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'''Navani's notebook''' is a series of pages written by the [[Artifabrian]] [[Navani Kholin]] that can be found in ''[[The Way of Kings]]''. 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>
  
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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.
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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.
  
   
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== Page one ==
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== Pages ==
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{{for|:Category:Navani's notebook|a complete collection of pages from the notebook|Category:Navani's notebook}}
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[[File:Navani1.jpg|right|150px]]
  
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=== Page one ===
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{{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.
   
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There must be thousands of possible combinations.
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There must be thousands of viable 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.
   
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(These are labels describing which spren are attracted to different gem cuts.)
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(These are labels describing which spren are attracted to different gem cuts and/or types.)
 
*cold
  
*cold
 
*gravity
  
*gravity
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'''Pain Knife'''
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=== 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.
   
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Removable outer covering to infuse fabrial with Stormlight
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Remove 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.
   
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== Page two ==
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=== Page two ===
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{{image|Navani's Notebook Emotion Bracelet.jpg|Page 2|side=right|width=250px}}
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[[File:Navani2.jpg|right|150px]]
  
 
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
   
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Man who discovered his betrothed lies to him
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Man who discovered his betrothed lied to him
   
 
Mother at wedding of only son
  
Mother at wedding of only son
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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
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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
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=== Archery Constructions ===
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{{image|Navani's Notebook Archery Fabrials.jpeg|Archery constructions|side=right|width=100px}}
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Fabrial for an archer tower.
  +
  +
Glyphs of numbers; one, two, three, four (denoting the four steps during useage)
  +
  +
Reversal principle of conjoined
  +
compounded custom cut amethysts.
  +
  +
Aids in drying bowstrings.
  +
  +
Idea.
  +
  +
Archers during the Weeping.
  +
  +
=== Ship Designs ===
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{{image|Ship Designs.jpg|Ship designs|side=right|width=100px}}
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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}}
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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}}
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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 ===
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{{image|Navani's Notebook - The Crystal Pillar Room.jpg|The Crystal Pillar Room|side=right|width=250px}}
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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 ===
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{{image|Navani's Notebook - Dagger.jpg|Dagger|side=right|width=250px}}
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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 ==
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* The notes can be found as interior art in all books of [[The Stormlight Archive]].
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* 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}}
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::* The translation of pages from ''[[The Way of Kings]]'' were accomplished by Harakeke.{{ref|name=sa1}}
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::* Enjo shared their translation of the page from ''[[Words of Radiance]]''.{{ref|name=sa2}}
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::* Pagerunner provided the translations of the two pages in ''[[Oathbringer]]''.{{ref|name=sa3}}
   
 
== Notes ==
  
== Notes ==
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{{good}}
  
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{{twg ref|date=2010-09-20|name=sa1|7882|0|Navani's Notebook Translation}}
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{{17s ref|date=2014-03-05|name=sa2|topic|6418|page 406 translation}}
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{{17s ref|date=2017-11-15|name=sa3|post|635718|Oathbringer translations}}
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</references>
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{{partial}}
 
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Latest revision as of 01:23, 12 October 2023

Navani's notebook
Type Research notes
Author Navani Kholin
Language Women's script
World of Origin Roshar
Universe Cosmere
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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.

Pages[edit]

For a complete collection of pages from the notebook, see Category:Navani's notebook.

Page one[edit]

by Isaac Stewart
Page 1

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.

Once a spren is captured and the gem infused with Stormlight the fabrial can be used in machines.

Flamespren trapped in emerald.

(These are labels describing which spren are attracted to different gem cuts and/or types.)

  • cold
  • gravity
  • pain
  • heat
  • wind


Pain Knife[edit]

The pain knife is used as a means of protection.

Sharp blades pierce an attacker’s clothing and cause crippling pain.

Remove outer covering to infuse fabrial with Stormlight

Fabrial

Retractable blades cause crippling pain.

Dial pushes blades to four set lengths.

Page two[edit]

by Isaac Stewart
Page 2

Examples of stormlight patterns

Patterns of stormlight filtered through the fabrial determine the power of the gem

The pattern cannot be seen by the naked eye


Fabrials allow creation of things like the emotion bracelet made of ten fabrials working together


(Examples of emotion bracelet in use)

Man betrayed by a close friend

Woman who has just been proposed to

Man who discovered his betrothed lied to him

Mother at wedding of only son


(Left)

  • Anticipation
  • anger
  • disgust
  • sadness

(Center)

  • love
  • hate

(Right)

  • joy
  • trust
  • fear
  • surprise


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

Archery Constructions[edit]

by Isaac Stewart
Archery constructions

Fabrial for an archer tower.

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

Reversal principle of conjoined compounded custom cut amethysts.

Aids in drying bowstrings.

Idea.

Archers during the Weeping.

Ship Designs[edit]

by Kelley Harris
Ship designs

Too fanciful, ha?

Ask Rushu how to keep the mast from ripping off

Jasnah's favorite

Vambrace[edit]

by Kelley Harris
Vambrace

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[edit]

by Kelley Harris
The Fourth bridge

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[edit]

by Kelley Harris
The Arnist Method

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[edit]

by Kelley Harris
The Crystal Pillar Room

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[edit]

by Kelley Harris
Dagger

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[edit]

by Kelley Harris
Experiments

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[edit]

  • 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.[1][2][3]

Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ a b Navani's Notebook Translation
    — Timewasters Guide forum - 2010-09-20#
  2. ↑ a b page 406 translation
    — 17th Shard forums - 2014-03-05#
  3. ↑ a b Oathbringer translations
    — 17th Shard forums - 2017-11-15#
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