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|abilities={{tag+|Forger}}, {{tag+|worldhopping}}
|aliases=Shaizan,{{tes ref|98}} Moonlight, Kim,{{book ref|mb7|26}} Shay-I{{book ref|mb7|54}}
|nation= MaiPon
|world=Sel
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
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'''Wan ShaiLu''', known as '''Shai''', is a [[MaiPon]] woman from [[Sel]]. She has a reputation throughout the [[Rose Empire]] as being one of the best [[Forger]]s alive.{{tes ref|prologue}}
== Appearance and Personality ==
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Shai is small of stature like the rest of the MaiPon people. She has black hair that lays straight and long.{{tes ref|2}}{{book ref|mb7|20}} She wears spectacles because of her bad eyesight.{{tes ref|2}} She is implied to have epicanthic folds, and has prominent cheekbones.{{book ref|mb7|20}} Her arms are layered with shallow cuts from the [[Bloodsealing|Bloodsealer]] [[Weedfingers]], who needs her blood to keep her imprisoned.{{tes ref|5}} Her voice is on the deeper end for a woman, and she uses the expression "Nights!" as an expletive.{{book ref|mb7|20}}
She loves the thrill, the accomplishment and the wonder of Forgery. However, at times, she is tempted by a simple life where she doesn't have to hide or lie.{{tes ref|76}} She constantly quotes her '''Uncle Won''' and '''Aunt Sol''' although they don't really exist. They are figments of her imagination created for one of her Essence Marks.{{tes ref|76}} She believes her Forgeries are works of art and she gets angry when contradicted on that.{{tes ref|3}}
She worships the [[Unknown God]].{{tes ref|2}} She holds a deep hatred for [[Autonomy]], and by extension [[Bavadin]], due to her ideals and actions. This hatred is enough that it can sometimes cloud her judgement.{{book ref|mb7|20}}▼
▲She holds a deep hatred for [[Autonomy]], and by extension [[Bavadin]], due to her ideals and actions. This hatred is enough that it can sometimes cloud her judgement.{{book ref|mb7|20}}
=== Elantrian ===
As an Elantrian, she has a very high opinion of herself, seeing herself as a divinity worthy of praise and offerings. In this form, she has the glowing skin of an Elantrian and wears her hair up in a bun.{{book ref|mb7|53}}
== Attributes and Abilities ==
=== Essence Marks ===
During her
In the decades to centuries between her escape from the Rose Empire, and her work against the Set alongside Marasi, she gained a lot of skill in her use of Essence Marks. She is now able to create Essence Marks that last far longer than the mere day{{tes ref|30}}{{tes ref|98}} that her old ones last for, enough so that she believes they could be potentially permanent, even without hemerine reapplication.{{book ref|mb7|53}}{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|1}}{{wob ref|16022}} Therefore bypassing, through unknown means, the limitations posed by the shifting Identity of sentient beings.{{tes ref|30}} These are not necessarily permanent, and might wear off some day.{{wob ref|16022}}
=== Universal Stamps ===
Shai carries two soulstamps that are designed to work on any object for a limited time. One creates a doorway, and the other repairs broken objects.{{book ref|mb7|42}} This is still limited by the feasibility of a Forgery, to a degree. If a Forgery with a Universal Stamp is completely infeasible, the stamp would not properly take.
== History ==
[[Han ShuXen]], an old painter who had tutored Shai as a child, asked her to destroy his masterpiece ''[[Lily of the Spring Pond]]''. ShuXen hated the Rose Empire and didn't want his painting, which he had painted for a woman he once loved, in their hands. He helped Shai create a counterfeit.{{tes ref|76}}
Shai managed to destroy the original painting in the Arbiter [[Frava]]'s office near the [[Imperial Gallery]], replaced it with a fake and planted another lower-quality counterfeit in her room in order to hide the theft.{{tes ref|30}} With the help of the [[Imperial Fool]], she also broke into the [[Rose Palace]]'s Imperial Gallery by impersonating a noblewoman to steal the [[Moon Scepter]]. However the Fool betrayed her. He stole Shai's copy of the Moon Scepter, swapped it for the original, then escaped after giving Shai up to the palace guards. Shai was captured and
{{image|TES - Shai and Gaotona by Johanna Rupprecht.jpg|[[Gaotona]] and Shai|side=left|height=300px}}
=== Resistance against Trell ===
{{image|Moonlight by Caio Santos.png|side=right|width=300px|Turning into an Elantrian}}
At some point after her release from the Rose Empire, she became a member of the Ghostbloods and worked on [[Scadrial]] in order to resist the oncoming threat of [[Trell (Trellism)
Six years after the first interaction between the Elendel Basin and the Southern Scadrians, she found [[Marasi Colms]] in a series of underground caverns, crashing a [[Set]] smuggling operation. She secretly gave her a letter, informing her that the Ghostbloods
Several days later, she met with Marasi, acting as her driver for a sting operation on the Set smuggling operation in [[Bilming]]. Introducing herself as a member of the Ghostbloods using the code name Moonlight, she explained to Marasi the nature of Trell and [[Autonomy]].{{book ref|mb7|20}}
Shai assisted Marasi,
With some research, Shai, the Ghostbloods, and Marasi
She was forced to use a Stamp to change her past and turn herself into an Elantrian, also changing her personality and giving her the abilities of an Elantrian. She used [[AonDor]] in order to create an illusion of Marasi, letting her escape.{{book ref|mb7|53}} Following this, she vanished and the Ghostbloods sent out a mission to look for her.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|1}}
=== Prasanva ===
She works with Prasanva in Bilming.{{book ref|mb7|39}} She is willing to try to help him get back to his homeworld, but he rejects her offer, stating that it is too dangerous.{{book ref|mb7|42}}{{expand}}
=== Gaotona ===
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