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'''Ba-Ado-Mishram,''' sometimes called just '''Mishram''',{{epigraph ref|sa4|97}} is one of the [[Unmade]],{{epigraph ref|sa3|106}} an ancient and terrible [[spren]] of [[Odium]].{{book ref|sa3|62}} She is a sapient Unmade{{epigraph ref|sa3|106}} and is crafty and conniving.{{book ref|sa4|i|2}} She was a primary instigator of the [[False Desolation]], leading to her imprisonment by the [[Knights Radiant]],{{epigraph ref|sa3|80}}{{book ref|sa4|73}} which put the vast majority of [[singer]]s into slaveform,{{book ref|sa3|17}} and affected all spren on [[Roshar]].{{book ref|sa4|49}}{{epigraph ref|sa4|97}}
She is unique among the Unmade for having two hyphens in her name, whereas others only have one or zero.▼
==Mythology and Lore==
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|There is very little information about Ba-Ado-Mishram in more modern times. I can only assume she, unlike many of them, returned to Damnation or was destroyed during Aharietiam.
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About 2,500 years after Aharietiam,{{book ref|sa1|prologue}}{{book ref|sa3|56}} Ba-Ado-Mishram [[Connection|Connected]] with the vast majority of [[singer]]s on Roshar--all except the [[listener]]s. She granted the singers forms of powers--making them into [[Regals]]--and provided them with [[Voidlight]].{{epigraph ref|sa3|80}} This created a new war, and a different kind of Desolation, one without the Fused. Scholars would later term it the [[False Desolation]].{{book ref|sa3|56}} It's unclear what Ba-Ado-Mishram's motives were in starting this new war, nor is it obvious if she was acting at Odium's wishes.{{book ref|sa4|73}}
The [[Knights Radiant]] of the era felt that the singers fought with zeal,{{epigraph ref|sa3|77}} and did not know how Ba-Ado-Mishram could Connect with the singers.{{epigraph ref|sa3|80}} The fighting was particularly intense during this period.{{epigraph ref|sa2|41}} At some point, the singers pressed towards [[Feverstone Keep]], though the Radiants did not understand why the area interested the singers--or perhaps Ba-Ado-Mishram--so much. Some speculated that it had been part of a plan to capture the city of [[Rall Elorim]].{{epigraph ref|sa3|84}}
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In 1175, during the [[True Desolation]], the location of Ba-Ado-Mishram's gemstone prison remained unknown, but the [[Ghostbloods]] sought it. [[Ialai Sadeas]]'s journal which [[Shallan]] acquired at Ialai's death described the Ghostbloods being "obsessed" with Ba-Ado-Mishram. Shallan suspected [[Mraize]] thought that Ba-Ado-Mishram would be in [[Urithiru]], but Shallan realized this must have been wrong, because if that was true, [[Re-Shephir]] would have freed Mishram. Shallan wondered that since Mraize wished to move [[Stormlight]] off Roshar that perhaps Ba-Ado-Mishram could be used for this purpose.{{book ref|sa4|24}}
Kalak believed this was why the Ghostbloods hunted him. Shallan confronted Mraize using her [[seon]] [[Ala]], and demanded to know what the Ghostbloods' plan was with a spren which could bind minds of an entire people. Mraize didn't respond, and Shallan declared that she would find Ba-Ado-Mishram's gemstone before they would.{{book ref|sa4|115}}
Odium's relation with Ba-Ado-Mishram is unknown. She may or may not have started the False Desolation at Odium's behest.
== Trivia ==
▲* She is unique among the Unmade for having two hyphens in her name, whereas others only have one or zero.
== Notes ==
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