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Battah

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revealed-as-the-herald-battahThe agent in Taravangian's service is the Herald Battah — an older woman when she swore into the Oathpact and unchanged in seven thousand years since. She keeps her head bald to read as an ardent and so be ignored, and writes in a back office of the Palanaeum in Kharbranth surrounded by priceless paintings, jeweled vases, and bars of aluminum.SA:WaT:I-6
crystal-spike-restores-sight-for-investitureHas perfected an art of crystal spikes that can restore sight, after a fashion and at great cost — the recipient cannot truly see again, but can sense Investiture. Taravangian recruits her in part for this skill.SA:WaT:I-6
corrupted-into-mercenary-by-herald-madnessHer form of Herald-madness, after millennia, has manifested as a frank and crassly transactional mercenary streak. The ancient wise counsellor will work for whoever offers the most — and accepts Taravangian's offer of *a planet, eventually, a small one* without a second thought.SA:WaT:I-6
visited-aesudan-in-the-palaceGav tells Dalinar that *Aunt Dova* visited his mother Aesudan at the palace. Though Navani does not recognise her, the boy is certain — a Herald was paying calls on the queen.SA:WaT:Ch 77

SA:WaT:I-6 At her desk in the seventh sub-floor of the Palanaeum, unflustered by Odium manifesting behind her, accepts his contract within minutes of being offered a planet to retire to.
SA:WaT:I-7 The unnamed second voice in the room — feminine, satisfied to confirm the spike-work has taken — is the new recruit who hammers the crystal sight-spikes into Vyre's skull.

Previously known as: dova

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