Editing Ashravan

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|image=TES - Ashravan.jpg
|spouse=[[Kurshina]]
|titles=Emperor of the [[Rose Empire]]
|groups={{tag|Heritage Faction}}
|birthplace=Ukurgi
|ethnicity=Grand
|world=Sel
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|first appeared=[[The Emperor's Soul]]
}}
'''Ashravan''' of the Eighty Suns is the forty-ninth Emperor of the [[Rose Empire]] on [[Sel]] and a member of the [[Heritage Faction]].{{tes ref|2}} At the time of his injury he is forty years old.{{tes ref|2}}

== Appearance and Personality ==
Ashravan has a "strong face." He also has golden hair, a firm chin, and a prominent nose.{{tes ref|98}}

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TES - Ashravan.jpg | Portrait by [[User: Botanicaxu]]
TES Full Cast.jpeg | The Emperor's Soul by [[User: Botanicaxu]]
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Despite being known to have a temper, he is a humble man and an idealist at heart.{{tes ref|30}}{{tes ref|42}} He loves to write terrible poetry and enjoys a good debate. He is arrogant, but secretly wishes he could be something other than what he became.{{tes ref|59}} He enjoys hearing himself give speeches. He also hates fish.{{tes ref|70}}{{tes ref|epilogue}}

== History ==
=== Early Life ===
When Ashravan was six, his brother died.{{tes ref|12}} He idolized his brother, but kept his feelings secret due to a belief that his brother would have made a better emperor. His brother's fondness for green was part of the reason that it was Ashravan's favorite color.{{tes ref|30}}

At some point Ashravan began to keep a private journal, perhaps to reflect on the choices he made. He left instructions to have it burned upon his death.{{tes ref|17}}

=== Life as Emperor ===
{{quote
|I have decided, at long last, to agree to the demands of my faction. I will offer myself for the position of emperor, as Gaotona has so often encouraged.
|Excerpt from Ashravan's personal journal{{tes ref|17}}
}}

After the death of Emperor [[Yazad (Sel)|Yazad]], Ashravan is chosen to lead the empire.{{tes ref|17}}

According to Gaotona, Ashravan originally became emperor out of a desire to change parts of the empire such as the favoritism shown to the [[Grand]]s.{{tes ref|30}} Over time, however, his desire waned.{{tes ref|42}} Ashravan was swept up in the bureaucracy of an empire that worked, if not perfectly, then well enough. He focused more on the beauty of it all instead of its problems, and gave the arbiters more and more control.{{tes ref|59}}

The urgings of his mentor Gaotona were a significant factor in his becoming emperor, and Ashravan eventually grew to resent Gaotona because he felt inadequate.{{tes ref|70}}

=== The Emperor's New Soul ===
One night, a group of assassins, agents of the [[Glory Faction]], broke into the emperor's rooms and attacked him and his wife, [[Kurshina]].{{tes ref|85}} Kurshina was killed, and Ashravan sustained a severe injury to the head. Although a [[Resealing|Resealer]] was able to heal the wound, the emperor was left brain-dead. The arbiters of the Heritage Faction kept the emperor's status a secret by saying he had sequestered himself during the mourning period for his wife. The arbiters then tasked the [[Forger]] [[Wan ShaiLu]] to create a powerful [[soulstamp]] known as an [[Essence Mark]] to rewrite the soul of the emperor before the one hundred days of mourning were over.{{tes ref|2}}

Shai used a number of sources for the Soul Forgery, such as official histories, Ashravan's personal journal and interviews of his friends and family.{{tes ref|17}} The arbiter Gaotona volunteered himself as a test subject for stamps of minor portions of Ashravan's soul.{{tes ref|30}}

On the ninety-eighth day of the mourning period, Shai succeeded in creating a soulstamp that replicated Ashravan's original soul with which he would have to be re-stamped each day. She snuck into his rooms and stamped him, waking him and restoring his mind. Ashravan allowed Shai to escape his rooms. Later he spoke with Gaotona and figured out, in the course of the conversation, what had been wrong with him.{{tes ref|98}} He then addressed the arbiters, laying to rest the rumors of his illness and promising to seek justice for his wife's murder. Buried in the stamp, however, were also certain triggers that Shai had added to help nudge Ashravan into becoming the emperor he had always dreamed of being, causing him in the next years to pore over his old journals and rediscover his old ideals.{{tes ref|101}}

== Notes ==
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|title=Emperor of the [[Rose Empire]]
|prev=[[Yazad (Sel)|Yazad]]
|this=49th
|next=''incumbent''
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 On the ninety-eighth day of the mourning period, Shai succeeded in creating a soulstamp that replicated Ashravan's original soul with which he would have to be re-stamped each day. She snuck into his rooms and stamped him, waking him and restoring his mind. Ashravan allowed Shai to escape his rooms. Later he spoke with Gaotona and figured out, in the course of the conversation, what had been wrong with him.{{tes ref|98}} He then addressed the arbiters, laying to rest the rumors of his illness and promising to seek justice for his wife's murder. Buried in the stamp, however, were also certain triggers that Shai had added to help nudge Ashravan into becoming the emperor he had always dreamed of being, causing him in the next years to pore over his old journals and rediscover his old ideals.{{tes ref|101}}
-== Trivia ==
-* Ashravan seems to be named after the concept of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashavan Ashavan] from the Zoroastrian faith. This is backed by Brandon actively being influenced by ancient Zoroastrian words for Rose Empire names.{{wob ref|2857}}
 == Notes ==