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Midnight Mother
Biographical information
Race Unmade
Gender Female
Status Alive
Social Information
Aliases Re-Shephir
Appears in The Way of Kings (mentioned),
Oathbringer

Midnight Mother is the alias by which Re-Shephir is known. She is one of the Unmade, a mysterious group of odious spren on Roshar. Her presence there is the source of the dark aura in Urithiru.[1]

She is responsible for Midnight Essence, the creatures she births.[2][1] Such is mentioned in the death rattle of a darkeyed dock worker:

"Re-Shephir, the Midnight Mother, giving birth to abominations with her essence so dark, so terrible, so consuming. She is here! She watches me die!"

–Dated Shashabev, 1173, 8 seconds pre-death. Subject: a darkeyed dock-worker in his forties, father of three.[3]

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Midnight Mother meets Shallan
Fan art by Petar Penev[1]

Veil acknowledges that the Midnight Mother had enveloped the gemstone pillar beneath Urithiru.[4]

Shallan doesn't truly know how she drove away the Midnight Mother in Urithiru.[5]

Notes[]

Brandon has confirmed that the Unmade are Splinters of Odium.[6] Odium splintered himself and created the Unmade to be his influence on Roshar. It is through the Unmade that Odium may be able to influence people in how they think or act.[7]

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