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|profession=Sword Trainertrainer
|world=Roshar
|nation=Alethkar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
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}}{{spoilers|book=sa3}}
'''Harth''' is a swordsman from [[Alethkar]] on [[Roshar]]. He was [[Dalinar Kholin]]'s first sword trainer.{{book ref|sa3|16}}
 
[[Dalinar's father]] hired Harth to train a young Dalinar in swordsmanship. The Kholin family was not particularly powerful at the time, and had to settle for Harth even though he was young and not recognized as a true swordmaster. He came from "a few towns over" to train Dalinar.{{book ref|sa3|16}} Dalinar believes that Harth had a reasonable level of skill for someone of his standing.{{book ref|sa3|16}}
 
[[Dalinar's father]] employed him to teach Dalinar. He was a young man at the time, and was not recognised as a true swordsmaster.tells [[DalinarKadash]] tells a tale of Harth insisting that theyhe weartie thehis [[takama]] in a specific way, duethe tosame being toldway that itHarth's wasmaster the correct way byand his master,'s andmaster grandmaster,had andalways whendemanded. Dalinar findsseeks out the originator of this rule, an old [[ardent,]] andin asks why[[Kholinar]], it isand surfacedrealizes that he wouldonly havetied fallenit overthat hisway takamabecause ifhe itwas wereso not worn like thatshort.{{book ref|sa3|16}} Dalinar uses this tale to argue that blindly following tradition does not make it worthy.
 
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I love tradition, I've fought for tradition. I make my men follow the codes. I uphold Vorin virtues. But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.
| [[Dalinar]]'s monologue{{book ref|sa3|16}}
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