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{{literature
'''Navani's notebook''' is a series of pages written by the [[Artifabrian]] [[Navani Kholin]] that can be found in ''[[The Way of Kings]]'' and ''[[Words of Radiance]]''. While the originals were written in the [[Alethi script]] they have been translated into the [[Wikipedia:Latin script| Latin script]] by Harakeke.<ref>[http://twg.17thshard.com/forum/index.php?topic=7882.0| Navani's Notebook Translation]</ref>
|type=Research notes
|author=[[Navani Kholin]]
|language=[[Women's script]]
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
}}
{{update|sa4}}


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'''Navani's notebook''' is a series of pages written by the [[Artifabrian]] [[Navani Kholin]]. Navani uses her notebook as a location to write down many of her ideas in. As a result it contains information about Rosharan science.
File: Navani1.jpg
File: Navani2.jpg
File:Navani's_Notebook_p._406.png
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Note that in this notebook, Navani refers to a single gem with captured spren as "fabrial", while a combination of one or several gems and setting is referred to as a "machine". In colloquial use, "fabrial" often refers to a complete product.


== Pages ==
== Page one ==
[[File:Navani1.jpg|right|150px]]
{{for|:Category:Navani's notebook|a complete collection of pages from the notebook|Category:Navani's notebook}}

=== Page one ===
{{image|Navani's_Notebook_Pain_Knife.jpg|Page 1|side=right|width=250px}}
The cut and type of the gem determines what kind of [[spren]] are attracted to it and can be imprisoned in it.
The cut and type of the gem determines what kind of [[spren]] are attracted to it and can be imprisoned in it.


There must be thousands of viable combinations.
There must be thousands of possible combinations.


Once a spren is captured and the gem infused with [[Stormlight]] the [[fabrial]] can be used in machines.
Once a spren is captured and the gem infused with [[Stormlight]] the [[fabrial]] can be used in machines.
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[[Flamespren]] trapped in emerald.
[[Flamespren]] trapped in emerald.


(These are labels describing which spren are attracted to different gem cuts and/or types.)
(These are labels describing which spren are attracted to different gem cuts.)
*cold
*cold
*gravity
*gravity
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=== Pain Knife ===
'''Pain Knife'''


The pain knife is used as a means of protection.
The pain knife is used as a means of protection.
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Sharp blades pierce an attacker’s clothing and cause crippling pain.
Sharp blades pierce an attacker’s clothing and cause crippling pain.


Remove outer covering to infuse fabrial with Stormlight
Removable outer covering to infuse fabrial with Stormlight


Fabrial
Fabrial
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Dial pushes blades to four set lengths.
Dial pushes blades to four set lengths.


=== Page two ===
== Page two ==
[[File:Navani2.jpg|right|150px]]
{{image|Navani's Notebook Emotion Bracelet.jpg|Page 2|side=right|width=250px}}
Examples of stormlight patterns
Examples of stormlight patterns


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Woman who has just been proposed to
Woman who has just been proposed to


Man who discovered his betrothed lied to him
Man who discovered his betrothed lies to him


Mother at wedding of only son
Mother at wedding of only son
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The trick of the emotion bracelet is first learning to read it and second learning to tell if the bracelet is reading your emotions, your subject's emotions, or the emotions of the person in the next room over
The trick of the emotion fabrials is first learning to read it and second learning to tell if the bracelet is reading your emotions, your subject's emotions, or the emotions of the people in the next room over


=== Archery Constructions ===
== Page three ==
[[File:Navani's_Notebook_p._406.png|right|150px]]
{{image|Navani's Notebook Archery Fabrials.jpeg|Archery constructions|side=right|width=100px}}
Fabrial for an archer tower.
Fabrial for an archer tower.

Glyphs of numbers; one, two, three, four (denoting the four steps during useage)


Reversal principle of conjoined
Reversal principle of conjoined
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Archers during the Weeping.
Archers during the Weeping.

=== Ship Designs ===
{{image|Ship Designs.jpg|Ship designs|side=right|width=100px}}
Too fanciful, ha?

Ask Rushu how to keep the mast from ripping off

Jasnah's favorite

=== Vambrace ===
{{image|Vambrace.jpg|Vambrace|side=right|width=100px}}
Touch the gems in the correct combination to
release a shock from the front nodes that will
incapacitate an attacker

Top View

Side View

Stormpiece

Timepiece

=== The Fourth bridge ===
{{image|Navani's Notebook - The Fourth Bridge.jpg|The Fourth bridge|side=right|width=250px}}
The fourth bridge is not as pretty as my fanciful designs

but it is thrilling to see the ship coming together

The final build follows these designs with some

changes my engineers suggested


Cutaway showing levels below main deck for carrying people and supplies


Kaladins old bridge

embedded in the deck


Possible design for next iteration of sky carriage


Main entrance works like a drawbridge


I hope fans will lessen

some of the horizontal load


Maybe add soulcast crystal

over the top


Stairs might fold up into a

table to make space


Latest tests show we need four fins instead of two wings

=== The Arnist Method ===
{{image|Navani's Notebook - The Arnist Method.jpg|The Arnist Method|side=right|width=250px}}
The Arnist method begins with luring the

Spren to the gem


For example to attract a

Flamespren create a fire nearby


Allow the spren to

inspect the gem


Arnist hoop


Quickly

drawing out the

Stormlight

pulls the Spren

into the gem


The Spren becomes trapped inside


A

pewter

cage surrounding

the gem can be adjusted by

twisting rods hooked to eyebolts


The tighter the cage the more heat the fabrial generates

=== The Crystal Pillar Room ===
{{image|Navani's Notebook - The Crystal Pillar Room.jpg|The Crystal Pillar Room|side=right|width=250px}}
Close up of the crystal pillar


Suppressor device

retrieved by Kaladin


The pattern of garnets

is similar to one I

have seen on the pillar


Stairwell chamber


Library room


Murals


The crystal

pillar room


Library room

=== Dagger ===
{{image|Navani's Notebook - Dagger.jpg|Dagger|side=right|width=250px}}
Raboniels soul

harvesting dagger


Navani: The white gold metal vein down the middle conducts Investiture

Raboniel called the metal Raysium and says there is not enough in

this dagger to collect her soul or that of a herald

I am not sure I believe her


Raboniel: Navani ís right not to believe. I have given her few reasons to

trust me after all but in this thing I don't lie

why give into my enemys hands the means to destroy me?


Navani: I will proceed with my experiments

our discovery of Warlight paired with my eventual understanding

of this dagger might yield a way to stop this war


Raboniel: Though I think we disagree on what an acceptable end to the war

actually looks like


Navani: The ruby is housed in a metal other than Raysium silver maybe?


Raboniel: I can confirm the metal is not raysium, but a silver-

nickel alloy and does not affect the daggers function


Navani: Touching the dagger to

Half of the ruby does not

pull out the half spren.

Cracking one half

however allows the

Spren to escape.

The dagger immediately

pulls the spren along the

Raysium vein and into the

gem at its base



I suspect the vein of Raysium continues through the daggers

hilt and somehow attaches to the ruby at its base


Raboniel: The Raysium vein is removable, reversible and

conducts Investiture directly to the gemstone


=== Experiments ===
{{image|Navani's Notebook - Experiments.jpg|Experiments|side=right|width=250px}}
The Thaylen vacuum tube


A cracked diamond

affixed to the end

might give the exact

result I am seeking


The metal caps unscrew

for versatility in

experimentation


A fabrial pump removes the remaining air


Navani: The rhythms cause patterns in the sand. Different patterns for the

different kinds of light. There must be an answer of some kind here

though I wish I could consult a true scholar concerning this


Raboniel: Now that we have seen where this line of

exploration has led, I am amazed that you

were able to extrapolate this

voice of lights


Navani: The tones are

becoming easier for me to hear. I recognise the

tones of the different kinds of light and struggle to hear if there is something more.


Raboniel: Your research has yielded great fruits. There was a time I thought it impossible for one

of your kind to hear the rhythms. How could I have anticipated the magnitude of what

you have kept hidden from me? I fear I have underestimated you and your kind.

== Trivia ==
* The notes can be found as interior art in all books of [[The Stormlight Archive]].
* While the originals were transliterated from English into the [[women's script]], they have been transliterated back into the English alphabet by fans.{{ref|name=sa1}}{{ref|name=sa2}}{{ref|name=sa3}}
::* The translation of pages from ''[[The Way of Kings]]'' were accomplished by Harakeke.{{ref|name=sa1}}
::* Enjo shared their translation of the page from ''[[Words of Radiance]]''.{{ref|name=sa2}}
::* Pagerunner provided the translations of the two pages in ''[[Oathbringer]]''.{{ref|name=sa3}}


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
<references>
<references />
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{{twg ref|date=2010-09-20|name=sa1|7882|0|Navani's Notebook Translation}}
{{17s ref|date=2014-03-05|name=sa2|topic|6418|page 406 translation}}
{{17s ref|date=2017-11-15|name=sa3|post|635718|Oathbringer translations}}

</references>
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