Taln's Role in Wind and Truth

[TwinStorm He/Him]

So I had a cool idea for Taln in Wind and Truth. He's taken a back seat for a while (really the entire series) and it would be great for him to get a cool moment, one that's small enough to fit in in the action packed Sanderlanche, but also very cool and resolving a major antagonist.

So, what if the Skybreakers invade the Tower, and some Windrunners, including Skar, fight back. It would be cool to get a minor Windrunner swear the First Ideal with an honorspren from Lasting Integrity, and fight some of the Skybreakers, but be eventually subdued and defeated when Nale arrives. Nale prepares to kill him, but Taln arrives, sane from the Ideal being sworn, and proceeds to beat up Nale, without a Shardblade, making it clear he's the best fighter in the Cosmere. He then spares him and reminds Nale of the First Ideal, Life before Death, which causes Nale to have a crisis of ideals and spare the Windrunners

[alder24]

10 hours ago, TwinStorm said:

So I had a cool idea for Taln in Wind and Truth. He's taken a back seat for a while (really the entire series) and it would be great for him to get a cool moment, one that's small enough to fit in in the action packed Sanderlanche, but also very cool and resolving a major antagonist.

So, what if the Skybreakers invade the Tower, and some Windrunners, including Skar, fight back. It would be cool to get a minor Windrunner swear the First Ideal with an honorspren from Lasting Integrity, and fight some of the Skybreakers, but be eventually subdued and defeated when Nale arrives. Nale prepares to kill him, but Taln arrives, sane from the Ideal being sworn, and proceeds to beat up Nale, without a Shardblade, making it clear he's the best fighter in the Cosmere. He then spares him and reminds Nale of the First Ideal, Life before Death, which causes Nale to have a crisis of ideals and spare the Windrunners

That would be a very good idea, to have confrontation between two Heralds on opposing sides. However it's unlikely that would happen in Urithiru now - Taln is in Azimir, abandoned and forgotten by the Coalition. The Azish gate might soon stop working because its spren became Enlightened and who knows what they decide to do next. This confrontation would need to happen in Azimir, which still makes it quite likely.

[The Stick]

I don't know if this is necessarily book 5 material. However, I think this could be great in the Taln book.

[Wanguu He/Him]

1 hour ago, alder24 said:

Taln is in Azimir, abandoned and forgotten by the Coalition.

Didn't they bring Taln and Shalash back to Urithiru with them? I don't see the coalition forgetting about heralds

[alder24]

4 hours ago, Wanguu said:

Didn't they bring Taln and Shalash back to Urithiru with them? I don't see the coalition forgetting about heralds

Oh, I completely forgot that this was said in FanX 2024 reading of Baxil's interlude, not yet revealed as a pre-released chapter. My bad. Here's the quote:

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"She's here in Azimir, by the way," Axies noted.

"'She'?"

"Your old employer. The Herald."

Shalash. He'd known her only as 'Mistress' during another life. Had been rather infatuated with her, and maybe had never stopped. "How?" he asked. "I'd thought she was at the tower city."

"No, she went with the Alethi army on campaign," Axies said, still inspecting his gemstone prize. "I think their king wanted to interview her. At least, that's the impression I got when I chatted with her. They took the other one, too, the big fellow. To the fight for Emul. They're back now though, tucked away in an Azish hospital. I believe her king has mostly forgotten about her."

Here? In the hospital? He could go see her. Baxil pulled his cloak tight. No. Not like this. 

Yup, everybody forgot about Heralds. Whoopsie

 

[+Child of Hodor]

On 11/15/2024 at 3:25 PM, alder24 said:

Yup, everybody forgot about Heralds. Whoopsie