

When she looks at Adolin, she seems like a painting that had been vandalized. To Adolin, it seems as if someone had taken a knife to her face, except that she hadn't bled or been scarred by the cuts. Īs a deadeye, her most unnerving features are those scratched-out eyes. Instead she's like a portrait where her eyes have been scraped off.

Īs a spren in Shadesmar, she has scratched-out eyes and skin like it's made of rough cloth. No sheath can hold a weapon like this, and no mortal sword can imitate it - not without growing unusably heavy. The back has small crystalline protrusions growing out of it. She is thick at the base, as wide as a man's palm, and the front waves like the ripples of a moving eel. Her opposite side has delicate ridges, with the appearance of crystal formations. Her sharp side is sinuous, rippling like an eel curving up into a point. While in Shadesmar, she's known as a deadeye. He also tells her that he's going to use her to do good things. He's sorry that he can't do anything about that, but thanks her for assisting him over the years. That she's dead, yet somehow still in pain. That others say they can hear her screaming if they touch her. Īdolin tells her that he's guessed that she used to be alive. When she was alive, she was a cultivationspren and an Edgedancer's Blade. Upon learning this, he affectionately calls her Maya and invites her to bring down a thunderclast with him. Mayalaran is the name with which Adolin's dead spren Shardblade identifies herself to him by tickling his mind, very faint, like a sigh. Nahel bonding, affording Surgebinding (previously)
