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'''Lin Davar''' is a [[lighteyes|lighteye]]d [[Veden]] on [[Roshar]]. He is the head of [[House Davar]] and the father of [[Shallan]].
== Appearance and Personality ==
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Father’s yelling, at least.
|[[Shallan]] describing her father's rage{{book ref|sa2|39}}
He was first married to [[Shallan's mother]]. Together, the two of them had [[Helaran]], [[Balat]], [[Wikim]], [[Jushu]], and [[Shallan]]. When Shallan was eleven, he walked into his wife and her friend trying to kill Shallan for being a [[surgebinder]]. He managed to cut the friend, but eventually got pinned down as Shallan used her [[shardblade]] to kill both her mother and her mother's friend. In the panicked aftermath, Lin locked the shardblade into his strongbox, forgetting it would immediately disappear.{{book ref|sa2|88}} He picked up Shallan and comforted her by singing her a childhood lullaby and promising to protect her.{{book ref|sa2|10}} To keep his promise, Lin let everyone believe he'd killed his wife in order to protect Shallan, but the secret drove him to becoming violent and volatile.{{book ref|sa2|88}}
In the months after the murders, Lin tried to maintain control of his house with increasing difficulty. He tried to stop Helaran from leaving the house to join his [[Skybreakers|friends]], but Helaran held him off by summoning his own shardblade, the existence of which came as a shock to Lin. Lin tried to explain the circumstances around their mother's death, but Helaran refused to listen. Helaran threatened to kill Lin, but Shallan spoke up for the first time in five months, begging him not to. Lin was spared with a threat, and Helaran left Lin to remain in charge while he left. In a fit of rage, Lin smashed a table and chairs in rage.{{book ref|sa2|19}} Relations in the household became more strained over the next months. Screaming was a common occurrence. During Helaran's visits, the two men avoided each other. Lin also began hosting feasts more frequently.{{book ref|sa2|27}} The feasts he held disguised the truth of the Davar family finances. They were close to financial ruin.{{book ref|sa2|39}}
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He regularly beat his wife, his sons, an the servants in the house. The only person he never touched was Shallan, instead beating others in her name when he felt she deserved it. He sent an assassin after Helaran when he learned Helaran was near. Malise spoke out against the assassination and was badly beaten.{{book ref|sa2|61}} Feeling that he went too far, Balat, [[Eylita]], and Malise planned to run away and find Helaran for protection.{{book ref|sa2|65}} Lin beat Malise and got her to confess the plans to run away. He summoned Eylita to the house and killed Malise as punishment after Eylita arrived. Balat challenged him to a sword fight, but he managed to quickly batter Balat to the ground. He paused to drink some wine Shallan handed him, which she'd laced with [[blackbane]]. While he was distracted, Balat managed to hit him in the side. Though Lin was bleeding, the wound was not severe. The blackbane did not immediately take effect, so he had time to beat Balat with a fire poker and break his leg. He'd just turned towards Eylita when the drug paralyzed him. As the poison wore off and Lin began to awaken, Shallan used her necklace to strangle him, killing her father.{{book ref|sa2|73}} After his death, his children found that he owned a [[soulcaster]] and a collection of maps which they could not understand.{{book ref|sa1|8}}
He was somehow influenced by [[Odium]].{{wob ref|6201}}
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