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|You've killed me. Bastards, you've killed me! While the sun is still hot, I die!
|Collected on {{Rosharan date|1171|7|3|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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|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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This seems to be from the perspective of one of the [[Knights Radiant]], likely from the [[Day of Recreance]]. The phrase "Why have you forsaken us, Almighty" likely refers to how, in the years before the Recreance, [[Honor]] did not support the newest generation of Radiants when they discovered the truth about the [[First Desolation]], and instead raved about his belief that their [[Surgebinding]] would destroy Roshar.{{book ref|sa3|113}} The phrase "Shard of my soul, where have you gone" seems to refer to how the Radiants lost their spren during the Recreance, as the [[Nahel Bond]] allows a spren to fill in some of the cracks in a person's soul.{{wob ref|2542}}▼
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|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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|Observed on {{Rosharan date|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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|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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|Collected on {{Rosharan date|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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The Silent Gatherers have noted a similarity between this death rattle and one they denote as "sample 1172-89".
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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 {{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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▲This seems to be from the perspective of one of the [[Knights Radiant]], likely from the [[Day of Recreance]]. The phrase "Why have you forsaken us, Almighty" likely refers to how, in the years before the Recreance, [[Honor]] did not support the newest generation of Radiants when they discovered the truth about the [[First Desolation]], and instead raved about his belief that their [[Surgebinding]] would destroy Roshar.{{book ref|sa3|113}} The phrase "Shard of my soul, where have you gone" seems to refer to how the Radiants lost their spren during the Recreance, as the [[Nahel Bond]] allows a spren to fill in some of the cracks in a person's soul.{{wob ref|2542}}
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