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{{character
|image=Jaxlim by rspixart.jpg
|merge-family=y
|children=[[Eshonai]], [[Venli]]
|species=singer
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|first appeared=[[Words of Radiance]]
}}
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'''Jaxlim'''{{book ref|sa4|45}} is a [[listener]] who lives on the [[Shattered Plains]] on [[Roshar]]. She is the mother of [[Eshonai]] and [[Venli]] and has the important role of Keeper of Songs.{{book ref|sa4|52}}
== Appearance and Personality ==
At a younger age, Jaxlim
At an old age, Jaxlim
==History==▼
=== Narak ===▼
Jaxlim was a Keeper of Songs, possibly the most important job in the family. She was not required to have any other job but learn and pass the knowledge, but she always sought to keep busy. She said working her hands kept her body strong, while going over songs worked her mind.{{book ref|sa4|45}}▼
Shortly after the listeners and the humans started to meet, her memory started to fail. At the beginning it was only forgetting some parts of the stanzas, something that had never happened before.{{book ref|sa4|52}} In the beginning, only Venli really knew about this, and Jaxlim started to send people to her for reciting the songs.{{book ref|sa4|52}} ▼
But the sickness progressed fast. As it got worse, Jaxlim did feel sad and cried for her own loss. Venli was there by her side. {{book ref|sa4|73}} She would then suffer from episodes where she would believe Eshonai and Venli were young children.{{book ref|sa4|73}}▼
=== War of Reckoning (1167 - 1174)===▼
=== After the “True Desolation” ===▼
After the Everstorm the listeners with whom Jaxlim had escaped with did manage to survive. And they hid on some chasms. When Venli returned to the remnants of the listeners, Jaxlim had lost all ability to recognize her daughter.{{book ref|row|115}} However, Venli held out hope that a Radiant bond could still heal her mother's mental afflictions.{{book ref|row|115}}▼
== Attributes and Abilities ==
=== Songs ===
{{quote
|“Daring was the challenge made,” Mother sang, “when the Last Legion abandoned thought and power in exchange for freedom. They risked forgetting all. And so songs they composed, a hundred stories to tell, to remember. I tell them to you, and you will tell them to your children, until the forms are again discovered.”
|Jaxlim to Eshonai{{book ref|wor|i|4}}
}}
The old songs recounted by Jaxlim include information about the
▲== History ==
▲=== Narak ===
▲Jaxlim was a Keeper of Songs, possibly the most important job in the family. She was not required to have any other job but learn and pass the knowledge, but she always sought to keep busy. She said working her hands kept her body strong, while going over songs worked her mind. She had trained both her daughters the songs, but [[Eshonai]] had given up and so she focused on [[Venli]]. Jaxlim was the one taking to [[the Five]] the option of finding [[warform]] and spoke on behalf of her daughter to support the research.{{book ref|sa4|45}}
▲Shortly after the
▲
▲=== War of Reckoning (1167 - 1174) ===
Jaxlim could be seen in her shack on the outskirts of [[Narak]] tending to her [[shalebark]] gardens. She appeared to be senile, as she did not always recognize her daughter and sometimes seemed to hallucinate. Eshonai said that she had not heard wise words from her mother in years. Jaxlim could sometimes remember some of the old songs. Eshonai asked her about the listeners leaving the "dark home", and her mother sang a song to a [[Singer#Rhythms|Rhythm of Remembrance]] that revealed tidbits of listener history. She had saved some maps of the former kingdom of [[Natanatan]] that Eshonai made in her youth, and she gave them to Eshonai.{{book ref|wor|i|4}} Jaxlim was rounded up with the rest of the listeners who refused to adopt [[Singer#Forms_of_Power|Stormform]] when Eshonai began to take control of Narak. She escaped into the chasms with [[Thude]] and the rest of the dissenters.{{book ref|wor|i|11}}
▲After the
== Relationships ==
=== Venli ===
{{quote
|Thank you! For reminding me, of what I am practicing to become.
|Venli to Jaxlim after listening to her sing{{book ref|sa4|45}}
}}
Jaxlim
Venli
=== Eshonai ===
{{quote
|Eshonai has a bold heart. She merely needs to learn that her family is more important than counting the number of hills outside the camp
|Jaxlim to Venli
}}
When young, Jaxlim teaches [[Eshonai]] the songs of the [[listener]]s. The latter, however, is more interested in exploration and gives up on becoming a keeper of songs.{{book ref|sa4|45}} Before meeting the humans, Jaxlim
== Notes ==
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