Treledees/VaraTreledees name similarities

[TheDoomsday he/him]

Does anyone know why they have such similar names? It just seems weird to me. Was Treledees named after one of the 5 scholars (as in Denth)?

This just always stood out to me, and I'm wondering if there is an explanation.

Cheers

[Windrunner he/him]

Brandon has mentioned this somewhere, I believe the annotations, but I'm on mobile so I cannot check. Vara'Treledees was Denth's scholar name, like Talaxin for Vasher and Shashara for Glorysinger. It's rather like people naming a child after the angel Michael in Christianity. It's a well known name with a religious/historical connection (since I'm not sure how well known it is that the Scholars were all Returned).

[TheDoomsday he/him]

14 hours ago, Windrunner said:

Brandon has mentioned this somewhere, I believe the annotations, but I'm on mobile so I cannot check. Vara'Treledees was Denth's scholar name, like Talaxin for Vasher and Shashara for Glorysinger. It's rather like people naming a child after the angel Michael in Christianity. It's a well known name with a religious/historical connection (since I'm not sure how well known it is that the Scholars were all Returned).

Thx! That makes a lot of sense.

[Army of Sheep]

I remember that confused me my first time reading Warbreaker. I thought Denth was sneaking in and out of the palace. The ending, of course, disabused me off this notion.