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'''Navani Kholin''' is an [[Alethi]] [[lighteyes]] living on [[Roshar]].{{book ref|sa1|22}} She is the widow of [[Gavilar Kholin]] and the mother of [[Jasnah]] and [[Elhokar Kholin]].{{book ref|sa1|12}} She was the sister-in-law to [[Dalinar Kholin]]{{book ref|sa1|Prologue}} and aunt to [[Adolin]] and [[Renarin Kholin]]{{book ref|sa1|12}} until she was married to Dalinar.{{book ref|sa3|4}} She is also a renowned scholar and [[artifabrian]].{{book ref|sa1|12}}
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'''Navani Kholin''' is an [[Alethi]] [[lighteyes]] living on [[Roshar]].{{book ref|sa1|22}} She is the widow of [[Gavilar Kholin]] and the mother of [[Jasnah]] and [[Elhokar Kholin]].{{book ref|sa1|12}} She was the sister-in-law to [[Dalinar Kholin]]{{book ref|sa1|Prologue}} and aunt to [[Adolin]] and [[Renarin Kholin]]{{book ref|sa1|12}} until she was married to Dalinar.{{book ref|sa3|4}} She is also a renowned scholar and [[artifabrian]].{{book ref|sa1|12}}
 
== Appearance and Personality ==
{{image|Navani.jpg|width=200px300px|side=rightleft}}
=== Appearance ===
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After accepting Shallan, Navani decided to lead the research team studying the quotes Shallan had provided her from Jasnah's research regarding the [[Oathgate]], Knights Radiant, and [[Urithiru]].{{book ref|sa2|77}} Navani co-opted Dalinar's scribes and cartographers to locate the Oathgate, leading Dalinar to remark upon it to Shallan. She, in turn, states that she was really just there when Navani changed her mind.{{book ref|sa2|78}}
 
{{image|Bonding the Sibling by jurassicpencil.png|side=left|width=300px|Navani bonding the [[Sibling]]}}
 
During the Battle of Narak during the Weeping, Navani oversees the deployment of fabrials to allow the Alethi archers to join the battle. Light fabrials are set up to illuminate the battlefield while half-tents are raised to provide shelter from the rain for the archers.{{book ref|sa2|81}}{{book ref|sa2|82}} To combat the moisture in the air, she authorizes the use of a recently-developed fabrial called an attractor, that was designed to draw water out of the air;{{book ref|sa2|82}} Navani was half worried the device would suck the blood out of the archers' bodies.
 
Once in Urithiru, Navani discovers a fabrial lift. She speaks of counterweights and conjoined gemstones, sounding awed by the technology of the ancients.{{book ref|sa2|89}}
 
=== Surgebinding ===
At the end of the siege of [[Urithiru]], Navani forms a [[Nahel bond]] with the [[Sibling]], becoming a [[Knight Radiant]] of the [[Order of Bondsmiths]]. This grants her the ability to bind the [[Surges]] of Tension and Adhesion. She has sworn at least the First Ideal, and may have sworn more than one ideal during her initial bonding of the [[Sibling]].{{book ref|sa4|110}}{{wob ref|14678}}
 
By working in conjunction with the Sibling, Navani can generate vast quantities of [[Towerlight]], enough to fully power the city-fabrial of [[Urithiru]]. She is also able to control and intuitively understand the functioning of Urithiru and its constituent fabrials.
 
== History ==
During the unification of Alethkar, Navani and Ialai Sadeas huddled together at dinners; conspiring on how to stabilize the kingdom their husbands were trying to conquer.{{book ref|sa3|96}}. They were very close friends. Navani and Ialai were responsible for finding [[Dalinar]] a wife which would give them political advantage.{{book ref|sa3|19}}
 
During Gavilar’s last days, he had gone strange. As he had grown more and more distracted, Navani herself had worked to keep squabbling lighteyes from sundering the kingdom.{{book ref|sa3|109104}} It is uncertain how much she knew of Gavilar's plans, but she was aware that he had a small gemstone that glowed with a strange light that was somehow dark, similar to the one that Dalinar trapped [[Nergaoul]] in.{{book ref|sa3|121}}
 
=== Assassination of Gavilar ===
She eventually excused herself to find Gavilar, whom she discovered in her study, speaking to [[Nale]] and [[Kalak]]. Navani glimpsed an array of violet-black spheres, which Gavilar had arranged on the table. After Gavilar dismissed Nale and Kalak, Navani expressed an interest in the spheres. Gavilar's rebuke initiated an argument between them, where they discussed Jasnah's failed betrothal to Amaram, Gavilar's disregard for her, and his plans for Alethkar. When Navani threatened to tarnish his legacy, Gavilar insulted her and said she was no true scholar. Once he left, an angry Navani inscribed a glyphward praying for his death and burned it. She returned to the feast to fulfill her role as queen.
 
Following the end of the feast, Navani heard from the palace steward that the Parshendi had assassinated Gavilar. Although Navani didn't believe what happened, the truth sank in when she saw Gavilar's broken body. She felt a pang of guilt over the glyphward. However, she soon realized she pitied Gavilar instead of grieving for him. Navani vowed to herself that she would bestay thesilent betterand person. To her, lettinglet Gavilar have his legacy was the best thing she could do for him.{{book ref|sa4|Prologue}}
 
=== Aftermath of the Assassination ===
She believed the visions were a blessing because they proved that Dalinar wasn't going mad.{{book ref|sa1|61}} After recording several of his visions, Dalinar and Navani learned to trust each other and confessed their feelings for one another. Navani made it clear that she would not stop for tradition, as their union wasn't explicitly forbidden.{{book ref|sa1|62}}
 
=== Re-uniting the Alethi PrincedomPrincedoms ===
Navani helped Dalinar build their first plan for unification and strength of the crown. They decided to attack on different fronts: economical (changes to the manner of collection and distribution of gemhearts on the Shattered Plains), fear (Adolin would duel to earn Shardblades) and political ([[Dalinar]] and Navani would try to persuade the benefits of a unified Alethkar).{{book ref|sa2|5}} It is clear she suggested having allies that would unite based on loyalty and not fear.{{book ref|sa2|8}}
 
 
=== Uniting Roshar ===
{{image|MarriageFirst Kiss by Marie Seeberger.jpg|side=right|width=250px|Marrying [[Dalinar]]}}
 
Once at Urithiru, she continued to transcribe the visions in much more detail now that Dalinar could replay them at will. After Odium manifested on one vision, he decided his next action would be to unite all of Roshar and asked Navani to help him. He believed that his tenacity and her brilliance together would convince the other kingdoms to join with them.{{book ref|sa3|1}}
On the day of the first meeting of monarchs at Urithiru, Navani made each person—no matter how important—carry their own chair. The old Alethi tradition symbolized each chief bringing important wisdom to a gathering. She was able keep her mind clear enough from her worries of Elhokar to analyze the other Kings, their companions and the Highprinces. Ialai Sadeas notably ignored the chair request.{{book ref|sa3|96}}
 
She welcomed everyone and started with an inspirational speech of making history and uniting for a cause. The meeting however went out of control very fast as each kingdom started making requests on territory, trade, half-shards, and war. Navani was able to get them to agree by listening what each Kingdom wanteddid best and giving them tasks that were in line with that. She complimented the Azish´s laws and were given the task to create codes of how kingdoms are to interact and share resources. ThaylenThaylenah was asked to oversee trade and supplies. The Alethi would help the Emuli at securing the remaining territory, but not more. Then, they moved to guessing where they would be attacked next, they decided it would be Jah Keved and support from other kingdom came. Navani had done it.{{book ref|sa3|96}}
 
When Dalinar was recovering and well enough to join a meeting, he figured out the target would be ThaylenThaylenah and not Jah Keved. This meeting however, was abruptly ended by Taravangian’s treason, who leaked several of Dalinar’s secrets in a targeted way which caused distrust. They were not able to hold the coalition together.{{book ref|sa3|111}}
 
=== Battle of Thaylen Field and aftermath ===
During the battle itself, she and Queen Fen were attacked by a huge rock monster who destroyed the tower they were in. Navani and Fen were able to go down the surviving steps. From there Navani was able to see that Amaram had switched sides and Dalinar facing the unmade alone.{{book ref|sa3|116}}
 
Navani, Fen and her consort Kmakl were then captured by one of Amaram’s troops who still blamed the Kholins for the killing of [[Torol Sadeas]]. As they were going to execute [[Kmakl]], Navani pulled out her painbrialpainrial and knocked their enemies down.{{book ref|sa3|118}}
 
They were later joined by Adolin, who gave her the news on Elhokar’s death and provided comfort. Later Jasnah came in to ask her to clear the center of the city and save citizens.{{book ref|sa3|120}} They looked after them until Dalinar came back and Navani went to take care of him.
 
=== Evacuation of Hearthstone ===
{{image|Fourth Bridge by Esther Shrader.jpg|side=right|width=250px|Navani aboard the ''[[Fourth Bridge]]''}}
 
During the battle between Kaladin and the Fused at [[Hearthstone]], Navani was aboard the ''[[Fourth Bridge]]'', an airship that she designed with her team of engineers. While speaking with Dalinar about the mysterious crystal pillar at Urithiru, [[Dieno enne Calah]], the Mink, snuck onto the ''Fourth Bridge''. Despite the Mink's hostility towards Dalinar for the war between Alethkar and Herdaz, Dalinar and the Mink made a deal to let the Mink's remaining forces onto the ''Fourth Bridge''.{{book ref|sa4|3}}
 
As the evacuation commenced, Navani collaborated with the crew and engineers to secure the Hearthstone refugees. When Dalinar opened a perpendicularity to replenish stormlight, Navani and Rushu made some observations about the nature of Shadesmar. The conversation turned to the subject of Urthiru. Navani, though frustrated about her inability to discover the tower's secrets, told Rushu that their discoveries might help improve future airship designs. While Rushu was writing down her thoughts, she told Navani that she saw a strange man on a hill, standing aside from the battle. Navani recognized the man as [[Moash]]. She alerted the Windrunners to Moash's presence.{{book ref|sa4|6}}
 
On the way back to Urithiru, Navani reviewed her notes on fabrials. She studied the strange [[suppression fabrial]] that Kaladin and Lift had found while fighting the Fused. Navani observed that the gemstones in the suppression fabrial were the same as the gemstones in Urithiru's central pillar. Confused by this revelation, she compared the pillar and the fabrial to the layout of a Soulcaster. The dilemma of the Soulcasters grabbed her attention, since they didn't adhere to any laws or mechanics of fabrial science. Although she wanted to look deeper into the mysteries of these devices, she found no concrete answers in her research.{{book ref|sa4|9}}
 
As the Windrunners and the ''Fourth Bridge'' neared the Shattered Plains, Navani glimpsed a conjoined ruby inside her flying chamber. She attached it to a spanreed. The person on the other end of the spanreed accused Navani of being a monster who imprisoned spren. The spanreed then ceased writing, despite Navani's attempts to re-establish contact.{{book ref|sa4|9}}
 
{{image|Navani and Gavinor by Elisgardor.jpg|side=left|height=300px|Holding [[Gavinor]]}}
=== Return to Urithiru ===
 
Afterwards, she met with her family and the Mink to discuss further action against Odium's forces. For most of the discussion, Navani remained a silent observer, watching Jasnah and Dalinar discuss strategy with the Mink.{{book ref|sa4|16}} Though she was surprised when the Mink proposed that the coalition retake Emul, she and Jasnah eventually persuaded Dalinar to agree with the plan.{{book ref|sa4|17}}
 
==== Further Studies ====
{{quote
|As always, questions teased her. Questions were disorder awaiting organization. The more you understood, the more the world aligned. The more the chaos made sense, as all things should.{{book ref|sa4|76}}
|Navani
}}
 
Navani resumed her studies on the crystal pillar beneath Urithiru, but reached another dead end in her research.{{book ref|sa4|19}} Attempting to focus her attention elsewhere, she paid a visit to [[Falilar]] and [[Tomor]], who presented her with a lifting fabrial that enabled the redirection of force. Navani wore the device and participated in some experiments that tested its practical applications. Falilar showed her a shaft in Urithiru that was rigged with pulleys and weights, which would provide the manpower for the device. Inspired, Navani encouraged him to refine the design and experiment with the pulley system.{{book ref|sa4|19}}
 
==== Trials of the Tower ====
 
{{image|Navani and Raboniel by Esther Schrader.jpg|side=right|width=300px|Working with [[Raboniel]]}}
 
During the departure of the coalition's forces, Navani bade Dalinar goodbye as she warned him about Taravangian's potential schemes. Thought it troubled her that Dalinar wanted to take Gavinor to the front lines in Emul, she permitted him to do so, since Dalinar argued that he wanted to be more involved with their grandson. She asked Jasnah to watch over Dalinar on the battlefield and keep him out of the fighting.{{book ref|sa4|27}}
 
Navani's scribes set up her spanreed. The engineers rigged a system that would allow them to determine the location of the person on the spanreed's opposite end. After a terse back-and-forth conversation over spanreed, Navani ordered her team to move her and the spanreed to a different place. She contacted the person again, and she and [[Kalami]] deduced that the person must be a spren. Falilar noted that he could tell the spren was writing from inside the tower. Spontaneously, Navani decided to break her spanreed to see if she could lure out the spren in the future.{{book ref|sa4|28}}
 
==== Experiments and Exploration ====
 
Despite her destruction of the spanreed, Navani's team was no closer to pinpointing the spren. She remained preoccupied while running Urithiru and working with her scholars. Tomor showed her his new design for the lifting fabrial, which Navani wore and tested. She suggested that Tomor refine the controls to enable more precise descent and ascent.{{book ref|sa4|37}}
 
Following her conversation with Tomor, her guards brought [[Dabbid]] forwards, since they found him hiding a spanreed ruby at her workstation. Navani tried to interrogate him, but to no avail. Though Navani didn't recognize Dabbid, her soldiers told her that he was a servant for the Windrunners. As they took Dabbid to Navani's audience chamber, Navani noticed that Isabi was at her workstation, takingreceiving a spanreed message.{{book ref|sa4|37}}
 
The message relayed news of an explosion, which had killed Talnah and Nem and destroyed scholarly equipment. When she arrived at the scene, Navani surveyed the damage, then ordered Rushu to secure the area.{{book ref|sa4|38}} She returned to her audience chamber to interrogate a number of Radiants stationed at Urithiru. [[Red (Roshar)|Red]], one of the Lightweavers, told her about Dabbid and his disability. Navani ordered her scribes to set up a spanreed with the ruby that Dabbid had delivered. The spanreed began to write frantically about the singers that had infiltrated Urithiru. It stated that it was the Sibling, the spren of the tower.{{book ref|sa4|39}}
 
=== The Singer Invasion ===
 
As Red and the other Radiants began to collapse, Navani tried to reestablish contact with the Sibling. She asked her soldiers to run messages to the nearby garrisons, since the spanreeds stopped functioning. While ordering her scribes to move to the map room, she learned from Dabbid that the Sibling spoke to him through veins of crystal in the tower walls.{{book ref|sa4|39}}
 
In the map room, Navani found Kholin forces gathered around a map of the tower. The officers reported that every Radiant in the tower was unconscious, with singers invading from the lowest and highest levels of the tower. Navani told them that their best hope was fighting their way to the pillar room in the basement. On her orders, Battalionlord [[Teofil]] mobilized his soldiers and sent them to the lower floors. As he began relaying Navani's commands to the soldiers, Navani found a vein of crystal in the wall. She spoke directly to the Sibling, who reported that [[Raboniel]] had corrupted the tower's defenses. Though the Sibling expressed their distaste for Navani and her experiments, they told her how to activate a final line of defense against the singers.{{book ref|sa4|40}}
 
Navani's contingent made their way down to the pillar room, using a fake rout and an ambush to lure away the Fused.{{book ref|sa4|41}} Accompanied by her attendants, she made her way to the bottom floors of Urithiru. Dabbid helped her find a vein of crystal that the Sibling could send messages through. The Sibling ordered Navani to infuse the topaz connected to the crystal vein. With the help of two Thaylen scholars, [[Vrandl]] and [[Ulvlk]], she used a tuning fork and strategic vibrations to siphon stormlight into the uninfused topaz. The infused topaz opened a hidden chamber with another large gemstone.{{book ref|sa4|42}}
 
With her team's help, Navani began siphoning stormlight into the second gemstone. She communicated with the Sibling, who reported that Teofil and his men had fallen to the Fused. The fully infused gemstone activated a shield around the gemstone pillar that formed the Sibling's heart. Navani then surrendered to the singers and negotiated the terms with Raboniel. Though Raboniel offered to hire her as a research assistant, Navani said she would deliberate it with her scholars first.{{book ref|sa4|43}}
 
{{image|Navani by Charneco.jpg|side=right|width=300px|Journey before destination, you bastard}}
=== Occupation of Urithiru ===
 
On the first day of the occupation, Navani told Raboniel that she and her scholars would accept their offer. Pleased, Raboniel asked Navani to sketch the schematics of Fourth Bridge's flying platform. While sketching, Navani realized with help from Raboniel that Soulcasters, the tower's elevators, and other abnormal fabrials were comprised directly of spren, instead of powered by spren trapped in gemstones.{{book ref|sa4|46}}
 
Under the watchful eye of singer guards, Navani directed her scholars to occupy themselves with busy work and revisions as a stalling tactic. When Raboniel cut her off from direct contact with her scholars, she instructed them to continue researching Voidlight fabrials and sent them nonsense ciphered messages to occupy Raboniel's spies. She continued to communicate with the Sibling, using the Sibling's awareness of the tower to get information on Raboniel and deciding that her most important goal was to protect the Sibling. They were distrustful of her, both because of her use of fabrials and her human ability to twist words convincingly, but helped her contact Kaladin, updating him on their situation.{{book ref|sa4|49}} However, this method of communication was turned against her when she convinced the Sibling to give her the location of the node in the well, only to discover that Raboniel had been listening in on their conversations. Kaladin managed to destroy the node, but the Sibling felt betrayed and refused to talk to Navani for a while. Raboniel brought her food and wine, and they had a conversation about the history of the conflict between humans and singers and Raboniel's desire to end the war at any cost.
 
When Navani mentioned no longer wishing to do research under Raboniel, Raboniel appealed to her curiosity and convinced her to continue. They began collaborating, and Navani came to a realization about how using Honor's, Odium's, and Cultivation's rhythms could affect the Light. Raboniel taught her Honor's rhythm, and with Raboniel singing Odium's rhythm at the same time as Navani sang Honor's, they were able to create Warlight, the combination of Stormlight and Voidlight, for the first time, as well as a rhythm that Raboniel titled the Rhythm of War. Navani then realized Raboniel's true desire for the experiments - to find anti-Light - and knew that Gavilar's strange sphere was an example of this anti-Light, although she did not reveal that.{{book ref|sa4|76}} As a thank you for the breakthrough of the production of Warlight Rabionel had two singer musicians play the tones of Honor and Odium on plates temporarily affixed to Navani's desk she also granted Navani the title "Voice of Lights". Afterward, Rabionel seemingly ended their collaboration stating that she needed to focus on finishing the corruption of the Sibling. Rabionel also gave Navani free reign to continue experiments on her own and provided any resource requested.
 
With Rabionel distancing herself to focus on defeating the Sibling's shield Navani toils for days on the concept of anti-Voidlight. Utilizing the same plates that Rabionel rewarded her for she begins to conceptualize sound waves and the patterns that the distinct lights create. Further delving into music theory she theorizes that the anti-Voidlight rhythm would sound identical to the ear as the regular Voidlight rhythm. Eventually she is successful at creating a plate that produces the correct rhythm. Rabionel returns and upon realizing what Navani is working on forces her to reveal her research. The two are then successful at creating an anti-Voidlight gem utilizing a vacuum tube to isolate the light from the Rhythms of Roshar. Rabionel, understanding the implications of the breakthrough betrays Navani once again and begins to manufacture anti-Stormlight with the intention of killing the incapacitated Radiants along with their spren.
 
A day later she is visited by Moash, who has every intention of killing her but is redirected by Raboniel who sends him to deal with Kaladin first. Navani, left to her own devices once again, finds the dagger Raboniel used to kill her daughter with, some anti-Voidlight still left in its gem. She plans and prepares fabrial traps, and is able to get the jump on Raboniel, gravely injuring her with the anti-Voidlight dagger, but fails to kill her on the spot. This failure proves fortuitous because when Moash comes back for Navani, Raboniel is able to hold him off just long enough for Navani to negotiate a bond with the Sibling. A freshly bonded Bondsmith, Navani drives Moash away, restores and Tower, and sends the invaders running for their lives.
 
== Relationships ==
|Extract from Navani on her book.{{book ref|sa1|45}}
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During the Unification of Alethkar, Navani was a good partner to Gavilar., Helpinghelping him with the strategy and creating/executing plots that would help their cause.{{book ref|sa1|19}}
 
Ever since those years,Though Navani alreadyhad showedbeen passioninterested forin sprenfabrials andher fabrialentire research.life, Gavilar wasshared notwith interestedhis though;brother she’da spokenlack withof suchinterest passionin andthe excitementmechanics, andonly Gavilarcaring hadabout ignoredthe herfunction.{{book ref|sa1|36}}
 
At first, Navani and Gavilar were close, but they grew apart as time went by, with Gavilar doing things such as inviting renowned artifabrians to feasts and not speaking a word of it to Navani. This culminated in an argument between them on the night of his death after which Navani burnt a glyphward praying for his death, one of the finest she had ever created. When she heard of the news of his death, she first thought that he had disappeared somewhere with [[Nale]] and [[Kalak]], only believing that he was dead after seeing his corpse for herself. Although she worried that her lack of grief would gain her a reputation for callousness, it instead provided a solid foundation for the grieving royal staff. Though she threatened to tell the entire world the truth about him in her biography of him, she instead told the story that was expected, as the truth would fracture the country.{{book ref|sa4|prologue}}
They may have been close at one time, but she implied that they grew apart in the time leading up to his death.
 
=== Dalinar ===
{{image|True Love by Artur Mosca.jpg|side=right|width=250px|Marrying [[Dalinar]]}}
 
Navani and Dalinar were friends before he introduced her to Gavilar. At that point it seems they were both interested in her. Navani chose Gavilar over Dalinar because she found Dalinar to be frightening.{{book ref|sa1|28}}
 
When Navani returns to the Shattered Plains from Kholinar, she frequently speaks with Dalinar, and later becomes romantically involved with him, which is unusual, because in the eyes of Alethi society, she is now considered to be Dalinar's sister.{{book ref|sa1|22}} Part of what Navani finds intriguing about him is that he's begun to ''be'' the person the others all ''claim'' to be.{{book ref|sa1|28}} She now finds Dalinar's intensity, which frightened her when they both were younger, to be fascinating because he's now wrapped it in emotional armor.{{book ref|sa1|28}}
 
Navani believes Dalinar to be a kind man,{{book ref|sa1|28}} and a bit overprotective.{{book ref|sa2|35}} She never mocks Dalinar, never acts skeptical of that which he reveals in his visions.{{book ref|sa1|58}}
 
When she learns of his "death" at the [[Battle of the Tower]], upon receipt of the news of [[Torol Sadeas|Sadeas]]'s betrayal, Navani worried about Dalinar, as he had no daughters and no wife, meaning he had no one to pray for him. So, Navani endeavors to paint a prayer in [[glyph]] format upon the stones of the Plains. She creates a wish out of despair, a plea out of anguish: ''Thath'': Justice.{{book ref|sa1|69}}
 
After he came back, he decided not to keep the relationship a secret, and they became a couple; not only personally but as leaders of the war and kingdom. She had a way with him, translating scholarship into battle tactics, that helped them understand each other. She also made sure he did not hate the other Alethi princes, but to see them as his people.{{book ref|sa1|67}} Their wedding ceremony was carried out by the Stormfather.{{book ref|sa3|4}}
 
=== Jasnah ===
Jasnah believes her mother to havehas a tendency toward the overwhelming.{{book ref|sa2|1}} She does not let her mother 'mother' her.{{book ref|sa2|5}} Navani knows it. She would try to get close to her daughter, and there was a ''coldness'', like even being near her mother reminded Jasnah that she had once been a child. She wonders what happened to her little girl, so full of questions.{{book ref|sa2|67}}
 
Navani knows Jasnah better that anyone else, but wishes she had some sense to go with her intelligence.{{book ref|sa2|14}} She believes that Jasnah never did have the decency to be ''wrong'' an appropriate amount of the time.
To Shallan, Navani looks like a version of Jasnah twenty years older; still pretty, though with a motherly air.{{book ref|sa2|38}}
After learning of her daughter's death from Shallan, Navani refuses to see her, or have anything to do with her. She even accused her of dooming her when she burned the ship with her "unconscious".{{book ref|sa2|56}}
 
{{quote
| Shallan was apparently no longer an outsider, but one of Navani’s clutch - and Chana help the man or woman who stood between Navani and one of her own.
|Dalinar after Shallan emerged from the chasms{{book ref|sa2|75}}
}}
 
Their relationship changed dramatically after she survived the fall to the chasms. Upon her return, Navani became motherly and protective of her. She became one of her own.{{book ref|sa2|75}}
 
At the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]], Adolin seeks Navani to protect her and give her the news on Elhokar's death. He provided her comfort.{{book ref|sa3|120}}
 
{{image|Raboniel and Navani by Viridializard.jpeg|side=right|width=250px}}
=== Raboniel ===
Navani agrees, when pressured, to work under Raboniel and research the different types of Light. She calls Raboniel Ancient One as directed when they first meet, and although she does not trust her, shares her findings in the name of scientific discovery. She is interested in the scientific and historical insights Raboniel has to offer, but understands that they are enemies. However, this distinction becomes more difficult for her to remember as their relationship progresses and they spend more time together. Navani gains a deeper understanding of Raboniel's motivations and emotions, especially when she sees Raboniel grieve over [[Essu]], and even begins to recognize her rhythms.
 
Raboniel respects Navani and her scientific mind, saying she is in debt to Navani {{book ref|sa4|76}} and giving her the title Voice of Lights as a sign of respect. She often compliments Navani on her intelligence and scientific discoveries, but Navani is uncomfortable with this praise as she does not believe herself deserving of it.
 
Navani attempts to kill Raboniel, but it is a very difficult decision for her. When she ends up killing Raboniel out of mercy, she comforts her by humming the Rhythm of War one final time and holding her hand. Navani genuinely mourns Raboniel after her death.
 
== Quotes ==
|Navani to Dalinar on the Highprinces of Alethkar{{book ref|sa1|31}}
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{{quote|Journey before destination, you bastard!”|Navani to [[Moash]]/Vyre {{book ref|sa4|105}}}}
{{quote
{{quote|Journey before destination, you bastard!”|Navani to [[Moash]]/Vyre {{book ref|sa4|105}}}}
|Navani to [[Moash]]{{book ref|sa4|105}}
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== Trivia ==
* Navani is an orthodox theist.{{wob ref|3860}} She’s a traditionalist, who wants the old religion to really work, who is trying to reconcile this with newer discoveries.{{wob ref|1695}}
* She is a few months older than Dalinar.{{wob ref|5569}}
* Navani would make a better Amyrlin than Jasnah for most of the history of Tar Valon.{{wob ref|14930}}
 
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