Tanalan
Son of the old highprince of Rathalas. In the years after Gavilar took the throne, rebuilds his father's fortifications at the Rift and quietly raises an army with the encouragement of the other highprinces, testing how seriously a unified Alethkar really takes itself. SA:OB:Ch 49
Known facts
- backed-by-unknown-highprinceGavilar's intelligence is now certain that another of the Alethi highprinces — identity not yet known — is quietly supporting Tanalan and his rebellion at the Rift, and may be supplying him Shards.SA:OB:Ch 66
- names-sadeas-as-rifts-secret-backerDuring his battlefield parley with Dalinar outside Rathalas, Tanalan named Highprince Torol Sadeas as the loyal-seeming Alethi highprince secretly arming the Rift, and proposed they together stage the rebellion as a Kholin ruse to draw the real traitors out.SA:OB:Ch 71
- baited-dalinar-into-rockfall-ambushTanalan's offer to expose Sadeas as a hidden backer was bait: his men had already turned Dalinar's own scouts, whose false report of a Shardbearer in the caravan lured him south at speed with a hundred of his elites — straight into a planned landslide trap above a narrow canyon path.SA:OB:Ch 75
- strangled-by-dalinar-at-the-burning-of-rathalasTanalan was hauled up over the Rift's rim by Dalinar's elites as he tried to reach his trapped family in the burning palace below. After taunting Dalinar with the truth about Evi's presence in the saferoom, he died laughing, strangled with bare hands.SA:OB:Ch 76
Events
- SA:OB:Ch 71 Rides out of the Rift to parley with Dalinar on the killing field, refuses the offered duel, and quietly names Sadeas as the highprince secretly supplying the rebellion.
Backreferences
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