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| image = https://archmaester.site/portraits/stormlight/eshonai.jpg<br />
| name = Eshonai<br />
| title = Shardbearer; Listener Warleader<br />
| house = Listeners (Parshendi)<br />
| race = [[Singer]] (Listener)<br />
| status = Deceased<br />
| region = [[Shattered Plains]]<br />
| born = Shattered Plains<br />
| died = Battle of Narak (during the birth of the Everstorm)<br />
| weapon = [[Shardblade]]; [[Shardplate]] (recovered)<br />
| fate = Lost to stormform; drowns in [[Shadesmar]], leaving behind the spren [[Timbre]]<br />
| quote = I will not become a monster.<br />
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'''Eshonai''' is a character in [[The Stormlight Archive]] by [[Brandon Sanderson]]. A [[Singer]] (Listener) of the [[Shattered Plains]] and elder sister to [[Venli]], Eshonai was a warleader and explorer of her people, and one of the few Listeners to wield a [[Shardblade]] and [[Shardplate]]. Her tragic fall to [[stormform]] -- a form of power that surrendered her to [[Odium]] -- marks one of the series' great losses.<br />
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An explorer at heart who longed to map the world beyond the Plains, Eshonai was thrust into war and leadership against her nature, and ultimately lost herself to the very power her sister helped discover.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
Eshonai was a Listener, one of the people who had escaped [[Odium]]'s dominion generations earlier by abandoning their gods, living free on the [[Shattered Plains]] in "dullform" and other natural forms. Adventurous and curious, she dreamed of exploring the wider world. It was Eshonai who first made contact with humans -- the Alethi under King [[Gavilar Kholin]] -- a meeting that, through forces beyond her, led to Gavilar's assassination and the long war on the Plains.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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=== The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance ===<br />
As warleader, Eshonai commands the Listeners in the grinding War of Reckoning against the Alethi on the [[Shattered Plains]]. She recovers a [[Shardblade]] and [[Shardplate]] and becomes a formidable force in battle. Faced with annihilation as [[Dalinar Kholin|Dalinar's]] forces press toward the center of the Plains, the Listeners gamble on a lost form of power: [[stormform]], researched by her sister [[Venli]].<br />
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Eshonai adopts stormform to summon the [[Everstorm]] and save her people -- but the form reconnects her to [[Odium]], gradually drowning her true self beneath a hostile, alien will. In a harrowing internal struggle she fights to retain herself, vowing not to become a monster. During the [[Battle of Narak]], caught in the chaos as the Everstorm breaks, she falls and drowns, her body lost.<br />
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=== Legacy ===<br />
Though Eshonai dies, her spren [[Timbre]] -- who had resisted Odium's corruption alongside her -- survives and later bonds her sister [[Venli]], helping make Venli the first Singer [[Knights Radiant|Radiant]]. In this way Eshonai's resistance echoes forward into her people's redemption.<br />
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== Character ==<br />
Eshonai was warm, curious, and brave, an explorer forced into the role of warrior and leader. She loved her people and her sister deeply, and her tragedy is that her courage and sense of duty led her to embrace stormform to protect them -- only to lose herself. Even drowning under Odium's influence, she struggled to hold to her own identity, refusing to become the monster the power tried to make her.<br />
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== Powers and abilities ==<br />
As a [[Singer]], Eshonai could attune the [[rhythms]] and adopt various forms by bonding different spren -- workform, warform, and ultimately [[stormform]], which granted command of lightning and storms but bound her to [[Odium]]. As a Shardbearer she wielded a [[Shardblade]] and wore [[Shardplate]], making her one of the deadliest warriors among the Listeners.<br />
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== Relationships ==<br />
* '''[[Venli]]''' -- her younger sister, whose ambition helped discover stormform and who later carries [[Timbre]].<br />
* '''[[Timbre]]''' -- the spren who resisted Odium with her and survived to bond Venli.<br />
* '''[[Gavilar Kholin]]''' -- the Alethi king whose dealings with the Listeners preceded his assassination.<br />
* '''The Listeners''' -- her people, whom she led and tried to save.<br />
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== Quotes ==<br />
<blockquote>''I will not become a monster.''</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote>''To Roshar, to all its peoples -- we go to seek the truth.''</blockquote><br />
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