Teft
An older bridgeman in Bridge Four — white-salted hair, drooping cheeks, no slave mark. Transferred from another crew. The first man whose name Kaladin asks for after the Honor Chasm. SA:WoK:Ch 11
Known facts
- knows-what-he-seesCuts Kaladin down with Rock and the others. The dun sphere Teft gave him for luck — left clutched in his hand through the storm — is empty when it falls. *An empty sphere after a storm, and a man alive when he should be dead. Two impossibilities — together they bespeak something more impossible still.* He calls for bandages and salve and tells the others to hurry.SA:WoK:Ch 35
- knows-of-the-radiantsRealises what he is seeing because he was once an Envisager — a member of a long-secret cult that believed the Knights Radiant would one day return, and that he himself betrayed to their deaths. He has no one left to tell. He will trade spheres in for fresh-infused ones a few each day and let Kaladin drain them quietly so that the healing does not draw notice.SA:WoK:Ch 38
- confesses-his-envisager-pastPressed by Kaladin after the Wandersail story, confesses he was once an Envisager — that his old sect awaited the return of the Radiants and he quit thinking it nonsense. Confirms only that nobody really knows what the Radiants could do. Kaladin smiles. *We're going to find out.*SA:WoK:Ch 57
- reforges-other-bridge-crewsTeft's drilling has transformed forty borrowed bridgemen — including Pitt of Bridge Seventeen — into men ready to be made sergeants over their own former crews, faster than Kaladin had hoped possible.SA:WoR:Ch 31
- turned-in-the-envisagers-as-a-boyWatched Envisager members put their own lives in danger to try to provoke the Knights Radiant's return — a candle burning through a rope that would drop stone, men pushed off cliffs. His mother died that way, believing the powers would come to her at the last moment. At six he turned the cult in to the citylord, who tried and executed them all, including his father, who was hanged.SA:WoR:Ch 71
Events
- SA:WoK:Ch 11 Wrings his name out under threat of being dangled over the chasm — and shakes Kaladin's hand
- SA:WoK:Ch 14 Watches the bet, nods Kaladin's way as Rock lifts the plank
- SA:WoK:Ch 20 Eats his breakfast in the shadow of the barrack; agrees to follow
- SA:WoK:Ch 22 Helps mill the sap, learns the cook-and-soup story, laughs himself onto his side and owes Rock a drink
- SA:WoK:Ch 27 Runs the plank with Kaladin in the mornings, sap-milking by lamp at night
- SA:WoK:Ch 30 Runs alongside the men, glares any laggards into line
- SA:WoK:Ch 32 Stone in hand beside Rock; nervously stands down at Kaladin's order
- SA:WoK:Ch 34 Slips Kaladin a single dun skymark for luck; lingers, mutters at himself for cowardice, follows the others inside
- SA:WoK:Ch 35 Follows on aching knees; sees the dun sphere fall from Kaladin's hand and understands at last
- SA:WoK:Ch 38 Sits vigil; sees the Stormlight stream from sphere to skin; bows to the rock floor and weeps
- SA:WoK:Ch 43 Straightens up first and says he is in
- SA:WoK:Ch 49 Acts as Moash's drill-partner in the reset exercise
- SA:WoK:Ch 57 Confesses his Envisager past
- SA:WoK:Ch 62 In the lumberyard; watches the prayer-glyph being tied
- SA:WoK:Ch 66 Holds up a hand against the brilliance; sees the proof of his cult's faith
- SA:WoR:Ch 41 Drills the Bridge Seventeen recruits in the chasms; returns with Kaladin to the barracks.
- SA:WoR:Ch 44 Stands grouchy turn with the practice blades and the live Shardblade.
- SA:WoR:Ch 66 Outside the prison; reports that Bridge Four wanted to break Kaladin out and that he beat sense back into them, then warns that the men are stirred up about Amaram.
- SA:WoR:Ch 68 With Bridge Four on the march; protests when Kaladin insists on taking a turn under the bridge himself.
- SA:WoR:Ch 76 Salutes Dalinar and tells him plainly the Bridge Four men march with him because they cannot protect him from the warcamp.
- SA:WoR:Ch 87 Scrambles across the rock at the sight of Kaladin alive; later, quietly, tells him about Rod's death, Bisig's lost hand, and the glow he swears he saw on some of the lads — and names the changed colour of Kaladin's eyes.
Relations
- relatedKaladin — First bridgeman whose name Kaladin learns; the start of Bridge Four as something more than expendable SA:WoK:Ch 11
- relatedKaladin — Wins Teft's loyalty after the shared-edge speech SA:WoK:Ch 20
- foreshadowsKaladin — Teft sees the dun sphere and understands something he had thought lost from the world SA:WoK:Ch 35
- relatedThe Envisagers — Was one; betrayed them to their deaths; his old guilt now collides with proof that they were right SA:WoK:Ch 38
Backreferences
- summarySA:DS:Ch 12
- summarySA:DS:Epilogue
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- factBattle Shock
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- factLift
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- factTalinar
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- factPhendorana
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- summarySA:WoK:Ch 11
- factBridge Four
- factKelek
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- factKaladin
- factRock
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 27
- factBridge Four
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- factBisig
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 32
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- factBridge Four
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 35
- factTeft
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 38
- factKaladin
- factThe Envisagers
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 43
- factBridge Four
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- factHoid
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 62
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- factKaladin
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- factSkar
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 12
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- factIsasik
- factBreteh
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- factMoash
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 67
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- factKaladin
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- factKaladin
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- factTeft
- factPitt
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 41
- factBridge Seventeen
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- factYake
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- summarySA:WoR:Ch 66
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- factThe Envisagers
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 76
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 80
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- factKaladin
- factRod