However, these personas begin to take over. For large portions of the book, Shallan forgets who she truly is. Her journey is not about “curing” her fragmentation but learning to accept that all three selves (the scared artist, the cunning spy, the noble knight) are valid pieces of a whole. This makes her third Ideal— “I will not hide from my truth” —incredibly poignant. She stops killing her personalities and starts integrating them.