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Sons of Honor
World of Origin Roshar
Universe Cosmere
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“ Lives will be lost. It has ever been our burden as the Sons of Honor. To return the Heralds, to return the dominance of the Church, we had to put the world into a crisis. ”

— Amaram's letter to Restares[1]

The Sons of Honor are a secretive group on Roshar. Their goal is to return the dominance of the Vorin church. They seem to be under the leadership of Restares, and are refered to as his cronies by the Ghostbloods.[2]

Beliefs

The beliefs between the highest leadership of the Sons of Honor and its members are generally at odds with each other.

Like the Envisagers,[3] the Sons of Honor believe that by returning the Voidbringers they will cause the Heralds to return as well. They believe this will usher in a new era of Vorin dominance.[1] This is the reason for many of their members joining but some leaders such as Gavilar and Restares do not think this is the case and have different motives for their actions.[4][5]

The Sons of Honor appear ruthless and have little regard for the loss of innocent life in the pursuit of their goals.[6][1] Despite their organization being based around Vorinism, their leaders do not appear to strictly follow the gender norms dictated by the church. Amaram uses the stormwarden script to get around the prohibitions on writing.[7] Restares likely knows it as well, given Amaram's letter was written in the script.[1] The group also identifies itself as highly patriotic and loyal to Alethkar[8][9] despite this however they consider the monarchy of Alethkar to be heretics and seeks to overthrow them and replace them with Ialai.[4][9] Ialai however has no interest in becoming queen and instead seeks to instate Gavinar as King.[5]

Of the organizations that are aware of the Voidbringers and the Desolations, the Sons of Honor are the most incorrect in their beliefs and actions regarding that knowledge.[10]

History

The Sons of Honour have similar origins to the Diagram.[11] At some stage the Envisagers formed as a splinter group of the Sons of Honour.[12]

The Sons of Honor existed before Gavilar Kholin joined their organization, but he helped to greatly expand their numbers and influence. Notably, he was the one who recruited Amaram to join them.[13] The majority of recruits joined due to religious belief but some leaders of the group, such as Gavilar, had different motives and plans and primarily used the Sons of Honour to further his own goals.[5][4] Restares responded favourably to Gavilars plans and worked to help him despite knowing that it would return the desolations.[14] On the night of Gavilar's death meetings where held between him and other members of the Sons of Honour.[15][16] Gavilar suspected that the Ghostbloods may have been behind the assassination though he also considered Restares might have been responsible, previously he had never thought that Restares would assassinate him.[17]

After the death of Gavilar Restares and Amaram made more frequent contact with each other. After the death of Gavilar it appears Amaram had replaced the role of him.[4] He ultimately served and followed the orders of Restares however. Although reluctant at first, Restares convinced Amaram to take the shards Kaladin won and kill any witnesses, though he enslaved Kaladin as a sign of his thanks instead.[17] Amaram's trip to the Shattered Plains had to do with investigating the listeners and their connection to the Voidbringers.[7] After the Battle of Narak, Amaram sent word to Restares that the Sons of Honor were successful, though in truth they had no part in starting the True Desolation. Amaram recognized that Taln was not a madman and removed him from his cell in Dalinar's temple.[1] At this time the Ghostbloods attempted an assassination attempt on Amaram's life.[1]

Odium used Amaram's beliefs and the truth about the Heralds to convince him to join Odium's forces.[8] After the battle of Thaylen Field Ialai became the leader of the Sons of Honour, due to the death of Gavilar and the actions of Amaram however there was little she could do to recover the former power of the Sons of Honour.[4] The remaining members of the Sons of Homour command were assassinated.[5] Ialai spent the year trying to make contact with Restares again but was unsuccessful.[18] Mraize believed the Sons of Honour destroyed by this stage and gave Shallan a mission to locate Restares.[18]

Relationships

The Sons of Honor have an antagonistic relationship with both the Ghostbloods and the Skybreakers. Mraize sends Shallan to spy on Amaram in order to discover what secrets the Sons of Honor know.[19] After receiving Shallan's intelligence, they unsuccessfully try to assassinate him.[1] After the battle of Thaylan Field the Ghostbloods spent the next year successfully assassinating the leadership of the Sons of Honour.[5] The Ghostbloods also greatly hate and despise Restares for assisting Gavilar.[14] Despite this however Mraize acts dismissive towards the Sons of Honor, referring to them simply as Restares's cronies.[2] The Skybreakers also tried to have Amaram killed as a strike against the Sons of Honor when they send Helaran Davar to his army with Shardblade and Shardplate to kill him.[13] This plan, however, resulted in the Sons of Honor gaining control of another set of shards.[17] The leader of the Skybreakers, Nale also assisted the Parshendi in assassinating Gavilar Kholin.[20]

The Diagram likely knows about the Sons of Honor, as Taravangian was a member of Gavilar's trusted inner circle.[21] It is not clear if the Sons of Honor are aware of the formation and actions of the Diagram. The two organizations have similar origins in their awareness of the True Desolation but different philosophies on what should be done about it.[11][10]

Members

Notes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Words of Radiance chapter 88#
  2. ↑ a b Words of Radiance chapter 54#
  3. ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 71#
  4. ↑ a b c d e Rhythm of War chapter 4#
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Rhythm of War chapter 7#
  6. ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 51#
  7. ↑ a b Words of Radiance chapter 52#
  8. ↑ a b Oathbringer chapter 120#
  9. ↑ a b Rhythm of War chapter 5#
  10. ↑ a b Barnes & Noble B-Fest 2016
    — Arcanum - 2016-06-11#
  11. ↑ a b /r/books AMA 2015
    — Arcanum - 2015-05-18#
  12. ↑ YouTube Livestream 23
    — Arcanum - 2020-12-17#
  13. ↑ a b Oathbringer chapter 40#
  14. ↑ a b Rhythm of War chapter 82#
  15. ↑ Words of Radiance prologue#
  16. ↑ Oathbringer prologue#
  17. ↑ a b c The Way of Kings prologue#
  18. ↑ a b Rhythm of War chapter 13#
  19. ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 43#
  20. ↑ Rhythm of War chapter 77#
  21. ↑ Words of Radiance interlude I-4#
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