User:Zoey The Edgedancer/Jasnah

"When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should . As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us&mdash;adults, leaders&mdash;will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless."

- Jasnah to Shallan

Summary
Jasnah Kholin is a Knights Radiant of the Order of Elsecallers, a leading scholar in her era, and eventually, the Queen of Alethkar.

Jasnah Kholin was born in 1139 to Gavilar and Navani Kholin.

Over her life, she would become famous not only as a scholar, but also become infamous for her denunciation of the Vorin Church and the history it teaches, making her be viewed as a heretic by much of the very religious Alethi society. Though despite this she remained steadfast in her viewpoints, even when derided by her own father, who wanted her to turn towards the church and accept a betrothal to Meridias Amaram, both of which she rejected.

In 1166, she transcribed the meeting between Gavilar Kholin and the Parshendi, and developed an interest in studying the Parshendi and the Shattered Plains.

In 1167, Jasnah attended the feast held in the Kholinar Palace after the signing of the Parshendi treaty. But she came with the intention of assassinating Aesudan, Elhokar's wife, but on her way to the meeting with Liss, the assassin, she noticed strange happenings. This is where she first discovered that her shadow began to stretch the wrong way, towards the light, and when she would first see Ivory. Seeing him caused her to flee in terror and enter into Shadesmar for the first time. She managed to return to the Physical Realm, and decided to call off the assassination.

She would shortly after find the aftermath of the assassination of Gavilar, and the Shin assassin running away. This death and betrayal led to her developing a hatred for the Parshendi, and led to her study of ancient books in order to find the myriad connections between the Voidbringers and the Parshendi, and her developing a theory that they were on in the same. Many people came to her during this period asking for wardship, and she turned down the vast majourity of requests.

In the year 1172 she got a letter of request for wardship by Shallan Davar, and asked her to meet in Drumadari. She spent the next six months traveling from town to town, leaving notes for Shallan when she left so the young woman could follow her. She eventually reached Kharbranth in 1173. Where they met together and she accepted her as a ward. She would teach her over the next two months. And would also face an assassination attempt from Kabsal, a member of the Ghostbloods disguising himself as being an Ardent in order to get close enough to her to kill her. Though his attempts would fail and she survived.

Late 1173, both her and Shallan began to ride the Wind's Pleasure down to the Shattered Plains. Though they were attacked by another group of Ghostbloods, and she was stabbed by a sword, but quickly escaped to Shadesmar. Yet was for a long period believed dead until she found a way to escape Shadesmar around two months later.

She became be a majour figure in research during the Last Desolation, even acting in combat during large battles such as the Battle of Thaylen Field or the skirmishes against Odium-Controlled Tukar.

During the Battle of Thaylen Field she fought against various Voidbringers, but most notably almost slew her cousin, Renarin Kholin as she discovered he was bound to a Corrupted Mistspren, however she couldn't bring herself to do it. This had a majour effect due to how it proved that the Visions of the future Renarin had were not absolute, making him a useful asset in using his visions in order to help prevent future tragedies.

After the Battle of Thaylen Field and the announcement that Elhokar was killed during his expedition to the conquered Kholinar, she was crowned the Queen of Alethkar due to the direct heir, Gavinor, being too young to rule.

Jasnah went with Dalinar on the military expedition into Emul, where she wanted to prove herself to be a good military leader and tactician. She even fought in the front lines during the large infantry confrontation at Drunmu Basin.

Personality
Jasnah is generally a stern and serious person, although she occasionally shows a wry sense of humor, and allows familiarity among those she is close with. She is determined, confident, and can often be quite stubborn.

She is prejudiced against the visual arts, going so far as to call them frivolities. And she is very passionate in her studies and enjoys sharing in it. She is passionate to the extent that she considers history to be the most important literary sub-art.

Due to the assassination of her father, she holds a hatred for the Parshendi, who betrayed him. This led to her study into trying to find connections between the Parshendi and the Voidbringers.

She is an adamant atheist, rejecting the validity of any faith. Though she does believe that all faiths hold a degree of truth and basis, which she looks into and tries to discover beyond what she sees as lies and twisted information. Although she is kind enough to respect those that do hold such beliefs, even if she doesn't agree with them. She will not actively try to convert anyone to her atheistic viewpoint, and is open to the idea of being wrong.

She is asexual, though is not entirely opposed to having sex, and will be willing to be intimate with one she loves if they so desire it.

Powers and Stats
Name: Jasnah Kholin

Age: 36 (40 Earth Years)

Gender: Female

Classification: Elsecaller, Knights Radiant, Alethi, Veristitalian, Scholar, Shardbearer, Queen of Alethkar

Powers and Abilities: Regeneration, Transmutation via Transformation, Limited Teleportation via Transportation, Durability Negation and Soul Manipulation via Shardblade, Superhuman Physical Characteristics via Stormlight

Surgebinding
"As to the other orders that were inferior in this visiting of the far realm of spren, the Elsecallers were prodigiously benevolent, allowing others as auxiliary to their visits and interactions; though they did never relinquish their place as prime liaisons with the great ones of the spren; and the Lightweavers and Willshapers both also had an affinity to the same, though neither were true masters of that realm."

- Words of Radiance, chapter 6, page 2

Surge of Transformation
Through the use of the Surge of Transformation she is capable of transmuting a substance into another substance through a process known as Soulcasting.

She is skilled enough in Soulcasting that she can easily Soulcast humans into various materials, killing them; and has also shown the ability to Soulcast multiple targets from a distance. When Jasnah used this ability to transform two men into smoke, it caused the smokestone she used to shatter, indicating that this method may use more Stormlight than regular Soulcasting.

Jasnah can use Soulcasting in various ways with great precision, ranging from burning letters into a page, to transforming boulders into smoke , and even purifying Shallan's blood from a poison called backbreaker powder

It is easiest to transform something into one of the Ten Essences:


 * Translucent Gas, Air
 * Opaque Gas, Smoke, Fog
 * Fire
 * Quartz, Glass, Crystal
 * Wood, Plants, Moss
 * Blood, All Non-Oil Liquid
 * All Kinds of Oil
 * Metal
 * Rock and Stone
 * Meat, Flesh

While she could Soulcast something into aluminium, she would be unable to Soulcast Aluminium itself into anything else due to its Investiture Inert properties.

Due to the underlying mechanics of the Cosmere, it is more difficult to Soulcast Invested objects, as Investiture resists the effects of Invested Arts.

Surge of Transportation
Through the use of the Surge of Transportation she is capable of teleporting herself directly into Shadesmar, the transfer of one's physical body into and out of the Cognitive Realm. This essentially works through the creation of a miniature Perpendicularity, a place where all Three Realms are pulled together, allowing for transfer between them.

She is capable of spreading this Perpendicularity into a larger area to carry multiple people into it.

This is most easily done in order to enter the Cognitive Realm, and it is far more difficult to leave it.

Through the use of Transportation, Jasnah can identify Fused based on sight.

Scholarship
She is one of the most intelligent and renowned scholars of her era, known across the world for her studies. She would have been given the rank of a master scholar if not for her denunciation of the Vorin Church making her despised by most.

She is particularly known for her research into and theories concerning the Voidbringers and Urithiru, her central theory dealing with the connections between the Parshendi and the Voidbringers of legend. Which, while mainly motivated by revenge, did lead to her finding a large amount of evidence supporting her theory, which, in the end, turned out to be correct. As the Singers were the Voidbringers throughout most of the Desolations.

She has an in depth knowledge of Rosharan history, gathered over a lifetime of study into finding the truth of the past based on countless different sources.

Multilingualism
She is fluent in various languages, able to easily speak in and read in various tongues. Such as Alethi, and Azish.