Teft

Teft
Oficio	Bridge Four🐱︎
Nacionalidad	de Alezkar
Mundo natal	Roshar

Teft is darkeyed male, from Alethkar on Roshar. He is long past his twenties, with drooping cheeks, brown eyes, and close-cropped, grizzled white-salted hair.

History

Teft was born in Alethkar, his family belonged to a secret sect known as the Envisagers, that awaited the return of the Radiants, but he rejected their teachings.

Teft ended up in the bridge crews, in Highprince Sadeas warcamp, on the Shattered Plains. He blames himself for destroying the Envisagers. After committing infraction he was transfer to Bridge Four, where Kaladin befriended him and he ended up in his inner circle along with Rock, actively helping him in his plans.

Teft was the first to suspect Kaladin might be able to use stormlight, saving Kaladin's life in the process. He learned this by (amongst other things) pushing a dun sphere into Kaladin's hand, claiming it to be "For luck" just before Kaladin was to be left outside alone to face "the judgement of the Stormfather" by way of the highstorm. After which the sphere Kaladin had been given appeared to still be dun, even though it should have been infused with light by the highstorm it was left outside during, leading Teft to muse, "An empty sphere after a storm, he thought. And a man who's still alive when he should be dead. Two impossibilities." That meant Kaladin had "stolen" the light that infused the sphere, which left Teft almost certain that Kaladin had the ability to infuse stormlight and that Kaladin was part of the events the Envisagers had been waiting for. When Kaladin was recovering from his wounds and fever after the highstorm, Teft brought three small infused diamond spheres and pressed them into Kaladin's hand, waiting anxiously to see what would happen. When Teft had nearly lost hope of being right about the events and their meaning, Kaladin drew in a short powerful breath infusing himself with stormlight and began to glow from the leaking stormlight. Teft knowing there was a healing effect to the stormlight repeated this treatment enough as to not draw suspicion from the other bridgemen, and ten days after the hanging in the highstorm, Kaladin arose. These revelations sparked a heavy curiosity in Teft, prompting questions that indirectly asked if Kaladin was willing to discuss his use of stormlight, or if he was aware of his own abilities. At one point, Kaladin was handed a bag of infused spheres, Teft then threw a surprise punch at Kaladin to cause a reflexive infusion, which worked, and led both Kaladin and Lopen to notice the soft glow coming from Kaladin's skin. Not to mention Kaladin realizing his familiar surge of strength and focus. After time passed and they were both certain of Kaladin's abilities. Teft with the aid of Lopen, (seeing as he had become privy to the secret) and to some degree Syl, worked with Kaladin to help understand and trigger his new found powers. He shared with Kaladin what he knew about Radiants and their ways, from his youth in the Envisagers.

During his many conversations with Kaladin he stated time and again he isn't to be trusted. Either due to the events that lead to the fall of the Envisagers, or some other unknown event.

Kaladin discovered Teft had military experience and was a sergeant before becoming a bridgeman. He became invaluable to Kaladin's leadership, by playing sargent to Kaladin's captain, for instance when asked, ordered, or during times Kaladin is indisposed, Teft assumed command of the bridgemen. His military experience was never divulged in great detail, as the history of bridgemen's personal lives seemed to be their most guarded secret. Kaladin and Teft were of the most avid practitioners of this concept. It was also a respected social contract, none prying more than a single question or two, into the past of their bridge mates.

Teft was currently joined with the rest of Bridge Four, serving as Dalinar Kholin's personal guard.