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{{character
|image=TES - Ashravan.jpg
|titles=Emperor of the [[Rose Empire]]
▲|siblings=younger brother|spouse=[[Kurshina]]
|groups={{tag|Heritage Faction}}
|books=[[The Emperor’s Soul]]▼
|birthplace=Ukurgi
|ethnicity=Grand
|world=Sel
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
}}
'''Ashravan''' of the Eighty Suns
== Appearance and Personality ==
<gallery caption="Images of Ashravan">
== Early Life ==▼
TES - Ashravan.jpg | Portrait by [[User: Botanicaxu]]
He had a younger brother who died when Ashravan was six.{{ref|b|tes|day|12}} He idolized his brother, but kept his feelings secret due to a belief that his brother would have made a better emperor. His brother’s fondness for green is the reason it is Ashravan’s favorite color.{{ref|b|tes|day|30}}▼
TES Full Cast.jpeg | The Emperor's Soul by [[User: Botanicaxu]]
</gallery>
Despite being known to have a temper, he is a humble man and an idealist at heart.{{tes ref|30}}{{tes ref|42}} He loves to write terrible poetry and enjoys a good debate. He is arrogant, but secretly wishes he could be something other than what he became.{{tes ref|59}} He hates fish but does enjoy hearing himself give speeches.{{tes ref|70}}{{tes ref|epilogue}}
At some point Ashravan began to keep a private journal, perhaps to reflect on the choices he had made. He left instructions to have it burned on his death.{{ref|b|tes|day|17}}▼
==
▲=== Early Life ===
{{quote|I have decided, at long last, to agree to the demands of my faction. I will offer myself for the position of emperor, as Gaotona has so often encouraged. |Excerpt from Ashravan’s personal journal}}▼
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According to Gaotona, Ashravan originally became emperor out of a desire to change the empire such as the favoritism shown to the [[Grand]]s.{{ref|b|tes|day|30}} Over time however, his desire waned.{{ref|b|tes|day|42}} Ashravan was swept up in the bureaucracy of an empire that worked, if not perfectly, than well enough. He focused more on the beauty of it all instead of its problems and gave the arbiters more and more control.{{ref|b|tes|day|59}}▼
▲At some point Ashravan began to keep a private journal, perhaps to reflect on the choices he
Despite the urgings of Gaotona, his mentor, being a significant factor in his becoming emperor, Ashravan eventually grew to resent Gaotona because he felt inadequate.{{ref|b|tes|day|70}}▼
===
{{quote
One night a group of assassins, agents of the [[Glory Faction]], broken into the emperor’s rooms and attacked him and his wife, Kurshina{{85, who was killed. He sustained an injury to the head and although a [[Resealing|Resealer]] was able to heal the wound, the emperor was left brain-dead. The arbiters of the Heritage Faction kept the emperor’s status a secret by saying he had sequestered himself during the mourning period for his wife. The arbiters then tasked the Forger [[Wan ShaiLu]] to create a new soul for the emperor before the one hundred days of mourning were over. {{ref|b|tes|day|2}}▼
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|Excerpt from Ashravan's personal journal{{tes ref|17}}
}}
After the death of Emperor [[Yazad]], Ashravan is chosen to lead the empire.{{tes ref|17}}
Shai used a number of sources for the Soul Forgery, such as official histories, Ashravan’s personal journal and interviews of his friends and family.{{ref|b|tes|day|17}} The arbiter Gaotona volunteered himself as a test subject for stamps of minor portions of Ashravan’s soul.{{ref|b|tes|day|30}}▼
▲According to Gaotona, Ashravan originally became emperor out of a desire to change parts of the empire such as the favoritism shown to the [[Grand]]s.{{tes ref
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=== The Emperor's New Soul ===
▲One night, a group of assassins, agents of the [[Glory Faction]],
▲Shai used a number of sources for the Soul Forgery, such as official histories,
On the ninety-eighth day of the mourning period, Shai succeeded in creating a soulstamp that replicated Ashravan's original soul with which he would have to be re-stamped each day. She snuck into his rooms and stamped him, waking him and restoring his mind. Ashravan allowed Shai to escape his rooms. Later he spoke with Gaotona and figured out, in the course of the conversation, what had been wrong with him.{{tes ref|98}} He then addressed the arbiters, laying to rest the rumors of his illness and promising to seek justice for his wife's murder. Buried in the stamp, however, were also certain triggers that Shai had added to help nudge Ashravan into becoming the emperor he had always dreamed of being, causing him in the next years to pore over his old journals and rediscover his old ideals.{{tes ref|101}}
== Trivia ==
* Ashravan seems to be named after the concept of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashavan Ashavan] from the Zoroastrian faith. This is backed by Brandon actively being influenced by ancient Zoroastrian words for Rose Empire names.{{wob ref|2857}}
== Notes ==
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|title=Emperor of the [[Rose Empire]]
|prev=[[Yazad]]
|this=49th
|next=''incumbent''
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