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Taravangian meets Battahelin, a Herald who said that the true desolation is close. He visits the Nightwatcher asking for "the capacity to save humankind."
=== The Nightwatcher and the creation of the
Taravangian asked the Nightwatcher for "the capacity to save humankind." He was granted great intelligence and great compassion, but the curse of not having them at the same time. As a result, he wakes up every morning with a fluctuation of both.
On his day of greatest genius, "20 hours of lucid insanity" he covered every surface of his bedroom in hieroglyphics he invented that day. They offer a brutal path for humanity's survival and he believes this is the Nightwatcher's response to saving human kind. {{book ref|sa2|i|14}}
The writing was transcribed and annotated into a book by [[Adrotagia]] and other scribes. The book came to be known as the [[Diagram (literature)|Diagram]]. Taravangian creates a secret society that interpret the diagram and plots to fulfill those interpretations.
One of the first things he does are "Death Rattles". These were run at a secret hospital hidden in his palace filled with hundreds of beds for the terminally ill, poor, and forgotten who will not be missed. The patients are slowly killed by draining their blood so the {{book ref|twok|71}} Silent Gatherers {{book ref|twok|endnote}} can record cryptic supernatural sentences spoken in the seconds before death by some of the victims. {{epigraph ref|twok|Death Delirium Quotes|text=Death Delirium Quotes}} Through these Death Rattles, Taravangian hopes to gain information with which he can update the Diagram.
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