Liss (and some speculation)

[RedBlue]

I’m still very much in the process of going through all the materials that the game just released, but the first big thing to jump out at me was Liss.

This pretty much confirms that Liss is not secretly a Herald, right?

Stonewalkers was advertised as having the players meet three Heralds: Taln, Nale, and Pralla. Vedel, who has been widely theorised in the fandom to be Liss, is not supposed to be present, and yet here Liss is.

By all appearances, Liss is just an ordinary (if fancy and well-equipped) mercenary. She’s given a standard stat block: she’s a Duellist Shardbearer. To me, that says Liss is not going to be revealed as secretly important in the main books, as none of the major characters have official stat blocks.

To sum up: Liss’ only relevance to the main series is that she briefly ‘employed’ Szeth, then later was employed by the Stone Shamans to recover Taln’s Honorblade. And she helped with that mission, a bit.

Which means that Vedel’s whereabouts and activities prior to the end of WaT are still unknown. Tanavast mentions that Vedel ‘became indifferent,’ and Nale lists her as one of the Heralds who grew ‘weaker’ and increasingly struggled to access the Heralds’ ‘blessings.’ Those are the only clues I could find about Vedel’s current state from a quick look.

[lacrossedeamon]

Agreed. And honestly I prefer this. Liss never really struck me as a Herald and I like the idea of unaccounted shardblades being in the hands of potentially otherwise assuming people.