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'''Highprince Thanadal''' is a [[highprince]] of [[Alethkar]].{{book ref|sa1|18}} His [[Thanadal princedom| princedom]] is in central Alethkar.,{{map ref|Alethkar}} and his colors are red and brown.{{book ref|sa1|28}} Thanadal's army has one full [[Shardbearer]], Brightlord [[Resi]], who carries a set of Shards passed down by the royal line and usually given to a warrior who is also given the title of [[Royal Defender]]. His army also contains three other men who have either [[Shardplate|Plate]] or [[Shardblade|Blade]]; Thanadal himself has neither.{{book ref|sa1|58}}

While out on the [[Shattered Plains]] during the [[War of Reckoning]], Thanadal refused to discuss the issue of a joint plateau assault with [[Dalinar]], sending a messenger to Dalinar declining the possibility without even meeting him in person. Thanadal's colours are red and brown.{{book ref|sa1|28}} Thanadal's army had one full [[Shardbearer]], Brightlord [[Resi]], who carries a set of Shards passed down the royal line and usually given to a warrior who was also given the title of the [[Royal Defender]]. His army also contains three men who had either [[Shardplate]] or [[Shardblade]], Thanadal himself having neither.{{book ref|sa1|58}}

SinceAfter the [[Battle of Narak]], and the following settling of the tower city of [[Urithiru]], most of the Alethi [[highprince]]s have moved across the [[Shattered Plains]] with their war camps in tow. InWhen leavingthey the Alethi [[highprince]]s abandonedvacated the craters they had occupied as well as the surrounding land and resources;, leavingthey left them for the fewtwo [[highprince]]s,highprinces that had decided not the make for [[Urithiru]], to take forthe themselvesmove. Highprince Thanadal is, one of thethose [[highprince]]s that decided to stay behind in what were the warcamps and hashighprinces, reportedly built himself a virtual kingdom of his own in the area.{{book ref|sa3|104}} in the void other [[highprince]]s left behind. The political implications of Thanadal's refusal to join in Urithiru and its subsequent rising power is uncertain still. However, [[Highprince of Commerce]] [[Turinad Sebarial]] worriesworried over ThanadalsThanadal's continued seizure of Alethi resources on the [[Shattered Plains]],{{book ref|sa3|104}} indicatingand a[[Aladar]] growingexpressed riftworry andto potentialDalinar emancipationthat ofwithout Thanadal's princedomsforces joining those at Urithiru, their armies would be too weak to establish Urithiru as a bastion of order in the world.{{book ref|sa3|2}}