Tyn

Tyn
Tyn Fan art by sheep[1]
Biographical information
Ethnicity	Unknown
Nationality	Tu Baylan
Gender	Female
Died	1173 Ishanah
Physical Description
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Dark Brown
Social Information
Aliases	The Scout
Title(s)	Guard Captain, Assassin
Occupation	Con-artist, Ghostblood (associate)
Appears in	Words of Radiance

Tyn was foremost a con-artist and an associate of the Ghostbloods. Shallan meets Tyn, along with her caravan, on her way to the Shattered Plains. She helped Shallan prepare a "love scam" on Adolin Kholin, not knowing that Shallan is, in fact, already betrothed to him.

Appearance

Tyn was a lighteyed woman of medium height with a wiry build. Her hair is black and at least shoulder length.

Personality

Tyn was intent on her own interests ... always. She would've killed Shallan (without regret) given the opportunity.^{[citation needed]}

However, Tyn often chose to have someone like Shallan - an acolyte, someone to nurture - under her wing. Shallan suspected that was at least partly because Tyn liked having someone around to impress.

Tyn was insistent in that the life she lead required doing some harsh things.

History

Tyn was raised in Tu Bayla by parents who worked as interpreters.

Later, she was described by Macob as head of the guards for his caravan.

She suggested to Macob that in conveying Shallan to the Shattered Plains they could use her soldiers because her own force was reduced to a handful.

Later still, Tyn revealed to Shallan that she had a spanreed and a contact in Tashikk, who gathered what information he could on House Davar.

More recently, she was an associate of the Ghostbloods.

Notes

During a spanreed conversation, Tyn discovered that Shallan is, in fact, Jasnah Kholin's ward, while Shallan discovered at the same time that it was Tyn who sent assassins after Jasnah. Between them, a fight ensued and Shallan wound up killing Tyn with her Shardblade.*

*Readers debate whether this Shardblade was Testament or Pattern.