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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 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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|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1172|1|2|3}}, 11 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers.{{epigraph ref|sa1|4}}
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|Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.▼
|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|
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:::Most likely refers to Honor, Cultivation, and Odium--three [[Shards]] out of sixteen total.
|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
|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
|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
|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]].
|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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|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
|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
=== Unknown Meanings ===▼
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|You've killed me. Bastards, you've killed me! While the sun is still hot, I die!▼
|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!▼
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:::Refers to the souls of the Fused, destroying the whole world in order to destroy humankind.{{book ref|sa3|38}}▼
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|Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone?▼
|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|
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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|
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:::May refer to how the humans took Roshar from the singers during the First Desolation. Could possibly also refer to a Fused victory over humans.▼
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|I'm cold. Mother, I'm cold. Mother? Why can I still hear the rain? Will it stop?▼
▲|Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|
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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.
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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...
|That chanting, that singing, those rasping voices.▼
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|
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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}}
:::Likely refers to Fused rhythms.▼
▲=== Unknown Meanings ===
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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!▼
▲|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.
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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.
▲|I'm cold. Mother, I'm cold. Mother? Why can I still hear the rain? Will it stop?
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1172
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▲:::May refer to how the humans took Roshar from the singers during the First Desolation
|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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|The death is my life, the strength becomes my weakness, the journey has ended.▼
|The darkness becomes a palace. Let it rule! Let it rule!▼
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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!
|Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above.▼
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▲|The darkness becomes a palace. Let it rule! Let it rule!
▲|He watches! The black piper in the night. He holds us in his palm... playing a tune that no man can hear!
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▲:::This is not a reference to [[Hoid]].{{wob ref|8240}}
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▲|That chanting, that singing, those rasping voices.
|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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|Let me no longer hurt! Let me no longer weep! Dai-gonarthis! The Black Fisher holds my sorrow and consumes it!▼
|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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▲|Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above.
|So the night will reign, for the choice of honor is life...▼
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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!
▲|You've killed me. Bastards, you've killed me! While the sun is still hot, I 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!
▲|The death is my life, the strength becomes my weakness, the journey has ended.
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:::'Rasping' may refer to the rythms of the Fused. May be talking of fabrials that suppress radiant powers and [[Stormlight]].
▲:::An inversion of the First Ideal of the Knights Radiant.
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▲|So the night will reign, for the choice of honor is life...
▲|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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▲{{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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