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|I have seen the end, and have heard it named. The Night of Sorrows, the True Desolation. The Everstorm.

|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1172|5|1|1}}, 15 seconds pre-death. Subject was a darkeyed youth of unknown origin.{{epigraph ref|sa1|5}}

The '''True Desolation''' follows the [[Era of Solitude]] on [[Roshar]]. [[Odium]] and his servants wage war against the rest of Roshar, hoping to eventually allow the [[Shard]] to break free of the ties bonding him to the [[Rosharan system]]. The term '''[[Night of Sorrows]]''' is often used as an apparent synonym for the True Desolation, although there may be some nuance between the two terms.{{book ref|sa1|52}}

== Lead-up ==

After the [[Last Desolation]], nine of the ten [[Herald]]s could no longer bear to return to [[Braize]] to be tortured by the [[Fused]], and instead gave up the [[Oathpact]]. One Herald, [[Talenel]], had been killed in the final battle and had automatically returned to Braize; with him there, the Oathpact remained intact and the Fused were sealed away. They also left behind the [[Knights Radiant]] to continue to protect the people of Roshar.{{book ref|sa1|part=prelude}}

Around the time of the [[False Desolation]], the newest generation of Radiants learned that humans were not native to Roshar and had essentially been taking the [[singer]]s' land for millennia. Around this time, something—possibly [[Melishi]] trapping the [[Unmade]] [[Ba-Ado-Mishram]]—caused the singers to be stripped of their [[Connection]] and [[Identity]], leaving them mostly unable to act for themselves. [[Honor]] did not support the Radiants through these events, instead raving about how they would destroy Roshar. As a result, all of the Knights Radiant except the [[Order of Skybreakers]] broke their [[Immortal Words|oaths]], killing their [[spren]] in an event known as the [[Recreance]]. Some time after this, Odium finally [[Splinter]]ed Honor, though not before Honor was able to make some arrangements to guide the people of Roshar through the coming fight with Odium.{{book ref|sa3|113}}

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|Unite them. The sun approaches the horizon. The Everstorm comes. The True Desolation. The Night of Sorrows.

|[[Honor]] during one of Dalinar's visions{{book ref|twok|75}}

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Sometime prior to the reunification of [[Alethkar]], the [[Stormfather]] began sending the [[Dalinar's visions|visions]] that Honor had recorded to potential [[Order of Bondsmiths|Bondsmiths]] to warn them of Odium's coming, guide them to refound the Knights Radiant, and encourage them to unify Roshar against the threat of Odium and his armies. [[Gavilar Kholin]] received these visions prior to his death, and he got in contact with [[Thaidakar]] and [[Restares]], somehow getting his hands upon Voidlight and Anti-Voidlight, and forming a plan to bring back the Fused.{{book ref|sa3|prologue}} Shortly after Gavilar’s death in {{rosharan date|1167|10}}, [[Dalinar Kholin]] began to receive these visions as well.{{book ref|sa3|28}}

The spren were also aware of Odium's impending return as they saw the [[Everstorm]] beginning to take shape in Shadesmar as early as centuries before the start of the True Desolation.{{book ref|sa4|73}}{{book ref|sa4|75}} Motivated by this, a few Radiant spren began to return to the [[Physical Realm]] to bond with potential Radiants as early as {{rosharan date|1167}}. The earliest known examples being [[Ivory]] with [[Jasnah Kholin]] and [[Testament]] with [[Shallan Davar]].{{book ref|sa2|prologue}}{{book ref|sa2|10}}{{book ref|sa2|83}}{{book ref|sa4|93}}

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|I have said I that cannot be of much help to you. The Night of Sorrows will come, and the True Desolation. The Everstorm.

|Honor during one of Dalinar's visions{{book ref|twok|52}}

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The [[Diagram (group)|Diagram]] collected a [[Death Rattle]] that predicted the coming of the True Desolation.{{epigraph ref|sa1|5}} When confronted about his knowledge, [[Taravangian]] told Dalinar that the information came from the Herald [[Battar]].{{book ref|sa3|121}}

== Beginning ==

|Who am I? I ... I am Talenel'Elin, Stonesinew, Herald of the Almighty. The Desolation has come. Oh, God ... it has come. And I have failed.

|Talenel upon arriving in [[Kholinar]]{{book ref|twok|epilogue}}

The True Desolation formally began due to unknown reasons, four and a half millennia after the [[Aharietiam]], allowing the Fused to return to Roshar. The Herald [[Talenel]] then returned to Roshar to warn the people of their coming and prepare them to fight, arriving outside of [[Kholinar]]. Upon entering the city, he proclaims that the Desolation has come and that he has failed, before falling to the ground, unconscious.{{book ref|twok|epilogue}} Talenel is later brought to the [[Shattered Plains]] where he is widely viewed as a madman. He repeats the same mantra warning of the coming desolation.{{book ref|sa2|i|7}}

Meanwhile, some [[voidspren]] were laying the groundwork for the Fused to return. One, [[Ulim]], successfully made contact with the singer [[Venli]], who was researching new forms to help the [[listener]]s fight the [[War of Reckoning]] against the Alethi. With significant help from Ulim, Venli discovered [[Regal#stormform|stormform]].{{book ref|sa3|i|6}}{{book ref|sa3|i|7}} Though [[Eshonai]] worried about that stormform would open the listeners up to their gods, she volunteered to take the form as a test of its nature and abilities.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}} She is unable, however, to control the form and, with Venli's assistance, convinced most of the rest of their people to adopt it as well.{{book ref|sa2|i|11}}

=== The Battle of Narak ===

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During the [[Battle of Narak]], on {{rosharan date|1173|10|10|3}}, the stormform singers used its power to summon a new storm of Odium, known as the [[Everstorm]]. Much like the [[highstorm]], it continually rounds the planet, though in the opposite direction.{{book ref|sa2|87}}{{expand}}

The Everstorm restored Connection and Identity to the singers and allows the Fused to be reborn in the body of a singer as it passes over a region.{{book ref|sa3|17}}{{book ref|sa3|38}}

== Forging the Coalition ==

Following the Battle of Narak and the human occupation of Urithiru, some time in {{rosharan date|1174|1|2}}, Dalinar Kholin forged the [[Coalition of monarchs]],{{epigraph ref|sa4|1}} he began to contact monarchs from all across Roshar to try and get them to join the offensive against the Fused armies.{{book ref|sa3|1}} The primary focus was upon nations that contained Oathgates, due to their strategeic importance.{{book ref|sa3|8}} It was also around this point that the war between Emul and Tukar came to a halt as the new, greater threat diverted their focus and brought an end to their fighting.{{book ref|sa3|96}}

The first leader Dalinar and his scribes reached out to was [[Yanagawn]] of Azir, however, they rebuked his advances due to a distrust of him and Alethkar as a whole. They completely broke off communications after he became desperate and begun to speak to them more forcefully. This distrust was ultimately sourced in the genocide perpetrated against the Azish people by Sadees the Sunmaker, and by Dalinar's own history of brutality and conquest.

Following their failure to ally with the Makabaki, they reached out to [[Fen Rnamdi]] of Thaylenah. However, she too distrusted the Alethi, with her flatly refusing to meet with that at Urithiru, or allow them to send troops to [[Thaylen City]] to help repair it after the destruction wrought by the Everstorm.{{book ref|sa3|12}} He tried to convince her several times, but each time was met with rejection.{{book ref|sa3|24}}

They also contacted [[Yezier]] and [[Tashikk]], but were rejected by them as well; however, [[Taravangian]] accepted his invitation and informed Dalinar that he would be arriving with one of his radiants via the Oathgate in Jah Keved.{{book ref|sa3|12}}

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* Re-shephir expelled from Urithiru

=== Siege of Kholinar ===

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==== Background ====

* Talk about the leadup to the siege, with the chaos in Kholinar with the Unmade.

==== Siege Itself ====

* Sja-anat reveals disloyalty to Odium to Shallan

* Ashertmarn expelled from Kholinar

* Death of Aesudan

=== Battle of Thaylen Field ===

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* Szeth arrives, kills a Thunderclast

* Dalinar makes Perpendicularity

* Sealing of Nergaoul

* Szeth devotes self to Dalinar

* Nergaoul hidden at bottom of ocean

=== Expedition to Akinah ===

* Discovery of the ghost ship

* Travel to Akinah

* Discovery of Aluminum-Fabrial Interactions

* Rysn becomes Dawnshard

* Discovery of the Akinah Oathgate

=== Intermittent Time ===

* Creation of Bridge Four Ship

=== Evacuation of Hearthstone ===

=== Occupation of Urithiru ===

* Awakening of the Sibling

* Occupation

* Discovery of Warlight

* Discovery of Anti-Stormlight and Anti-Voidlight

* Murder of Teft

* Sibling bonds with Navani

* Kaladin reaches Fourth Ideal

* Expulsion of the Singers

* Tower is restored

* Contingent of Fused and Singers turn against Odium

=== Expedition in Emul ===

* Fight with Ishar

* Fight with Nale

* Discovery of Ishar's Experiments

==== Ascension of Taravangian ===

* Death of Rayse and Ascension of Taravangian

=== Expedition to Lasting Integrity ===

* Trial of Adolin Kholin, Maya Chooses

* Honorspren open up to bonding again

* Attempted Assassination of Kalak

=== Expedition to Shinovar ===

=== Contest of Champions ===

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== Trivia ==

In foreign translations, this is also known as:

*{{Interlang|es|Auténtica Desolación}}

*{{Interlang|pl|Prawdziwe Spustoszenie}}

*{{Interlang|bg|Истинско Опустошение}}

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