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== History ==
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He was childhood friends with [[Adrotagia]] and his nickname was '''Vargo'''.{{book ref|sa2|i|14}}▼
When Taravangian was born, the surgeon said there was a chord around his neck. He made public that he might have diminished capacity and the recommendation was to keep him on outer estates in favor of others. Though the diminished capacity was not present, the reputation followed him all his life. {{book ref|sa3|i|5}}
▲He was childhood friends with
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 [[Diagram]] ===
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]]. Taravangian creates a secret society that interpret the diagram and plots to fulfill those interpretations.
=== Death Rattles ===
Taravangian runs 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.
=== Raise to King of Jah Keved ===
The diagram shows that to save human kind, he needs to unite Roshar under his rule. The first path is Jah Keved and per the scripts he needed to gain possession of Szeth's Oathstone {{book ref|twok|i|6}}.
He is able to do so and orders Szeth to kill a number of world leaders, including Hanavanar, the king of Jah Keved, as well as various other highprinces of Jah Keved.
The power vacuum in Jah Keved resulted in a devastating succession war, which wiped out all of the remaining highprinces. Taravangian arrived at the city in time for the death of the last Veden Highprince Valam who named him king of Jah Keved. His first step to uniting humanity was complete.
Taravangian is able to fullfil his plot without anyone suspecting his intervention. They believe he was given the title as an act of spite from Valam and accept Taravangian as King {{book ref|sa3|12}}.
=== Dalinar’s coalition of Roshar ===
One of the Diagrams interpretation results in the request to kill Dalinar and Taravangian sends Seth to kill him. During the Battle of Narak, Seth goes after him but is beaten by Kaladin. Shortly after, Szeth discovers he is not Truthless, and forsakes his oathstone, Taravangian loses his allegiance.
After this failure, Taravangian decides to move closer to Daliar. He is the first and only King to answer and unite with Dalinar [12] and moves to Urithiru. When he finds out no other King will be part of the coalition, he recommends invasion {{book ref|sa3|24}}. After his surprise on Dalinar’s negotiation strategy, he agrees to follow him and eventually moves with him to Thaylen city. {{book ref|sa3|58}}
Though he seems to work with Dalinar, he is secretly plotting to gain political advantage. He bursts the market by sending supplies via Jah Keved, he has his Radiant working the oath gate{{book ref|sa3|29}} and he sends merchant ships to Thaylen City with healers. He shared their knowledge in fabrials with Navani{{book ref|sa3|96}} and let them know of technology that will create half-shards {{book ref|sa3|65}}.
After having another brilliant day, he decides that the best action is to take Dalinar’s place on the Coalition and after will push for the its collapse. He believes this will make Odium meet his agreements and save “what he can, abandon the rest”. {{book ref|sa3|i|5}}.
Though he was dismissed or not needed on the tactic meetings where the defense for Jah Keved was being planned, he was secretly plotting to find secrets that will destroy Dalinar. He sends his Radiant’s spren Spark to spy on him and along with his scholars and other diagram followers is able to pull a very strong strategy.
During a meeting with all the other kingdom’s representatives, where they figure out that the strike of the enemy would be Thaylen City, he stroke by leaking three facts. {{book ref|sa3|111}}
1) Elhokar had sworn to Dalinar as High King, and though this was meant to be as an Alethkar political tactic, some other Kingdoms felt threatened that Dalinar would ask the same from them.
2) The vision where Dalinar meets with Odium and threatens on destroying the world. This causes conflict with using powers that can´t be controlled, in this case, Dalinar’s.
3) The translation of the dawnchants proving that the voidbringers are really the humans, putting the war’s legitimacy in question.
This was enough to destroy most of the coalition and only the Thaylan queen stayed with Dalinar.
=== Battle of Thaylen Field and Aftermath ===
Taravangian was decided to ensure Dalinar’s failure at Thaylen. By the time Odium strikes them, he and his people had already left and had retrieved their ships. He also wrote to the singers and opened the gate to Urithiru to attack there and avoid them from sending help to Thaylen. {{book ref|sa3|121}}
Much to Taravangian’s surprise, Dalinar and his allies win the battle and after doing so confronts him. He comes clean on several plots including his plotting to take the throne of Jah Keved, Szeth and knowledge of the desolation. He however kept to himself the existence of the Diagram or that he brought the singers to Urithiru. Though Dalinar would never trust him again as before, this does clear the air and their relationship is not fully broken. {{book ref|sa3|121}}
Eight days after the battle, on a day where he was not so smart the received the visit from Odium, who looked Shin, tall and with a scepter. Taravangian tried to convince him that he only wants to serve him or to visit him another day, but Odium sees through him and asks him not to prostrate. He explained he would visit him on a day of idiocy as he would never let him negotiate from a position of power and made an agreement with him.
The agreement would trade his help by sharing the diagram’s information (through he could not read Renarin´s participation) and giving him the honor blade in exchange for sparing the people from Kharbranth (city itself, any humans born into it, along with their spouses).{{book ref|sa3|121}}
== The Diagram ==
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