her by her side. When she got sick, Rysn was driven to great concern, enough to drive her to going on the expedition to Aimia. Even when fully aware of the dangers associated with the island.

Vstim
Vstim is her master and adoptive father. She greatly loves and respects him for how much he taught her, and she considers him very wise and kind. She feared for his life when he got sick, and it was able to drive her to panic.

Powers and Stats
Name: Rysn Ftori, Rysn Ftori bah-Vstim

Age: 19 (21 in Earth Years)

Gender: Female

Classification: Accountant, Merchant, Rebsk | Dawnshard

Powers and Stats: Base = Multilingualism (Can speak many languages, including Thaylen, Alethi, Veden, Azish, Irali, and Hexi), Energy Absorption using Chiri-Chiri (As a Larkin, Chiri-Chiri can absorb many if not all forms of Investiture and use it for sustenance. This can leave beings drained of their Investiture)

Dawnshard = Multilingualism (Can speak many languages, including Thaylen, Alethi, Veden, Azish, Irali, and Hexi),  Energy Absorption using Chiri-Chiri (As a Larkin, Chiri-Chiri can absorb many if not all forms of Investiture and use it for sustenance. This can leave beings drained of their Investiture), Limited Enhanced Senses (She has a greatly enhanced perception of colour and sound, able to easily discern between various hues, tones, and shades to an extent far beyond that of an ordinary human), likely far more

Attack Potency: Average Human Level, she is not notable in her physical prowess, and is quite average for a woman of her age.

Speed: She is an average woman, not exceptional in her physical prowess or running speed | Due to being a paraplegic, she is forced to move around in a wheelchair and various pully systems. This allows her mobility, but leaves her very slow. When not assisted by any devices or systems, she is forced to crawl across the ground, which is tiring and very slow. | Same as before

Intelligence: She is a very intelligent individual. She has great ease in learning languages, and is fluent in a wide range of tongues, able to fluently speak in Thaylen, Alethi, Veden, Azeshi, Irali, and Hexi. However she has difficulty understanding or accepting that which is different from what she knows or is used to, leading to her being quite close-minded and not prone to understanding of foreign ideas and concepts. However this limitation to her understanding is slowly but surely fading away as she improves as a person. She is quite knowledgeable in economics and finances, managing Queen Fen's personal finances at the Thaylen Gemstone Reserve, before becoming a merchant in her own right. | Same as before, however she begins to hear a voice in her head that appears to provide information and suggestions directly to her.

Weakness: None Notable | She is crippled as the result of a long fall from the top of Relu-na, this leaves her completely unable to move her legs | Despite her access to the Dawnshard, she is incapable of actively using it. She is still unable to walk, however she developed more ways to deal with her disability.

Base = While she holds no supernatural powers, she is quite an intelligent individual.

She has a high aptitude in language acquisition, having learned various languages over a relatively brief period. Her native language is Thaylen, and she is also fluent in Veden, Alethi, Azish, and Hexi.

Dawnshard =

She became fused with the Dawnshard of Change, and it greatly changed her nature and granted her many abilities. However, the exact extent of or nature of these abilities are largely unknown. The only known ability granted to her was her senses being greatly enhanced in a specific manner, that is to say her ability to discern between different sounds and colours, down to extent hues and tones, became enhanced far beyond that of a normal human, in a manner very similar to the Third Heightening in Awakening.

Despite having access to the Dawnshard, she is incapable of actively using it.