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

Re-Shephir is one of the Unmade, a mysterious group of odious spren on Roshar. Also referred to as the Midnight Mother, she appears in the depths of Urithiru where she is discovered first by Renarin, then by Adolin, and lastly by Shallan, who eventually interacts with her.[1]

Appearance[]

Shallan sees a dark mass wriggling deep inside slits within the tower of Urithiru, squeezing between walls like goo, but with bits jutting out. These bits appear as elbows, ribs, fingers splayed along a wall, each knuckle bending backward.[2]

The thing twists, head deforming in the tiny confines, and looks toward her. Shallan sees eyes reflecting her Stormlight, twin spheres set in a mashed head, a distorted human visage.[2]

Later identified as Re-Shephir, she appears as a large mass that reflects the light, like glistening tar. She is an undulating shape, a living darkness that seeps, though not swiftly.[1]

Characterisics[]

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

She casts a dark presence throughout the towering city and, when confronted, births Midnight Essence with her own dark essence.[3]

There is an inevitability in the way she coats everything, flowing up the sides of walls, coating a ceiling. On the ground, shapes split from her main mass, becoming figures that step as if from surf. Creatures that have two feet and soon grow faces, with clothing that ripples into existence.[1]

Shallan recognizes that these creatures look like themselves; she and her companions, some of whom were originally members of Bridge Four (i.e., Teft, Lopen, and Drehy, amongst other members).[1]

History[]

Re-Shephir brutally murdered Vedekar Perel in the tower at Urithiru, in the same manner that Adolin had killed Sadeas.[4][1][5]

Impersonating Veil in a long coat and a hat, Re-Shepir also stabbed Rock in the same manner that Shallan (as Veil) had stabbed a man, because Rock looked similar to that man.[2]

Epigraphs[]

"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]

Re-Shephir, the Midnight Mother, is another Unmade who appears to have been destroyed at Aharietiam.

–From Hessi's Mythica, page 250[6]

The Midnight Mother created monsters of shadow and oil, dark imitations of creatures she saw consumed. Their description matches no spren I can find in modern literature.

–From Hessi's Mythica, page 252[7]

Notes[]

Brandon has confirmed that the Unmade are Splinters of Odium.[8] 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.[9]

References[]

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