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|spouse=[[Gavilar]] (
|children=[[Jasnah]], [[Elhokar]]
|descendants=[[Gavinor]]
|born=c. {{Rosharan date|1120|missing-date=y}}{{book ref|sa1|22}}{{wob ref|10572}}
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|ethnicity=Alethi
|nation=Alethkar
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'''Navani Kholin'''
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{{quote
|Order from chaos. Find the structure here and start building upon it.
|Navani{{book ref|sa3|96}}
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{{image|Navani by Elisgardor.jpg|side=right|width=300px|Navani
{{quote
|She always claimed that she wasn't a scholar, but a patron of scholars. (...) Anyone who saw the light in her eyes as she took out another sheet and sketched her idea further knew she was being too modest.
|[[Dalinar]]{{book ref|sa3|50}}
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Navani
Navani is quick to discount her own scholarly abilities but is actually a brilliant systems engineer. She doesn't tend to delve deep into any single component but leads teams of scientists and engineers in multi-disciplinary projects that produce profound results.
Navani
Navani and her crew of ardents made a breakthrough with Shardblades in realizing that the gemstones in the Blades - used to [[Nahel bond|bond]] them - might not have originally been part of the weapons. If true, it means the Blades aren't powered by the stones. [[Rushu]] had asked why a Shardblade can be summoned and dismissed even if its gemstone has gone dun. If true, artifabrians are back to knowing absolutely nothing about how Shardblades were crafted. It seems the gemstone's purpose is ''only'' used in initially bonding the Blade - something the [[Knights Radiant|Radiants]] didn't need to do.{{book ref|sa2|67}}
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=== Recording Dalinar's visions ===
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She had kept the secret and was very reliable, however they eventually decide to publish them. Before doing so, she removed the lines where he mentioned sensitive issues, such as the Almighty’s death. She’d also search for historical references to match his descriptions. Navani liked things neat and quantified. She’d prepared a timeline of all of his visions, trying to piece them into a single narrative.{{book ref|sa2|4}}
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Navani
Regardless of the war and internal Alethi plotting; Navani never stopped her research on fabrials. Among other works, she looked to make warcamps more sustainable (trying to build water pumps), creating possible weapons (moving plates) and even working on history (finding the gemstones on Shardblades are not part of the original piece).{{book ref|sa2|67}}
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During the battle itself, Navani fought with fabrials leading her scholars to use them in battle. She helped the Alethi to see during the night as one of her fabrials bathed the battlefield in an extraordinarily even white light.{{book ref|sa2|82}} Next she asked for the "Attractors" to clear the rain for the arrows. Water quickly started to pool around the fabrial. It was pulling moisture from the air. Roion’s archers were able to hit the Parshendi and make an immediate difference which was enough to save part of his army.{{book ref|sa2|82}}
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She welcomed everyone and started with an inspirational speech of making history and uniting for a cause. The meeting however went out of control very fast as each kingdom started making requests on territory, trade, half-shards, and war. Navani was able to get them to agree by listening what each Kingdom did best and giving them tasks that were in line with that. She complimented the Azish´s laws and were given the task to create codes of how kingdoms are to interact and share resources. Thaylenah was asked to oversee trade and supplies. The Alethi would help the Emuli at securing the remaining territory, but not more. Then, they moved to guessing where they would be attacked next, they decided it would be Jah Keved and support from other kingdom came. Navani had done it.{{book ref|sa3|96}}
When Dalinar was recovering and well enough to join a meeting, he figured out the target would be Thaylenah and not Jah Keved. This meeting however, was abruptly ended by Taravangian’s treason, who leaked several of Dalinar’s secrets in a targeted way which caused distrust. They were not able to hold the coalition together.{{book ref|sa3|111}}
=== Battle of Thaylen Field and aftermath ===
Navani, Fen
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{{image|Navani and Gavinor by Elisgardor.jpg|side=left|height=300px|Holding [[Gavinor]]}}
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She went over some strange barometric and temperature readings with her research team. Strangely enough, the temperature and pressure rose in front of a storm. Navani theorized that Urthiru's elevation could be affecting the readings, then advised them to dedicate further observation to the matter. She also gave Gavilar's strange sphere to the engineers [[Talnah]] and [[Nem]] for further study.
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{{quote
|As always, questions teased her. Questions were disorder awaiting organization. The more you understood, the more the world aligned. The more the chaos made sense, as all things should.{{book ref|sa4|76}}
|Navani
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At a meeting of the coalition of monarchs, Navani encountered [[Taravangian]]. She coldly criticized his takeover of Jah Keved. Taravangian asserted that both Gavilar and Dalinar had committed worse crimes. When the meeting began, she expected Taravangian to oppose the proposal for an Emuli offensive. However, Taravangian agreed, much to everyone's surprise. The coalition made significant progress in organizing their forces to prepare for Emul, as well as designating people to lead an envoy to the honorspren. Despite this, Navani felt uneasy at Taravangian's swift agreement to the proposal.{{book ref|sa4|19}}
Later, in private, she eventually voiced her concerns to Dalinar about Taravangian. Dalinar told her that he had similar worries, likening Taravangian's betrayal to Sadeas's treachery on the Shattered Plains. He insisted that Navani stay at Urithiru in case something went awry in Emul. Navani promised that she would.{{book ref|sa4|19}}
{{image|Navani and Raboniel by Esther Schrader.jpg|side=right|width=300px|
▲==== Juicios de la Torre ====
During the departure of the coalition's forces, Navani bade Dalinar goodbye as she warned him about Taravangian's potential schemes. Thought it troubled her that Dalinar wanted to take Gavinor to the front lines in Emul, she permitted him to do so, since Dalinar argued that he wanted to be more involved with their grandson. She asked Jasnah to watch over Dalinar on the battlefield and keep him out of the fighting.{{book ref|sa4|27}}
▲{{image|Navani and Raboniel by Esther Schrader.jpg|side=right|width=300px|Trabajando con [[Rabeniel]]}}
With the help of [[Sebarial]] and [[Anesa]], she began coordinating the day-to-day running of Urithiru in Dalinar's absence. She checked on a team of Radiants and engineers, who were studying a crack in the wall that her scribes found. Falilar told her that the crack concealed a hidden room, which contained a scale model of Urithiru. As Navani was leaving the room, her scribe [[Isabi]] brought her a blinking spanreed. Navani immediately dropped her current task to answer the mysterious person's request.{{book ref|sa4|27}}
Navani's scribes set up her spanreed. The engineers rigged a system that would allow them to determine the location of the person on the spanreed's opposite end. After a terse back-and-forth conversation over spanreed, Navani ordered her team to move her and the spanreed to a different place. She contacted the person again, and she and [[Kalami]] deduced that the person must be a spren. Falilar noted that he could tell the spren was writing from inside the tower. Spontaneously, Navani decided to break her spanreed to see if she could lure out the spren in the future.{{book ref|sa4|28}}
Despite her destruction of the spanreed, Navani's team was no closer to pinpointing the spren. She remained preoccupied while running Urithiru and working with her scholars. Tomor showed her his new design for the lifting fabrial, which Navani wore and tested. She suggested that Tomor refine the controls to enable more precise descent and ascent.{{book ref|sa4|37}}
Following her conversation with Tomor, her guards brought [[Dabbid]] forwards, since they found him hiding a spanreed ruby at her workstation. Navani tried to interrogate him, but to no avail. Though Navani didn't recognize Dabbid, her soldiers told her that he was a servant for the Windrunners. As they took Dabbid to Navani's audience chamber, Navani noticed that Isabi was receiving a spanreed message.{{book ref|sa4|37}}
The message relayed news of an explosion, which had killed Talnah and Nem and destroyed scholarly equipment. When she arrived at the scene, Navani surveyed the damage, then ordered Rushu to secure the area.{{book ref|sa4|38}} She returned to her audience chamber to interrogate a number of Radiants stationed at Urithiru. [[Red (Roshar)|Red]], one of the Lightweavers, told her about Dabbid and his disability. Navani ordered her scribes to set up a spanreed with the ruby that Dabbid had delivered. The spanreed began to write frantically about the singers that had infiltrated Urithiru. It stated that it was the Sibling, the spren of the tower.{{book ref|sa4|39}}
=== The Singer Invasion ===
As Red and the other Radiants began to collapse, Navani tried to reestablish contact with the Sibling. She asked her soldiers to run messages to the nearby garrisons, since the spanreeds stopped functioning. While ordering her scribes to move to the map room, she learned from Dabbid that the Sibling spoke to him through veins of crystal in the tower walls.{{book ref|sa4|39}}
In the map room, Navani found Kholin forces gathered around a map of the tower. The officers reported that every Radiant in the tower was unconscious, with singers invading from the lowest and highest levels of the tower. Navani told them that their best hope was fighting their way to the pillar room in the basement. On her orders, Battalionlord [[Teofil]] mobilized his soldiers and sent them to the lower floors. As he began relaying Navani's commands to the soldiers, Navani found a vein of crystal in the wall. She spoke directly to the Sibling, who reported that [[Raboniel]] had corrupted the tower's defenses. Though the Sibling expressed their distaste for Navani and her experiments, they told her how to activate a final line of defense against the singers.{{book ref|sa4|40}}
Navani's contingent made their way down to the pillar room, using a fake rout and an ambush to lure away the Fused.{{book ref|sa4|41}} Accompanied by her attendants, she made her way to the bottom floors of Urithiru. Dabbid helped her find a vein of crystal that the Sibling could send messages through. The Sibling ordered Navani to infuse the topaz connected to the crystal vein. With the help of two Thaylen scholars, [[Vrandl]] and [[Ulvlk]], she used a tuning fork and strategic vibrations to siphon stormlight into the uninfused topaz. The infused topaz opened a hidden chamber with another large gemstone.{{book ref|sa4|42}}
With her team's help, Navani began siphoning stormlight into the second gemstone. She communicated with the Sibling, who reported that Teofil and his men had fallen to the Fused. The fully infused gemstone activated a shield around the gemstone pillar that formed the Sibling's heart. Navani then surrendered to the singers and negotiated the terms with Raboniel. Though Raboniel offered to hire her as a research assistant, Navani said she would deliberate it with her scholars first.{{book ref|sa4|43}}
{{image|Navani by Charneco.jpg|side=right|width=300px|Journey before destination, you bastard}}
On the first day of the occupation, Navani told Raboniel that she and her scholars would accept their offer. Pleased, Raboniel asked Navani to sketch the schematics of Fourth Bridge's flying platform. While sketching, Navani realized with help from Raboniel that Soulcasters, the tower's elevators, and other abnormal fabrials were comprised directly of spren, instead of powered by spren trapped in gemstones.{{book ref|sa4|46}}
▲=== Ocupación de Urithiru ===
Under the watchful eye of singer guards, Navani directed her scholars to occupy themselves with busy work and revisions as a stalling tactic. When Raboniel cut her off from direct contact with her scholars, she instructed them to continue researching Voidlight fabrials and sent them nonsense ciphered messages to occupy Raboniel's spies. She continued to communicate with the Sibling, using the Sibling's awareness of the tower to get information on Raboniel and deciding that her most important goal was to protect the Sibling. They were distrustful of her, both because of her use of fabrials and her human ability to twist words convincingly, but helped her contact Kaladin, updating him on their situation.{{book ref|sa4|49}} However, this method of communication was turned against her when she convinced the Sibling to give her the location of the node in the well, only to discover that Raboniel had been listening in on their conversations. Kaladin managed to destroy the node, but the Sibling felt betrayed and refused to talk to Navani for a while. Raboniel brought her food and wine, and they had a conversation about the history of the conflict between humans and singers and Raboniel's desire to end the war at any cost.
When Navani mentioned no longer wishing to do research under Raboniel, Raboniel appealed to her curiosity and convinced her to continue. They began collaborating, and Navani came to a realization about how using Honor's, Odium's, and Cultivation's rhythms could affect the Light. Raboniel taught her Honor's rhythm, and with Raboniel singing Odium's rhythm at the same time as Navani sang Honor's, they were able to create Warlight, the combination of Stormlight and Voidlight, for the first time, as well as a rhythm that Raboniel titled the Rhythm of War. Navani then realized Raboniel's true desire for the experiments - to find anti-Light - and knew that Gavilar's strange sphere was an example of this anti-Light, although she did not reveal that.{{book ref|sa4|76}} As a thank you for the breakthrough of the production of Warlight Rabionel had two singer musicians play the tones of Honor and Odium on plates temporarily affixed to Navani's desk she also granted Navani the title "Voice of Lights". Afterward, Rabionel seemingly ended their collaboration stating that she needed to focus on finishing the corruption of the Sibling. Rabionel also gave Navani free reign to continue experiments on her own and provided any resource requested.
With Rabionel distancing herself to focus on defeating the Sibling's shield Navani toils for days on the concept of anti-Voidlight. Utilizing the same plates that Rabionel rewarded her for she begins to conceptualize sound waves and the patterns that the distinct lights create. Further delving into music theory she theorizes that the anti-Voidlight rhythm would sound identical to the ear as the regular Voidlight rhythm. Eventually she is successful at creating a plate that produces the correct rhythm. Rabionel returns and upon realizing what Navani is working on forces her to reveal her research. The two are then successful at creating an anti-Voidlight gem utilizing a vacuum tube to isolate the light from the Rhythms of Roshar. Rabionel, understanding the implications of the breakthrough betrays Navani once again and begins to manufacture anti-Stormlight with the intention of killing the incapacitated Radiants along with their spren.
A day later she is visited by Moash, who has every intention of killing her but is redirected by Raboniel who sends him to deal with Kaladin first. Navani, left to her own devices once again, finds the dagger Raboniel used to kill her daughter with, some anti-Voidlight still left in its gem. She plans and prepares fabrial traps, and is able to get the jump on Raboniel, gravely injuring her with the anti-Voidlight dagger, but fails to kill her on the spot. This failure proves fortuitous because when Moash comes back for Navani, Raboniel is able to hold him off just long enough for Navani to negotiate a bond with the Sibling. A freshly bonded Bondsmith, Navani drives Moash away, restores and Tower, and sends the invaders running for their lives.
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=== Gavilar ===
{{quote
|My husband was an excellent king -- an inspiring leader, an unparalleled duelist, and a genius of battlefield tactics. But he didn't have a single scholarly finger on his left hand. He never showed an interest in the accounting of highstorms, was bored by talk of science, and ignored fabrials unless they had an obvious use in battle. He was a man built after the classical masculine ideal.
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=== Dalinar ===
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After he came back, he decided not to keep the relationship a secret, and they became a couple; not only personally but as leaders of the war and kingdom. She had a way with him, translating scholarship into battle tactics, that helped them understand each other. She also made sure he did not hate the other Alethi princes, but to see them as his people.{{book ref|sa1|67}} Their wedding ceremony was carried out by the Stormfather.{{book ref|sa3|4}}
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=== Jasnah ===
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=== Elhokar ===
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=== Shallan ===
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=== Adolin ===
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{{image|Raboniel and Navani by Viridializard.jpeg|side=right|width=250px}}
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Navani agrees, when pressured, to work under Raboniel and research the different types of Light. She calls Raboniel Ancient One as directed when they first meet, and although she does not trust her, shares her findings in the name of scientific discovery. She is interested in the scientific and historical insights Raboniel has to offer, but understands that they are enemies. However, this distinction becomes more difficult for her to remember as their relationship progresses and they spend more time together. Navani gains a deeper understanding of Raboniel's motivations and emotions, especially when she sees Raboniel grieve over [[Essu]], and even begins to recognize her rhythms.
Navani attempts to kill Raboniel, but it is a very difficult decision for her. When she ends up killing Raboniel out of mercy, she comforts her by humming the Rhythm of War one final time and holding her hand. Navani genuinely mourns Raboniel after her death.
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{{quote
|You two are a pair of nails in the same doorframe. Stern, hard, and storming annoying to pull free.
|Navani
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{{quote
|You loathe their excess, and you are close to applying that emotion to them as well. They live the lives they have known, the lives that society has taught them are proper. You won’t change them with contempt. You aren’t Wit; it isn’t your job to scorn them. Your job is to enfold them, encourage them. Lead them, Dalinar.
|Navani
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|Journey before destination, you bastard!
|Navani
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