Character from The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
A deadeye cultivationspren killed in the Recreance — Adolin's Shardblade who is slowly being revived through his refusal to treat her as a mere weapon.
Maya does not speak — cannot speak — except for the one word she screamed at the trial in Lasting Integrity: her own name, MAYALARAN, a declaration of identity that shattered centuries of assumptions about deadeyes. She was killed during the Recreance when her Radiant broke their bond, severing her mind and leaving her a mindless shell that could be summoned as a Shardblade. Adolin treats her differently than any Shardbearer in history: he talks to her, practices with her in Shadesmar, apologizes when he dismisses her, and defended her personhood before a court of spren. Her slow awakening — responding to his voice, moving with purpose, eventually speaking — represents the possibility that the Recreance's greatest crime can be undone. She chose to defend humans at the trial, declaring that the Radiant spren were complicit in the bond-breaking.
As a Shardblade, manifests as a long silvery sword with a dead, scratched pattern along the blade — beautiful but visibly damaged. In Shadesmar, appears as a tall figure with branching features like a cultivationspren, but her eyes are scratched out — the mark of a deadeye spren. Her movements are shambling and disconnected, though she has begun to show moments of focused awareness. Faint traces of green occasionally flicker in her scratched eyes.
Also known as: Maya, Mayalaran