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| name = Navani Kholin<br />
| title = Brightness; Queen of Alethkar; the Fabrial Scholar<br />
| house = [[Bondsmiths]]; [[House Kholin]]<br />
| race = Alethi<br />
| status = Alive<br />
| region = [[Alethkar]]; [[Urithiru]]<br />
| born = Alethkar<br />
| died =<br />
| weapon = The [[Sibling]] bond (Bondsmith)<br />
| fate = Bondsmith bonded to the Sibling; Queen of Alethkar and engineer of Radiant fabrial science<br />
| quote = Power is the ability to make life better or worse for the people around you.<br />
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'''Navani Kholin''' is a major character in [[The Stormlight Archive]] by [[Brandon Sanderson]]. Queen of [[Alethkar]], widow of King [[Gavilar Kholin]], and later wife of [[Dalinar Kholin]], Navani is the foremost engineer and fabrial scholar of her age. In ''Rhythm of War'' she becomes a [[Bondsmiths|Bondsmith]] of the [[Knights Radiant]], bonded to the [[Sibling]], the spren of [[Urithiru]] itself.<br />
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A brilliant inventor and organizer, Navani transformed [[Stormlight]]-powered fabrial technology and led the scholarly arms race against the [[Voidbringers]]. Her arc centers on reconciling her self-doubt about being "merely" a patron of scholars with the truth that she is herself a genius.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
Navani was born into the Alethi nobility and married [[Gavilar Kholin]], with whom she had [[Jasnah Kholin]] and [[Elhokar Kholin]]. Long fascinated by engineering and fabrials -- devices that harness spren and [[Stormlight]] -- she gathered scholars and artifabrians around her. Her relationship with [[Dalinar Kholin]] predated her marriage to his brother, and after Gavilar's assassination the two eventually wed.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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=== Early books ===<br />
Navani arrives at the [[Shattered Plains]] and rekindles her relationship with [[Dalinar Kholin]], whom she marries in ''Words of Radiance''. She lends her engineering brilliance to the war effort, studying the strange phenomena surrounding the new [[Knights Radiant]], the [[Everstorm]], and the workings of fabrials. She often frames herself as a collector of clever minds rather than a true scholar -- a self-deprecation the narrative steadily dismantles.<br />
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=== Rhythm of War ===<br />
This book is Navani's. When [[Urithiru]] falls to the [[Singer]]s and the Fused, Navani is trapped in the tower and forced to collaborate with the brilliant, alien Fused scholar [[Raboniel]] on the science of [[Stormlight]] and Voidlight -- and the discovery of a dangerous new "Warlight" / anti-Light. Through this work she finally embraces her identity as a true scholar, and in the climax she bonds the [[Sibling]], becoming a [[Bondsmiths|Bondsmith]] and reawakening the tower's defenses to retake [[Urithiru]].<br />
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=== Wind and Truth ===<br />
As a Bondsmith and Queen, Navani applies her fabrial science and the powers of the Sibling to the defense of [[Roshar]] during the contest of champions, her partnership with [[Dalinar Kholin]] central to the coalition.<br />
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== Character ==<br />
Navani is inventive, pragmatic, and politically shrewd, with a deep love of discovery. Her central struggle is impostor syndrome -- the belief that she organizes genius rather than possessing it -- which she overcomes through her breakthroughs in Light science. She is warm and maternal toward those she leads, and fiercely devoted to Dalinar and her children.<br />
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== Powers and abilities ==<br />
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As a Bondsmith bonded to the [[Sibling]], Navani gains command over the spren of [[Urithiru]] and its tower-spanning fabrial network, able to power and direct the ancient structure's defenses. Beyond her Radiant bond, her true power is intellectual: she is the leading authority on fabrial mechanics, the conjoining of spren, and the manipulation of the three Lights (Stormlight, Voidlight, and the Tower's Light).<br />
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== Relationships ==<br />
* '''The [[Sibling]]''' -- the Bondsmith spren of Urithiru, with whom she bonds.<br />
* '''[[Dalinar Kholin]]''' -- her husband and fellow Bondsmith.<br />
* '''[[Gavilar Kholin]]''' -- her first husband, the assassinated king.<br />
* '''[[Jasnah Kholin]]''' and '''[[Elhokar Kholin]]''' -- her children.<br />
* '''[[Raboniel]]''' -- the Fused scholar with whom she made a fraught research alliance.<br />
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== Quotes ==<br />
<blockquote>''Power is the ability to make life better or worse for the people around you.''</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote>''Journey before destination. It is the goal of all Radiants.''</blockquote><br />
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