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Nazh is a lanky man with a narrow, pinched face, blonde hair and blue eyes.{{msh ref|3|2}}{{ref|name=nab}} He tends to dress to fit in with the locals -- [[skaa]] on [[Scadrial]], or an [[ardent]] on [[Roshar]], even when not among the planet's people.{{msh ref|3|2}}{{book ref|sa2|31}} When not blending in, he speaks with a faint, possibly [[Threnodite]] accent. He's rather skittish, and seems to have a hair-trigger temper, going from calm to annoyed in a moment. He is also very prone to swearing.{{wob ref|9555}}{{msh ref|3|2}}
He dislikes being surprised and one-upped by others, and is highly suspicious of strangers.{{msh ref|3|2}} This being said, he seems to enjoy excitement, vastly preferring fighting for his life to quiet study and scholarship. He can still be incredibly patient, and does have the mind to be scholarly, at least for a while, but he dislikes people who speak in riddles and flowery language, preferring that people get to the point.{{file ref|Alethi Glyphs Page 1.jpg|text=Alethi Glyphs}}{{wob ref|13016}}
Nazh and Khriss arrived on [[Scadrial]] to witness [[Preservation]]'s death.{{msh ref|3|2}} Nazh visited the planet's Physical Realm sometime around the [[Collapse]] and the [[Siege of Luthadel]], collecting and annotating a map of the city.{{map ref|Luthadel}} When on Scadrial, he pretended to be a [[skaa]], and retained the clothes even when he left the planet. He managed to return back to Scadrial's [[subastral]] before [[Kelsier]] destroyed the [[Pits of Hathsin]], which cut off the travel between the two Realms.{{msh ref|3|2}}
Some time afterwards, at [[Preservation]]'s suggestion, [[Kelsier]], now a [[Cognitive Shadow]], located Khriss and Nazh's camp in the Scadrian subastral. His surprise visit shocked Nazh, who remained fidgety and brash towards him throughout the meeting, resenting Kelsier both for surprising him and for briefly stealing his knife. As Kelsier and Khriss talked, Nazh tried -- and failed -- to intimidate the former, and when Kelsier asked to learn more about the greater cosmere, Nazh mocked him for it, suggesting he wasn't ready to learn the truth.{{msh ref|3|2}}
[[Khriss]] eventually decided against helping Kelsier, and declared that the two of them would leave the planet before Preservation died. Nazh initially went with her, leaving Kelsier behind; however, he eventually returned. Expressing his support for Kelsier's cause, he gifted the man his knife and pointed him towards the [[Ire]] base before departing once more.{{msh ref|3|2}} Kelsier would eventually use the knife to smash [[Ire's orb]] and ascend to Preservation.{{msh ref|6|4}} He lost it at some point between then and [[Ruin]]'s death.{{msh ref|6|8}}
=== Roshar ===
== Trivia ==
* Nazh is not the person writing the [[Ars Arcanum|Ars Arcana]]{{wob ref|7026}} (it is in fact [[Khriss]]), or the tattooist who gave the [[bridgemen]] of [[Bridge Four]] their tattoos.{{17s ref|date=2014-02-26|post|101708|Nazh isn't the tattooist|author=Peter Ahlstrom}}
* Brandon has compared Nazh to a "grumpy [[Wikipedia: James Bond|James Bond]]".{{wob ref|13587}} Isaac, meanwhile, says he's "basically a young [[wikipedia:Peter Capaldi|Peter Capaldi]]",{{wob ref|9555}}
* Nazh's accent is meant to sound Scottish.{{wob ref|13011}}
* Nazh is Isaac's second favorite character in the [[cosmere]], after [[Dalinar]].{{wob ref|13169}}
* He likes fried [[Wikipedia: eggplant| eggplant]]s since they remind him of a similar vegetable from Threnody.{{wob ref|13011}}
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