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As a youth, [[Lirin]] travelled to Kharbranth as a courier, where he was introduced to different cultures and societies. Later in his life, Lirin studied medicine under [[Vathe]], who had been trained as a surgeon at the [[Great Concourse of Kharbranth]].{{book ref|sa1|10}}{{book ref|sa1|17}}
 
The Unmade Moelach settled in Kharbranth in 1166 (?). Following Taravangian's visit to the Nightwatcher, the Silent Gatherers were, presumably, formed and the secret hospital within the Conclave created, so as to harvest the Death Rattles and supplement the Diagram with additional information.
 
=== 1173 ===
 
==== Arrivals in Kharbranth ====
During the year 1173, Jasnah Kholin travelled to Kharbranth to access to the Conclave and the Palanaeum, in order to continue her research into the Voidbringers and Urithiru. Shallan Davar, who had been attempting to contact the Alethi princess for six months, arrived in Kharbranth part way through the year, relieved to find that she had finally caught up to Jasnah. Locating the woman in the Conclave, Shallan petitioned Jasnah to become her ward, however, Jasnah denied her request, finding Shallan to be lacking in pre-requisite knowledge.{{book ref|sa1|3}}{{book ref|sa1|5}}
 
Shallan's arrival at the Conclave coincided with Jasnah helping Taravangian rescue his granddaughter, who had become trapped in an inner room of the palace following a cave-in. The situation had been deliberately planned by the Kharbranthian king, who wished to view the Alethi princess use her Soulcasting abilities when removing the fallen stone blocking the rooms entrance. Taravangian had suspected Jasnah did not need a physical Soulcaster to be able to use Soulcasting as an ability.. and to test this theory, engineered a scenario where he would be able to watch the Alethi princess wield her power. Jasnah Soulcast the rock into smoke, masking her abilities with the fake Soulcaster she wore on her right hand. In return for freeing his granddaughter, Taravangian granted Jasnah access to the Palanaeum, which she had been unable to access until this point.{{book ref|sa1|3}}{{book ref|sa1|5}}
 
==== Shallan's Plan ====
Eventually, Shallan was accepted as Jasnah's ward, becoming a regular fixture within the Conclave and Palanaeum. Shallan became well known during her wardship for her portraits, with many people from different social ranks requesting drawings from her. Although Shallan enjoyed working with Jasnah, her ultimate goal was not that of scholarship, but instead thievery. However, when presented with the opportunity to switch the broken Davar soulcaster with Jasnah's, Shallan found she was unable to follow through.{{book ref|sa1|8}}{{book ref|sa1|29}}
 
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Although Shallan enjoyed working underneath the woman, Shallan's ultimate goal was not related to scholarship, but instead a plan to steal Jasnah's Soulcaster.
 
After ending up in the hospital, following
During her time studying in Kharbranth, Shallan struck up a friendship and potential romance with the ardent Kabsal, who she met while waiting to speak with Jasnah after the incident with Taravangian's daughter. On several occasions, Kabsal expressed his concerns about Shallan's spiritual wellbeing and the effect that Jasnah's hearsay may have on her, however, Shallan did not believe she was being influenced by Jasnah's lack of faith. ▼
 
Kabsal tried to convince Shallan to change to his Devotary and shows her the cymatics patterns that can be found in the structure og four of Roshar's major cities: Thaylen City, Kholinar, Akinah and Vedenar.
 
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The pair often spending time together around the Conclave, picnicking in the palace gardens and talking in the Palanaeum. Shallan also became quite well known amongst the Conclave staff for her drawing abilities, with many of the workers requesting portraits from the young scholar.{{book ref|sa1|29}}{{book ref|sa1|33}}{{book ref|sa1|7}}{{book ref|sa1|42}}▼
Two days later, Shallan found herself confined to a hospital bed. Unable to leave as she was believed to be a suicide risk, she drew; pictures of the Shadesmar, of herself trapped in her room and bleeding and the Cryptics. They continued to follow her, lurking at the edges of the hospital room and filled her with unease. During his visit, Taravangian granted Shallan's request for visitors and Jasnah joined her, not long after the King had left. Believing that Shallan had tried to kill herself from being overworked, Jasnah apologised and gave her the Book of Endless Pages, a central part of the Devotary of Sincerity. Shortly after, Kabsal joined the pair, bring with him - as always - bread and jam. This time he presented her with strawberry jam, rarely found on Roshar as it could only be produced in Shinovar. Jasnah examined the jar, subtly soulcasting it as she believed it to contain poison. Shallan insisted that the princess have some of the bread brought by the ardent even if she would not have any jam. Again, Jasnah soulcast the bread to remove any poison. Kabsal offered Shallan the jam, however it was no longer appealing and Shallan refused in disgust. Alarmed, Kabsal insisted that Shallan try it, eating a large glob to try and counteract the poison he had also ingested that had been sprinkled on the bed. When Shallan continued to refuse he tried to flee, however collapsed. The poison began to affect Shallan and Jasnah called for a garnet to be brought to her so that she could soulcast Shallan's blood, removing the toxin. Confused and drugged, Shallan tried to tell her that the princess' soulcaster was fake and pulled her safepouch from her safehand sleeve, revealing that she had stolen the soulcaster. As she faded to unconsciousness, Shallan felt the effects of Jasnah's soulcasting, purifying her body of the poison. ▼
 
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▲Presented with the opportunity to switch the soulcasters, Shallan found she was unable to follow through. She went with Jasnah into the city late at night and the pair were attacked by criminals. She soulcast the four men, one into fire, one into quartz and two into smoke, saving both her and Shallan's life. Jasnah had deliberately taken them to a specific street where the criminals had been attacking, robbing and killing people. She had planned to dispatch of the men as a service to Taravangian who she felt had put himself in a more precarious position than he realised when he allied with her and allowed her access to the Palanaeum. After retiring to their rooms in the Conclave, Shallan switched the soulcasters while Jasnah was not looking, motivated by her revulsion over what Jasnah had done in the alley.{{book ref|sa1|36}}
Shallan woke after being poisoned in a guarded private room in the hospital. Informed that Shallan had awoken, Jasnah went to speak with her and demanded to know who Shallan had been working with the steal the soulcaster. Shallan denied working with the ardentia and told her former mentor about her fathers death and her family's desperate need for money to pay off his debts. She learned that Kabsal had died from the poison he had ingested and had been using Shallan as a way to get close to Jasnah and assassinate her. Arrangements had been made by Jasnah for Shallan to return to Jah Keved, more than Shallan believed she deserved. Jasnah left, leaving Shallan to contemplate and wallow in her guilt. ▼
 
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Confused, Shallan drew out the scenes, first of Jasnah when she had inspected the jam then of her eating the bread. The more Shallan pondered the events in the hospital ward, the more confused she became. Why did she scoop the jam from the jar to smell it? It had smelt terrible, yet she hadn’t reacted to it at all. She had reacted to the bread, Shallan remembered. She didn’t have a Memory of the moment, but in her sketch the bread Jasnah had eaten looked as if it had been melting . Shallan left the hospital to find Jasnah, travelling through the city to the Concave and then onto the Palanaeum. She ignored Jasnah’s hostility when she reached the Veil balcony, telling the princess that she believed the fabrial she had stolen to be fake and showing her a drawing she had done of Shadesmar. Jasnah tried to dismiss Shallan, telling her she was being delusional. To prove to Jasnah that she knew the princess’ secret, Shallan called on Pattern to help her transition into the Cognitive Realm and admitted to what she did to her father. The spren accepted the confession as a Truth and Shallan’s mind was transported to Shadesmar. She was saved by Jasnah before she sank too far below the surface of the beads and returned to her body in the Physical Realm. Shallan petitioned Jasnah to become her ward again, and after some initial resistance on the princess’ part, Jasnah accepted Shallan back and shared her research on the Voidbringers. ▼
Jasnah wrote to Dalinar, telling him about how she had travelled to Kharbranth to seek knowledge on her current field of study. While the Palanaeum did not contain anything obvious, she had found hints and fragments of the information she sought. ▼
 
Having read through Jasnah's notes and been convinced that he mentor was correct in her findings, Shallan and Jasnah spoke on the implications of the discovery. Jasnah was convinced that the Parshendi and her fathers death were linked to the parshman. In times long past, after periods of peace the voidbringers - the parshmen, thought Jasnah - would invade and bring with them death and destruction. The were the reason for the Desolations and humanity had not just enslaved them to end the constant fighting but overtime forgotten who they were and intergrated them into every aspect of their society. Shallan realised with horror the chaos that would ensure if all the parshmen of the world were to suddenly revolt. Jasnah enlisted Shallan's help in furthering her research, collecting and collating more information on the Desolations, the Heralds and the Voidbringers. Having exhausted the Palaneaum's resources, Jasnah told Shallan that they would head towards the Shattered Plains so that they could gain further information about the Parshendi. Jasnah acknowledged that there were others looking for the information they sought; a group known as the Ghostbloods, of whom Kabsal had been apart of and who had been behind the assassination attempt. Shallan recognised the symbol of the group as the same one that her father's steward had worn as a pendant. Realising that this group was likely the same one who had insisted on the return of the Soulcaster, Shallan told Jasnah that her father may have been apart of the Ghostbloods. ▼
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Shallan spoke via spanreed with her brothers about her progress in securing Jasnah's soulcaster. She learned that the estate had been visited by members of the Ghostblood who had supplied her father with the soulcaster and now wished for its return. Later in the Veil, Jasnah joined Shallan while she studied and the two spoke about the nature of scholarship and historians until they were joined by the King, Taravangian. The three ate lunch together and Shallan sketched a picture of the King at his request. The King asked Jasnah about her soulcaster, however, she refused to answer his questions. They then discussed religion. Shallan was unable to give the King her drawing as she had unconsciously drawn cryptics in the background.
 
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Shallan and Jasnah leave for the Shattered Plains aboard the Wind's Pleasure, who had been delayed after reaching Kharbranth. ▼
Shallan was sent to the Palanaeum proper by Jasnah to locate a copy of the book Dialogues. Shallan used this time to also locate Shadows Remembered, a book that she had previously seen Jasnah reading. Shallan was disappointed to learn it was a book about darkeyed children's stories. Later, Kabsal expressed his concerns to Shallan about her spiritual wellbeing and the effect that Jasnah's hearsay may have on her. Shallan denied that she was being influenced by Jasnah's lack of religious beliefs. Kabsal tried to convince Shallan to change to his Devotary and shows her the cymatics patterns that can be found in the structure og four of Roshar's major cities: Thaylen City, Kholinar, Akinah and Vedenar. Jasnah was not impressed by the cymatics patterns and Kabsal left shortly after she arrived. Jasnah warned Shallan that he was trying to obtain her soulcaster and would try and turn Shallan to get her aid in doing so.
 
==== LirinShallan and KaladinKabsal ====▼
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▲During her time studying in Kharbranth, Shallan struck up a friendship and potential romance with the ardent Kabsal, who she met while waiting to speak with Jasnah after the incident with Taravangian's daughter. On several occasions, Kabsal expressed his concerns about Shallan's spiritual wellbeing and the effect that Jasnah's hearsay may have on her, however, Shallan did not believe she was being influenced by Jasnah's lack of faith. In an attempt to convert Shallan to his own Devotary, Kabsal shows her the cymatics patterns of Roshars major cities: Thaylen City, Kholinar, Akinah and Vedenar. When asked about Kharbranth itself, Kabsal informed Shallan that there was no known cymatic pattern of the city, however, he believed that one did exist. (?).
Presented with the opportunity to switch the soulcasters, Shallan found she was unable to follow through. She went with Jasnah into the city late at night and the pair were attacked by criminals. She soulcast the four men, one into fire, one into quartz and two into smoke, saving both her and Shallan's life. Jasnah had deliberately taken them to a specific street where the criminals had been attacking, robbing and killing people. She had planned to dispatch of the men as a service to Taravangian who she felt had put himself in a more precarious position than he realised when he allied with her and allowed her access to the Palanaeum. After retiring to their rooms in the Conclave, Shallan switched the soulcasters while Jasnah was not looking, motivated by her revulsion over what Jasnah had done in the alley.
 
▲The pair often spending time together around the Conclave, picnicking in the palace gardens and talking in the Palanaeum. Shallan also became quite well known amongst the Conclave staff for her drawing abilities, with many of the workers requesting portraits from the young scholar.{{book ref|sa1|29}}{{book ref|sa1|33}}{{book ref|sa1|7}}{{book ref|sa1|42}}
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Alone in her room, Shallan contemplated morality and the different philosophical views of ethics, while recreating drawings of the encounter in the alley. By doing so she is not only forced to examine Jasnah's actions, but also her own; both in her plan to steal Jasnah's soulcaster but also her role in the death of her father. Lost in thought, she unconsciously drew a scene from her childhood; the death of her mothers lover. Spooked by the drawing, Shallan left her quarters, but was interrupted by a master-servant who had brought her spanreed which had activated. Shallan spoke with her brother and informed him that she had secured the soulcaster but would be unable to leave until she knew she would not be implicated. When a maid arrived to clean the rooms, Shallan transferred the soulcaster to her safe pouch and left to draw in the garden. After spending some time sketching, Shallan attempted to figure out how the soulcaster worked, however, was ultimately unsuccessful.
==== MiscPattern ====▼
As the months passed while she studied, Shallan began to grow more and more aware of Pattern and the other Cryptics who watched her from the Cognitive Realm. Several times, Shallan unconsciously included them in portraits she created, first while sketching king Taravangian while he ate lunch in the Veil with Jasnah, and then later, in a sketch of herself and Kabsal after visiting the Palanaeum with the ardent. She also began hearing the Cryptics whispers, convincing herself that she was mishearing sounds made by the Conclave staff as they worked. Eventually Shallan was unable to ignore the spren and fled to her rooms to try and escape. Unfortunately for her, Pattern and the other Cryptics followed, leading to Shallan accidentally Soulcasting a goblet within her quarters into blood. To hide what she had done from Jasnah when the woman came to check on her, Shallan cut open her arm, pretending that the blood was hers and was taken to one of the city's many hospitals. {{book ref|sa1|29}}{{book ref|sa1|42}}{{book ref|sa1|45}}
 
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After two weeks of thought over the incident in the alley, Shallan gives Jasnah her philosophical conclusions over the Alethi princess' actions. Jasnah excused Shallan from her study for the rest of the day and Shallan retired to her room to again try to work the Soulcaster. While taking a break, she hears a disembodied whisper within her room. She quickly realises that the maid is in the main room doing her daily clean. Despite admitting to herself that the words had come from inside her room and had been softly whispered, she convinced herself that she had misheard the sounds of the maid cleaning and interpreted them as words. Shallan realised that the maid had gone into Jasnah's room by mistake to clean, despite strict rules not to. She sent the maid away to apologise to Jasnah then used the opportunity to snoop. In the room, she found several of Jasnah's journals - one on Urithiru, one on the voidbringers and one on New Natanatan, The Shattered Plains and the Unclaimed Hills. She is pulled away from searching by Kabsal, who arrived offering her lunch. In the gardens they flirted and talked about Shallan's father and soulcasting. Kabsal hid when Taravangian entered the gardens, and confessed he was supposed to be working instead of having lunch with Shallan. He left shortly after and Shallan returned to her rooms. Back in her rooms, Shallan found a note from Captain Tozbek of the Wind's pleasure advising that they would be returning to Kharbranth in a weeks time and would be able to take her back to Vedenar. Shallan returned to the Veil to join Jasnah in her study, wanting to make the most of the time she had left in the city to dedicate to scholarship.
 
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While studying the death of King Gavilar Kholin, Shallan noted that he had been incredibly interested in the Parshendi people and their culture for a man who had never before been interested in scholarship. Jasnah confirmed her fathers interest in the Parshendi had begun from his first meeting with them, a fact many often overlooked. Shallan, unsure of why Jasnah had her studying Gavilar, asked her mentor why she had been set to study what the princess had lived through. Their conversation carried them to the topic of Urithiru and the Voidbringers. Unable to get many answers out of her mentor and wanting to make the most of her dwindling access to the Palanaeum, Shallan excused herself under the false pretense of finding a copy of Tifandor's biography of Gavilar. After finding little in the way of conclusive information about the Voidbringers, Shallan began to make her way back through the Palanaeum, intending to rejoin Jasnah, however ran into Kabsal who had been looking for her. On their way back to the Veil, Shallan asked him about the Voidbringers, leading the two to discuss Jasnah's research. Taking her study to be about undermining Vorinism and the devotaries, Kabsal expressed his anger at the way the ardents were treated, before getting his emotions under control. Shallan, knowing she couldn't continue to hide her plans to leave, told Kabsal of her intentions. After he requested a portrait from her, the two returned to the Veil, where Shallan had left her drawing materials. He quickly requested a second sketch, this one of both of them, paying her for it with one of the King's spheres. To the second drawing, Shallan added the forms of several Cryptics to the background. Panicking, Shallan hurried away from the alcove, running back towards her rooms in the guest quarters. Along the way she continued to take Memories, drawing them out quickly to show the spren following along after her. After locking herself in her room, she takes one final Memory and discovered the beings to be crowded around her. Frightened, she began to summon her shardblade before being interrupted by one of the Crytics speaking to her. Prompted by his words, she speaks a Truth and she is transported to Shadesmar, where she unwittingly soul casts the goblet on her desk into blood. Returning to herself in her room, she hears Jasnah in their shared common area, coming to find her and make sure she was alright. To hide the fact that she had soulcast, Shallan cut a gash in her arm to pretend that the blood was her own.
 
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▲Two days later, Shallan found herself confined to a hospital bed. Unable to leave as she was believed to be a suicide risk, she drew; pictures of the Shadesmar, of herself trapped in her room and bleeding and the Cryptics. They continued to follow her, lurking at the edges of the hospital room and filled her with unease. During his visit, Taravangian granted Shallan's request for visitors and Jasnah joined her, not long after the King had left. Believing that Shallan had tried to kill herself from being overworked, Jasnah apologised and gave her the Book of Endless Pages, a central part of the Devotary of Sincerity. Shortly after, Kabsal joined the pair, bring with him - as always - bread and jam. This time he presented her with strawberry jam, rarely found on Roshar as it could only be produced in Shinovar. Jasnah examined the jar, subtly soulcasting it as she believed it to contain poison. Shallan insisted that the princess have some of the bread brought by the ardent even if she would not have any jam. Again, Jasnah soulcast the bread to remove any poison. Kabsal offered Shallan the jam, however it was no longer appealing and Shallan refused in disgust. Alarmed, Kabsal insisted that Shallan try it, eating a large glob to try and counteract the poison he had also ingested that had been sprinkled on the bed. When Shallan continued to refuse he tried to flee, however collapsed. The poison began to affect Shallan and Jasnah called for a garnet to be brought to her so that she could soulcast Shallan's blood, removing the toxin. Confused and drugged, Shallan tried to tell her that the princess' soulcaster was fake and pulled her safepouch from her safehand sleeve, revealing that she had stolen the soulcaster. As she faded to unconsciousness, Shallan felt the effects of Jasnah's soulcasting, purifying her body of the poison.
 
==== Jasnah ====
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▲Shallan woke after being poisoned in a guarded private room in the hospital. Informed that Shallan had awoken, Jasnah went to speak with her and demanded to know who Shallan had been working with the steal the soulcaster. Shallan denied working with the ardentia and told her former mentor about her fathers death and her family's desperate need for money to pay off his debts. She learned that Kabsal had died from the poison he had ingested and had been using Shallan as a way to get close to Jasnah and assassinate her. Arrangements had been made by Jasnah for Shallan to return to Jah Keved, more than Shallan believed she deserved. Jasnah left, leaving Shallan to contemplate and wallow in her guilt.
▲Jasnah wrote to Dalinar, telling him about how she had travelled to Kharbranth to seek knowledge on her current field of study. While the Palanaeum did not contain anything obvious, she had found hints and fragments of the information she sought.
 
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In the room, she found several of Jasnah's journals - one on Urithiru, one on the voidbringers and one on New Natanatan, The Shattered Plains and the Unclaimed Hills.
▲Confused, Shallan drew out the scenes, first of Jasnah when she had inspected the jam then of her eating the bread. The more Shallan pondered the events in the hospital ward, the more confused she became. Why did she scoop the jam from the jar to smell it? It had smelt terrible, yet she hadn’t reacted to it at all. She had reacted to the bread, Shallan remembered. She didn’t have a Memory of the moment, but in her sketch the bread Jasnah had eaten looked as if it had been melting . Shallan left the hospital to find Jasnah, travelling through the city to the Concave and then onto the Palanaeum. She ignored Jasnah’s hostility when she reached the Veil balcony, telling the princess that she believed the fabrial she had stolen to be fake and showing her a drawing she had done of Shadesmar. Jasnah tried to dismiss Shallan, telling her she was being delusional. To prove to Jasnah that she knew the princess’ secret, Shallan called on Pattern to help her transition into the Cognitive Realm and admitted to what she did to her father. The spren accepted the confession as a Truth and Shallan’s mind was transported to Shadesmar. She was saved by Jasnah before she sank too far below the surface of the beads and returned to her body in the Physical Realm. Shallan petitioned Jasnah to become her ward again, and after some initial resistance on the princess’ part, Jasnah accepted Shallan back and shared her research on the Voidbringers.
 
==== Taravangian ====
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After slaughtering his way through Jah Keved, Szeth travelled to Kharbranth to assassinate King Taravangian, the last person on the list of names he had been given. Travelling to the palace under the guise of being a porter, he used is shardblade to gain access to the King's quarters, subduing the guards who had been tasked with protecting Taravangian. The King did not acknowledge Szeth when he declared his intent to kill him, instead commenting on the havoc the Shin man had caused. Szeth realised that Taravangian had been the unknown master who had tasked him to kill and cause panic. After checking on his injured guards and calling for medical aid, Taravangian took Szeth to a large room filled the sick and dying. He was horrified to find that the healers, instead of caring for the patients were killing them. Taravangian explained that the dying could see things that the rest of them couldn't and the cost of killing those who were already sick or unwanted would be worth the death rattles that they could produce. Taravangian added Dalinar Kholin's name to Szeth's list, and insisted that the Highprince be killed quickly before he had time to unite the Alethi.
 
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Confused by Jasnah's earlier comment about not being good at soulcasting organics, Shallan probed the older woman for more information about how she had soulcaster he blood and saved her life. Jasnah mentioned briefly it was due to blood being one of the Essences, where as the jam had been more complex. When Shallan asked her if she also saw cryptics, Jasnah told her that there was more than one order of Knights Radiant that had the ability to soulcast. Jasnah had assumed that like herself, Shallan would be of the Elsecaller order, however, now understood that while they shared a surge, they could access it through nahel bonds with different types of spren. Jasnah explained her work on the Voidbringers, giving Shallan her notes to look over who came to the same conclusion her mentor had: that the parshmen were the Voidbringers and they had been enslaved by the humans.
 
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▲Having read through Jasnah's notes and been convinced that he mentor was correct in her findings, Shallan and Jasnah spoke on the implications of the discovery. Jasnah was convinced that the Parshendi and her fathers death were linked to the parshman. In times long past, after periods of peace the voidbringers - the parshmen, thought Jasnah - would invade and bring with them death and destruction. The were the reason for the Desolations and humanity had not just enslaved them to end the constant fighting but overtime forgotten who they were and intergrated them into every aspect of their society. Shallan realised with horror the chaos that would ensure if all the parshmen of the world were to suddenly revolt. Jasnah enlisted Shallan's help in furthering her research, collecting and collating more information on the Desolations, the Heralds and the Voidbringers. Having exhausted the Palaneaum's resources, Jasnah told Shallan that they would head towards the Shattered Plains so that they could gain further information about the Parshendi. Jasnah acknowledged that there were others looking for the information they sought; a group known as the Ghostbloods, of whom Kabsal had been apart of and who had been behind the assassination attempt. Shallan recognised the symbol of the group as the same one that her father's steward had worn as a pendant. Realising that this group was likely the same one who had insisted on the return of the Soulcaster, Shallan told Jasnah that her father may have been apart of the Ghostbloods.
 
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▲Shallan and Jasnah leave for the Shattered Plains aboard the Wind's Pleasure, who had been delayed after reaching Kharbranth.
 
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Dova is left in charge of the Death Rattles when Taravangian travels to Jah Keved to take control of the country. The Death Rattles had become more infrequent and Taravangian suspected that Moelach had moved westward, drawn away from Kharbranth. Taravangian decided to continue with the killings, finding that the cost of further life would be worth the risk if more Death Rattles were revealed.
 
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Shallan used palanquin's extensively during her stay in Kharbranth.
 
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Navani had been in contact with the Palanaeum to try and gain more information into the Old Magic after she learnt of Dalinar's visit to the Nightwatcher. She found it frustratingly difficult to get information as the Palanaeum was being swamped with requests for research into the Voidbringers from all over Roshar. She was able to gain the information she sought through a combination of Taravangian's upcoming visit to Urithiru and old debts she could call upon.
 
▲=== Lirin and Kaladin ===
 
[[Lirin]] desired to send his son [[Kaladin]] to Kharbranth to train as a surgeon at the [[Great Concourse of Kharbranth]] when he turned sixteen.{{book ref|sa1|10}}{{book ref|sa1|17}} Lirin and his wife Hesina stole a large number of spheres from the deceased citylord of Hearthstone, claiming to have been given them by Brightlord Wistiow on his deathbed, in order to fund Kaladin's study in Kharbranth.{{cite}} After the arrival of Roshone in Hearthstone, Lirin and Hesina wrote to the surgeons in Kharbranth with a plea to let their son take the entry tests early. Their request was denied.{{book ref|sa1|31}} Lirin considered escaping Hearthstone and taking his family to Kharbranth after Roshone cut off all their means of income, however, decided instead to stay and continue to oppose the Brightlord.{{book ref|sa1|37}} Ultimately, Kaladin, never got the chance to use the spheres as he followed his brother to the army in the hopes of protecting Tien, thus trading being a surgeon for being a soldier.{{book ref|sa1|44}}
 
=== After the Everstorm ===
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Kaladin flies from Thaylen city to Kharbranth after the battle, and stops there for the night before continuing on to Alethkar. He requisitioned gemstones from the Kharbranthian royal treasury before he moved on.
 
▲=== Misc ===
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Dalinar considers seeking help in Kharbranth when he is unsure if he is losing his mind. He mentioned to Adolin that if he went through with his plan to stand aside as Highprince he would then travel to Kharbranth to seek help.
 
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Rock suggests that Bridge Four could travel to Kharbranth after escaping from the warcamps.
 
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Rushu <!-- an ardent? --> spent several weeks in contact with scholars in Kharbranth (using an information station) looking for information on the use of gemstones in the hilt of Shardblades after querying why Blades can still be dismissed and summoned when the gems had gone dun. The scholars in Kharbranth (presumably the Palanaeum) were able to find fragment from several decades post Recreance that mentioned that the ability to bond the blades became possible after the addition of gemstones (which had initially been added as ornamentation)
 
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