Difference between revisions of "Taravangian"

Taravangian is an aged man with a wrinkled, clean-shaven face. He has pale grey eyes and an open, kindly face.{{book ref|sa3|24}} He lives with perpetual aches in his body, and has other symptoms of old age.

 

He is popular among many for providing free access to city hospitals funded by an admittance fee to the [[Palanaeum]].{{book ref|sa1|7}} He is known to visit the hospitals on a weekly basis.{{book ref|sa1|48}} He was said to be a kindly if somewhat simple man. Perfect to rule a small city-state with the help of a council.{{book ref|sa3|12}} All his life he has been quiet and humble, because of this some people considered him to be slow witted,{{book ref|sa3|16}} however people who knew him better know he had a keen intelligence until his "illness" 5 years before the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]].{{book ref|sa3|21}} The "illness" is really a consequence of a visit to the [[Nightwatcher]] who granted him great intelligence and great compassion, but cursed him to never have them at the same time. As a result, he wakes up every morning with a fluctuation of both. These fluctuations will cause him to spend some days crying and having compassion for everyone around him, but unable to have intelligent conversations,{{book ref|sa3|107}} and other days he would be brilliant but would easily talk of killing singing children.{{book ref|sa3|i|5}}

 

| Our law will claim innocent men-for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.

| Taravangian to Dalinar on executing three murderers and one innocent{{book ref|sa3|28}}

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