culture · THAY-len
Thaylen
Thaylens · people of Thaylenah
Thaylen merchant culture: apprentices serve a babsk, houses live on trade, and a shrewd bargain is a point of pride. Eyebrows are waxed into shape.
Eyebrows, a babsk, and a bargain.
- Role
- A trading people whose houses send masters and apprentices across Roshar.
- Home
- Thaylenah
- First introduced
- Book 1 — End of The Way of Kings
- Most recently in view
- Book 1 — End of The Way of Kings
Look
Long white eyebrows waxed into shape — a Thaylen signature as deliberate as a havah's sleeve. Tanned skin, merchant vests and skirts, the look of people who live on ships and roads.
As observed
Mercantile and formal about trade. A babsk is owed respect; a deal is a craft. Courtesy is part of the sale.
Where
Thaylenah at home; Thaylen caravans as far as Shinovar.
