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|Everything I’ve been—everything I was trained to do—has been a lie wrapped in hatred. I don’t want to go back to it. I’m not that person. I don’t want to be.

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== Appearance and Personality ==

=== Appearance ===

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In the beginning of her life, Vivenna wears a simple grey dress and keeps her hair in a knot, due to her strict adherence to Idrian beliefs. She maintains a solid black color in her hair.{{book ref|wb|1}} As her life progresses and she finds herself in [[T'Telir]], however, she begrudgingly begins wearing more colored and revealing dresses out of practicality. She cuts off her hair to sell it{{book ref|wb|39}} and is never mentioned growing it back. By the end of the novel, she wears thick trousers, a tunic, and a vest, all different shades of blue, and carries a sword at her waist.{{book ref|wb|43}} She is also mentioned to have lost, or at least does not bother with, the ability to keep her hair at one set color, and mostly just lets it change to match her feelings.

 

 

 

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She began as a statuesque, uptight, judgmental, and devout adherent to Idrian dogma. After her experiences in T'Telir, however, Vivenna's worldview and personality are fundamentally changed, as exemplified in her choice to become an Awakener and travel with Vasher. She used to look down on the Hallandrens; however, later she notes that she does not really care about them anymore, and that her hatred was caused by their inherent indifference towards the Idrians.

 

== History ==

=== Childhood and Schooling ===

As the first daughter of the king of Idris, [[Dedelin]], she was trained to marry the [[God King]] of [[Hallandren]] from a young age, as according to the peace treaty between their respective nations. At the age of twenty-two, she was to be sent to [[T'Telir]] to marry him. However, Dedelin's love for his first daughter caused him to instead send [[Siri]], of whom he was less fond.{{book ref|wb|1}}

 

=== In T'Telir ===

Vivenna left her home and attempted to rescue Siri from her marriage with [[Susebron]].{{book ref|wb|9}} After arriving in T'Telir, she looked for the Idrian's informant, [[Lemex]]. Instead, she met [[Denth]] and [[Tonk Fah]], who were posing as mercenaries. They led her to Lemex, who had not advised her father that he was deathly ill. Before his death, Lemex transferred his [[Breath]] to Vivenna against her will, bringing her to the Third [[Heightening]].{{book ref|wb|10}} Lemex's mercenaries told her that their contract with Lemex had not concluded and she was their new employer.{{book ref|wb|13}} Unbeknownst to the princess, they had the ulterior motive of inciting conflict between Idrians and the Hallandren for their true employer, the [[Pahn Kahl]] scribe [[Bluefingers]]. With their "help", Vivenna spent many weeks in T'Telir inadvertently stirring the Idrian community into a rebellion against the [[Court of the Gods]].{{book ref|wb|43}}

Vivenna was later kidnapped by [[Vasher]], who was seeking to prevent the mercenaries from realizing their goal, but she escaped. After she managed to return to the safe house, she discovered the truth of her time with the mercenaries after finding [[Parlin]]'s tortured corpse, dead Idrian soldiers, and various animals' corpses. She then encountered the mercenaries as they truly were.{{book ref|wb|35}}

 

 

=== On Roshar ===

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|I'm no figure from mythology, thank you very much. I’m just a woman who has been constantly out of her league since adolescence.

As a member of the Royal Family of Idris, she is a descendant of [[Vo]].{{book ref|wb|51}}

 

[[Parlin]] is her lifelong friend and potential partner, as their fathers were great friends before them. She appears to be fond of him, as evidenced by her jealousy when he takes a liking to [[Jewels]],{{book ref|wb|28}} though Sanderson has stated that it's not a romantic fondness, but one more akin to that of an older sister for her younger brother.{{wob ref|6961}}

 

 

== Notes ==

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