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'''Axies the Collector''' is a [[Siah Aimian]] engaged in a quest to catalog all the different varieties of [[spren]] on [[Roshar]]. {{book ref|sa1|i|5}} He is basically immortal,{{wob ref|3666}}{{wob ref|1784}}, and he researches spren as his way of finding purpose in immortality.{{book ref|edgedancer|18}} He is affected by the [[Curse of Kind]].{{book ref|sa1|i|5}}
 
== History ==
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Given the hostility his race and appearance attracts and the likelihood of losing his possessions, he took to making his research notes by using his Aimian talent for altering his body to create tattoo-like markings on his skin for later reference.{{book ref|sa1|i|5}}
At some point, Axies visited the Valley to try and see the [[Nightwatcher]], but did not. He would try several times, about 24 in total.{{wob ref|15785}}
Given the hostility his race and appearance attracts and the likelihood of losing his possessions, he took to making his research notes by using his Aimian talent for altering his body to create tattoo-like markings on his skin for later reference.
 
AtThroughout somehis pointlife, Axies has visited the [[Valley]] to try and see the [[Nightwatcher]], but did not. He would try several dozen times, aboutbut 24has yet to inbe totalsuccessful.{{wob ref|15785}}
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He was searching for evidence of the existence of [[alespren]] by getting drunk somewhere in [[Kasitor]] when he was beaten by unknown persons, robbed of his possessions, and left for dead in an alley. Axies awakensawakened the next day naked, lying on a pile of foul-smelling rotted vegetables, and suffering only from a headache. He usesused his ability to suppress his sense of smell and to banish the headache. He then meetsmet a crazy [[Beggar (Kasitor)|beggar]] who iswas furious that his city of rotted vegetables had been trampled. The beggar asksasked Axies if he’she was a [[Voidbringer]] or a [[Herald]] because of the destruction he caused to the beggar's city. After stating that he iswas a Voidbringer, Axies cleverly convincesconvinced the beggar to give him his blanket, so he wouldn’t be arrested for public nudity. Soon after, while observing [[Cusicesh]] in the city, the blanket iswas stolen from him by a street urchin and Axies iswas seized by the guards and arrested for public indecency.
 
Later on, [[Rysn]] found Axies hanging upside down from his feet as punishment for offending the religion of the people on one of the [[Reshi Isles]]. He had travelled to the Reshi Isles in order to find the Tai-Na's spren, which he speculated would be "spectacular" in comparison to the spren of normal greatshells.{{book ref|wor|i|3}}
 
Shortly after the rediscovery of [[Urithiru]], [[Jochi]] mentions a sighting of Axies in a [[spanreed]] communication with [[Jasnah Kholin]].{{book ref|sa3|53}}
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