Difference between revisions of "Talnah"

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Talnah is one of Queen [[Navani]]'s most versatile and trusted scholars. She worked as a jeweler before turning to optical lenses, and is an expert on a variety of subjects including [[polestone]]s, lensmaking, weather readings, and astronomy.{{book ref|sa4|16}}{{book ref|sa4|38}}

During the [[True Desolation]], Talnah was a member of [[Navani]]'s team of [[artifabrian]]s and scholars in [[Urithiru]]. In {{Rosharan date|1175}}, she and [[Nem]] were tasked by [[Navani]] with studying the [[black sphere]] that [[Gavilar]] had given to [[Szeth]].{{book ref|sa4|16}} At the time, [[anti-Voidlight]] was not well-understood; as Talnah and MemNem experimented with the sphere, they inadvertently caused an explosion that destroyed their lab, killing them both. Navani knew that she could not have reasonably expected a sphere to explode, but she still blamed herself for their deaths. She asked [[Rushu]] to perform a detailed forensic analysis on the lab.{{book ref|sa4|38}}