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== Known Death Rattles ==
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|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
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|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1172|1|2|3}}, 11 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers.{{epigraph ref|sa1|4}}
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|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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|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. "Broken One" may refer to Honor's shattering, saying he reigns may refer to the almighty of vorinism.
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|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
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|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
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|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]].
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|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]].
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|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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|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.
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|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
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|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}}
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|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.
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|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 Elhokar, through a string of related events, was responsible for Kaladin being unable to keep his 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.
=== Unknown Meanings ===
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|You've killed me. Bastards, you've killed me! While the sun is still hot, I die!
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|Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone?
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:::Likely refers to
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|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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|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}}
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|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}}
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|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}}
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|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.
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|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.
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|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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:::May refer to the assassination of king [[Gavilar Kholin]].
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|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}}
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|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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|The death is my life, the strength becomes my weakness, the journey has ended.
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:::An inversion of the First Ideal of the Knights Radiant.
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|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|8|missing-date=y}}. Subject was [[
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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}}
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|The darkness becomes a palace. Let it rule! Let it rule!
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|That chanting, that singing, those rasping voices.
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:::May refer to Fused rhythms.
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|Let me no longer hurt! Let me no longer weep! Dai-gonarthis! The Black Fisher holds my sorrow and consumes it!
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|Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1173|
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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.
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|And all the world was shattered! The rocks trembled with their steps, and the stones reached toward the heavens. We die! We die!
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|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
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:::'Rasping' may refer to the rythms of the Fused. May be talking of fabrials that suppress radiant powers and [[Stormlight]].
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|So the night will reign, for the choice of honor is life...
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