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==== Monastery Dais ==== The Monastery Dais is a large, almost perfectly circular platform near the main building, and may be technically considered part of the palace complex. As its name indicates, it houses the Kholinar ardentia. Notable features include the King's Chapel and a room, the Circle of Memories, with eleven lanterns. The ardents believe that the lanterns represent the [[Silver Kingdoms]], with the last one marking the [[Tranquiline Halls]].{{book ref\|sa2\|i\|12}} In actuality, the room is the Kholinar [[Oathgate]] chamber, and the entire dais is the Oathgate platform.{{book ref\|sa3\|86}} It is unclear when the palace was built. Prior to the [[Gavilar Kholin]]'s war of Alethi unification, it was held by a different branch of his [[House Kholin\|family]]. After he and his brother [[Dalinar]] conquered it, it became their seat of power.{{book ref\|sa3\|16}} After Gavilar's crowning, the palace became the seat of the government of united [[Alethkar]]. King Gavilar was ~~murdered~~[[Assassination of Gavilar\|assassinated]] in the palace by [[Szeth]] during a peace celebration with the [[~~Listeners~~listeners]].{{book ref\|sa1\|prologue}} Following that, his ~~descendant~~son, king [[~~Elhokar Kholin\|~~Elhokar]], moved to the [[Pinnacle]] on the [[Shattered Plains]], so as to be closer to the fighting there. Queen [[Aesudan]] - and, later, ~~prince~~Prince [[Gavinor]] - remained at the Palace, along with the widowed queen [[Navani Kholin]], as Aesudan was managing the kingdom in her husband's absence. At some point after Navani left for the Shattered Plains, the palace came under the influence of the [[Unmade]] [[Ashertmarn]]. This caused the queen to begin acting increasingly erratically, throwing food away to rot, hosting excessively lavish parties and losing interest in ruling Alethkar. The situation came to a peak when ardent [[Pai]] was executed for publicly denouncing this new lifestyle, causing wide-spread riots in the city.{{book ref\|sa3\|i\|12}} After the riots, the queen recalled her guard into the palace, and appears to have fallen fully under the influence of both Ashertmarn and [[Yelig-~~Nar~~nar]]. Anyone to enter the palace would never return, either killed by the Queen's Guard or subsumed by Ashertmarn, while the spren of the [[Oathgate]] beneath the Monastery Dais were subverted by [[Sja-~~Anat~~anat]]. During that period, the [[Cult of Moments]] held feasts in the Monastery Dais. A portion of the Palace Guard resisted the lure of the Unmade and were locked in a room. After their release, they claimed that time seemed to pass differently for them, feeling it has only been a few days, not a few weeks, since the riots.{{book ref\|sa3\|84}} The strike team led by [[Elhokar Kholin]] tried and failed to re-take the Palace from the queen.{{book ref\|sa3\|85}} After the king's death and [[Kholinar]]'s fall, the [[Fused]] appear to have made the Palace the centre of their operations in the city, and began to dig it out from under the rubble in search of the [[Design\|Cryptic]] that was supposed to bond Elhokar.{{book ref\|sa3\|epilogue}}{{wob ~~Its~~ref\|10817}} ~~further~~[[Hoid]] ~~fate~~finds isher ~~unknown~~first sothough, ~~far~~saving and then later bonding her.{{wob ref\|10746}} == Notes ==