Gavilar Kholin
King of Alethkar. A square-jawed, dark-bearded swordsman with pale green eyes. On the night his treaty with the Parshendi is celebrated, he is hunted by an assassin in white through his own palace. SA:WoK:Prologue
Known facts
- deathGavilar was murdered five years before the events of this chapter; the king has since pursued vengeance against the Parshendi on the Shattered Plains.SA:WoK:Ch 1
- always-finds-someone-to-fightEven Lirin — who insists Roshar needs surgeons more than soldiers — concedes that King Gavilar always finds someone for the kingdom to fight.SA:WoK:Ch 10
- entrusted-plate-to-tearimIn the months before his death, Gavilar stopped wearing his Shardplate in public and entrusted it instead to his bodyguard Tearim, one of the world's great duelists, while Gavilar himself wore classical robes.SA:WoR:Prologue
- told-parshendi-of-bringing-back-their-godsOn the meeting plateau Eshonai tells the man she takes for Dalinar why her people killed his brother: King Gavilar had boasted to them, on the very night of the treaty signing, of plans the Parshendi heard as a promise to bring back their old gods. Eshonai says he was a fool to speak of it.SA:WoR:Ch 51
- learned-dalinar-killed-eviHad discovered, before his death, the truth Dalinar still thought hidden — that Dalinar killed his own wife Evi in the burning of the Rift — and used the knowledge as a lever to keep his brother pliable and drunk.SA:WaT:Prologue
- sought-herald-immortalityWas not merely chasing the role of the Stormfather's champion — he had deduced the prize was a seat in the Oathpact itself, and intended to ascend as a Herald in place of Talenelat, the only one who never reclaimed his Blade.SA:WaT:Prologue
- would-yield-to-shorten-returnsPlanned, openly to the Stormfather, to break the Heralds' duty by simply yielding to torture in Damnation and returning to Roshar immediately each cycle — preserving his rule and using endless war against returning Voidbringers to keep Alethi armies sharp for the reconquest of the Tranquiline Halls.SA:WaT:Prologue
- was-a-master-of-precision-abuseNavani describes the dead king cleanly in the Spiritual Realm: Gavilar never hit her. What he did was worse and finer — *pins, not daggers,* careful little gibes, cold refusals to talk to her about anything that mattered. *Gavilar was a master of precision abuse.*SA:WaT:Ch 101
Events
- SA:WaT:Ch 88 Lies on the cold table in the next vision — the corpse Dalinar was brought to see when he woke from his stupor.
- SA:WaT:Ch 101 A vision-cast Gavilar storms into her study to relitigate the Aesudan match; raises a hand he never actually raised; flubs his lines and is corrected by his widow.
Relations
- fulfillsThe Vengeance Pact — The Vengeance Pact unites the highprinces in a war on the Parshendi to answer Gavilar's assassination. SA:WoK:Ch 4
- fulfillsSzeth-son-son-Vallano — Reflects on the night five years before when he was sent — for the first time — to kill loudly and be seen SA:WoK:I-3
Backreferences
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 51
- summarySA:OB:Prologue
- summarySA:OB:Ch 3
- summarySA:OB:Ch 11
- factHighlord Tanalan
- summarySA:OB:Ch 19
- factThe Codes of War
- summarySA:OB:Ch 24
- summarySA:OB:Ch 26
- factLoradar Vamah
- factJevena
- summarySA:OB:Ch 39
- factHathan
- summarySA:OB:Ch 41
- summarySA:OB:Ch 42
- summarySA:OB:Ch 43
- summarySA:OB:Ch 49
- factTanalan
- summarySA:OB:Ch 52
- factAkak
- factThe Crownlands
- summarySA:OB:Ch 66
- factTanalan
- summarySA:OB:Ch 71
- factTanalan
- summarySA:OB:Ch 75
- summarySA:OB:Ch 76
- summarySA:OB:Ch 88
- factBeggars' Porch
- summarySA:OB:Ch 94
- summarySA:OB:Ch 103
- summarySA:OB:Ch 104
- summarySA:OB:Ch 105
- factAesudan
- factKholin Dynasty
- summarySA:OB:Ch 107
- summarySA:OB:Ch 113
- summarySA:OB:Ch 114
- factFelt
- summarySA:OB:Ch 118
- summarySA:OB:Ch 121
- factThe King's Drop
- summarySA:RoW:Prologue
- factRushur Kris
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 4
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 7
- factGavinor Kholin
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 13
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 16
- factTalnah
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 38
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 48
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- summarySA:RoW:Ch 77
- factVenli
- factNalan'Elin
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 81
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- summarySA:RoW:Ch 84
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 86
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 103
- summarySA:WoK:Prologue
- factSphere
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 1
- factGavilar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:I-3
- factSzeth-son-son-Vallano
- factSzeth-son-son-Vallano
- factOathstone
- factNavani Kholin
- factThe Blackthorn
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 15
- factDalinar Kholin
- factThe Way of Kings
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 17
- factElhokar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 21
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 24
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 26
- factThe Way of Kings
- factLitima
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 28
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 36
- factThe Parshendi
- factNatans
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 52
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 58
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 65
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 68
- summarySA:WaT:Prologue
- factVoidlight
- factKalak
- factThaidakar
- factThe Stormfather
- factTaravangian
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 14
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 43
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 49
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 77
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 88
- factDalinar Kholin
- factMalan
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 91
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- summarySA:WaT:Ch 101
- factGavilar Kholin
- factNavani Kholin
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 112
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 126
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 129
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 130
- summarySA:WoR:Prologue
- factThe Parshendi
- factGavilar Kholin
- factJasnah Kholin
- factTearim
- factKlade
- factGangnah
- factVarnali
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 2
- factAzir
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 5
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 8
- factYenev
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 23
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 29
- factSadeas
- factEranniv
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 31
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 32
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 35
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 41
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 51
- factGavilar Kholin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 53
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 55
- factSadeas
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 62
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 64
- factAmaram
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 67
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 77
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- summarySA:WoR:Ch 85
- factDalinar Kholin
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 87
- factThe Sons of Honor
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 89