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== History ==
{{image|Young Jasnah and Navani by Audrey Hotte.jpg|side=right|width=200px|Navani holding young [[Jasnah]]}}
=== Unification of Alethkar and
Prior to her marriage to Gavilar Kholin, Navani wavered between choosing Gavilar and his younger brother, Dalinar. Ultimately, she chose the future king.{{book ref|sa1|22}} With him, she had two children, a daughter, Jasnah, and a son, Elhokar.{{book ref|sa1|12}}
During the unification of Alethkar, Navani and Ialai Sadeas huddled together at dinners; conspiring on how to stabilize the kingdom their husbands were trying to conquer.{{book ref|sa3|96}}. They were very close friends. Navani and Ialai were responsible for finding [[Dalinar]] a wife which would give them political advantage.{{book ref|sa3|19}}
On the night of Gavilar's assassination, Navani was organizing the preparations for the feast that celebrated the Alethi and Parshendi treaty. After speaking with [[Maratham]] about accommodations for the Parshendi and their drums, she encountered Aesudan and two ardents in the palace gardens. She recognized one of the ardents as Rushur Kris, an accomplished artifabrian. Though she tried to speak with Kris about his discoveries, Aesudan used Navani's presence to abruptly end the conversation. Navani then approached the palace steward, who told her that Gavilar was missing from the celebration. Despite her irritation with Gavilar, she dealt with the guests' concerns during the feast, all while making small talk to cover the king's absence.
She eventually excused herself to find Gavilar, whom she discovered in her study. He was speaking to [[Nale]] and [[Kalak]] there. Navani overheard parts of their conversation and glimpsed an array of violet-black spheres, which Gavilar had arranged on the table. After Gavilar dismissed Nale and Kalak,
Following the end of the feast, Navani was visited by a messenger girl, who brought her to the grief-stricken palace steward. The steward told Navani that the Parshendi had assassinated Gavilar. Although Navani didn't believe what happened, the truth sank in when she saw Gavilar's broken body. She
=== Aftermath of the Assassination ===
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.{{book ref|sa1|Prologue}}
War against the [[Parshendi]], who claimed responsibility for the assassination, started in retaliation for it. Much of Alethi society moved to the [[Shattered Plains]] to fight them.{{book ref|sa1|Prologue}} Initially, she stayed in Kholinar to aid Elhokar's wife, [[Aesudan Kholin|Aesudan]], in ruling the kingdom.{{book ref|sa1|12}} After some years, she moved to the Shattered Plains, realizing that the seat of power had essentially transferred there.{{book ref|sa2|67}}
{{image|Fervent Prayer by Antti Hakosaari.jpg|side=left|width=250px|Burning a [[glyphward]] during the [[Battle of the Tower]]}}
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