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{{culture \|related=[[{{tag\|Vorinism]]}} \|type=Afterlife \|world=Roshar {{for\|Braize\|the planet [[Odium]] resides on\|pre=This article is about a mythological concept}} {{quote \| If the afterlife really is a big war, then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep. \| Kaladin{{book ref\|sa2\|41}} }} '''Damnation''' is a concept in the [[Vorin]] religion on [[Roshar]]. It's the third part in a three-tier religious order to the universe, and one of the Vorin afterlives.{{book ref\|sa1\|4}} Damnation is home to beasts and monsters known as the [[Voidbringer]]s, forged there by the fires of hatred.{{book ref\|sa1\|45}}{{book ref\|sa2\|32}} Led by the evil god [[Odium]], they came to conquer the [[Tranquiline Halls]], the paradise where mankind used to live, and forced humans onto [[Roshar]]. They would keep coming in times known as the [[Desolation]]s to push humanity even further down, into Damnation.{{book ref\|sa1\|61}} Some modern scholars claim that this myth implies that the Damnation is now empty, as the Voidbringers would all move to the more pleasant Halls.{{book ref\|sa1\|45}} In the current Vorinism, the [[Almighty]] weighs the sins of everyone who dies and chooses the afterlife for them according to that. Should the person's sins be too heavy, marking them as particularly evil or cursed, their soul is sent to Damnation, to be eternally tortured by fire.{{book ref\|sa3\|26}} As an afterlife, Damnation is divided into rooms, each dedicated to a particular kind of sinner.{{book ref\|sa1\|4}} It's suggested to be an ironic hell, where, apart from eternal flames and flaying, people's punishments are inspired by their lives - —for example, an addict would be left eternally unable to satisfy their craving.{{book ref\|sa3\|41}} It's also home to evil [[spren]], who are capable of leaving it to torture the still-alive.{{book ref\|sa1\|49}} It's implied that Damnation has multiple proper names - possibly eleven - though the only one given is [[Braize]], present in some old songs.{{book ref\|sa2\|32}}{{book ref\|sa2\|38}} Damnation is based on [[Braize]], the third planet in the [[Rosharan system]] where [[Odium]], the [[Shard]] of hatred, resides.{{book ref\|sa3\|121}} Even back when the [[Knights Radiant]] existed and the mechanics of [[Desolation]]s were known, the name Damnation was used to refer to it.{{epigraph ref\|sa3\|77}} The story about souls being tortured in Damnation might be inspired by the fate of the [[Herald]]s. Following every Desolation, the Heralds were forced to return to Braize, where they were tortured until they broke.{{book ref\|sa3\|39}} The stories about torture made its way to Roshar, albeit in a somewhat obscure form - —[[Taln]] is often called the Bearer of Agonies - —which might be how the myth of Damnation being the place of eternal pain began. The association between Damnation and wicked souls might also stem from the fact that the [[Fused]], souls of dead [[singer]]s who served Odium, were confined to Braize in-between Desolations.{{book ref\|sa3\|38}} In reality, the dead do not go there after death~~, although it is implied that there is something odd happening to Roshar's deceased that Odium has a hand in~~.~~{{wob ref\|8942}}{{book ref\|sa3\|i\|4}}~~ == See also == {{complete}} {{Stormlight}} ~~[[Category: Locations]]~~