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'''Navani Kholin''' is a [[Brightlady]] of [[Alethkar]] 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]]
== Appearance and Personality ==
=== Personality ===
As the dowager queen, Navani often challenges [[Alethi]] protocol.{{book ref|sa1|22}} She is known for her ability to learn everything of significance through gossip, no matter where she travels.{{book ref|sa1|22}} She is not overly judgmental, but is not above pointing out the obvious.{{book ref|sa1|28}} She is known for her confidence, to the point that she is not afraid to match words with [[Hoid|Wit]].{{book ref|sa1|12}} She believes in being blunt, especially when working with scholars.{{book ref|sa2|35}} Despite this, Navani is also known for her discretion. A scholar at heart, she keeps exacting notes and is well organized.
Having lived much of her life as a queen, Navani is a creature of politics. She is deftly able to navigate the Alethi political sphere when she chooses to.{{book ref|sa1|22}} However, as she has grown older, Navani has become disillusioned with politics and has begun to chafe at the traditional place for a brightlady.{{book ref|sa1|69}} As the dowager queen, she believes that no one cares about her actions and would pass off any extreme actions as eccentricity.{{book ref|sa2|35}}
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|109}} 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}}
After Gavilar's death at the hands of [[Szeth]], Navani was left without a defined position in Alethi society as her son assumed the throne.
War against the [[Parshendi]], who claimed responsibility for the assassination, started in retaliation for it. Much of Alethi society moved to the [[Shattered Plains]] to fight them.{{book ref|sa1|Prologue}} Initially, she stayed in Kholinar to aid Elhokar's wife, [[Aesudan Kholin|Aesudan]], in ruling the kingdom.
[[File:Fervent Prayer by Antti Hakosaari.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Burning a [[glyphward]] during the [[Battle of the Tower]] <small>by {{a|Antti Hakosaari}}</small> ]]
=== Uniting Roshar ===
Once at Urithiru, she continues to transcribe the visions in much more detail now that Dalinar could replay them at will. After Odium manifests on one vision, he decides the next action is unite all of Roshar and asks Navani to help him. He believes that his tenacity and her brilliance together, will convince the other kingdoms to join with them.
She and Dalinar get married through the Stormfather who is happy to encourage any types of oaths.{{book ref|sa3|4}}
The unification of Roshar did not go as they expected. Only Taravangian from Kharbranth answered back with support. Navani was the main political voice talking to each leader.{{book ref|sa3|24}}
When Dalinar found out that he could bring people into his visions, Navani, along with Jasnah were the first ones to go in. They arrived at the Aharietiam, the Last Desolation. In the beginning Navani was mostly wondering of the place, how real it looked and even bullied a radiant to show him his fabrial. Later however, when they started to see more about that day, she started asking about the Parshmen and later the Honorblades. The Stormfather finally confided in them the truth about that day and how the Heralds decided not to go back and stop the Desolations, at least for a time.
Navani led also the research of Urithiru itself and found the patters on the gemstones, which opened the code for understanding recorded phrases of the last Radiants who lived at Urithiru.
Eventually, after playing different strategies like setting leaders/key people into visions,
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 wanted 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. Thaylen 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 Thaylen 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.
=== Battle of Thaylen Field and aftermath ===
== Relationships ==
=== Gavilar ===
{{quote
|My husband was an excellent king -- an inspiring leader, an unparalleled duelist, and a genius of battlefield tactics. But he didn't have a single scholarly finger on his left hand. He never showed an interest in the accounting of highstorms, was bored by talk of science, and ignored fabrials unless they had an obvious use in battle. He was a man built after the classical masculine ideal.
|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. Helping him with the strategy and creating/executing plots that would help their cause.
Ever since those years, Navani already showed passion for spren and fabrial research. Gavilar was not interested though; she’d spoken with such passion and excitement, and Gavilar had ignored her.{{book ref|sa1|36}}
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
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}}
He believes he loves her the most for being open and genuine in a society that prided itself on secrets. She’d been breaking taboos, and hearts, since their youth.{{book ref|sa3|1}}
Dalinar confided in Navani all he remembered of her visit to the Nightwatcher, she was very supportive. When he started to get his memories back she researched the Old Magic to try to understand why it was happening; but in more than three hundred cases all effects lasted till death.
After the battle of Thaylen, he requests Navani to teach him how to read and write. She does and also helps him with the writing of his autobiography.
=== Jasnah ===
=== Elhokar ===
Navani loves her son, but doesn't consider him a capable king; she calls him her "poor distracted, oblivious boy".{{book ref|sa1|40}} She acknowledges that he is seen as weak, and intends to see him protected despite himself, if necessary.{{book ref|sa1|22}} In spite of Elhokar's feeling towards Dalinar, he gives them his blessing for the wedding and a sincere hug as he knows it will make his mother happy{{book ref|sa3|4}}
=== Shallan ===
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}}
Their relationship changed dramatically after she survived the fall to the
Navani admits to Shallan that she's been ignoring things, things that she should not, because they bring her pain. Shallan apologizes to her, but Navani insists that Shallan has nothing to apologize for. Navani finds Shallan's organization of her notes on Jasnah's findings interesting. Navani acknowledges to Shallan that she thinks like an artist, that she can see it in the way Shallan put her notes together.{{book ref|sa2|77}}
=== Adolin ===
Navani and [[Adolin]] are very close. He is very polite with asking questions on her fabrials, though he is bored by the scholarship, he usually enjoys the military use he can use for them.
She burned prayers for him when dueling and made fun of his superstitious rituals before the duel.{{book ref|sa2|14}} She also persuaded Adolin to at least consider an engagement with Shallan.
At first, Adolin was not very happy with the relationship between his father and Navani, mostly because it would place his father in an inconvenient position when it came to enforcing the codes.{{book ref|sa1|35}} He later becomes supportive of the wedding, shown by his whooping and the joyspren he trailed as he ran.{{book ref|sa3|4
At the
== Quotes ==
{{quote
|You two are a pair of nails in the same doorframe. Stern, hard, and storming annoying to pull free.
|Navani to Dalinar on him and Jasnah
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{{quote
|You loathe their excess, and you are close to applying that emotion to them as well. They live the lives they have known, the lives that society has taught them are proper. You won’t change them with contempt. You aren’t Wit; it isn’t your job to scorn them. Your job is to enfold them, encourage them. Lead them, Dalinar.
|Navani to Dalinar on the Highprinces of Alethkar
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{{quote
|Order from chaos. Find the structure here and start building upon it.
|Navani to herself when trying to get the
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