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|booksfirst appeared=[[The Emperor's Soul]], [[Mistborn Era 2]]
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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 aan curse wordexpletive.{{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}}
 
=== Essence Marks ===
During her timeimprisonment onin Selthe [[Imperial Seat]], Shai hashad five [[Essence Mark]]s, which took her over eight years to create.{{tes ref|76}} As of her time on Scadrial, she has created at least one more.{{book ref|mb7|53}}
 
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}}
 
=== 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)|Trell]], working under the codename of Moonlight.{{book ref|mb7|36}}
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