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Ok in the Prelude to TWoK Talenel (Taln, Talenelat, Talenel'Elin) dies and his honorblade vanishes, so that there are only 9 left in the circle. In Words of Radiance, doesn't Dalinar bond Talenel'Elin's honorblade? And if Dalinar DID bond the honorblade, as WoR mentions in multiple places that Dalinar had bonded "that madman's blade". Why, at the end of WoR, does the blade that Dalinar has bonded start screaming inside his head after Dalinar swears his second oath, and The Stormfather refer to the blade as a "monstrosity"?? Especially if Szeth had an honorblade, and it did not scream in Kaladin's mind.

We have a WoB: This is extremely interesting, because it basically tells us that Taln... Isn't Taln.Possibly A) the character we've seen isn't the Herald - which is maybe supported by his apparent lack of Honourblade (Dalinar takes the blade and doesn't appear to suddenly manifest surgebinding power, although I admit there might be more to the Honourblade-grants- surgebinding than we're currently aware of.) B ) the original Taln was somehow replaced by another person who suffered between desolations - but unlikely because of his madman chant about the Heralds coming back to teach mankind. ( unless there's some weird cognitive realm thing going on with his memory/identity - which is possible in a cosmere magic system, because feruchemy deals with identity). Obviously even I don't think these ideas are particularly plausible, I just want to raise the question and see what you all think. (Please excuse me if this has already been discussed - it's hard to keep up with all the threads around here. )