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== History ==
=== Early Life ===
Teft was born in [[Alethkar]] to a family that belonged to a cult known as the [[Envisagers]]. They believed if they could find a way to return the [[Voidbringer]]s, the [[Knights Radiant]] would return as well. Envisagers purposefully put their lives in danger, hoping that they would manifest [[Surgebinding]] powers. Teft's mother died in one of these attempts when he was around the age of six.
At some point Teft got married, though when and to whom is not clear; his wife had already died by the time he was a bridgeman.{{book ref|sa2|46}}
=== Dalinar's Honor Guard ===
{{image|WOKLB - Part4 End by Steve Argyle.jpg|Teft and Bridge Four standing behind [[Dalinar]] as he trades [[Oathbringer]] for them|width=250px|side=left}}
After [[Dalinar]] traded [[Oathbringer]] for the lives of Sadeas' bridgemen, Teft joined with the rest of Bridge Four as his personal guard.{{book ref|sa1|73}} Kaladin created a command structure among the former bridge crews he was going to train into guards, making Teft a lieutenant and putting him in overall charge of training. He directed Teft to begin by organizing the bridgemen into groups of forty, then training two from each group to act as sergeants to the rest of their men. Not long after, Bridge Four went to get tattoos to cover up the slave brands that most of them had on their foreheads, and Teft got one too, despite the fact that he never had a slave brand. He was the first to speak up for [[Rlain|Shen]] when the tattooist objected to serving him. As the group outfitted themselves in their new [[Cobalt Guard]] uniforms, Teft tried to talk Kaladin into showing Dalinar what he could do, but Kaladin refused outright. When the others cut the old guard's insignia out of the uniforms, Teft agreed with them that they weren't just replacements, they were their own crew: Bridge Four.{{book ref|sa2|2}}
Some of the other members of Bridge Four wanted to break Kaladin out when [[Elhokar]] imprisoned him for asking a [[King's Boon]], but Teft talked them out of it. He was with the crew when they witnessed Moash becoming a [[Shardbearer]], then led them back to the barrack to allow Kaladin a moment alone with Moash.{{book ref|sa2|66}}
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|Well, Teft supposed that was all right, Dalinar not believing. He’d just be that much more surprised when Kaladin '''did''' return.
|Teft, when Dalinar visited him on his vigil{{book ref|sa2|71}}
|side=right|size=300px
}}
Sanderson, Brandon. Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, Book 2) (p. 843). Tom Doherty Associates. Kindle Edition.
Teft and Bridge Four carried their old bridge out onto the Shattered Plains on the expedition to allow Shallan to see a [[chasmfiend]] chrysalis.{{book ref|sa2|68}} After Kaladin and Shallan were lost into the chasms, Teft took shifts with the others watching for them, never doubting that they would return. On one of these watches he discussed his past among the Envisagers with [[Sigzil]] while they played [[Michim|michim]]. For the duration of Kaladin's absence, the crew made Teft their leader and looked to him for daily assignments, though he managed to be on nearly every shift out by the chasms. Dalinar came to visit at one point and made it clear that no one watching was to neglect caring for themselves in any way, causing Teft to wonder how Dalinar knew he had skipped breakfast to be out there.{{book ref|sa2|71}}
=== Battle of Narak ===
Immediately after Kaladin and Shallan's return, Dalinar, [[Roion]], [[Sebarial]], and [[Aladar]] left on the expedition that culminated in the [[Battle of Narak]] and the discovery of [[Urithiru]]. Teft and most of Bridge Four went with them, though he decided to leave Moash behind to watch over King Elhokar.{{book ref|sa2|76}} During the battle, Teft and the rest of Bridge Four kept close to Dalinar.{{book ref|sa2|81}} After Kaladin defeated Elhokar's assassins, he flew out to the army on the plains, saving Dalinar from [[Szeth]]'s Lashing and encountering Bridge Four, who gave him infused gems to recharge his Stormlight at Teft's command.{{book ref|sa2|86}} After Kaladin defeated the Assassin in White, he returned to the plateau where the [[Oathgate]] was and found Teft and the rest of the crew looking for him. Teft told him that [[Rod]] had died, then commented that he had noticed some of the men glowing faintly right before Kaladin had arrived on the plains; he had been listening to readings of some of Dalinar's visions and, based on that information, thought that they were becoming [[Knights_Radiant#Squires|squires]] to Kaladin.{{book ref|sa2|87}} The crew had had to abandon their bridge in the conflict, but a salvage team later found the old Bridge Four in a chasm near [[Narak]]; at Teft's request, Dalinar had it hauled up, repaired, and put to use moving people between plateaus near the Oathgate.{{book ref|sa3|37}}
Teft and the rest of the bridgemen took shifts scouting and exploring Urithiru. He was with some of Bridge Four when they discovered Sadeas' body in the tunnels of Urithiru, and he vehemently denied killing the man when a group of Sadeas' own soldiers finally found the scene, though he did tacitly agree with [[Palona]]'s opinion that his death solved one problem they had been facing.{{book ref|sa3|2}} He and [[Lyn]] at some point scouted right past a hidden room that Shallan later discovered while following [[Re-Shephir]] from the site of her latest murder. When Shallan called [[Adolin]] to the room, Lyn, Teft, [[Renarin]], and other members of Bridge Four arrived with him and accompanied them down to the Midnight Mother's lair, where they helped her dispel the spren's presence.{{book ref|sa3|29}}{{book ref|sa3|30}}
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