User:Zoey The Edgedancer/Taravangian



"I am the monster who will save this world."

- Taravangian to Szeth

Summary
Taravangian is the king of Kharbranth and Jah Keved, and the leader of the secret society known as The Diagram, and eventually the Vessel of the Shard Odium.

He was a mastermind working behind the scenes to actualize the plans he wrote out in the Diagram, which his group believes the truth and the path to human salvation and unification lies in the set of predictions and instructions he laid out on the day he was a genius. This led him to hire an assassin, Szeth, to assassinate various world leaders, and do other such manipulations to bring about his desired future.

After betraying Dalinar Kholin and his army during the Emul Campaign he was imprisoned, but his manipulations continued, planning to use  Szeth and  Renarin Kholin in order to kill Odium, taking advantage of their unique natures. Thus he worked to get Szeth to go out of line and kill him, thus attracting Odium for Szeth to attack with Nightblood.

This came to pass, and he was pulled out of the Physical Realm by Odium in order to save him from Szeth. Though Taravangian used the Cognitive Aspect of Nightblood in order to kill Rayse and  due to his rampant emotions during his period of compassion, take up the Shard of Odium in their aligning Intents, becoming its new Vessel.

Despite this, his physical self died, while his mind and soul expanded to take on the Shard.

Powers and Stats
Name: Taravangian, Vargo | Odium

Age: Early 70's (Late 80's in Earth Years)

Gender: Male

Classification: King of Kharbaranth, King of Jah Keved, Head of The Diagram | Vessel of Odium

Powers and Abilities:

Base = Superhuman Intellect Odium = Superhuman Intellect, Power Bestowal, Teleportation, Precognition (Type 2), and many more

Intelligence: Due to his curse and blessing from the Nightwatcher, his intelligence varies greatly from day to day. At his best he is able to make accurate predictions of the future spanning years and make entirely functioning languages in a single day; and at his worst his mind functions slowly and he is barely able to piece together thoughts.

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Intelligence
Due to the effects of the Old Magic he was left with a fluctuating level of intelligence every day, regardless if asleep of awake he would experience this change. At times he is a genius beyond any human levels, and at other times he is mentally infirm and can barely think or sort out his thoughts. This does not just adjust his mental speed, but rather does so for all forms of intelligence.

At his highest point he was capable of writing up the Diagram, a piece of literature which contained countless accurate predictions for the future of Roshar, enough so to impressive even Odium. While imperfect, various predictions in it failing to come true or manifesting in a slightly different manner, a significant portion of its predictions have come true or have yet to come to pass. This is not born from the ability to see the future, but is rather the result of raw intellect.

Alongside this, he was capable of creating his own fully functioning language and countless codes and hidden messages in the text.

Though no day has he ever reached this incomprehensible degree of intellect. But he was still capable of reaching levels beyond any other human. At one point even able to solve seemingly unsolvable problems such as the Fabrisan's Conundrum.

During these periods of high intellect he can be almost entirely lacking in compassion to the point of irrationality, easily talking about killing singing children due to being done with their performance.

During his times of low intellect, he has trouble sorting out his own thoughts or processing the words of others. Barely able to have intelligent conversation and at times barely able to think at all. Yet it is during these days that his compassion is at its highest.

Physical Infirmity
As an old man, well into his eighties in Earth Years, he is very weak physically and suffers from aches and pains, at times leaving himself unable to get up for walk without assistance.

Odium = He has shown little ability thus far as the Vessel of Odium, though we can assume his attributes and abilities via the traits held by other Shards.

Future Sight
As a Shard he is capable of seeing into the future, and all the possibilities spreading out into infinity. The exact extent to which a Shard can do that differs from Shard to Shard, his exact ability in this is not yet known for sure.

However, we know that the future is hard to see for Shards, or for any version of future sight, when faced with another being capable of seeing the future, and that the further one looks the harder it is to make out the future.

Immortality
As a Vessel he gained a form of Immortality, never ageing and exceptionally difficult to kill. Shards have been shown to be able to live for thousands of years if no other being comes to kill them.

Movement and Bilocation
He is capable of manifesting himself wherever the Everstorm passes.

Voidlight
He has access to a essentially endless supply of Investiture known as Voidlight, which is manifested in the Everstorm and given to the Fused. As with all Investiture, whenever it is used it would be filtered back to the Spiritual Realm for him to use once again. However, it is finite

This is used to power all of his powers.

Misc.
He was capable of excising Breaths from  Wit, particularly removing those that stored his Short-Term memories, in order to get rid of the suspicion that he held for him, and redo their conversation in a more effective manner in order to not hint to him that he wasn't Rayse.