Evi
A tall, slender, eighteen- or nineteen-year-old Riran Iriali woman in a sleeveless pale-yellow dress, golden hair like a candle's glow in a dark room — sister to Toh and the price he is willing to pay for Alethi protection. Tries to eat with her safehand and has to keep tucking it into a pouch of yellow cloth. Watches the Blackthorn kill an assassin from across the feast hall with awe and terror in equal measure. SA:OB:Ch 19
Known facts
- fled-rira-east-with-her-family-shardplateCame east across the world with her brother Toh and the family's heirloom Plate — her kinsmen in Rira are reportedly outraged that the precious thing was stolen. She and her brother are looking for an Alethi strong enough to make Riran retribution unwise.SA:OB:Ch 19
- prays-by-burning-folded-glyphs-in-incenseEvi's Iriali tradition is not satisfied by a simple Vorin glyphward; she prays by folding tiny inscribed glyphs and burning them in a brazier of incense before battle. She speaks of the One in place of the Almighty, names Jezrien *Yaysi* and Kelek *Kellai*, and asks the One to soften her near-husband's temper rather than sharpen his sword.SA:OB:Ch 26
- evi-pregnant-with-first-childIn their Kholinar palace rooms during the Weeping, Evi's belly has begun to round; her Riran idioms still don't always translate, and she still leans on Dalinar's arm in front of the fire and asks him to be content with the life they have built together.SA:OB:Ch 39
- evi-mentions-the-valley-and-the-oneEvi's Iriali-tinted theology surfaces over the fire: people are aspects of *the One,* a man may be Soulcast from crass to glorious, and if he wishes to meet the One in person he must travel to *the Valley* — where the One, or his avatar, can be petitioned and a request granted. Dalinar hisses *the Old Magic, the Nightwatcher,* and tells her not to say such things.SA:OB:Ch 39
- considered-nightwatcherConfides to Dalinar that she has thought, more than once, of going to the Nightwatcher and asking the Old Magic for the blessing of a sharper mind, because the Alethi women at court make her feel stupid.SA:OB:Ch 66
- died-at-rathalas-pleading-for-surrenderEvi drugged her guard the night of the rockslide ambush, slipped out of Dalinar's camp, and went down into the Rift to plead with Tanalan for his city to surrender. She was in the old hidden saferoom when Dalinar — believing it still housed only enemy soldiers — had burning oil rolled into the tunnel.SA:OB:Ch 76
- evi-told-her-sons-their-father-was-noble-as-the-heraldsEvi taught her sons that their father Dalinar was *the only honest officer in the army, the honourable soldier, noble as the Heralds themselves, the greatest man in Alethkar.* Renarin still believes it years after her death; the words break Dalinar when he hears them again.SA:OB:Ch 94
Events
- SA:OB:Ch 19 Slips in from the women's hall in a sleeveless pale-yellow dress to take a drink from her brother — tries it with her safehand and has to switch — watches across the hall with awe and terror as the Blackthorn kills the assassin and washes off the knife in his wine.
- SA:OB:Ch 26 Burns folded prayer-glyphs in incense for Dalinar before the battle that ends Kalanor's princedom, and asks the One to soften his temper.
- SA:OB:Ch 39 Sits with her needlework and then on the floor beside Dalinar in front of the fire, her belly beginning to round; beams at him when she hears he spared the boy at Rathalas and pulls him close.
- SA:OB:Ch 49 Exhausted in childbed with the look of a soldier just off the field, hands her newborn son to Dalinar and gently chides him for showing up with torn buttons from yet another *small diversion*.
- SA:OB:Ch 52 Arrives unannounced at the campaign tent with both boys, blaming Navani for telling her Dalinar had gone too long without visiting; weathers his anger and ends the evening rubbing his shoulders in his tent.
- SA:OB:Ch 66 Sweeps in shivering, reads the king's spanreed dispatch aloud, and breaks down at the fire when her husband makes clear they will never settle back in Kholinar.
- SA:OB:Ch 71 Travels with the army in her covered carriage, weeping over the men he is about to kill; persuades Dalinar to ride out and try to talk Rathalas down rather than storm it.
- SA:OB:Ch 75 Weeping in the command tent under Kalami's care; rises to plead with him to sleep on it before he answers Rathalas, and is sent back to her tent so she may *recover from her unwarranted grief.*
- SA:WaT:Ch 99 Sits up in the third bed of the Rift cell, in the dress she will burn in, gentle to the frightened Gav and certain that her husband — *a good man* — will come for them.
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- factGavilar Kholin
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- factDalinar Kholin
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- factAdolin Kholin
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