Turinad Sebarial

Turinad Sebarial
by Sheep
Family Ancestors Sadees
Titles	Highprince of Alethkar, Highprince of Commerce
Groups	Sebarial army
Residence	Urithiru
Nationality	Alethi
Homeworld	Roshar
Universe	Cosmere

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“I hate [the other highprinces]. But I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone particularly deserving. ”

—Sebarial to Shallan Davar

Highprince Turinad Sebarial is a highprince of Alethkar on Roshar. His banner, colored gold on black, consists of the sebes and laial glyphs stylized as a skyeel.

Sebarial's princedom lies in southern Alethkar. A large force of civilians and only a minimum of soldiers comprise his commerce-centric warcamp at the Shattered Plains; his is the southernmost warcamp, approximately an hour from Dalinar's via carriage.

Appearance and Personality

Sebarial is plump and bearded. He is outwardly a very obnoxious, rude, lazy, and vulgar man and comes across as a fool, though he is actually quite intelligent and very sly. He avoids publicly showing his interest in Alethi politics, but privately he does pay some attention.

Though Sebarial himself is not very religious, his ardents are quite devout. Likewise, though he himself is useless in battle, he sees to it that his soldiers are well trained. Sebarial's genius is that he knows how to hire the right people for a job.

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History

Vengeance Pact

“You sly eel. While the others fight a war, you’ve been building an economy. ”

—Shallan to Sebarial

Sebarial accompanied the other Alethi highprinces to the Shattered Plains in pursuit of the Vengeance Pact. However, because he recognized that the battles for the gemhearts meant Alethkar would never completely abandon the warcamps, he preferred to focus on building mills, farms, and other manufactories in lieu of participating in plateau runs; his burgeoning economy supported markets, fully constructed tenements, and even lavis fields to the southwest of the camp. His warcamp, reflecting his prediction of Alethkar's semi-permanent presence there, was built much more like a city than any of the others, with straight streets and buildings designed with rounded roofs, corners, and sides to better repel winds from highstorms.

After the Assassin in White's first attempt on, ostensibly, King Elhokar's life, the king and the highprinces convened to discuss matters. Sebarial, whose contributions to the meeting were confined to snacking and making pithy remarks, was faced with an unexpected opportunity when Shallan Davar arrived in the middle of the meeting; seeking a way to avoid living under Dalinar's watchful eye, she alleged that Sebarial had been the first to offer her a place to stay on the Shattered Plains. Having observed the way the others had been trying to snatch her up, he claimed a distant relation to Shallan and confirmed her story. After sharing a carriage ride back to his warcamp, Sebarial gave Shallan rooms in his manor and a position as one of his clerks tasked with organizing his personal finances.

Sebarial spent a fair amount of his time in idleness, avoiding putting his ledgers in order or seeing to other details of organizing his household. He did attend important functions, including Adolin's duel against four other Shardbearers, but was otherwise noted for shirking his responsibilities. Because of this, Dalinar was shocked when Sebarial brought his army to join him on his expedition to Stormseat to end the war with the Parshendi and discover Urithiru.

Battle of Narak

“ I've got a feeling about you, Dalinar old man. I think it's wise to stay close to you. Something's going to happen out there on the Plains, and opportunity rises like the dawn. ”

— Sebarial to Dalinar

Though Sebarial did not partake in fighting personally, he participated in tactical planning sessions as they moved towards the city of Narak. When the battle arrived, Dalinar ordered him to stay in the command tent and gave Teleb command of his army with Rust and Serugiadis, two other Shardbearers, to help him. Sebarial seemed ironically comforted to see through Dalinar's confident front that he had shown the other highprinces.

When it became clear that the Parshendi had successfully summoned an Everstorm and the Alethi knew they needed to get onto the Oathgate plateau, Sebarial managed to organize his and Roion's armies into an orderly march onto the plateau before sitting down with Palona to eat fruit and drink some wine from Dalinar's stores. He and the other survivors moved into Urithiru and shortly sent word to the warcamps summoning the inhabitants to the tower; his warcamp emptied as everyone obeyed.

Relationships

Palona

“Bah! Woman, you make me the most henpecked man in all of Alethkar, and I'm not even storming married! ”

—Sebarial to Palona

Palona is Sebarial's Herdazian mistress. She calls him "Turi." And also sometimes "the idiot." She has a much more active hand in running the day-to-day workings of the manor that Sebarial does. They enjoy witty banter and seem genuinely fond of each other despite their outward griping. Palona perfectly complements Sebarial's dichotomy of outward indolence masking inward cleverness with her own lack of arrogance as she takes full advantage of her wealth.

Shallan

“It could be worse... I could be boring as well as expensive. ”

—Shallan to Sebarial

Shallan Davar maneuvers Sebarial into hosting her when she arrives on the Shattered Plains, gambling that he would agree to take her in if he sees it as an opportunity to get one up on Dalinar. He claims a distant relation to her, and she begins calling him "Uncle Sebarial." She also specifies a large weekly stipend of three broams, which Palona ensures that they pay. Shallan cleans up Sebarial's ledgers for him and lures him with information on Urithiru in the event she needs to rely on him to get out onto the Shattered Plains herself.

Quotes

“ Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense. If we find riches, remember that I get my part! I got here before Aladar. That has to count for something. ”

— Sebarial to Dalinar, Roion, and Amaram

“ Trust a coward to know the smartest way to stay out of fighting. ”

— Sebarial about Roion.

Notes

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