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== TriviaDevelopment ==
* Dalinar wasis originallyone fromof theBrandon's firstoldest bookcharacters. thatHe appeared in Brandon's first book, wrotewritten when he was fifteen; there, where he was named '''Jared'''.{{bws ref|its-here-2}}Like BrandonDalinar, usedJared himwas ina otheryounger books,brother suchto asa thewell-liked unpublishedking ''[[Dragonsteelwho is Prime|Dragonsteel]]''eventually assassinated; unlike Dalinar, beforeJared eventuallytakes usingover himthe inreins ''[[Theof Stormlightthe Archive]]''.{{wobkingdom ref|8838}}and Brandontakes hashis saidtime thatto hemold didn'this getnephew into a proper ruler, as the proto-Elhokar character "right"is untilinitially hekidnapped re-wroteby ''[[Thethe Waysame ofassassins.{{bws Kings]]''ref|its-here-2}} fromWhile scratchthe afterstory [[Theitself Waywas ofcanned, KingsBrandon Prime|''Thetook WayJared ofwith him further, into Kings''[[Dragonsteel Prime|Dragonsteel]]''.{{wob ref|name=we8838}}
* Dalinar was originally named Dalenar in [[The Way of Kings Prime|''The Way of Kings'' Prime]]{{book ref|wok'|1}}
*The Dalinarnext originallyknown hadincarnation threeof sonsDalinar is '''Dalenar''', in [[The Way of Kings Prime|''The Way of Kings'' Prime]]. Like Jared before him, Dalenar loses his older brother to assassins, although it seems he doesn't become the next king himself. Dalenar has three sons: Sheneres, Aredor (who would eventually become [[Adolin]]), and [[Renarin]]. Sheneres dieddies while trying to protect histhe king at the start of the unclebook.{{book ref|wok'|1}}
Brandon eventually rewrote the entire story from scratch, creating ''[[The Way of Kings]]'' we have today. It's then that Dalenar became Dalinar, and, according to Brandon, it was then that he finally got the character "right".{{ref|name=we}}
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