Editing Death Rattle/list

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== Known Death Rattles ==
=== Known Meanings ===
{{quote
|The love of men is a frigid thing, a mountain stream only three steps from the ice. We are his. Oh Stormfather... we are his. It is but a thousand days, and the Everstorm comes.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1171|6|5|1}}, 31 seconds before death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed pregnant woman of middle years. The child did not survive.{{epigraph ref|sa1|prologue}}
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:::This rattle came exactly 1227 days before the advent of the Everstorm.{{ref|text=This rattle was collected on {{Rosharan numeric date|1171|6|5|1}}{{epigraph ref|sa1|prologue}} and the Everstorm arrived on {{Rosharan numeric date|1173|10|10|3}}{{book ref|sa2|50}}{{book ref|sa2|81}}}} It is possible that these rattles are less than fully accurate, or that whoever gave this death rattle valued poetry over technically accurate detail or, given the specific phrasing, that this was perhaps a foreshadowing to a time 227 days in the future when someone else would prophesy that it would be 1000 days until the Everstorm.


{{quote
|I'm dying, aren't I? Healer, why do you take my blood? Who is that beside you, with his head of lines? I can see a distant sun, dark and cold, shining in a black sky.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1172|1|2|3}}, 11 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers.{{epigraph ref|sa1|4}}
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:::The description of the sun and sky, as well as the appearance of a [[Cryptic]], indicate the speaker here was viewing [[Shadesmar]]. The subject also apparently retained some consciousness while dying, evidenced by them asking the Silent Gatherers "Healer, why do you take my blood?" In light of those conditions, the speaker may not have actually been affected by Moelach.


{{quote
|I have seen the end, and have heard it named. The Night of Sorrows, the True Desolation. The Everstorm.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1172|2|1|1}}, 15 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed youth of unknown origin.{{epigraph ref|sa1|5}}
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{{quote
|Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|3|2|2}}, 84 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a cutpurse with the wasting sickness, of partial Iriali descent.{{epigraph ref|sa1|11}}
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:::Most likely refers to Honor, Cultivation, and Odium--three [[Shards]] out of sixteen total. It is unclear what "Broken One" means, however.


{{quote
|The burdens of nine become mine. Why must I carry the madness of them all? Oh, Almighty, release me.
|Observed on {{Rosharan date|1173|5|1|1}}, collected secondhand and later reported to the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a wealthy lighteyes.{{epigraph ref|sa1|54}}
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:::This rattle appears to be from the perspective of the [[Herald]] [[Talenel]], the only Herald to return to [[Braize]] at the end of the [[Last Desolation]].


{{quote
|A woman sits and scratches out her own eyes. Daughter of kings and winds, the vandal.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|5|4|2}}, 73 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a beggar of some renown, known for his elegant songs.{{epigraph ref|sa1|55}}
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:::This rattle likely refers to the Herald [[Shalash]], the daughter of the Herald [[Jezrien]], Herald of Kings and patron of the [[Order of Windrunners]].{{book ref|sa3|122}} Shalash has defaced depictions of herself by scratching her face out of paintings or by destroying statues depicting her.


{{quote
|Re-Shephir, the Midnight Mother, giving birth to abominations with her essence so dark, so terrible, so consuming. She is here! She watches me die!
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|6|7|4}}, 8 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed dock-worker in his forties, father of three.{{epigraph ref|sa1|58}}
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:::This rattle refers to the Unmade [[Re-Shephir]] and her [[Midnight Essence]].


{{quote
|Above the final void I hang, friends behind, friends before. The feast I must drink clings to their faces, and the words I must speak spark in my mind. The old oaths will be spoken anew.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|7|2|2}}, 45 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a lighteyed child of five years. Diction improved remarkably when giving sample.{{epigraph ref|sa1|59}}
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:::This rattle appears to be from the perspective of Kaladin during the [[Battle of the Tower]], moments before he swears the [[Knights Radiant/Immortal Words#Ideals of the Windrunners|Second Ideal of the Windrunners]]. The "final void" is a chasm over which he is jumping. The "friends behind, friends before" are the members of Bridge Four behind him and the army of [[Dalinar Kholin]] trapped by Parshendi before him. The "feast I must drink" is Stormlight stored in the gemstones knotted into the malen Parshendi's beards. The "words I must speak" is the Second Ideal. The "old oaths" are the [[Immortal Words]].


{{quote
|In the storm I awaken, falling, spinning, grieving.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|8|2|4}}, 13 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a city guardsman.{{epigraph ref|sa1|61}}
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:::This rattle likely refer to Kaladin swearing the [[Knights Radiant/Immortal Words#Ideals of the Windrunners|Fourth Ideal of the Windrunners]] while falling in the [[highstorm]] towards the end of [[Raboniel]]'s occupation of [[Urithiru]]. The events of this Death Rattle had not occurred as of the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]].{{wob ref|11616}}


{{quote
|I wish to sleep. I know now why you do what you do, and I hate you for it. I will not speak of the truths I see.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|8|6|5}}, 142 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a Shin sailor, left behind by his crew, reportedly for bringing them ill luck. Sample largely useless.{{epigraph ref|sa1|63}}
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:::It appears this subject is aware that the Silent Gatherers are killing people in order to obtain their death rattles and refuses to share his visions.


{{quote
|They come from the pit, two dead men, a heart in their hands, and I know that I have seen true glory.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|8|6|5}}, 13 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a rickshaw puller.{{epigraph ref|sa1|64}}
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:::This rattle appears to refer to Kaladin and [[Shallan Davar|Shallan]] returning to the warcamps at the [[Shattered Plains]] following their fall into the chasms. The "pit" is a reference to the chasms and the "two dead men" are Kaladin and Shallan, presumed to be dead after the fall. The "heart" is an emerald [[gemheart]] they harvested from a [[chasmfiend]] they encountered and killed on their return journey.


{{quote
|I see them. They are the rocks. They are the vengeful spirits. Eyes of red.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|8|8|1}}, 8 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed young woman of fifteen who was reportedly mentally unstable since childhood.{{epigraph ref|sa1|65}}
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:::This rattle refers to the awakening of [[Thunderclast]]s.{{book ref|sa3|115}}


{{quote
|They named it the Final Desolation, but they lied. Our gods lied. Oh, how they lied. The Everstorm comes. I hear its whispers, see its stormwall, know its heart.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|9|2|1}}, 8 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was an Azish itinerant worker. Sample of particular note.{{epigraph ref|sa1|68}}
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:::When all Heralds, except Taln, broke the Oathpact after Aharietiam they lied and told humanity that the Voidbringers finally were defeated.


{{quote
|All is withdrawn for me. I stand against the one who saved my life. I protect the one who killed my promises. I raise my hand. The storm responds.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|9|2|4}}, 18 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed mother of four in her sixty-second year.{{epigraph ref|sa1|69}}
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:::This rattle appears to refer to Kaladin saving [[Elhokar]] from [[Moash]], an event during which Kaladin swears the [[Knights Radiant/Immortal Words#Ideals of the Windrunners|Third Ideal of the Windrunners]]. "The one who killed my promises" likely refers to the fact that Elokhar, through a string of related events, was responsible for Kaladin being unable to keep is promise to protect Tien in battle. "I raise my hand. The storm responds." refers to the fact that Kaladin's words are accepted and Syl returns to him as a Shardblade.

{{quote
|I'm standing over the body of a brother. I'm weeping. Is that his blood or mine? What have we done?
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|4|2|4}}, 107 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was an out-of-work Veden sailor.{{epigraph ref|sa1|52}}
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:::Likely refers to Kaladin weeping over the body of his brother Tien, but the meaning of the comments about blood and what have they done is unknowm.
=== Unknown Meanings ===
{{quote
|You've killed me. Bastards, you've killed me! While the sun is still hot, I die!
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1171|7|3|5}}, 10 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed soldier thirty-one years of age. Sample is considered questionable.{{epigraph ref|sa1|1}}
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{{quote
|Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone?
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1171|8|6|2}}, 5 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a lighteyed woman in her third decade.{{epigraph ref|sa1|2}}
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{{quote
|A man stood on a cliffside and watched his homeland fall into dust. The waters surged beneath, so far beneath. And he heard a child crying. They were his own tears.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1171|9|1|4}}, 30 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a cobbler of some renown.{{epigraph ref|sa1|3}}
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{{quote
|I'm cold. Mother, I'm cold. Mother? Why can I still hear the rain? Will it stop?
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1172|4|10|1}}, 32 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a lighteyed female child, approximately six years old.{{epigraph ref|sa1|6}}
}}


{{quote
|They are aflame. They burn. They bring the darkness when they come, and so all you can see is that their skin is aflame. Burn, burn, burn...
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1172|5|10|4}}, 21 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a baker's apprentice.{{epigraph ref|sa1|7}}
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:::May be a description of the humans when they first arrived on Roshar, covered in ash and burns from their experimentation with [[Surgebinding]]{{book ref|sa4|76}} or of the singers, who, as the Voidbringers, are associated in legend with fire, ash, char, and terrible, burned skin.{{article ref|The Way of Kings/Epigraphs#Jasnah's Notes}}


{{quote
|He watches! The black piper in the night. He holds us in his palm... playing a tune that no man can hear!
|Observed circa {{Rosharan date|1172|9|missing-date=y}}. Subject was [[Cenn]], a member of [[Kaladin]]'s squad in Brightlord [[Meridas Amaram]]'s army.{{book ref|sa1|47}}
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:::This is not a reference to [[Hoid]].{{wob ref|8240}}


{{quote
|Victory! We stand atop the mount! We scatter them before us! Their homes become our dens, their lands are now our farms! And they shall burn, as we once did, in a place that is hollow and forlorn.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1172|10|6|2}}, 18 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a lighteyed spinster of the eighth dahn.{{epigraph ref|sa1|8}}
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:::May refer to how the humans took Roshar from the singers during the First Desolation or a Fused victory over humans.

{{quote
|They break the land itself! They want it, but in their rage they will destroy it. Like the jealous man burns his rich things rather than let them be taken by his enemies! They come!
|Observed circa {{Rosharan date|1173|missing-date=y}}. Subject was [[Gadol]], a member of [[Bridge Four]].{{book ref|sa1|17}}
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:::May refer to the souls of the Fused, destroying the whole world in order to destroy humankind.{{book ref|sa3|38}}

{{quote
|Ten people, with Shardblades alight, standing before a wall of black and white and red.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|1|3|4}}, 12 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was an ardent member of the Silent Gatherers, overheard during his last moments.{{epigraph ref|sa1|9}}
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:::May refer to the refounding of the ten orders of Knights Radiant standing against the Singers and the Fused. The "ten people" may also refer to the ten Heralds.

{{quote
|He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|4|5|3}}, 8 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a prostitute of unknown background.{{epigraph ref|sa1|53}}
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:::This has not happened, on or off screen, by 1175.{{wob ref|15143}}


{{quote
|Light grows so distant. The storm never stops. I am broken, and all around me have died. I weep for the end of all things. He has won. Oh, he has beaten us.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|5|8|4}}, 16 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a Thaylen sailor.{{epigraph ref|sa1|56}}
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{{quote
|I hold the suckling child in my hands, a knife at his throat, and know that all who live wish me to let the blade slip. Spill its blood upon the ground, over my hands, and with it gain us further breath to draw.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|6|2|2}}, 23 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed youth of sixteen years. Sample is of particular note.{{epigraph ref|sa1|57}}
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{{quote
|And all the world was shattered! The rocks trembled with their steps, and the stones reached toward the heavens. We die! We die!
|Observed circa {{Rosharan date|1173|missing-date=y}}. Subject was [[Maps]], a member of [[Bridge Four]].{{book ref|sa1|57}}
}}


{{quote
|The death is my life, the strength becomes my weakness, the journey has ended.
|Observed on {{Rosharan date|1173|7|2|1}}, 95 seconds pre-death, collected secondhand and later reported to the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a scholar of some minor renown. Sample considered questionable.{{epigraph ref|sa1|60}}
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:::An inversion of the First Ideal of the Knights Radiant.


{{quote
|The darkness becomes a palace. Let it rule! Let it rule!
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|8|4|5}}, 22 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed Selay man of unknown profession.{{epigraph ref|sa1|62}}
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{{quote
|That chanting, that singing, those rasping voices.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|8|9|3}}, 16 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a middle-aged potter who reported seeing strange dreams during highstorms during the previous two years.{{epigraph ref|sa1|66}}
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:::May refer to Fused rhythms.


{{quote
|Let me no longer hurt! Let me no longer weep! Dai-gonarthis! The Black Fisher holds my sorrow and consumes it!
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|9|1|3}}, 28 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed female street juggler. Note similarity to sample 1172-89.{{epigraph ref|sa1|67}}
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{{quote
|The day was ours, but they took it. Stormfather! You cannot have it. The day is ours. They come, rasping, and the lights fail. Oh, Stormfather!
|Collected circa {{Rosharan date|1173|9|missing-date=y}} by Taravangian. Subject was a young boy.{{book ref|sa1|71}}
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{{quote
|Above silence, the illuminating storms&mdash;dying storms&mdash;illuminate the silence above.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|9|2|4}} by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was an illiterate Herdazian.{{book ref|sa1|endnote}}
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:::May refer to the visions given by the Stormfather to prospective Bondsmiths, which revealed the death (and therefore silence) of Tanavast.

{{quote
|So the night will reign, for the choice of honor is life...
|Observed circa {{Rosharan date|1173|10|missing-date=y}} by Taravangian. Subject was King [[Valam]] of [[Jah Keved]].{{book ref|sa2|i|14}}
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