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| You've killed me. Bastards, you've killed me! While the sun is still hot, I die!
| Collected on Chachabah {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1171|3|7|5}}, 10 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed soldier thirty-one years of age. Sample is considered questionable.{{epigraph ref|sa1|1}}}}
 
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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 Shashahes {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1171|6|5|1}}, 31 seconds pre-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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It is estimated this came exactly 1229 days before the advent of the Everstorm.{{cite}} It is possible that these Rattles are less than fully accurate, or that whoever gave this death rattle valued poetry over technically accurate detail or, given the specific phrasing, that this was perhaps a foreshadowing to a time 229 days in the future when someone else would prophecy that it would be 1000 days until the Everstorm.
 
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| Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone?
| Collected on Kakashan {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1171|8|86|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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| 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 Tanatesev {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| I'm dying, aren't I? Healer, why do you take my blood? Who is that beside you, with his head of lines? I can see a distant sun, dark and cold, shining in a black sky.
| Collected on Jesanach {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1172|1|2|3}}, 11 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a Reshi chull trainer. Sample is of particular note.{{epigraph ref|sa1|4}}
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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 Naneses {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| I'm cold. Mother, I'm cold. Mother? Why can I still hear the rain? Will it stop?
| Collected on Vevishes {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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 Palahishev {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| 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 Ishashan {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| Ten people, with Shardblades alight, standing before a wall of black and white and red.
| Collected on Jesachev {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1173|1|3|4}}, 12 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject an ardent member of the the Silent Gatherers, overheard during his last moments.{{epigraph ref|sa1|9}}
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| Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.
| Collected on Chachanan {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| I'm standing over the body of a brother. I'm weeping. Is that his blood or mine? What have we done?
| Collected on Vevanev {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!
| Collected on Vevahach {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| The burdens of nine become mine. Why must I carry the madness of them all? Oh, Almighty, release me.
| Observed on Palaheses {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| A woman sits and scratches out her own eyes. Daughter of kings and winds, the vandal.
| Collected on Palahevan {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| Light grows so distant. The storm never stops. I am broken, and all around me have died. I weep for the end of all things. He has won. Oh, he has beaten us.
| Collected on Palahakev {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| I hold the suckling child in my hands, a knife at his throat, and know that all who live wish me to let the blade slip. Spill its blood upon the ground, over my hands, and with it gain us further breath to draw.
| Collected on Shashanan {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1173|6|2|2}}, 23 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed youth of sixteen years. Sample is of particular note.{{epigraph ref|sa1|57}}
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{{quote
| Re-Shephir, the Midnight Mother, giving birth to abominations with her essence so dark, so terrible, so consuming. She is here! She watches me die!
| Collected on Shashabev {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| The death is my life, the strength becomes my weakness, the journey has ended.
| Observed on Betabanes, {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1173|7|2|1}}, 95 seconds pre-death, collected secondhand and later reported to the the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a scholar of some minor renown. Sample considered questionable.{{epigraph ref|sa1|60}}
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| Above the final void I hang, friends behind, friends before. The feast I must drink clings to their faces, and the words I must speak spark in my mind. The old oaths will be spoken anew.
| Collected on Betabanan {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| In the storm I awaken, falling, spinning, grieving.
| Collected on Kakanev {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| The darkness becomes a palace. Let it rule! Let it rule!
| Collected on Kakevah {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1173|8|4|5}}, 22 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed Selay man of unknown profession.{{epigraph ref|sa1|62}}
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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 Kakashah {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| They come from the pit, two dead men, a heart in their hands, and I know that I have seen true glory.
| Collected on Kakashah {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| I see them. They are the rocks. They are the vengeful spirits. Eyes of red.
| Collected on Kakakes {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| That chanting, that singing, those rasping voices.
| Collected on Kaktach {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1173|8|9|3}}, 16 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a middle-aged potter who reported seeing strange dreams during highstorms during the previous two years.{{epigraph ref|sa1|66}}
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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!
| Collected on Tanatesach {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1173|9|1|3}}, 28 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed female street juggler.{{epigraph ref|sa1|67}}
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{{quote
| They named it the Final Desolation, but they lied. Our gods lied. Oh, how they lied. The Everstorm comes. I hear its whispers, see its stormwall, know its heart.
| Collected on Tanatanes {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| All is withdrawn for me. I stand against the one who saved my life. I protect the one who killed my promises. I raise my hand. The storm responds.
| Collected on Tanatanev {{Rosharan date/sa|year=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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| Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above.
| Collected on Tanatanev {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1173|9|2|4}}, 18 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was an illiterate Herdazian.{{book ref|sa1|endnote}}
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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/sa|year=1172|}}. Subject was [[Cenn]], a member of [[Kaladin]]'s squad in Brightlord [[Meridas Amaram]]'s army.{{book ref|sa1|47}}
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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/sa|year=1173|missing-date=y}}. Subject was [[Gadol]], a member of [[Bridge Four]].{{book ref|sa1|17}}
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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!
| Observed circa {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1173|missing-date=y}}. Subject was [[Maps]], a member of [[Bridge Four]].{{book ref|sa1|57}}
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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 circa Tanat {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1173|9|missing-date=y}} by Taravangian. Subject was a young boy.{{book ref|sa1|71}}
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| So the night will reign, for the choice of honor is life...
| Observed circa Ishi {{Rosharan date/sa|year=1173|10|missing-date=y}} by Taravangian. Subject was King [[Valam]] of [[Jah Keved]].{{book ref|sa2|i|14}}
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