Navani Kholin

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

Navani Kholin is a Brightlady of Alethkar on Roshar. She is widow to King Gavilar and the mother of Jasnah and King Elhokar. She was also sister-in-law to Dalinar Kholin (until Gavilar's assassination) and remains aunt to Adolin and Renarin Kholin. She is also a renowned scholar and artifabrian.

Appearance

Navani is a stately woman with intricately woven black hair. She has violet eyes and her black hair is streaked with grey. She has a warm, feminine voice and the confidence to verbally spar with Wit. Her scent is that of the sweet floral of her perfumed soap. Navani often wears rubies in her hair and a blood red dress, with her lips painted red. She is known as one of the most beautiful women in Alethkar. Dalinar believes there isn't a woman in all of Roshar to match her beauty.

• 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

Personality

Navani challenges Alethi protocol, but one does not reprove Navani Kholin, even if one is king. Give her five minutes in a city and she'd know anything and everything of significance about which was being gossiped. She doesn't presume to make judgements, but she does enjoy pointing out the obvious. Nevertheless, Navani is excellent at keeping secrets. Further, she is supremely exacting in her words and thoughts. (For this reason, Dalinar chooses her to record his visions.)

Character

Much like her daughter, she is a political creature; intrigue makes her blossom like a rockbud in calm wet air.

Navani is always her most genuine when playing with new fabrials. It's one of the few times when one gets to see her without any pretense.

The older Navani grows, the worse she becomes at maintaining a brightlady's proper tranquility. Once, she'd obeyed such proprieties. She remembers being a young woman, playing the games expertly, delighting in ways to manipulate the system. She often saw - and sees- patterns in things.

Sometimes, Navani thinks, working with scholars, one has to be a touch blunt.

Beliefs

As the dowager queen, Navani believes that nobody cares what in Damnation she does; that she could prance around completely nude, and they'd all just shake their heads and talk about how eccentric she is. She also believes that a lighteyed lady of rank has to have some hobbies. In addition, she believes that often the simplest answer to a thing is the right one.

Navani believes that art is about creation; that creation is its soul, its essence. Creation and order. One took something disorganized - a splash of ink, an empty page - and one built something from it. Something from nothing. The soul of creation. True creation.

History

Background

Navani is the widow of King Gavilar Kholin, who was Dalinar's brother. For many years prior to their marriage, it was uncertain just which of the two brothers she would marry. She played them off one another, fanning each their desires, before finally choosing the elder son. (They'd both known all along that she'd choose Gavilar. It had still hurt Dalinar anyway.) With Gavilar dead, Navani is to be treated as sister to Dalinar by him. He refers to her as Mathana, the formal Alethi term for an older sister. (She is only 3 months his senior, but the term is still applicable.)

Navani is also the mother of Jasnah, another renowned scholar, as well as the new king, Elhokar.

She'd remained in Alethkar for many years after most of the nobility had moved to the Shattered Plains, where she was to aid the queen in protecting the king's interests there, thereby fulfilling her duty to the people. She later realized that the Alethi government had essentially moved to the Shattered Plains, and eventually did so too.

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.)

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 Voindbringers, mankind on Roshar, Damnation, the Heralds, the Tranquiline Halls, and the Knights Radiant. She believes the visions are a blessing because they prove that Dalinar isn't going mad.

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 Plais 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

Navani chose Gavilar over Dalinar because Dalinar frightened her all those years ago. (Dalinar's intensity scared Gavilar too.)

Navani insists in her biography of Gavilar that he wasn't a scholar, but that he was an excellent king - an inspiring leader, an unparalleled duelist, and a genius of battle tactics.

Dalinar

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.

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.

Elhokar

Navani avows that her son can be impulsive.

Adolin

Navani insists that it wouldn't hurt Adolin to learn some glyphs.

Adolin shares with Shallan that his aunt Navani can be overbearing sometimes.

Navani is always worried when Adolin duels. She prefers to watch the duels from down below, in the preparation room.

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.

After learning of her daughter's death from Shallan, Navani refuses to see Shallan, or have anything to do with her. Adolin sees a thawing in her coldness as she seems more thoughtful than before regarding Shallan.

Navani eventually warms to Shallan and becomes protective of her. Shallan becomes one of Navani's 'clutch', no longer an outsider. While Navani's seemingly sudden affection is unexpected by Shallan, she accepts it. Shallan thinks Navani to be so good with her emotions that she can't read just what the woman is thinking.

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.

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.

Notes

See Also

• Navani's notebook
• Navani's journal

References

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