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− | | Jasnah Kholin on the False Desolation.{{book ref|sa3|56}} |
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⚫ | {{quote|A legend. Considered pseudohistorical. [[Dovcanti]] wrote an epic about it somewhere around fifteen hundred years ago. The claim is that some Voidbringers survived Aharietiam, and there were many clashes with them afterward. It’s considered unreliable, but that’s because many later ardents insist that no Voidbringers could have survived. I’m inclined to assume this is a clash with parshmen before they were somehow deprived of their ability to change forms.|Jasnah on the False Desolation.{{book ref|sa3|56}}}} |
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⚫ | The '''False Desolation''' |
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⚫ | It is unclear when the False Desolation began, but when [[Dalinar Kholin]] showed Jasnah and [[Navani Kholin]] a vision of the [[Recreance]], Jasnah suspected the Radiants fought in the False Desolation.{{book ref|sa3|56}} If this is correct, then False Desolation occurred around then, about two thousand years from the present day, or two thousand five hundred years after [[Aharietiam]], the Last Desolation. |
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⚫ | The False Desolation |
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⚫ | This period of fighting |
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⚫ | Previous Desolations were marked from [[Herald]]s giving into the torture in Damnation, Returning to Roshar, and then the [[Fused]]--leaders of the [[Voidbringer]]s--Returning as well, entering bodies of the singers.{{book ref|sa3|38}} However, the False Desolation occurred well after the Last Desolation, where the Heralds abandoned the [[Oathpact]]. Thus, there were no Fused in this "Desolation." It's unclear how fighting between humans and singers progressed since the Last Desolation, but it's likely the two species warred. |
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⚫ | The False Desolation started in earnest when [[Ba-Ado-Mishram]], one of the nine [[Unmade]] and sometimes referred to as a "highprincess" of the Voidbringers and sometimes their commander,{{epigraph ref|sa3|106}} [[Connection|Connected]] with the singers.{{epigraph ref|sa3|80}} This allowed Ba-Ado-Mishram to provide [[Regal|forms of power]] to singers, and gave them access to [[Voidlight]]. It is unclear how Ba-Ado-Mishram performed this feat, or why she could not do so sometime earlier between the Last Desolation and then. The Radiants were confused as to Ba-Ado-Mishram's new Connection with the singers,{{epigraph ref|sa3|80}} which might suggest this was a new development in her abilities, and not an ability she could perform before. It also seems that she managed to Connect with the vast majority of singers, all except those who would become the [[listener]]s. |
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==The Strike Team== |
==The Strike Team== |
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− | | So Melishi retired to his tent, and resolved to destroy the Voidbringers upon the next day, but that night did present a different stratagem, related to the unique abilities of the Bondsmiths; and being hurried, he could make no specific account of his process; it was related to the very nature of the Heralds and their divine duties, an attribute the Bondsmiths alone could address. |
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− | | ''[[Words_of_Radiance_(in-world)|Words of Radiance]]'' chapter 30, page 18{{epigraph ref|sa2|58}} |
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+ | The Radiants eventually sought an edge in the conflict. Scholar Radiants teamed up to come up with a plan to stop the Voidbringers.{{epigraph ref|sa3|78}} |
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⚫ | The plan required a special prison--likely a |
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⚫ | They theorized that an Unmade could, perhaps, be imprisoned like a regular spren.{{epigraph ref|sa3|79}} (It is unclear if this happened before or after [[Re-Shephir]]'s imprisonment in Urithiru by a Lightweaver.{{book ref|sa3|30}}) The Radiants came up with a plan: they would imprison Ba-Ado-Mishram, stop the singers' transformations, and remove their Voidlight.{{epigraph ref|sa3|78}} |
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⚫ | The costs to Ba-Ado-Mishram's imprisonment were higher than any Radiant could have expected. There were indeed side effects to their action, as [[Naze-daughter-Kuzodo]] warned. Since Ba-Ado-Mishram was Connected to the vast majority of singers, her imprisonment ripped out Connection and Identity from the singers' souls.{{book ref|sa3|17}} This meant that these singers were essentially |
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⚫ | The plan required a special prison--likely a perfect gemstone--as well as Melishi,{{epigraph ref|sa3|79}} the only Bondsmith of the generation.{{epigraph ref|sa2|58}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|67}} The Radiants did not know what exactly Ba-Ado-Mishram's imprisonment would do to the singers. They were certain that it would prevent them from using forms of power, but they didn't know what else could happen. Melishi sought to destroy the Voidbringers{{epigraph ref|sa2|58}} and was confident the plan would succeed, but [[Naze-daughter-Kuzodo]] warned of unintended side effects.{{epigraph ref|sa3|81}} The Radiants believed this would end the war the Heralds promised them.{{epigraph ref|sa3|82}} |
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⚫ | Fighting occurred near Feverstone Keep, and since that is the site of many Windrunners |
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+ | It's clear this strike team succeeded in imprisoning Ba-Ado-Mishram, as she was no longer seen in the modern day, unlike most other Unmade.{{epigraph ref|sa3|107}} |
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⚫ | Because of this massive chaos, ordinary humans likely had no idea of the true reason for the singers' enslavement. |
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− | In modern times, the False Desolation is considered pseudohistorical by the Vorin church, which asserts that no Voidbringers could have survived Aharietiam. [[Dovcanti]]'s epic about the False Desolation, written approximately 500 years after, is the primary surviving source on these events, and few details of the concept are known to any besides scholars, such as [[Jasnah Kholin]].{{book ref|sa3|56}} |
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⚫ | The costs to Ba-Ado-Mishram's imprisonment were higher than any Radiant could have expected. There were indeed side effects to their action, as [[Naze-daughter-Kuzodo]] warned. Since Ba-Ado-Mishram was Connected to the vast majority of singers, her imprisonment ripped out Connection and Identity from the singers' souls.{{book ref|sa3|17}} This meant that these singers were essentially labotomized, unable to think and unable to act. The singers had no form, and would later be termed as "slaveforms". |
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⚫ | Fighting occurred near Feverstone Keep, and since that is the site of many Windrunners abandoning their oaths,{{book ref|sa3|56}} it is possible this is another reason for the Recreance. It could have been the final thing that made the Radiants feel they were on the wrong side. The Recreance certainly happened at the same time or directly after Ba-Ado-Mishram's imprisonment, which by itself caused massive chaos in human societies. [[Shardblade]]s were picked up at will, without the safeguards of the [[Nahel bond]] to prevent such utter destruction. |
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⚫ | Because of this massive chaos, ordinary humans likely had no idea of the true reason for the singers' enslavement. It, as well as the singers being considered "Voidbringers" and "the enemy" in the eyes of the Radiants, faded into obscurity, and humans considered the parsh to just always be these creatures who could not think. The singers ended up acting as slave labor for humans for two thousand years. |
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