| Tanavast | |
|---|---|
 Honor/Almighty/Tanavast | |
| Biographical information | |
| Ethnicity | Unknown |
| Nationality | Rosharan |
| Gender | Male |
| Status | Dead |
| Abilities | Shardholder, Surgebinding (assumed) |
| Social Information | |
| Aliases | Honor, Almighty |
| Appears in |
The Way of Kings (referred to), Words of Radiance (referred to), Oathbringer (referred to) |
Tanavast was the Shardholder of the Shard of Adonalsium, Honor. He is/was a deity, widely worshipped on the world of Roshar. His power stemmed from Honor, which presumably fuels the ten Surges. He was killed, or Splintered,[1] by the Shard Odium sometime after the Oathpact was broken, which was a very long time ago.[2]
| “ |
Whether this was Tanavast's design or not, millennia have passed without Rayse taking the life of another of the sixteen.* | ” |
Personality
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| “ | "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow - bought me drinks once - but he was not God." | ” |
AttributionsEdit
The Stormfather refers to Kaladin as a "CHILD OF TANAVAST. CHILD OF HONOR."[5]
Additionally, he refers to him as a "SON OF TANAVAST."[6]
HistoryEdit
Tanavast
Fan art by Kyle Pearson[2]
From the beginning of The Way of Kings, Tanavast is indeed dead, but - according to Brandon - he apparently could have survived Odium's Splintering for a time.[7][8]
According to Brandon's beta-reader, Drew McCaffrey,[3] Tanavast is now a Cognitive Shadow merged with the Stormfather.[9]
NotesEdit
*Rayse is/was the Shardholder of Odium.[10]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Splintering
- ↑ The Way of Kings, 75. In the Top Room
- ↑ Words of Radiance, 70. From A Nightmare
- ↑ Words of Radiance, Epilogue - Art And Expectation
- ↑ The Way of Kings, 46. Child of Tanavast
- ↑ Oathbringer, 31. Demands Of The Storm
- ↑ Surviving Splintering
- ↑ Surviving for a time ...
- ↑ Oathbringer, 108. Honor's Path
- ↑ Shardholder
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