Character from Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
Babilar's invisible god — a comatose Epic whose powers feed an entire city, light its streets, and communicate through fortune cookies grown on vines.
Dawnslight is the reason Babilar works. His powers — unconscious, constant, impossibly versatile — provide everything: fruit plants that grow inside buildings (feeding the population), spraypaint that glows with fluorescent light (illuminating the flooded streets), radios that work without batteries, warm floodwaters, and structural roots that keep buildings from collapsing. He communicates through fortune cookies grown on vines. The messages are cryptic, childlike, sometimes helpful. His mind seems to have the emotional development of the child he was when he fell into the coma. He's the series' gentlest Epic — an entity whose powers do nothing but sustain and nurture. Regalia keeps him maintained but controlled. The residents of Babilar worship him without knowing what he looks like. He is proof, before Megan's discovery, that Epic powers can do good — even if the person wielding them doesn't know they're doing it.
A man in his thirties or forties, lying in a coma in a hospital-like room deep within Babilar. His body is unremarkable. His mind — or whatever drives his powers — has been active since he fell comatose as a child. He has never woken up. He has never needed to.
Also known as: Dawnslight