--delete-- Posted September 10, 2019 Posted September 10, 2019 When contemplating the Ghostbloods' methods I had a thought about how the Ghostbloods determined Shallan is a Lightweaver. I don't have hard evidence to back up, but here's the reasoning The Ghostbloods were impressed at Shallan's ability to evade their observers when infiltrating Amaram's warcamp Shallan avoiding assassination returning from the meeting where Shallan demonstrated her astonishing memorization abilities This may have lead to the Ghostbloods setting more than one person to observe Shallan retrieving the instructions. While Shallan was able to compromise Iyatil, a second tail would be able to observe Shallan revealing her head outside of the carriage at the entrance to the monastery (and could later help extract Iyatil). Mraize then leveraged that information in Urithiru to confirm Shallan could Soulcast and pressure her to stay with the Ghostbloods. I acknowledge that the situation of a message retrieval was crafted in a way that one agent should be able to tail Shallan, but as she was able to impress the Ghostbloods 3 times I think it likely that they could foresee the possibility of distraction or obstruction when the message is retrieved. 2
LH1407 Posted September 10, 2019 Posted September 10, 2019 I think Mraize mentioned at the end of WoR that they wouldn't have found her out if Shallan hadn't had to reveal her powers, so it's unlikely they figured it out so early. 1
Karger he/him Posted September 10, 2019 Posted September 10, 2019 6 hours ago, LH1407 said: I think Mraize mentioned at the end of WoR that they wouldn't have found her out if Shallan hadn't had to reveal her powers, so it's unlikely they figured it out so early. Agreed. Also Shallan seemed to provoke real surprise when sneaking in to see Taln. This is enough to make me believe they did not realize her capabilities at that time.
--delete-- Posted September 10, 2019 Author Posted September 10, 2019 14 hours ago, LH1407 said: Mraize mentioned at the end of WoR that they wouldn't have found her out if Shallan hadn't had to reveal her powers Mraize qualifies his statement as "perhaps I never have located your false identity", but I also never expect Mraize to be truthful (maybe wrongly. When Shallan is the POV I'm looking for lies). The Ghostbloods have great experience in gathering intelligence and must have significant capabilities to have collected so many Invested objects so it seems fitting to give them credit, even if it's just headcanon.
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