Gavinor Kholin
Elhokar's son and Gavilar's grandson — a boy not yet six — invoked by Ialai Sadeas as the *rightful king* whose throne she would only be holding in trust. Adolin points out at once that he is far too young. SA:RoW:Ch 7
Known facts
- wants-to-learn-the-swordA year on from his rescue from Kholinar, Gavinor is still small for five, still solemn, and still measurably affected by whatever was done to him under Aesudan's rule. On the Cloudwalk he asks Navani to convince Grampa to teach him the sword — so that no one can hurt him again, and so he can someday find and kill the man who killed his father.SA:RoW:Ch 16
- accompanies-dalinar-to-the-azish-frontTravels with Dalinar to the Azish front for the Emul offensive in his governess's care, eager to prove himself useful — though Dalinar makes clear that neither of them will be doing any fighting, only strategy.SA:RoW:Ch 27
- vows-revenge-on-vyreFive-year-old Gav, crown prince of Alethkar and ward of Dalinar and Navani, speaks his first explicit revenge oath to Lift: he will learn the Shardblade and the spear, and find everyone who hurt his father — and the traitor Vyre above all — and burn out their eyes and chop them to pieces. A small angerspren pools beneath him as he says it. Lift, without lecturing, promises to hold them while he does it.SA:WaT:Ch 29
- pulled-bodily-into-the-spiritual-realmGavinor sneaks away from his minder and is pulled bodily into the Spiritual Realm when Dalinar — reaching for a strong, unfamiliar bond he half-mistakes for Elhokar — closes a hand on his grandson instead. The boy appears beside Dalinar and Navani in Jezrien's mud-flat encampment, and the vision papers him over as *a spren* to the people inside it.SA:WaT:Ch 55
- witnesses-dalinar-beating-elhokar-in-visionStanding among the guards in Odium's rerun of the night Elhokar was forced to demonstrate that he was no threat to the throne, Gav sees Dalinar — wearing his father's body — on the floor, beaten by the younger Dalinar. The vision was deliberately staged so that he would.SA:WaT:Ch 91
- heard-adolin-helping-him-in-visionsRecovered alive from Aesudan's chambers, Gavinor tells Navani that throughout the visions he heard his father — Daddy — urging him to be strong like him. The voice was not the cruel Grampa of the vision; it was real and on his side. He believes his father has been *helping* him from outside.SA:WaT:Ch 105
- aged-twenty-years-in-odiums-vision-to-be-championOn the tower rooftop the Stormfather confirms it to Dalinar: in the hour Navani needed to escape the Spiritual Realm, Odium swapped the real Gav for a sleeping lump of flesh and held him in a private vision for twenty subjective years — raised in fire and smoke to hate his grandfather, then handed Oathbringer and the title *champion*. Gavinor is fully willing, by the contract's terms.SA:WaT:Ch 130
- fights-flamestance-after-twenty-years-of-trainingGrown to a young man's body by twenty years in Taravangian's home realm, Gavinor sounds like Elhokar and opens the contest in flawless Flamestance, pressing Dalinar back across the roof with bold strikes meant to end it quickly.SA:WaT:Ch 136
Events
- SA:RoW:Ch 16 Meets Gram on the Cloudwalk, delighted by an Adolin-supervised pony ride, then quietly asks her to convince Grampa to begin sword training.
- SA:RoW:Ch 27 Salutes his great-uncle in front of the Oathgate and is led aboard by his governess with his trunks, hugging Navani on the way past.
- SA:RoW:Ch 54 Asks his grandfather whether his father died bravely, calls his own mother *evil*, and falls asleep clutching the little wooden sword he carries everywhere.
- SA:WaT:Ch 55 Pulled bodily into the vision by Dalinar's reaching bond, Gav clings to him sobbing about his mother and *the red spren*; Navani reframes the vision as a Lightweaving story to calm him.
- SA:WaT:Ch 58 Sits frightened beside Navani in the vision, hears the Wind for the first time, and reports a kind spren he had heard earlier — one that *sounded like Daddy* — promising to protect him from the bad ones.
- SA:WaT:Ch 62 Pulled along through the vision; people see him as an emotion spren and ignore him.
- SA:WaT:Ch 63 Goes off-script with a child's question about chasmfiends, threatening to expose the intrusion.
- SA:WaT:Ch 64 Held against Navani's leg; the focus of her quiet panic as a god approaches.
- SA:WaT:Ch 65 Carried at Navani's side through the rain to fetch Taln; the vision continues to read him as a stray spren.
- SA:WaT:Ch 77 Held in Navani's arms as they rejoin Dalinar; tells him he hears his father sometimes and points out Aunt Dova among the Heralds.
- SA:WaT:Ch 80 Carried through the failing tower in Navani's arms, asking whether they are home.
- SA:WaT:Ch 82 Asleep in Dalinar's lap on the empty plateau; later wakes and quietly insists *Daddy told me it would be all right.*
- SA:WaT:Ch 85 With Dalinar and Navani through the parley and the ambush; head cocked at moments as if listening to a voice Dalinar half-believes is Elhokar.
- SA:WaT:Ch 87 Holds Gram's hand at the edge of the hollow, then clings to her skirt as Melishi springs his trap.
- SA:WaT:Ch 88 Materialises among the guards in the cold room, asks who the dead man is, then is held against Dalinar's chest through the chaos of the Spiritual Realm until Odium tears him away.
- SA:WaT:Ch 91 One of the guards in the throne room — the only one truly horrified — sees the elder Dalinar-as-Elhokar beaten by the younger Dalinar, and reaches for him with tears in his eyes.
- SA:WaT:Ch 99 Wakes beside Dalinar in the second bed wearing a face the visions have given him; clings to his grandfather and begs to be taken home before Dalinar hands him to Evi behind a shelter of overturned bed-frame.
- SA:WaT:Ch 105 The older Gav — tearstained, the real him — recovered from behind a dressing screen in Aesudan's chambers and carried out in Navani's arm.
- SA:WaT:Ch 114 Falls asleep almost at once in Navani's arms on the lift and is passed to Mararin for a couch in the next room.
- SA:WaT:Ch 130 Carrying Oathbringer in a Kholin uniform, Gavinor greets Dalinar as *Grandfather,* declares his intent to take Alethkar and join Odium's coalition, and accuses Dalinar of stealing his father's throne and burning a city around his mother.
- SA:WaT:Ch 131 Gavinor keeps Oathbringer levelled at Dalinar, echoes the line Taravangian taught him about being treated like a child, and asks softly whether his grandfather would die for Alethkar.
- SA:WaT:Ch 136 Opens the contest against Dalinar in fluent Flamestance with Oathbringer, stumbles when shoved back and scrambles for the Blade again, then freezes mid-strike when Taravangian snaps his fingers — weeping but unable to move.
- SA:WaT:Ch 137 Still frozen with arms raised and weeping, Oathbringer scoring the rooftop beside him while Dalinar weighs the choice he is meant to be unable to escape.
- SA:WaT:Ch 142 Cries on the roof in the moment Taravangian's attention shifts off him — and the sound, like a child's familiar wail, helps pull Dalinar back from the brink.
- SA:WaT:Ch 145 Unconscious but alive beneath Dalinar's body, protected from the storm — and from Retribution's spite — by Dalinar's last act.
- SA:WaT:Ch 146 Sits by the railing with Oathbringer across his lap and red eyes, again unaccountably full-grown, beside the body of the grandfather he had stood with against Odium.
Relations
- relatedAdolin Kholin — Throughout the Spiritual Realm visions, Gav hears his father — *Daddy* — telling him to be strong; Navani hears him report it after she carries him home. SA:WaT:Ch 105
Backreferences
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