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[[File: Helaran sketches.jpg|thumb|left|200px|<center><small>by [[User: Sheep]]</small></center>Confronting Helaran]]
In the months after the murders, Lin tried to maintain control of his house with increasing difficulty. He tried to stop Helaran from leaving the house to join his [[Skybreakers|friends]], but Helaran held him off by summoning his own shardblade, the existence of which came as a shock to Lin. Lin tried to explain the circumstances around their mother's death, but Helaran refused to listen. Helaran threatened to kill Lin, but Shallan spoke up for the first time in five months, begging him not to. Lin was spared with a threat, and Helaran left Lin to remain in charge while he left. In a fit of rage, Lin smashed a table and chairs in rage.{{book ref|sa2|19}} Relations in the household became more strained over the next months. Screaming was a common occurrence. During Helaran's visits, the two men avoided each other. Lin also began hosting feasts more frequently.{{book ref|sa2|27}} The feasts he held disguised the truth of the Davar family finances. They were close to financial ruin.{{book ref|sa2|39}}
Around two years after his wife's death, Lin announced over dinner with his vassals, the [[Tavinar]]'s, the he was engaged to be married to [[Malise Gevelmar]]. In celebration he gave his children gifts. The boys got fine daggers and Shallan got an [[aluminium]] necklace. The dinner was already incredibly awkward when [[Redin]] interrupted to investigate the death of Lin's first wife. Lin quickly had his guests leave and his children move out of earshot for a private discussion. Whatever they discussed, Lin was left feeling angry and Redin was left without the evidence he needed. While Redin was willing to accept testimony from any lighteyes in the Davar household, Lin terrified his sons far too much for any of them to accept.{{book ref|sa2|39}}
From notes and maps found after his death and from letters he was receiving Balat surmised that his father was making a play for the title of high prince, and was supported by some powerful men, namely the [[Ghostbloods]].{{book ref|sa1|29}}
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After her death he remarried to [[Malise Gevelmar]]. He beat her, his sons, an the servants in the house. The only person he never touched was Shallan, instead beating others in her name when he felt she deserved it. He sent an assassin after Helaran when he learned Helaran was near. Malise spoke out against the assassination and was badly beaten.{{book ref|sa2|61}} Feeling that he went too far, Balat, [[Eylita]], and Malise planned to run away and find Helaran for protection.{{book ref|sa2|65}} Lin beat Malise and got her to confess the plans to run away. He summoned Eylita to the house and killed Malise as punishment after Eylita arrived. Balat challenged him to a sword fight, but he managed to quickly batter Balat to the ground. He paused to drink some wine Shallan handed him, which she'd laced with [[blackbane]]. While he was distracted, Balat managed to hit him in the side. Though Lin was bleeding, the wound was not sever. The blackbane did not immediately take effect, so he had time to beat Balat with a fire poker and break his leg. He'd just turned towards Eylita when the drug paralyzed him. As the poison wore off and Lin began to awaken, Shallan used her necklace to strangle him, killing her father.{{book ref|sa2|73}} After his death, his children found he owned a [[soulcaster]] and a collection of maps which they could not understand.{{book ref|sa1|8}}
He was somehow influenced by [[Odium]].{{wob ref|6201}}
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