Talenel
A Herald the others speak of as fallen in this Desolation — said to have died holding a passage by the northern waterway, his Honorblade unaccounted for among the survivors. SA:WoK:Prelude
Known facts
- blade-was-swapped-by-shin-on-his-returnWhen Talmut returned from Braize to the Shattered Plains at the start of this Desolation, his Honorblade had already been swapped for an ordinary Shardblade. Szeth's people had retrieved the real Blade, leaving him with a ruse weapon, and Talmut's Honorblade has since lived at Talmut's monastery in the hands of the stone-shamans.SA:WaT:Ch 40
- soul-warped-by-attempt-to-kill-cultivationBefore joining the Oathpact, Taln was the camp horse keeper — flabby, with his tunic askew — dismissed from the front lines and forbidden a weapon because his soul had been warped from an *attempt to kill Cultivation*. Jezrien thinks it makes him a bad candidate; Nale thinks it makes him the right one, both because he has interacted with the gods and because the circle should include someone who is *not a king.*SA:WaT:Ch 65
- rises-from-the-sickbed-in-azimirIn a hospital corridor turned into a sickroom on the broken side of Azimir, with Abidi the Monarch ordering the wounded slaughtered, Talenel stops his thousand-day muttering, rises bare-chested from his bed, and — unarmed, without his Blade — fights back. The Bearer of Agonies has been silent for four thousand years; the Fused who see his face turn and flee.SA:WaT:Ch 84
- dies-at-the-breach-in-the-azimir-domeAtop a pinnacle of Fused corpses heaped against the breach in the Azimir dome, Talenel is found speared by a dozen lances which prop up his body — one of his hands still closed on the crushed skull of a Fused. The Bearer of Agonies, returned to the world only to fall back to muttering, dies here on his feet for the second time, this time holding a city.SA:WaT:Ch 85
- stayed-behind-in-damnationShin holy text remembers Talmut as the Herald who *chose to remain in Damnation* so the other nine — and all humankind — might escape it; the story has each of his fellow Heralds demanding to take his place, only to be refuted by his impeccable logic. His sheath in the Sheathing of Swords is left blank in his honour, kept clean by the shamans across the long centuries.SA:WaT:Ch 94
- forgives-the-other-heraldsRestored to the refuge with the other Heralds and not yet ready to speak much, Taln gives them one line of answer: that he forgives them. The line lands hardest on Kalak, who has carried the shame of the abandonment for millennia.SA:WaT:Postlude
Events
- SA:WaT:Ch 50 Lies in the hospital bed murmuring his old mantra about helping people resist the coming evils while Ash keeps watch.
- SA:WaT:Ch 65 The unarmed horse keeper of the camp; warily eyes Tanavast, agrees only on the condition that he serves the people of the land and not Honor.
- SA:WaT:Ch 84 Rises from his sickbed bare-chested in the corridor, breaks the windows leaping into a Fused contingent, and fights back unarmed.
- SA:WaT:Ch 85 Found dead atop the pinnacle of Fused corpses, propped up by a dozen lances, his hand still closed on the crushed skull of a Fused.
- SA:WaT:Ch 144 A tall, muscular ghostly figure, hand going to his sword — the first of the called Heralds back into the ring.
- SA:WaT:Ch 145 Among the called Heralds Kaladin feels through the new bond — terrified, worried they are heading toward torture.
- SA:WaT:Postlude Sits apart from the others on the refuge hillside, dark-skinned, withdrawn. He has spoken only once since his arrival, and that single thing was that he forgives the Heralds who abandoned him.
Relations
- member-ofThe Heralds SA:WoK:Prelude
Backreferences
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 77
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 2
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 33
- factIshar
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 40
- factTalenel
- factThe Shin
- factTalmut's Monastery
- factthe Sacred Truth
- factTalmut's Honorblade
- summarySA:WaT:I-5
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 46
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 50
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 57
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 58
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 62
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 64
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 65
- factTalenel
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 73
- factTemple of Talenelat (Thaylen City)
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 77
- factJezrien
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 84
- factTalenel
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 85
- factAsh
- factTalenel
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 90
- factThe Everstorm
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 94
- factTalenel
- factSheathing of Swords
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 99
- factthe Wind
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 109
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 110
- factNalan'Elin
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 121
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 122
- factThe Heralds
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 123
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 128
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 130
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 144
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 145
- summarySA:WaT:Postlude
- factTalenel