User:Zoey The Edgedancer/Navani

"You loathe their excess, and you are close to applying that emotion to them as well. They live the lives they have known, the lives that society has taught them are proper. You won’t change them with contempt. You aren’t Wit; it isn’t your job to scorn them. Your job is to enfold them, encourage them. Lead them, Dalinar."

Summary
Navani Kholin is an Alethi lighteyes living on Roshar, the widow of Gavilar Kholin, current wife of Dalinar Kholin, and a Knights Radiant of the Order of Bondsmiths, bonded to The Sibling.

Prior to her marriage to Gavilar Kholin, she wavered between him and his brother, Dalinar Kholin, both of which she had feelings for. She eventually chose to marry Gavilar, the future king. She eventually sired two children, Jasnah, and  Elhokar.

During the unification of Alethkar, Navani and Ialai Sadeas huddled together at dinners; conspiring on how to stabilize the kingdom their husbands were trying to conquer, and they were quite close friends during this period. They were the ones responsible for finding Dalinar a wife which would give them political advantage.

During his last few days, Gavilar began to act strangely and grew emotionally abusive to her, this abuse greatly hurt her and was the source of her Imposter Syndrome concerning her ability to act as a Scholar. Yet despite this, Navani herself had worked to keep squabbling lighteyes from sundering the kingdom while the king grew more and more distracted from his duties.

On the night of Gavilar's assassination, Navani was organizing the preparations for the feast. During her preparations she encountered Aesudan Kholin in the palace gardens, and used her presence as an excuse to cut a conversation short. Shortly after she was informed by a palace steward that Gavilar was absent from the celebration. Despite her irritation with Gavilar, she dealt with the guests' concerns during the feast to cover the king's absence. Though eventually excused herself to look for her husband, whom she discovered in her study, speaking to Nale and  Kalak. After he dismissed them they both got into a bitter argument. After the fight ended, Navani inscribed a glyphward praying for his death and burned it.

Following the end of the feast, she heard about the assassination of Gavilar and went to see his broken body. She felt guilt at the glyphward she burned, however, she soon realized she pitied Gavilar instead of grieving for him. But she decided to stay quiet and let Gavilar have the legacy he wished for.

After his death she lost her position in Alethi society, her son took to the throne. While much of Alethi society moved to the Shattered Plains to fight the Parshendi, she stayed in Kholinar in order to aid Elhokar's wife, Aesudan, in ruling the kingdom. But she eventually moved to the Shattered Plains, realizing that the seat of power had transferred there.

The Way of Kings
She was chosen as the only person that Dalinar could trust to record what he said during his visions, of which she did so expertly and without complaint. It was while listening to these that she realized that the gibberish he sometimes uttered was actually in the Dawnchant, and through this she was capable of, through the help of her scholars, translating parts of it, and through this managed to make much of the old documents in the Dawnchant be translated into modern Alethi.

She kept much of what happened behind closed doors secret. But when she finally decided to publish her findings, she removed the lines where he mentioned sensitive issues, such as the Almighty’s death.

Words of Radiance
Navani helped Dalinar build their first plan for unification and strength of the crown.

Dawnshard
Over the period between the Battle of Thaylen Field and the finding of the First Dreams, she planned out and began the construction of various Fabrial devices to assist in the war effort against the armies of Odium. At the reports of the discovery of the First Dreams. Navani published a request for another ship to investigate a region of Aimia.

She met with Rysn and

Rhythm of War
She bonded with The Sibling, becoming a Knights Radiant of the Order of Bondsmiths.

Personality
She suffers from an extreme case of imposter syndrome as a result of her abusive ex-husband. She has trouble seeing herself as a scholar and greatly underestimates her own intelligence and ability, despite how great she is in both categories.

Powers and Stats
Name: Navani Kholin, Queen Mother of Alethkar, Queen of Urithiru, Queen Consort of Alethkar (former), The Mother of Machines, Queen Blackthorn, Voice of Lights

Age: 55 (60 in Earth Years)

Gender: Female

Classification: Scholar, Queen of Alethkar, Dowagar Queen | Knights Radiant, Bondsmith

Powers and Abilities: Base = Pain Manipulation via Painrial

Bondsmith = Superhuman Physical Characteristics when pulling upon Stormlight (When pulling upon Stormlight, she experiences an increase in his strength and reactivity in proportion to the amount of Stormlight that she pulls upon), Regeneration when pulling upon Stormlight (When using Stormlight, the body restores itself to its Spiritual Ideal, in essence healing the body and Spiritweb back to its undamaged state, a form of regeneration. The degree to which she can regenerate depends on how much Stormlight he as to draw upon)

Language Decipherment (Type 1) and Limited Soul Manipulation via Surge of Adhesion (Should be capable of creating a Spiritual Connection to an individual, and in doing so temporarily learn how to speak in and understand their native language), Adhesion Manipulation via Surge of Adhesion, Rigidity Manipulation via Surge of Tension (Is able to alter the Rigidity of physical objects)

Power Bestowal to Squires (If she names one her Squire, she would be capable of granting them the Surges of Adhesion and Tension.)

Intelligence: Genius, she is a very intelligent individual and an expert Artifabrian, with an immense knowledge of how Fabrials work and how to put them together to create complex machines and devices, such as a flying machine, a new form of painrial, platforms for archers, and was a majour figure in the development of Grandbows. She also acted as a majour figure in the translation of the Dawnchant, a dead language of ancient Roshar. Later, she was the central researcher into the nature of Lights, studying Stormlight, Voidlight, Lifelight, Warlight, and Towerlight, finding out various aspects of them unknown to the rest of academia. She also discovered the first instance of Anti-Investiture in known history throughout all the Cosmere, something that not even Silverlight were able to discover over their millennia of existence, along with this she was capable of finding out how to fuse light together, creating Warlight and Towerlight, both of these discoveries displaying an in-depth knowledge of metaphysics and sound frequencies. After bonding with The Sibling, she became able to control and intuitively understand the functioning of Urithiru and its constituent fabrials.

Base =

Scholarship
She holds knowledge on a wide range of topics, including Fabrials; Investiture, and in particular, Lights; Pressure Differentials, and Sound Waves.

Fabrial Knowledge
She has a very in depth knowledge of Fabrials and how they function, such as the various methods in which to contain Spren, the various types of Fabrial, and how they interact with various types of metals. Many of her inventions, such as the painrial, are used in the war against the Parshendi, making her incredibly valuable to the Alethi.

Painrial
Painrials are a type of Fabrial which can augment or diminish pain, and it is a type of Fabrial of which she held a great level of understanding of. She greatly refined the Longshadow design of a Pain Diminisher Fabrial, to refine the design to be less bulky and easier to use. She hoped for this to be used to help surgeons operate on their patients without causing them pain.

Navani also integrated a painrial device into her vambrace timepieces which she made for herself and Dalinar. She also made this to be capable of swapping between lessening the pain experienced by the holder, and causing pain by releasing shocks into someone. She made this able to be switched between via a switch on the mechanism.

Grandbows
Grandbows are a powerful form of bow created by attaching an augmenter fabrial to a large bow. These launch large arrows at great speed, imparting a great amount of force upon the target. These arrows are as thick as three fingers, and are quite long. These are, in most cases, impossible to draw by anyone not enhanced by Shardplate or Stormlight.

She, with the help of various other scholars, led to the creation of this device. This isn't simply made to be strong, but also had to work with the immense stress put on the bow by the drawing of the string. A small gemstone attached to the bow by an artifabrian provides Stormlight and ensures that the metal does not warp under the stress of being drawn.

'Fourth Bridge
The 'Fourth Bridge' is Roshar's first airship, which uses hundreds of conjoiner fabrials to move through the air. It was constructed in the first year of the True Desolations by a team of ardents and engineers led by Navani Kholin. This is one of the greatest examples of Fabrial technology in Rosharan history, and throughout much of the Cosmere at large, only comparable, and even exceeding, the flying technology of the South Scadrians.

This took advantage of everything that she and her ardents knew about Fabrials, alongside various new discoveries, such as using aluminum so that only certain planes of movement are transferred between the paired gem halves.

This is the result of a series of plans over a long period of time, with her proposing various models, such as in the Airship Designs portion of her notebook, and from an extrapolation of various ideas of floating platforms

Lights
During the occupation of Urithiru she began a deep level of study into the nature of Stormlight, Voidlight, and Lifelight. Discovering many things about how they operate and interact.

She was capable of finding out how to fuse together Lights, creating Warlight and Towerlight. Along with this, she discovered how to make Anti-Light, the first known manifestation of an Anti-Investiture in the history of the Cosmere, something in which even Silverlight, despite their knowledge of how the world works, and their millennia of existence, were not able to crack.

Bondsmith =

Surgebinding
As she bonded with The Sibing and became a Bondsmith, she gained the ability to use the Surges of Tension and Adhesion. However, she has yet to have time to practice in either Surge, nor has she been shown using either.