Susebron (Warbreaker)

"Beauty is not about how a person looks. My mother taught me this. The travelers in my storybook must not judge the old woman as ugly, for she might be a beautiful goddess inside. All of those stories are just tales told by people who lived lives before ours. What they say about humankind is true. I have watched and seen how people act. It is strange, for me, to interpret these things, for I do not see as normal men do. I am the God King. Everything, to my eyes, has the same beauty. I have thousands of breaths, it is hard to see as other people do- only through the stories of my mother can I understand their ways. All colours are beauty in my eyes. When others look at something—a person—one may sometimes seem more beautiful than another. This is not so for me. I see only the colors. The rich, wondrous colors that make up all things and give them life. I cannot focus only on the face, as so many others do. I see the sparkle of the eyes, the blush of the cheeks, the tones of the skin- even each blemish is a distinct pattern. All people are wonderful. And so, when I speak of beauty, I must speak of things other than these colours. And you are different. I do not know how to describe it."

- Susebron to Siri

Summary
Susebron is the God King of Hallandren on Nalthis during the time of the Pahn Khal Rebellion, ruling from 277, is incumbent according to current knowledge.

History
He was an infant Returned born around 277, fifty years before the Pahn Khal Rebellion. He was born to a poor family living far to the north in Hallandren, to a merchant and his wife. During this period the then current God King found himself unable to sire a heir, so he was given Peacegiver's Treasure and made the new God King after his predecessor have away his Breath to cure a plague of Distrentia in T'Telir.

At some point after his crowning, he had his tongue removed so he would be unable to use the wealth of Breaths that had been bestowed upon him. During this period his mother continued to raise him in the palace, reading to him from a storybook, and from this storybook he would take in much of his understanding of morality and of the world, defining his moral code throughout his life; this lasted for years until she was at some point "taken away".

To forestall the brewing war between Idris and Hallandren, Susebron was promised the hand of the Idrian king Dedelin's daughter, Vivenna. However, at the last moment, she was swapped with her sister, Sisirinah, who he ended up marrying in the year 327. For many weeks they only met at night, where she bowed to him naked waiting for him to take action and force himself on her, however he never acted, not knowing what was expected of him.

At first, he feared her, uncertain as to why she spent her nights waiting on his floor, naked. He was even further confused when she screamed at him, but he ultimately did nothing in response to her outburst. .

Only a few days after her outburst, he was brought forth before the Court of Gods.

His confusion with Siri was furthered even more when she began to start getting into his bed, bouncing while moaning and screaming, in order to emulate sex and end the suspicion of the listening priests. However, he eventually approached her with a book, hoping have her read it to him, and to start some communication.

Following this, she began to teach him how to read and write, using his mother's storybook as a guide. He picked up on it quickly, and soon they started to converse, him writing on a board to make up for his inability to speak.

He and Siri eventually had sex, consummating their marriage.

After much convincing from Siri, Susebron decided to finally reveal his true function in the court to the other gods, with the plan for failure being to flee with Siri and Bluefingers.

He was placed in a cell right next to Lightsong, who sacrificed his Divine Breath in order to completely heal him, at the cost of his own life. With his tongue restored and his ability to Awaken unlocked, he freed his palace from the Pahn Kahl invaders and saved Siri.

Soon after the rebellion was quenched, Susebron was approached by Vasher, who gave him the command to the Kalad's Phantoms found around the city. Now able to use them, he sent the statues after the Lifeless army, which was going towards Idris.

Following this he remained in T'Telir with Siri, with far more influence on Hallandren Politics.

Personality
He is a very innocent individual. Not understanding concepts of sex, much less rape, and therefore not understanding the fear that Sisirinah had for him.'

He has issue understanding other religions, especially those with Gods in which one cannot directly interact with, such as Austre, for his understanding of religion many comes from the worship he was granted, and of the Iridescent Tones and Court of the Gods.

His main source of knowledge about morality is a book of stories that once belonged to his mother, the morals of which he follows from memory.

Sisirinah
At first they didn't speak or interact at all, and Sisirinah hated and feared him, especially fearing that he would rape her in order to sire himself a heir. He actually feared her to a degree, confused as to why she kept entering his room and bowing to him naked for hours on end.

After they began to interact, the quickly grew close, and fell in love. She grew to love him to the point in which she, along with himself, had great difficulty holding back their passion for each other despite their not wanting to give the priesthood what they wanted. Leading to them consummating their marriage.

Havarseth
"As close as any servant considered unholy. I'm not allowed to touch him or speak to him. But, Princess, I've served him all my life. He's not my god, but he's something better. I think these priests look upon their gods as placeholders. It doesn't really matter to them who is holding the station. Me, I've served His Majesty for my entire life. I was hired by the palace as a lad and I remember Susebron's childhood. I cleaned his quarters. He's not my god, but he is my liege. And now these priests are planning to kill him."

- Havarseth to Siri

Havarseth served and looked after Susebron for his entire life, and remembers the god's childhood. Thus he feels very close to him and sees him as not only his God, but also his liege.

Susebron himself holds deep respect for him, and trusts him a great deal. Not believing that he would ever want to do him harm. And his faith in him is well placed.

Despite how close they feel to each other and how much they care of each other, they are that familiar on a personal level, due to limited communications as a result of Susebron's lack of a tongue, and illiteracy.

Powers and Stats
Name: Susebron, Susebron the Fifth, Seb, God King, Susebron the Grand, Immortal Majesty, His Excellent Grace,

Age: 50

Gender: Male

Classification: Returned, God King of Hallandren, Awakener, Cognitive Shadow

Powers and Abilities: Pre-Healing = Enhanced Senses by Perfect Colour Recognition and Perfect Pitch (Due to his wealth of Breaths, he has an extraordinarily high ability to discern between different sounds and colours, to an extent far beyond that of any human), Extrasensory Perception by Aura Recognition, Perfect Life Sense, and Invested Breath Recognition (He is capable of feeling the presence of others in his proximity, and can tell when he is being watched), Passive Light Manipulation (Light bends around all white objects in his vicinity, creating a rainbow of colours, as if passing through a prism), Immortality (He is ageless and effectively immortal), Superhuman Physical Characteristics (As a Returned, he has various enhancements to his strength and speed), Self-Sustenance (Can live without food or water), Limited Shapeshifting (As a Returned he can manipulate his physical appearance to a limited degree) Resistance to Poison Manipulation (He is essentially immune to most poisons), and Resistance to Disease Manipulation (Is immune to most physical ailments, including nearly all, if not all, diseases) Post-Healing = Enhanced Senses by Perfect Colour Recognition and Perfect Pitch (Due to his wealth of Breaths, he has an extraordinarily high ability to discern between different sounds and colours, to an extent far beyond that of any human), Extrasensory Perception by Aura Recognition, Perfect Life Sense, and Invested Breath Recognition (He is capable of feeling the presence of others in his proximity, and can tell when he is being watched), Passive Light Manipulation (Light bends around all white objects in his vicinity, creating a rainbow of colours, as if passing through a prism), Immortality (He is ageless and effectively immortal), Superhuman Physical Characteristics (As a Returned, he has various enhancements to his strength and speed), Self-Sustenance (Can live without food or water),  Awakening (Having gained back his tongue, he gained the ability to use his Breaths for Awakening), Limited Shapeshifting (As a Returned he can manipulate his physical appearance to a limited degree), Resistance to Poison Manipulation (He is essentially immune to most poisons), and Resistance to Disease Manipulation (Is immune to most physical ailments, including nearly all, if not all, diseases)

Attack Potency: As a Returned he possesses a superhuman degree of strength, however past this the exact extent to which this reaches is not known.

Durability: As a Returned he possesses a superhuman degree of physical enhancements, however past this the exact extent to which this reaches is not known.

Speed: As a Returned he possesses a superhuman degree of speed, he should scale to or above the speed of Denth, who was capable of moving so quick to be able to draw his weapon and move to slay two bodyguards at such velocities that Vivenna couldn't follow or process it.

Intelligence: Due to his isolation, his understanding of the world is extremely limited. To the extent that he doesn't even understand concepts such as sex, believing children to be born by kissing after marriage. He was also completely illiterate. Despite all of this, he is quite intelligent and quick to understand and pick up subjects. He was able to quickly pick up on how to read and write when taught by Sisirinah. He also has a naturally curious mind, and tries his best to learn as much as he can about the world. He however does tend to be rather naïve and have trouble seeing through lies, or making out ulterior motives.

Weaknesses: Due to his isolation he has a great lack of understanding of the world, and is very naïve. He tends to be overly trusting of his priests, thinking they always has his best interest in mind, despite all of the evidence towards them seeing him only as a tool and actively depriving him from the ability to interact with others to gain information about the outside world. He also lacks a tongue, and thus cannot speak, and therefore cannot use Awakening, despite his immense wealth of Breaths. Also, despite his position in the Hallandren Government, he himself is actually not able to use his power, and is instead used as a figurehead or puppet by his priests. He consumes one Breath every week, and if he uses his Divine Breath to heal somebody, he would perish. His Life Sense cannot detect Drabs, it can also be interfered with or blocked by Aviar, Copperclouds, or a Soulbearer storing all of their Investiture into a Nicrosilmind. | After being healed he regained his ability to speak, and gained the ability to use his Breaths for Awakening. If he uses his Divine Breath to heal somebody, he would perish. As Awakening uses Breaths, he only has a finite ability to Awaken objects. However this limitation is not as great for him as it is for others, due to his massive store of Breath being essentially inexhaustible. His Life Sense cannot detect Drabs, it can also be interfered with or blocked by Aviar, Copperclouds, or a Soulbearer storing all of their Investiture into a Nicrosilmind.

Returned Nature
As a Returned he consumes one Breath every week, and if he runs out he would perish. However, this does not pose an active risk to him, as he is given two to three Breaths a week, and has a massive store of Breaths on top of that through the Peacegiver's Treasure.

Along with this, he is physically stronger, more durable, and faster than any normal human.

As he has many Breaths, he would be capable of seeing part of an Artist's soul in an abstract art piece, and make out the purpose and meaning of the piece in a way that no normal human can. To the extent of seeing things that aren't necessarily there.

Shapeshifting
As a Returned he has the ability to shapeshift to a limited degree. Such as changing his height, weight, race, or hair color, but only to a reasonable extent.

Heightening
He has at least 50,000 Breaths, on top of two to three Breaths a week from every God King over the course of 327 Years, likely numbering at 71,606 at the time of his ascension, and 75,428 by his marriage to Sisirinah. This number is not canonical, but is rather calculated via various give statements. This is not including his Divine Breath, which despite being a single Breath, as the density of around 2,000 Breaths, which was alone enough to put him up to the Fifth Heightening.

Due to his large stores, he has reached up to the Tenth Heightening.

Aura Recognition
Aura Recognition is the ability to see the Breath auras of others, and make out around how many Breaths an individual has, this also allows one to make out the exact amount of Investiture within each Breath as well, with the incredibly Invested Divine Breaths only registering as a single one to their sense, but one can still make out just how dense with energy said one Breath is.

This also appears to give one the instinctive ability to not only quantify how much Investiture they have, but make out what Heightening they should be at.

Perfect Pitch
Perfect Pitch is as it sounds, granting perfect pitch to those who achieve it.

Perfect Colour Recognition
Perfect Colour Recognition is the ability to instantly and instinctively determine exact shades of colors and their hue harmonics. He can make out even the smallest differences in colours, and instinctively measure exactly how many "steps" a colour is away from its perfect form. This includes being able to tell apart colours whose differences are so minute to not be perceivable to an ordinary human.

This also gives one an inherent and deep respect for the beauty of colours and how they work together.

Perfect Life Sense
Perfect Life Sense is the instinctively sense other people around you, and tell when you are being watched. He can feel them in a rather large, but unspecific radius, and can pinpoint the approximate location of where people and other living beings are in his proximity. Thus he becomes essentially impossible to sneak up on, due to a constant awareness of all living things surrounding him.

Despite being for all intents and purposes, perfect, he is unable to detect Drabs due to their lack of Investiture. It can also be interfered with or blocked by Aviar, Copperclouds , or a Soulbearer storing all of their Investiture into a Nicrosilmind , and cannot detect that which is blocked by Aluminium. This is due to all these methods working to make a being devoid of Investiture, or seemingly devoid of Investiture. While non-Nalthians do not have any Breaths, they almost always have more Investiture than a Drab, therefore, non-Nalthians can still be detected.

Agelessness
Agelessness is the maximized resistance to ageing and disease. Due to this, he is immune to most toxins, including the effects of alcohol, and most physical ailments, such as headaches, diseases, and organ failure.

He still technically aged despite this, however, this is only due to the fact that the resistance to ageing with this Heightening only takes effect after one reaches physical maturity. Thus he physically aged until maturity before it took effect.

Instinctive Awakening
Instinctive Awakening is the ability to immediately understand and use basic Awakening Commands without training or practice. This also allows one to pick up on and learn complex Commands far faster than an ordinary person.

Invested Breath Recognition
Invested Breath Recognition is the ability to recognize the auras of objects, and can tell when something has been Invested with Breath via Awakening.

Command Breaking
Command Breaking is the ability to override or "break" the Commands of others.

Greater Awakening
Greater Awakening is the ability to Awaken stone and steel, or other inorganic materials, creating Type IV BioChromatic Entities. Doing so requires an immense amount of Breaths.

As he is unable to use Awakening before he was healed, this was inaccessible to him for much of his life.

Audible Command
Audible Command is the ability to Awaken objects he is not physically touching, but those that are within the sound of his voice.

As he is unable to use Awakening, nor even speak, before he was healed, this was inaccessible to him for much of his life.

Color Distortion
Colour Distortion is the natural and intrinsic ability to bend light around white objects within their BioChroma, creating colors from them as if from a prism.

Perfect Invocation
Perfect Invocation is the ability to draw more color from the objects Awakeners use to fuel their art. This leaves an object as white, rather than grey.

As he is unable to use Awakening before he was healed, this was inaccessible to him for much of his life.

Mental Commands
Mental Commands are the ability to use Commands and Awaken objects through thought alone, without requiring him to speak in order to use them. He does not know how to use these before his healing from Lightsong, leaving it useless during his period without a tongue.

Unknown Other Abilities
It is theorized that there are other unknown abilities given by the Tenth Heightening.

Awakening
Awakening is a manifestation of Investiture on Nalthis. It is, in essence, the ability to infuse objects with Investiture, and therefore bring them to life and have them fulfill Commands given to them.

This follows two central laws


 * 1) Law of BioChromatic Parallelism: The closer a host is to a living shape and form, the easier it is to Awaken.
 * 2) Law of Comparability: The amount of Breath required to Awaken something isn't necessarily indicative of its power once Awakened

For much of his life he was left unable to do this, for he did not have a tongue to speak, nor did he know how to use Mental Awakening. Therefore, he is only capable of using Awakening after his healing by Lightsong. He has incredible power and skill in Awakening as a consequence of his massive stores of Breaths. Shortly after regaining his tongue, he was capable of controlling hundreds of individual Awakened objects simultaneously.

This uses his Breaths has fuel, thus with his immense amount of Breaths he has a great capacity to awaken many things, and to which he has little to worry about concerning how much he uses for some Awakenings.

Key: Pre-Healing | Post-Healing