Editing User:Truthwatch3r/Sebarial

Sebarial gained his role as highprince sometime before [[Gavilar]] managed to unite and take the kingship of Alethkar, and he was noncommittal in his support. The day of Gavilar and Dalinar's battle against [[Kalanor]], Sebarial cited supply issues as the reason he hadn't shown up, but Dalinar knew him well enough to know he was just avoiding choosing a side in the war.{{book ref|sa3|26}} Years later, Sebarial attended Gavilar's funeral service and seemed to expect Dalinar, who was known for his drunkenness at the time, to make some kind of disruption.{{book ref|sa3|105}}

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After the Battle of Narak, Sebarial was one of the few survivors Dalinar felt he could fully trust. Because of this, Dalinar called him and [[Aladar]] to the site when Sadeas' body was discovered by members of [[Bridge Four]]. In the ensuing discussion, Dalinar named Sebarial [[Highprince of Commerce]], recognizing his savvy for managing economic matters.{{book ref|sa3|2}} Since the battle had decimated the Alethi troops, Sebarial gave most of his army to Dalinar to be integrated into the Kholin army and kept only a single division for himself.{{book ref|sa3|107}} He also attended Dalinar and [[Navani]]'s wedding.{{book ref|sa3|4}} Bridge Four later discovered the body of [[Vedekar Perel]], and because he was from Sebarial's army, Dalinar and Navani informed him of the murder and the investigation [[Adolin]] was to head.{{book ref|sa3|9}}

Sebarial offered Shallan a room with a balcony in his section of Urithiru, which she gratefully accepted, although she often skipped dining with him and Palona and she only had the most rudimentary furnishings.{{book ref|sa3|13}} He himself decorated his quarters extravagantly and hired the services of such people as musicians and masseuses.{{book ref|sa3|21}}{{book ref|sa3|32}} Sebarial operated his section much the same as his warcamp, keeping commerce flowing at all hours; in fact, in his position as Highprince of Commerce, he shrewdly understood the merchants' motivation behind their complaints at Navani's plans for an orderly market and tacitly approved the formation of the [[Breakaway]].{{book ref|sa3|18}} He also subsidized liquor sales with low taxes and supplied Dalinar with reports on the tower's commerce. Sebarial intended to return some of his labor force to the warcamps in anticipation of trade opportunities there, and he ended up taking control of the surrounding forest,{{book ref|sa3|21}}{{book ref|sa3|50}} although without [[parshmen]] he lacked the proper labor force to produce the needed amount of lumber.{{book ref|sa3|104}}

Navani organized a meeting of the monarchs at Urithiru, to which Sebarial and Palona were invited. They arrived at the last minute without chairs and immediately found the food table, where Sebarial stood for most of the meeting and inserted several sarcastic remarks into the conversation. Although he had already devised a plan for taxing the use of the [[Oathgate]]s,{{book ref|sa3|21}} Navani gave that responsibility over to Queen [[Fen]] instead of to him.{{book ref|sa3|96}}

=== Battle of Thaylen Field ===

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|Sebarial on Queen [[Jasnah]]{{book ref|sa3|122}}

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Navani and the highprinces successfully kept the tower running until Dalinar was well enough to fill his role again. Dalinar took a small group to [[Thaylen City]] to attend the ill-fated meeting of the coalition when [[Taravangian]] leaked information to each group aimed at undermining their trust in him;{{book ref|sa3|111}} during that time, Sebarial remained at Urithiru. He was at the tower when an invasion of Parshendi arrived with the intent of keeping the Alethi from sending reinforcements to the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]] through the Oathgate to Thaylen City, and he followed Aladar's lead in pulling troops up higher into Urithiru.{{book ref|sa3|120}}

After the battle was won, the coalition met again in Urithiru. While the Kholins discussed who would take over the rule of Alethkar, Sebarial pretended to sleep while Palona delighted herself in recent gossip. Sebarial was pleased that the Kholins chose Jasnah, taking pleasure in the others' looks of worry.{{book ref|sa3|122}}

[[Shallan Davar]] maneuvers Sebarial into hosting her when she arrives on the Shattered Plains, gambling that he would agree to take her in if he sees it as an opportunity to get one up on [[Dalinar]]. He claims a distant relation to her, and she begins calling him "Uncle Sebarial." She also specifies a large weekly stipend of three [[broam]]s, which Palona ensures that they pay.{{book ref|sa2|38}} Shallan cleans up Sebarial's ledgers for him and lures him with information on [[Urithiru]] in the event she needs to rely on him to get out onto the [[Shattered Plains]] herself.{{book ref|sa2|60}} She continues to ally herself with Sebarial while in Urithiru, although she gets involved in her own projects and doesn't do much more scribe work for him.{{book ref|sa3|21}}