Navani Kholin

Navani Kholin
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House Kholin Cónyuge Gavilar (deceased), Dalinar Hijos Jasnah, Elhokar
Nacido en	1113-1123
Oficio	Artifabriano
Residencia	Urithiru
Nacionalidad	de Alezkar
Mundo natal	Roshar

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Navani Kholin (Alethi pronunciation: [nəˈva·ni koˈlɪn] ne-VAH-nee ko-LIN) is is a Brightlady of Alethkar on Roshar. She is the widow of Gavilar Kholin and the mother of Jasnah and Elhokar, the current king of Alethkar. She was the sister-in-law to Dalinar Kholin and aunt to Adolin and Renarin Kholin until she was married to Dalinar. She is also a renowned scholar and artifabrian.

Appearance and Personality

Navani is described as a stately woman, in some ways the picture of a perfect Vorin woman: lush lips, light violet eyes, silvering black hair in perfect braids, curves accentuated by the tight silk havah. She is described as having a warm, feminine voice. Dalinar notes that she carries a sweet, floral scent. Navani often paints her lips red and wears a red dress with rubies in her hair. Like her daughter, she is known as one of the most beautiful women in Alethkar.

• Images of Navani
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  Portrait sketch by User: Sheep

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  in Vorin havah with fabrial by User: Sheep

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  demonstrating fabrial by User: Sheep

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  with Ardent and fabrial by User: Sheep

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  in Vorin havah by User: Sheep

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  with Dalinar Kholin during a highstorm by User: Sheep

As the dowager queen, Navani often challenges Alethi protocol. She is known for her ability to learn everything of significance through gossip, no matter where she travels. She is not overly judgmental, but is not above pointing out the obvious. She is known for her confidence, to the point that she is not afraid to match words with Wit. She believes in being blunt, especially when working with scholars. Despite this, Navani is also known for her discretion. A scholar at heart, she keeps exacting notes and is well organized.

Having lived much of her life as a queen, Navani is a creature of politics. She is deftly able to navigate the Alethi political sphere when she chooses to. However, as she has grown older, Navani has become disillusioned with politics and has begun to chafe at the traditional place for a brightlady. As the dowager queen, she believes that no one cares about her actions and would pass off any extreme actions as eccentricity.

Despite her talent at politics, Navani's true love is found in her scholarly pursuits. It is part of her belief that a brightlady should have a variety of hobbies. She is a renowned scholar, specializing in the development of new fabrials. She pursues her passion with enthusiasm and little to no guile. In addition, she is fond of simple simple solutions.

Navani believes that soul of art is creation. Creation brings order to an blank slate or empty canvas and becomes art. She uses that belief to fuel her scholarly pursuits. She also likes warcamps because they are not messy like cities; and because military men and women valued order and rationality.

History

Background

Navani is the widow of the recently deceased Alethi King, Gavilar Kholin. Prior to their marriage, Navani wavered between choosing Gavilar and his younger brother, Dalinar. Ultimately, she chose the future king. With him, she had two children, a daughter, Jasnah and a son, Elhokar. After Gavilar's death at the hands of Szeth, Navani was left without a defined position in Alethi society as her son assumed the throne.

Initially, she stayed in Kholinar to aid Elhokar's wife, Aesudan, in ruling the kingdom as much of Alethi society moved to the Shattered Plains to fight the Parshendi responsible for Gavilar's death. After some years, she moved to the Shattered Plains after realizing that the seat of power had essentially transferred to there.

Returning to the Shattered Plains

Navani's return to the Plains from Alethkar is three-fold: she brought word that the Vedens had perfected the half-shards, she wishes her son to be protected, and she needs to speak with Dalinar. She also realized that leaving the Plains had been a political mistake because the warcamps became the true center of their kingdom. While in Kholinar, she determined that that Aesudan was sufficiently endowed with the requisite skills needed to hold the city. (The very argument that had originally convinced Navani to return to Kholinar was that the Alethi absence from their homeland was dangerous.)

Later she confesses to Dalinar that the real reason of her return is the feeling of not having a home. Expected to sit out of important events because her husband is dead. Lounge around, pampered but ignored. She made them uncomfortable.

Recording Dalinar's visions

Because Navani is so exacting in her words and thoughts, Dalinar chooses her to record his visions. She scribes expertly, picking out details from him, knowing when to prod him for more. She is business-like and careful. She records his visions without complaint.

Navani uses Corvana's Analectics to translate the "babble" from Dalinar's vision with Nohadon. She discovers that the phrase that is in the Analectics is one in the same with the "babble". She says it's a line from a song, a chant by the Vanrial, written in the Dawnchant by the Heralds. Listening to Dalinar's visions, she thinks what he was saying had too much order to be gibberish.

Navani relates the Myth of Parasaphi and Nadris to Dalinar in effort to afford some insight into the Desolations, with regard to his vision with Nohadon, relevant to the Voidbringers, mankind on Roshar, Damnation, the Heralds, the Tranquiline Halls, and the Knights Radiant.

Before publishing the visions, 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.

She believes the visions are a blessing because they prove that Dalinar isn't going mad. After recording several of his visions Dalinar and Navani learn to really trust each other and confess their feelings. Navani is clear that she would not stop for tradition as their union is not forbidden.

Re-uniting the Alethi Princedom

Navani helped Dalinar build their first plan for unification and strength of the crown. They decided to attack on different fronts, economical (changes to the manner of collection and distribution of gemhearts on the Shattered Plains), fear (Adolin would duel to earn shardblades) and political (Dalinar and Navani would try to persuade the benefits of a unified Alethkar). It is clear she suggested having allies that would unite based on loyalty and not fear.

Later on, with the help of the gliphs and visions, they tried to make peace with the Parshendi by meeting with Eshonai. Navani was part of the strategy which sent Adolin instead of his father for this task; she was also writing the script for Adolin sending it via Spanreed to their scribe Inadara, who accompanied and translated to him.

Regardless of the war and internal Alethi plotting; Navani never stopped her research on fabrials. She looked to make warcamps more sustainable (trying to build water pumps) or changing war (moving plates) or even working on shardblades (finding the gemstones on them are not part of the original piece).

There faced a stepback as the publishing of the visions were changed from the way she had written them. The tone was changed to imply mockery; though Navani was furious with the outcome (his image would be strongly damaged), Dalinar took it better saying he would not hide from the truth.

Shortly after that, upon Shallan’s return from the chasm with a very detailed drawing of the shatter planes, they all go in search for the Oathgate to Urithiru and to make, what they hoped would be, the final strike towards the parshendi.

Battle of Narak

On the way to battle, Navani became close to Shallan and her work. Confirming she would not take the project from her, but would participate and get her scholars to work for her as well. Once Navani commits to leading the research team studying Jasnah's collected research, Shallan reveals to her that Jasnah's Soulcaster was a fake; that her daughter could Soulcast on her own, without any fabrial, and that she'd seen her do it. Shallan then tells Navani that her daughter was a Knight Radiant.

A couple of days before the battle itself, she was part of the questioning done to Rlain when he came back to Bridge Four to support their cause. She was the one to transcribe all he had said.

During the battle itself, Navani had sent fabrials to bathe the battlefield in an extraordinarily even white light. Next she asked for the "Attractors" and water quickly started to pool around the thing. The fabrial 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.

At the same time, her scholars led by Inadara, were key in helping Shallan find, reach and open the gate.

Uniting Roshar

Once at Urithiru, she continues to transcribe the visions in much more detail now that Dalinar could replay them at will. After Odium manifests on one vision, he decides the next action is unite all of Roshar and asks Navani to help him. He believes that his tenacity and her brilliance together, will convince the other kingdoms to join with them.

She and Dalinar get married through the Stormfather who is happy to encourage any types of oaths.

While working with Dalinar on plans to bring the kingdoms together, she continues to write her memoirs, work on large-scale civic project at Urithiru including swage, and research/development of several types of fabrials like pain or time- related ones.

The unification of Roshar did not go as they expected. Only Taravangian from Kharbranth answered back with support. Navani was the main political voice talking to each leader.

When Dalinar found out that he could bring people into his visions, Navani, along with Jasnah were the first ones to go in. They arrived at the Aharietiam. The Last Desolation. In the beginning Navani was mostly wondering of the place, how real it looked and even bullied a radiant to show him his fabrial. Later however, when they started to see more about that day, she started asking about the Parshmen and later the honorblades. The Stormfather finally confided in them the truth about that day and how the Heralds decided not to go back and stop the desolations, at least for a time. In future visits, she was decided to find the Feverstone Keep and what happened at the Recreance.

Navani led also the research of Urithiru itself and found the patters on the gemstones, which opened the code for understanding recorded phrases of the last Radiants who lived at Urithiru.

Eventually, after playing different cards like setting leaders/key people into visions, writhing essays, , or helping Queen Fen with the wounded and reconstructions; Dalinar and Navani were able to get several of the Kings in Roshar to agree on meeting and fighting together. Unfortunately, by the time they arrived, Dalinar was fragile with the return of most of his memories and the fall of Kholinar. Navani had to deal with them with some help from Taravangian.

On the day of the first meeting of monarchs at Urithiru, Navani made each person—no matter how important—carry their own chair. The old Alethi tradition symbolized each chief bringing important wisdom to a gathering. She was able keep her mind clear enough from her worries of Elhokar to analyze the other Kings, their companions and the Highprinces. Ialai Sadeas notably ignored the chair request.

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 and half-shards, and war. Navani was able to get them to agree by listening what each Kingdom wanted and giving each tasks and what they wanted. She complimented the Azish´s laws and were given the task to create codes of how our kingdoms are to interact, and how we’re to share resources. Thaylen was given oversee trade and supplies. The Alethi would help the Emuli at securing the remaining territory, but not more. Then, the moved to decide where would they strike next, they decided it would be Jah Keved and support from other kingdom came. Navani had done it.

By the time Dalinar was well enough to join a meeting, he figured out the target would be Thaylen 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 them together and the coalition broke.

Battle of Thaylen Field and aftermath

Thought he coalition broke, Thaylen accepted the Alethi help to support the possible invation from Odium and his forces.

Attributes and Abilities

Navani is a renowned artifibrian. She engineers the creation of fabrials that her team of artisan ardents create through fabrial science. She lead the research to develop the Grandbows. She also had a hand in the construction of a new painrial, and of it, she's particularly proud, though it's only an early model. She thinks it has a lot of potential. Many of her inventions, such as the painrial, are used in the war against the Parshendi, making her incredibly valuable to the Alethi.

The more she understands the secrets of technology and the power of spren locked within the Polestones, closer she grows to finding what she seeks: things she can do to protect her family, like creating Shardplate.

Navani creates a platform with fabrial science that defies gravity. Her goal in so doing is to deliver one such to the Shattered Plains to elevate archers above the battlefield for a tactical advantage. Her position is patron to the ardents who make the diagrams and figures and engineer the fabrials.

Navani and her crew of ardents make a breakthrough with Shardblades in realizing that the gemstones in the Blades - used to 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 Radiants didn't need to do.

After accepting Shallan within her fold, Navani decides to lead the research team studying the quotes with which Shallan has provided her from Jasnah's research regarding the Oathgate, Knights Radiant, and Urithiru. Navani co-opts Dalinar's scribes and cartographers to locate the Oathgate, but he accuses Shallan of doing so. She, in turn, states that she was really just there when Navani changed her mind.

Navani cannot set up fabrials remotely; she needs to be on-site. Her fabrials are needed to bathe the battlefield in an extraordinarily even white light. She causes pavilions to be erected to protect soldiers from the elements..

In Urithiru, Navani discovers a fabrial lift. She speaks of counterweights and conjoined gemstones, sounding awed by the technology of the ancients.

She tells Dalinar of new fabrial invention called an attractor. She remains half afraid that this contraption, filtered with a large glowing garnet suspended within a delicate wire lacework fabrial, will suck the blood out of anyone who touches it. The fabrial pulls moisture from the air , clearing the battlefield of some precipitation and making it possible for archers to better let their arrows fly into the Parshendi ranks, drawing their attention from the beleaguered men on the field.

Once in Urithiru, Navani discovers a fabrial lift. She speaks of counterweights and conjoined gemstones, sounding awed by the technology of the ancients,

Relationships

Gavilar

During the Unification of Alethkar, Navani was a good partner to Gavilar. Helping him with the strategy and creating/executing plots that would help their cause. Ever since those years, Navani already showed passion for spren and fabrial research. Gavilar was not interested though; she’d spoken with such passion and excitement, and Gavilar had ignored her.

“ 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. ”

— Extract from Navani on her book.

They may have been close at one time, but she implied that they grew apart in the time leading up to his death.

Dalinar

Navani and Dalinar were friends before he introduced her to Gavilar. At that point it seems they were both interested in her. Navani chose Gavilar over Dalinar because she found Dalinar to be frightening.

When Navani returns to the Shattered Plains from Kholinar, she frequently speaks with Dalinar, and later becomes romantically involved with him, which is unusual, because in the eyes of Alethi society, she is now considered to be Dalinar's sister. Part of what Navani finds intriguing about him is that he's begun to be the person the others all claim to be. She now finds Dalinar's intensity, which frightened her when they both were younger, to be fascinating because he's now wrapped it in armor.

Navani believes Dalinar to be a kind man. Telling him so, she admits that she's taking advantage of him - a little; she's not toying with him. She also believes him to be a dear, but thinks he can be a touch overprotective.

Navani never mocks Dalinar, never acts skeptical of that which he reveals in his visions.

When she learns of his "death" at the battle of the Tower, upon receipt of the news of Sadeas's betrayal, Navani endeavors to paint a prayer in glyph format upon the stones of the Plains; She creates a wish out of despair, a plea out of anguish: Thath: Justice.

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.

He believes he loves her the most for being open and genuine in a society that prided itself on secrets. She’d been breaking taboos, and hearts, since their youth.

Dalinar confided in Navani all he remembered of her visit to the Nightwatcher, she was very supportive. When he started to get his memories back she researched to try to understand why that was happening; but in more than 300 cases all effects lasted till death. {{book ref|sa3|24}

Jasnah

Jasnah believes her mother to have a tendency toward the overwhelming. She does not let her mother 'mother' her. Navani knows that Jasnah wouldn't let her 'mother' her; that once she'd reached adolescence, Jasnah no longer needed a mother. She would try to get close to her daughter, and there was a coldness, like even being near her mother reminded Jasnah that she had once been a child. She wonders what happened to her little girl, so full of questions.

Navani knows Jasnah better that anyone else, but wishes she had some sense to go with her intelligence.

With Jasnah's loss, Navani considers this to be her first time mourning. This is telling to Dalinar regarding the difficulties between she and Gavilar before his brother's assassination.

The epigraph for WoR Ch.8 is telling of just how deeply Navani feels the loss of her daughter. Still, Navani believes that Jasnah never did have the decency to be wrong an appropriate amount of the time. She also realizes that, persuant to Shallan's connection with Jasnah and her daughter's knowledge, that she shouldn't have ignored Shallan. That it was petty, avowing that scholars don't have time for such nonsense.

During their time at Urithiru, they worked closely both in research and politics. Jasnah would lecture her mother sometimes. Navani did find the research Jasnah did on Renarin, but did not take more out of it.

Shallan

To Shallan, Navani looks like a version of Jasnah twenty years older; still pretty, though with a motherly air. Navani doesn't take the news of her daughter's death well; she insisted, till Dalinar spoke, that Jasnah was still alive, but unconscious. She then admits that she's not herself at the moment, and that she strays toward the irrational.

Before meeting her, through Jasnah, Navani had offered to look into Shallan's soulcaster to try fix it. She was also very supportive on her engagement towards Adolin.

After learning of her daughter's death from Shallan, Navani refuses to see Shallan, or have anything to do with her. She even accused her of dooming her when she burned the ship with her "unconscious".

Their relationship changed dramatically after she returned from the Chasms. Upon her return, Navani became motherly and protective of her. She became one of her own.

Navani admits to Shallan that she's been ignoring things, things that she should not, because they bring her pain. Shallan apologizes to her, but Navani insists that Shallan has nothing to apologize for. Navani finds Shallan's organization of her notes on Jasnah's findings interesting. Navani acknowledges to Shallan that she thinks like an artist, that she can see it in the way Shallan put her notes together.

Adolin

Navani and Adolin are very close. He is very polite with asking questions on her fabrials, though he is bored by the scholarship, he usually enjoys the military use he can use for them.

She burned prayers for him when dueling and made fun of his superstitious rituals before the duel. She also persuaded Adolin to, at least consider, and engagement with Shallan.

At first, Adolin was not very happy with the relationship between his father and Navani, mostly because it would place his father in an inconvenient position when it came to enforcing the codes.. But later is supportive, at the wedding the whoops and ran over, trailing joyspren.

On the other hand, Navani never stop supporting the relationship between Adolin and Shallan, even when she was cold to her.

See Also

• Navani's notebook
• Navani's journal

Notes

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