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|participants=The [[Knights Radiant]]
|effects=Death of Radiant [[spren]], Disbandment of the Knights Radiant
|era=[[Era of Solitude]]
|world=Roshar
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
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The '''Day of Recreance''' was the final act of the [[Knights Radiant]], around two-thousand Rosharan years before the [[True Desolation]].{{book ref|sa3|56}}{{wob ref|9655}} Nine of the ten orders abandoned their [[Shardblade]]s and [[Shardplate]] and broke their oaths, killing their [[spren]]. The [[Order of Skybreakers]] was the one order that did not participate; instead, the Skybreakers hid themselves away.{{book ref|sa3|40}} For around two thousand years
== Lead Up ==
== Cause ==
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The Knights Radiant somehow discovered that [[Surgebinding]] had destroyed [[Ashyn]], the world mankind first inhabited, and that humans then invaded Roshar, the [[Dawnsingers]]' land. When previous generations had learned this fact, [[Honor]] had counseled them that their cause was just. During the generation of the Recreance, Honor was deteriorating under the onslaught of Odium and did not do so. Instead, he raved about the [[Dawnshard]]s, ancient weapons responsible for the destruction of Ashyn, and promised the Radiants they would also destroy [[Roshar]]. In order to save the world, nine
[[Mayalaran]] indicated that the Recreance was a conscious choice, with the Knights and their bonded spren in agreement, and not the grievous betrayal of spren by the
== Feverstone Keep ==
{{image|The Recreance by Caio Santos.jpeg|side=right|width=500px|The Recreance at Feverstone Keep}}
:''See also: [[Feverstone Keep]]''
According to [[Dalinar's visions]], [[Feverstone Keep]] was one of the locations where the Radiants dropped their Plate and Blades. It was a fort near [[Rall Elorim]] that the parsh were pushing towards.{{epigraph ref|sa3|84}} The Orders of [[Stonewards]] and [[Windrunners]] were on the front lines fighting.
== Aftermath and Legacy ==
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Within two hundred years of the Recreance, knowledge of the Radiants was already beginning to be lost. It was difficult to distinguish facts, superstition, and lore.{{book ref|sa2|77}} At some point, many Shardblades were lost, as hundreds were dropped during the Recreance, and only around eighty are known in the modern world.{{book ref|sa1|52}}
== Trivia ==
* [[wikipedia:wikt:recreant|Recreance]], is a word meaning shameful cowardice, lack of faith to one's honor or duty, apostasy, disloyalty, or desertion.
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