Navani Kholin
Known facts
- returns-to-warcampsComes back from Alethkar to the warcamps under the rationale of protecting her son Elhokar, and bluntly tells Dalinar that the king is weak — a thing she would only say to a man whose loyalty she did not doubt. She arranges a private meeting with Dalinar a week out under the cover of reading him from Gavilar's book.SA:WoK:Ch 21
- proves-the-visions-are-realSits down with Dalinar and Adolin and shows them the sheet on which Dalinar has been transcribing — by rote, during his fits — the gibberish words his vision-companions speak around him. It is not gibberish: her scholars believe it is the Dawnchant, a language dead for over four thousand years. There is no other explanation for how a fifty-six-year-old Alethi warlord could speak it. The visions are real.SA:WoK:Ch 60
- kisses-dalinarHours after the Dawnchant revelation, Navani sits comfortably with him to debrief — and ends up kissing him. Dalinar is elated and ashamed at once. *The kiss was yours, Dalinar*, she says. *You seduced me to it. I have never been more open and honest in my life.* *I know — that was the seductive part.*SA:WoK:Ch 61
- walks-with-dalinar-at-palaceWalks with Dalinar around the grounds of Elhokar's raised field palace; presses gently on the unspoken — *I couldn't decide if you were interested or not.* He admits she is getting through to him.SA:WoK:Ch 63
- reverser-fabrial-prototype-fliesIn the warcamp engineering yards, Navani's team flies a wooden archer parapet by pulling on its reverser-conjoined twin — the first working full-scale demonstration of opposed-pair fabrials for use on the Shattered Plains.SA:WoR:Ch 35
- courting-dalinarNavani openly acknowledges that she pursued her brother-in-law's affections rather than the reverse, and that the relationship between her and Dalinar has progressed past anything the Alethi court can pretend not to see.SA:WoR:Ch 35
- bond-keeps-her-at-the-towerThe Sibling bond makes Navani an extension of Urithiru itself; the tower needs no sleep, and so neither does she. The price is locality — she cannot be away from the tower for more than a few weeks before the bond would weaken.SA:WaT:Ch 14
- insists-on-accompanying-dalinar-into-spiritual-realmNavani insists, over Dalinar's preference, on entering the Spiritual Realm beside him — as Bondsmith and scholar both, capable of interpreting whatever past they live. He yields because she is right and because, if it is going to be as dangerous as Wit implies, he needs the best at his side.SA:WaT:Ch 25
- takes-shalashs-ribbon-as-vision-anchorNavani coaxes a red ribbon from a young Shalash at the Ashyn portal and uses it as her first conscious anchor for navigating between visions in the Spiritual Realm — proof that an object Connected to a person can carry Dalinar and her forward through time without the Stormfather's guidance.SA:WaT:Ch 50
- contacts-sibling-from-visionInside Dalinar's Cultivation-touched visions of the dying Urithiru, Navani reaches the Sibling across realms for the first time — a thread of teal light she touches and follows by mind — proving that the Bondsmith bond can carry sense and speech back to her partner even from inside a vision.SA:WaT:Ch 80
- turns-vision-travel-into-methodOn the cold plateau outside vision-Urithiru Navani reframes Dalinar's ad-hoc Connections as a scientific instrument — *repeatability is one of the fundamental steps to understanding the world* — and the pair use perception to choose whose body she inhabits and the Stormfather's own held knowledge as an anchor to jump a decade forward. The visions stop being a guided tour and become an experiment they can run.SA:WaT:Ch 82
- discovers-she-can-partly-steer-the-visionsNavani establishes — by reasoning from a pattern of escalating, deliberately painful visions — that whatever is sending them is mostly inattentive, and can be steered the way an ornery chull can be turned but not stopped. Naming a memory aloud as a lie disarms it; sincerely asking for a vision she can use brings it. She uses the trick to leave a re-staged argument with Gavilar and take herself toward her grandson.SA:WaT:Ch 101
- scribes-mocked-her-spelling-as-a-child-in-shulinAt eleven, brought to Shulin with her father to settle their kevah-ranch accounts, Navani was openly mocked by the city scribes for her spelling — a yokel girl in too-big a dress, her mother already gone and divorced. The episode buried itself in her for decades and was watered later by Gavilar; she names it as the lie it was, and pulls it up by the root inside the vision.SA:WaT:Ch 101
- escaped-spiritual-realm-via-vision-oathgateNavani becomes the first to escape Odium's string of visions in the Spiritual Realm under her own power. The Sibling, reaching her through the tones of Roshar, explains that perpendicularities only flow inward and the way out is a *point of transition* — and the activation of a vision-Oathgate is one. She talks the vision-Kaladin into firing the Kholinar Oathgate, holds to the Sibling's Connection, and walks back out into her own rooms in Urithiru with Gavinor in her arm.SA:WaT:Ch 105
- navani-resolved-to-take-dalinars-place-at-the-contestReturning to Urithiru with a sleeping Gav, Navani has already resolved that if Dalinar cannot reach the contest of champions, she will go in his place — whatever that contest turns out to be.SA:WaT:Ch 114
Events
- SA:WoK:Ch 21 Returned from Alethkar; sits down across from Dalinar on the king's island and arranges a private meeting
- SA:WoK:Ch 28 Watches the spanreed conversation, then confronts Dalinar in private; he tells her he will abdicate
- SA:WoK:Ch 52 Comes to plead — and is sent away
- SA:WoK:Ch 60 Lays out the Dawnchant transcription and reverses everyone in the room
- SA:WoK:Ch 61 Sits with Dalinar for hours after the Dawnchant evening; kisses him; leaves
- SA:WoK:Ch 63 Confronts him gently about his flirtation-and-retreat
- SA:WaT:Ch 43 Pulled into the vision via Dalinar's silver-cord bond; she takes over the femalen singer's place and walks with him onto the mudflats of Shinovar.
- SA:WaT:Ch 55 Anchors the jump with Ash's ribbon, takes the persona of *Pralla*, comforts Gav with the axehound memory, and goes scouting for the next anchor.
- SA:WaT:Ch 58 Kneels with Gav outside the dugout, calls out to the Wind, asks whether her husband's plan to *become Honor* is valid or possible — and is told *both, but there will be burdens*.
- SA:WaT:Ch 62 Wearing Midius (Wit) in the vision, hand in hand with Dalinar and Gav as they enter the warcamp.
- SA:WaT:Ch 63 Wearing Midius, holding Gav's hand at the edge of the council.
- SA:WaT:Ch 65 Holds Gav at the periphery as Wit; Dalinar covertly takes her hand as the Honorblades begin to form.
- SA:WaT:Ch 77 Reaches Dalinar again by parting the air around herself and Gav, then strengthens their Connection so they can find each other across visions.
- SA:WaT:Ch 85 Stands at the parley with Gav, lifts notes from the ardents at the writing table, and is left hidden under leaf-cover with Gav and Melishi's party when Dalinar accidentally jumps into Garith.
- SA:WaT:Ch 87 Hides with Gav in the rocks, emerges when Mishram notices, and takes Dalinar into her arms when he steps out of Garith's body.
- SA:WaT:Ch 97 Stands as one of the two witnesses for the notarisation, opposite Palona.
- SA:WaT:Ch 101 Walks through her old Kholinar study, names a Gavilar simulacrum's threats as off-key, and finally steers herself toward her grandson.
- SA:WaT:Ch 146 Held floating in the centre of a great green-blue crystal that has filled the room and the dome it has raised over Urithiru — eyes closed, glowing, heart audible through the wall, breathing the slow breath of someone in a self-protective coma alongside the Sibling.
- SA:WoR:Ch 8 Arrives at Dalinar's study in the bunker after he returns from the plateau to read aloud a newly delivered letter from an old friend coming to the Plains.
- SA:WoR:Ch 22 Spends the storm in the side room with Dalinar, carrying a large notebook; afterwards stands and lets him walk her to her quarters.
- SA:WoR:Ch 23 Inside the king's chambers in the aftermath.
- SA:WoR:Ch 32 Sits beside Dalinar holding his hand as he speaks softly through a storm-vision, then is herded back the way they came when the assassin is sighted.
- SA:WoR:Ch 33 Asks Dalinar why the assassin has come back now, after all these years.
- SA:WoR:Ch 33 Gasps when the open door reveals the carving — the moment the others notice the message.
- SA:WoR:Ch 35 Runs the reverser-fabrial flight test from her observation tower and then walks her nephew through it in layman's terms; later, owns to him plainly that she has been pursuing Dalinar rather than the other way around.
- SA:WoR:Ch 37 Sits with Dalinar across the chamber; her fabrial clock on the wall marks the two-hour mark of arguing.
- SA:WoR:Ch 38 Listens, sharp-eyed, as Shallan recounts the night Jasnah was murdered aboard the Wind's Pleasure; horrified at the part about the burning ship, she excuses herself with bare composure.
- SA:WoR:Ch 50 Examines the scratched glyphs and dates the thirty-two-day countdown into the Weeping.
- SA:WoR:Ch 51 Plans the parley with Dalinar and the generals.
- SA:WoR:Ch 51 Marks the date the army can leave on the war-council maps.
- SA:WoR:Ch 53 Checks Adolin for wounds and burns a glyphward of thanks; excuses herself when Shallan arrives.
- SA:WoR:Ch 56 Lays out paint for a glyphward, accepts Shallan's calligraphy as adequate, and warns Adolin that surrender-only terms mean his foes intend to leave him crippled rather than dead.
- SA:WoR:Ch 67 Walks the switchbacks down with Dalinar discussing fabrial pumps and Rushu's Shardblade discovery; later storms across the feast islands with the original journal and confirms the published transcript has been altered.
- SA:WoR:Ch 75 Walks beside Dalinar through the marshalling, falls on Shallan in the triage tent as a mother on a recovered cub, draws her a bath in the Kholin complex and sits in on the bargain over the expedition.
- SA:WoR:Ch 76 Rides with the column of scribes and cartographers she has insisted on bringing, having argued Dalinar into accepting her own risk on the Plains.
- SA:WoR:Ch 77 Climbs in to read Shallan's notes by spherelight, names herself an additional resource, accepts a list of tasks, and rides out into the rain to start them.
- SA:WoR:Ch 79 Sits at the side scribbling Rlain's answers word-for-word; cautions Dalinar not to over-read body language across species.
- SA:WoR:Ch 80 Quietly reports what Rlain has said of the new Parshendi form — that only their soldiers can jump plateaus, and the new form likely as well — and stays at Dalinar's arm after the others go.
- SA:WoR:Ch 81 Sets her scribes copying Dalinar's speech to runners and goes to her fabrials.
- SA:WoR:Ch 82 Tips a line of weighted rocks into the chasm to hoist forty tarp pavilions into the air, sets her new attractor fabrials going inside each, and gives Roion's archers a dry place to string their bows.
- SA:WoR:Ch 83 Comes to a wounded Dalinar under the pavilions not in anger but in fear, hears him admit they are losing, and goes off to her fabrials again.
- SA:WoR:Ch 85 Soaked through after losing her umbrella, asks how there can possibly be two storms, then is dispatched by Dalinar with a squad of soldiers to find Shallan and help her open the Oathgate.
- SA:WoR:Ch 86 Stands with Dalinar beside Gallant on the suddenly sunlit plateau, en route to the central building, when Shallan steps out into Urithiru's ring of ten.
- SA:WoR:Ch 87 Stands beside Dalinar in Urithiru composed and terse, then grabs Kaladin's arm as soon as he lands and demands her son.
Relations
- relatedElhokar Kholin — Mother to the king and to Jasnah; widow of Gavilar SA:WoK:Ch 12
- relatedDalinar Kholin — Old wound — she once played him and Gavilar off each other before choosing Gavilar; now back in front of him as an ally SA:WoK:Ch 21
- relatedDalinar Kholin — First kiss between them; he closes the door knowing the world has become more right by going wrong SA:WoK:Ch 61
Backreferences
- summarySA:DS:Ch 1
- factLiafor
- factConjoined Fabrials
- summarySA:DS:Ch 2
- summarySA:DS:Ch 3
- summarySA:DS:Ch 4
- factAluminum
- factAluminum
- factConjoined Fabrials
- summarySA:DS:Ch 8
- summarySA:DS:Ch 12
- summarySA:DS:Ch 14
- summarySA:DS:Ch 18
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 51
- summarySA:OB:Ch 1
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- factSquires
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- factChanada
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- summarySA:OB:Ch 8
- factKurth
- factIshar
- summarySA:OB:Ch 9
- summarySA:OB:Ch 12
- summarySA:OB:Ch 16
- factPainrial
- factThe Breakaway
- summarySA:OB:Ch 19
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- factQueen Fen
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- factFeverstone Keep
- summarySA:OB:Ch 58
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- summarySA:OB:Ch 64
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- factNoura
- summarySA:OB:Ch 86
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- summarySA:OB:Ch 121
- factThe King's Drop
- summarySA:OB:Ch 122
- summarySA:RoW:Prologue
- factMaratham
- factKholinar palace
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 3
- factFourth Bridge
- factVelat
- factKmakl
- factthe Sibling
- factcrystal pillar
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 6
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 7
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 9
- factthe Sibling
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 10
- factNarak
- factThe Ten Rings
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 15
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 16
- factGavinor Kholin
- factThe Cloudwalk
- factBrother Benneh
- factTalnah
- factNem
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 17
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 18
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 19
- factAluminum
- factSuppressor Fabrial
- factMasked Ones
- factTomor
- factHighstorm Windmills
- factThe Emul Offensive
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 25
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 27
- factAnesa
- factIsabi
- factMysterious Spanreed
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 28
- factAnti-fabrial Correspondent
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 32
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 37
- factTomor
- factKristir
- factChananar
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 38
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 39
- factthe Sibling
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 40
- factthe Sibling
- factTeofil
- factTeofil
- factTshadr
- factHonor's Truest Surge
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 41
- factTeofil
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 42
- factthe Sibling
- factRaboniel
- factUlvlk
- factMelishi
- factthe Sibling's Shield
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 43
- factAlili
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 46
- factralkalest
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 47
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 49
- factLift
- factthe Sibling
- factthe Sibling
- factthe Sibling
- factthe Sibling's Shield
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 51
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 55
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 58
- factthe Sibling
- factRaboniel
- factTowerlight
- factThe Silent Fused
- factRaboniel
- factRaboniel
- factRaboniel
- factTowerlight
- factAnti-Light
- factthe Sibling
- factthe Sibling
- factPure Tones of Roshar
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 71
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 72
- factRaboniel
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 76
- factRaboniel
- factthe Rhythm of War
- factRaboniel's Daughter
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 84
- factFused
- factWarlight
- factWarlight
- factraysium
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 89
- factthe Sibling
- factRaboniel
- factVoice of Lights
- factMizthla
- factblack sand
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 91
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 92
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 97
- factRaboniel
- factRaboniel
- factanti-Voidlight
- factThaylen vacuum tube
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 98
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 100
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 101
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 102
- factRaboniel
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 103
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 104
- factThe Pursuer
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 105
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 106
- factRaboniel
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 107
- factthe Sibling
- factRaboniel
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 109
- factthe Sibling
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 110
- factthe Sibling
- factRaboniel
- factLeshwi
- factthe Rhythm of War
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 12
- factGrandbow
- factGrandbow
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 21
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 28
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 52
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 60
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 61
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 63
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 69
- summarySA:WaT:Prologue
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 2
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 4
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 5
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 6
- factKaladin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 7
- factShadesmar compass
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 8
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 11
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 13
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 14
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 15
- factKelen
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 17
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 18
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 20
- factJasnah Kholin
- factThe Stormfather
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 21
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 22
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 23
- factthe Sibling
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 25
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 29
- factGavinor Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 30
- factRenarin Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 31
- factHoid
- factSpiritual Realm
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 32
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 33
- factIshar
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 37
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 43
- factDalinar Kholin
- factMoash
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 44
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 46
- factHoid
- factThe Heralds
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 49
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 50
- factNavani Kholin
- factthe Wind
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 55
- factGavinor Kholin
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 58
- factthe Wind
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 62
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 64
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 65
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 67
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 74
- factRenarin's scaffold
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 77
- factBattah
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 80
- factNavani Kholin
- factGarith
- factKazilah
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 82
- factthe Sibling
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 85
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 87
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 95
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 97
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 99
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 101
- factGavilar Kholin
- factNavani Kholin
- factNavani Kholin
- factShulin
- factKevah
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 105
- factGavinor Kholin
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:I-13
- factLift
- factthe Sibling
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 114
- factLift
- factNavani Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 116
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 119
- summarySA:WaT:I-15
- factThe Thaylen Patent Treaty
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 121
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 125
- factContest of Champions
- factTaravangian
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 126
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 127
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 129
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 130
- factGavinor Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 131
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 134
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 139
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 143
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 145
- factRenarin Kholin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 1
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 4
- factRushu
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 5
- factDalinar Kholin
- factKaladin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 6
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 8
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 13
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 14
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 22
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 32
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 33
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 35
- factNavani Kholin
- factNavani Kholin
- factFalilar
- factConjoined fabrial
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 36
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 37
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 38
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 40
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 49
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 50
- factDalinar's Visions
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 51
- factInadara
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 53
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 56
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 67
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 75
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 77
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 78
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 79
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 80
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 81
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 82
- factAttractor Fabrial
- factArrow Pavilions
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 83
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 85
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 86
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 87
- factKaladin