Tanavast
An old name for the Almighty — used in the vision Dalinar receives, in which a Radiant-era figure calls a child the Child of Tanavast. SA:WoK:Ch 46
Known facts
- helped-kill-adonalsium-for-his-own-goodTanavast remembers Adonalsium as the being he and his peers *slew for his own good* — and credits Roshar to him as one of his most recent works, a world grown out of equations as a testament to the divine nature of mathematics, song, and art. Taking up the Honor shard he counts as inheriting godhood from a slain predecessor, not stealing it.SA:WaT:Ch 100
- broke-promise-to-other-gods-by-keeping-korThe other shardholders had insisted Tanavast keep Koravellium away from his world. When she came to him on Roshar anyway he broke that promise — and felt the Honor shard itself rebel against him for it like a building tempest. *I am God,* he insisted, *you obey me.* The power simmered, and waited.SA:WaT:Ch 100
- rivals-with-rayse-in-mortalityTanavast and Rayse had been rivals before their Ascensions, and a copy of a leather belt his mortal self once made for Rayse still hangs on the divine form Rayse later assumes. To Rayse he was never *Tanavast* but always *Tanner*, after the trade his mortal self plied.SA:WaT:Ch 104
- shaped-ten-orders-of-spren-with-korWorking with Kor on Roshar, Tanavast guided the deity-leak of their two powers into ten orders of true beings — passions, thoughts, ideas of their own; *creations of light and wind and dreams* that evolve through perception rather than genetics. They began with seven, Kor alone formed the eighth, and Tanavast created the ninth — *his angels of Honor* — almost entirely on his own. The tenth, at Kor's urging, was to be a kind not influenced by outside perception, but he left her to its design and turned his thoughts to Rayse.SA:WaT:Ch 104
- tanavast-created-the-heralds-aloneAfter each of the other strong Shards he reaches for — Leras, Ati, Edgli, Bavadin, Chan Ko Sar — refuses to help him against Rayse, and Valor cannot be found, Tanavast decides to resist Odium alone. He meets the humans in their tent with Ishar, offers to bestow their Surges again under rules they will obey, and gives them the largest portion of himself he will ever grant — giving birth to the Heralds.SA:WaT:Ch 115
- tanavast-decides-to-loosen-the-heraldsConvinced he cannot afford to wait for Mishram's peace overture to mature, Tanavast decides to push the Heralds harder — to give them deeper access to his own power and the power of Roshar itself. He reassures himself that, so long as the Heralds are bound by their oaths, they cannot destroy the land. He has declared it will be so.SA:WaT:Ch 120
- honor-could-not-quiet-tanner-insideOn the battlefield where Ishar first asks what *complete victory* means, Tanavast hears the quiet voice of *the person he had been before all of this* asking him whether the Heralds hurt, whether the cycle of Desolations is in any way honourable. He cannot silence it any longer; he names it to himself by the name he carried as a mortal — *Tanner.*SA:WaT:Ch 122
- tanavast-listened-to-roshar-from-shinovar-grassAfter the Heralds propose the Oathpact, Tanavast flees as the storm to a grass field in Shinovar — the land where humans first arrived — and at the Wind's instruction stops trying to lead. He infuses the land, lets his soul align with its rhythms, and spends two and a half thousand years simply listening to the people he should have loved. He emerges convinced his role is to be a witness, not a god.SA:WaT:Ch 122
- shard-of-honor-rejected-tanavast-after-mishrams-captureAt the moment Melishi pulls Ba-Ado-Mishram into the gemstone, the trap's aftereffect upon all the singers — the Rosharan tones had aligned with her — turns out to be far worse than Tanavast foresaw, and the Shard of Honor he holds *rejects* him for the dishonour of the trap. The part of him that is still Tanner agrees with the verdict. He has hours, at most, before the power leaves him.SA:WaT:Ch 124
Relations
- mentionsDalinar Kholin — The vision names a child by the Almighty's old name SA:WoK:Ch 46
Backreferences
- summarySA:OB:Ch 117
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 82
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 107
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 46
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 16
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 22
- factThe Stormfather
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 49
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 100
- factRoshar
- factTanavast
- factTanavast
- factthe Wind
- factKoravellium Avast
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 104
- factNalan'Elin
- factsingers
- factRayse
- factTanavast
- factTanavast
- factAlaswha
- factMicrokinesis
- factUli Da
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 107
- factNalan'Elin
- factAshyn
- factZoral
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 113
- factRoshar
- factRayse
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 115
- factThe Heralds
- factRayse
- factTanavast
- factKoravellium Avast
- factLeras
- factEdgli
- factChan Ko Sar
- factMedelantorius
- factEuridrius
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 120
- factBa-Ado-Mishram
- factAnti-Light
- factThe Heralds
- factThe Knights Radiant
- factNatanatan
- factTanavast
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 122
- factContest of Champions
- factThe Heralds
- factThe Oathpact
- factTanavast
- factTanavast
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 124
- factThe Stormfather
- factThe Stormfather
- factThe Recreance
- factRayse
- factAona
- factTanavast
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 126
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 127
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 128
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 132
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 139
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 141
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 142
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 143
- factThe Stormfather
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 145
- factRetribution
- factStormfall
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 74
- factThe Stormfather
- summarySA:WoR:Epilogue
- factHoid