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|groups={{tag|Knights Radiant}} <small>([[Order of Bondsmiths|Bondsmiths]])</small>
|skills=Scholar, {{tag+|Artifabrian}}
|'residence={{tag|Kholinar|cat=Residents of Kholinar}}<small>(formerly)</small>, {{tag|Shattered_Plains#Warcamps|text=The Alethi warcamps|cat=Residents of the Alethi warcamps}}<small>(formerly)</small>, {{tag|Urithiru|cat=Residents of Urithiru}}
|nation=Alethkar
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
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'''Navani Kholin''' is an [[Alethi]] [[lighteyes]] living on [[Roshar]].{{book ref|sa1|22}} She is the widow of [[Gavilar Kholin]] and the mother of [[Jasnah]] and [[Elhokar Kholin]].{{book ref|sa1|12}} She was the sister-in-law to [[Dalinar Kholin]]{{book ref|sa1|Prologue}} and aunt to [[Adolin]] and [[Renarin Kholin]]{{book ref|sa1|12}} until she was married to Dalinar.{{book ref|sa3|4}} She is also a renowned scholar and [[artifabrian]].{{book ref|sa1|12}}
== Appearance and Personality ==
She believed the visions were a blessing because they proved that Dalinar wasn't going mad.{{book ref|sa1|61}} After recording several of his visions, Dalinar and Navani learned to trust each other and confessed their feelings for one another. Navani made it clear that she would not stop for tradition, as their union wasn't explicitly forbidden.{{book ref|sa1|62}}
=== Re-uniting the Alethi
Navani helped Dalinar build their first plan for unification and strength of the crown. They decided to attack on different fronts: economical (changes to the manner of collection and distribution of gemhearts on the Shattered Plains), fear (Adolin would duel to earn Shardblades) and political ([[Dalinar]] and Navani would try to persuade the benefits of a unified Alethkar).{{book ref|sa2|5}} It is clear she suggested having allies that would unite based on loyalty and not fear.{{book ref|sa2|8}}
With her team's help, Navani began siphoning stormlight into the second gemstone. She communicated with the Sibling, who reported that Teofil and his men had fallen to the Fused. The fully infused gemstone activated a shield around the gemstone pillar that formed the Sibling's heart. Navani then surrendered to the singers and negotiated the terms with Raboniel. Though Raboniel offered to hire her as a research assistant, Navani said she would deliberate it with her scholars first.{{book ref|sa4|43}}
{{image|Navani
=== Occupation of Urithiru ===
On the first day of the occupation, Navani told Raboniel that she and her scholars would accept their offer. Pleased, Raboniel asked Navani to sketch the schematics of Fourth Bridge's flying platform. While sketching, Navani realized with help from Raboniel that Soulcasters, the tower's elevators, and other abnormal fabrials were comprised directly of spren, instead of powered by spren trapped in gemstones.{{book ref|sa4|46}}
▲{{image|Navani rhythm by Viridializard.jpeg|side=right|width=450px|Attuning the Rhythm of War}}
Under the watchful eye of singer guards, Navani directed her scholars to occupy themselves with busy work and revisions as a stalling tactic. When Raboniel cut her off from direct contact with her scholars, she instructed them to continue researching Voidlight fabrials and sent them nonsense ciphered messages to occupy Raboniel's spies. She continued to communicate with the Sibling, using the Sibling's awareness of the tower to get information on Raboniel and deciding that her most important goal was to protect the Sibling. They were distrustful of her, both because of her use of fabrials and her human ability to twist words convincingly, but helped her contact Kaladin, updating him on their situation.{{book ref|sa4|49}} However, this method of communication was turned against her when she convinced the Sibling to give her the location of the node in the well, only to discover that Raboniel had been listening in on their conversations. Kaladin managed to destroy the node, but the Sibling felt betrayed and refused to talk to Navani for a while. Raboniel brought her food and wine, and they had a conversation about the history of the conflict between humans and singers and Raboniel's desire to end the war at any cost.
When Navani mentioned no longer wishing to do research under Raboniel, Raboniel appealed to her curiosity and convinced her to continue. They began collaborating, and Navani came to a realization about how using Honor's, Odium's, and Cultivation's rhythms could affect the Light. Raboniel taught her Honor's rhythm, and with Raboniel singing Odium's rhythm at the same time as Navani sang Honor's, they were able to create Warlight, the combination of Stormlight and Voidlight, for the first time, as well as a rhythm that Raboniel titled the Rhythm of War. Navani then realized Raboniel's true desire for the experiments - to find anti-Light - and knew that Gavilar's strange sphere was an example of this anti-Light, although she did not reveal that.{{book ref|sa4|76}} As a thank you for the breakthrough of the production of Warlight Rabionel had two singer musicians play the tones of Honor and Odium on plates temporarily affixed to Navani's desk she also granted Navani the title "Voice of Lights". Afterward, Rabionel seemingly ended their collaboration stating that she needed to focus on finishing the corruption of the Sibling. Rabionel also gave Navani free reign to continue experiments on her own and provided any resource requested.
With Rabionel distancing herself to focus on defeating the Sibling's shield Navani toils for days on the concept of anti-Voidlight. Utilizing the same plates that Rabionel rewarded her for she begins to conceptualize sound waves and the patterns that the distinct lights create. Further delving into music theory she theorizes that the anti-Voidlight rhythm would sound identical to the ear as the regular Voidlight rhythm. Eventually she is successful at creating a plate that produces the correct rhythm. Rabionel returns and upon realizing what Navani is working on forces her to reveal her research. The two are then successful at creating an anti-Voidlight gem utilizing a vacuum tube to isolate the light from the Rhythms of Roshar. Rabionel, understanding the implications of the breakthrough betrays Navani once again and begins to manufacture anti-Stormlight with the intention of killing the incapacitated Radiants along with their spren.
A day later she is visited by Moash, who has every intention of killing her but is redirected by Raboniel who sends him to deal with Kaladin first. Navani, left to her own devices once again, finds the dagger Raboniel used to kill her daughter with, some anti-Voidlight still left in its gem. She plans and prepares fabrial traps, and is able to get the jump on Raboniel, gravely injuring her with the anti-Voidlight dagger, but fails to kill her on the spot. This failure proves fortuitous because when Moash comes back for Navani, Raboniel is able to hold him off just long enough for Navani to negotiate a bond with the Sibling. A freshly bonded Bondsmith, Navani drives Moash away, restores and Tower, and sends the invaders running for their lives.
== Relationships ==
Navani and Dalinar were friends before he introduced her to Gavilar. At that point it seems they were both interested in her. Navani chose Gavilar over Dalinar because she found Dalinar to be frightening.{{book ref|sa1|28}}
When Navani returns to the Shattered Plains from Kholinar, she frequently speaks with Dalinar, and later becomes romantically involved with him, which is unusual, because in the eyes of Alethi society, she is now considered to be Dalinar's sister.{{book ref|sa1|22}} Part of what Navani finds intriguing about him is that he's begun to ''be'' the person the others all ''claim'' to be.{{book ref|sa1|28}} She now finds Dalinar's intensity, which frightened her when they both were younger, to be fascinating because he's now wrapped it in emotional armor.{{book ref|sa1|28}}
Navani believes Dalinar to be a kind man,{{book ref|sa1|28}} and a bit overprotective.{{book ref|sa2|35}} She never mocks Dalinar, never acts skeptical of that which he reveals in his visions.{{book ref|sa1|58}}
=== Jasnah ===
Jasnah believes her mother
Navani knows Jasnah better that anyone else, but wishes she had some sense to go with her intelligence.{{book ref|sa2|14}} She believes that Jasnah never did have the decency to be ''wrong'' an appropriate amount of the time.
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