Eshonai

Eshonai
by Exmakina
Family Parents Mother Siblings Venli
Abilities	Shardbearer
Groups	Council of Five
Ethnicity	Listener
Homeworld	Roshar

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Eshonai is a Parshendi Shardbearer who lives in Narak on the Shattered Plains of Roshar during the War of Reckoning. She is one of the first Parshendi to come in contact with Gavilar's soldiers in the Unclaimed Hills.

Her skin is a marbled red and black, and she is large of stature, being seven feet tall in Shardplate. Her Shardplate is silver, and she wears a red cape with it. She speaks Alethi with a thick accent. She wears warform due to the conflict with Alethkar. When not wearing Shardplate, her uniform consists of a cap, and a red cloth which stretches over her warform armour.

During the Battle of the Tower, Eshonai duels Dalinar Kholin as the army is making it's retreat. She defeats him in combat, and recognises him as the Alethi Shardbearer she's been searching for, but is stabbed in the leg by Kaladin Stormblessed, who makes his escape with Dalinar before she has a chance to speak with him. As the army makes it's retreat from the Tower, she salutes Dalinar as a gesture of respect. She allows the Alethi to escape the battle without attacking them once they clear the Tower.

In an attempt to test the newly rediscovered Stormform, she is the first to adopt it, despite reluctance about using it -- and after doing so undergoes a major shift in personality, becoming more warlike and determined to wipe out the Alethi, despite originally wanting peace; it is implied that the form exerts the change over her. Her new, aggressive personality even makes her willing to kill Parshendi who do not obey her, including soldiers in her own division, those she considered close friends, as well as her own family; Venli and her mother, going so far as to have dissidents among the population of Narak rounded up to be killed. Her current status is unknown after her defeat at the hands of Adolin Kholin at the battle of Narak, where she is pushed into a nearby chasm.

She believes that she is personally responsible for the War of Reckoning, because she was the first to make contact with the Alethi.