Navani Kholin
| Navani Kholin | |||||||
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| Born | ca. 1113-1123[1] | ||||||
| Profession | Artifabrian | ||||||
| Nationality | Alethi | ||||||
| Homeworld | Roshar | ||||||
Navani Kholin is a Brightlady of Alethkar on Roshar.[1] She is King Gavilar Kholin's widow and the mother of Jasnah and King Elhokar.[2] She is also sister-in-law to Dalinar Kholin and aunt to Adolin and Renarin Kholin.[2]
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.[2] Her scent is that of the sweet floral of her perfumed soap.[3] Navani often wears rubies in her hair, a blood red dress, with her lips painted red.[4] 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.[1]
- Images of Navani
Portrait sketch by User: Sheep
in Vorin havah with fabrial by User: Sheep
demonstrating fabrial by User: Sheep
with Ardent and fabrial by User: Sheep
in Vorin havah by User: Sheep
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.[1] Much like her daughter, she is a political creature; intrigue makes her blossom like a rockbud in calm wet air.[1] She is loyal to her son.[1]
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.)[1] With Gavilar dead, Navani is to be treated as sister to Dalinar by him.[1] He refers to her as Mathana, the formal Alethi term for an older sister.[1]
She is also the mother of Jasnah, another renowned scholar, as well as the new king, Elhokar.[2]
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.[2] She later realized that the Alethi government had essentially moved to the Shattered Plains, and eventually did so too.[5]
Reasons for returning to the Shattered Plains
Navani's return to the Plains from Alethkar is three-fold: she brought word of the Veden half-shards, she wishes her son to be protected, and she needs to speak with Dalinar.[1]
Relationships
Gavilar
Dalinar
When Navani returns to the Shattered Plains from Kholinar, she frequently speaks with Dalinar, and later becomes romantically involved with him. This is unusual among the Alethi, as she was previously married to Dalinar's brother, Gavilar, and is now considered to be Dalinar's sister.[citation needed]
He put his honor in Navani's power by standing up for her.[citation needed]
Navani also discovers that the language which Dalinar speaks during his visions is possibly the Dawnchant, a dead language, which would prove that his visions are accurate and not the product of insanity.[6]
Jasnah
Elhokar
Kaladin
Shallan
Navani originally disliked Shallan for bringing the news of Jasnah's death - even though it was certainly not her fault - to her. Adolin her nephew remains betrothed to Shallan.
Attributes and Abilities
Navani Kholin is a renowned engineer, scholar and artifabrian and is heavily involved in the creation of new fabrials. She is one of the artifabrians who created the Grandbow[2] as well as a type of painrial[6]. Many of her inventions, such as the painrial, are used in the war against the Parshendi, making her incredibly valuable to the Alethi.
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