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=== Visiting the Nightwatcher ===
Taravangian once went to go visit the [[Nightwatcher]] and received a curse and boon from the [[Old Magic]]. He asked the Nightwatcher for "the capacity to save humankind." As a result he wakes up every morning with a fluctuation in intelligence, sometimes resulting in a genius and sometimes an idiot. He is most often average and the probability of him being more or less intelligent decreases the more extreme the case (following standard deviation percentages of a bell curve). Every morning he takes an intelligence test that he devised for himself on intelligent days. The test takes the better part of an hour and is made up of mathematical problems. A trio of stormwardens consult regarding his answers and decide his intelligence for the day. The stormwardens as well as [[Mrall]], his head bodyguard, also decide if he is fit to rule and what restrictions he will be subject too. He is restricted to his room on both his worst and best of days because during both he tends to make irrational regulation. He also tends to be more compassionate the less intelligent he is.
=== Assassination of Gavilar Kholin ===
Taravangian has surprising knowledge of the Shin and the Shin language, which is rare outside of Shinovar.{{book ref|twok|71}} He also knows women's script. He has also solved Fabrisan's Conundrum.▼
== The Diagram ==
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| Taravangian worshipped only one god now. It was the man he had been on that day.
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On Taravangian's most brilliant day he engaged in "20 hours of lucid insanity" that he had no memory of later. In his bedroom, in a language that he devised that day, he wrote on the walls, ceiling, and nearly any surface he could reach. He wrote of the coming [[True Desolation]] and devised a plan for humanity's survival.
The writing was transcribed into a book and annotated by Adrotagia and other scribed and came to be known as the [[Diagram]]. Taravangian revers the book as though holy.{{book ref|sa2|i|14}}
▲He had some connection with Gavilar and spoke with him the night of his assassination. Gavilar confided in him that he has seen visions of the Almighty and that the Almighty is now dead. Gavilar also insisted that the world would need to be united if men are to survive-which Taravangian took very seriously. Because he knows that the Almighty is dead he does not trust gods or religion anymore. He claims to only put his trust in himself and his pure genius.
== Implementing the Diagram ==
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|The Diagram, and its members, knew no boundaries.
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He leads a secret group also known as the Diagram which seeks to implement the plan devised by Taravangian. The group is ruthless, willing to kill directly, or indirectly, as many as necessary to achieve its goals.
=== Death Rattles ===
▲Taravangian has surprising knowledge of the Shin and the Shin language, which is rare outside of Shinovar.{{book ref|twok|71}} He also knows women's script. He has also solved Fabrisan's Conundrum.
Taravangian runs a secret hospital hidden in his palace filled with hundreds of beds for the terminally ill
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Taravangian gains possession of [[Szeth]]'s [[Oathstone]]{{book ref|twok|i|6}} 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]]. Taravangian claims that these murders are necessary for future stability, which will be needed when the True Desolation comes.{{book ref|twok|71}} 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 runs a secret hospital hidden in his palace filled with hundreds of beds for the terminally ill or the 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 Rattle]]s, Taravangian hopes to gain information about the [[True Desolation]] in order to prepare for it.
== Notes ==
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