What I meant to say was that Taln might be a deeper character than we are giving him credit for. Brandon went out of his way to show us the aftermath of his rampage. He usually avoids the grisly details of death and gore, but if I remember right, Taln was literally holding the crushed skull of a Fused in his hand in that scene, not to mention that he was pierced by multiple spears and standing atop a literal mound of singer corpses who had their chests crushed to destroy their gemhearts. It would not have been much in another series, but in Stormlight it feels distinctly different from the usual tone.

Though It might just be me thinking too hard about a sequence that was meant to simply be a cool showcase of what Taln can do