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|participants=[[Herald]]s, [[Knights Radiant]], [[Voidbringers]], [[Singers]], [[Unmade]]
The '''Era of Solitude''' was the name given to the period of time after the [[Last Desolation]].▼
|effects=Enslavement of the [[singers]], disbandment of the Radiants
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[Stormlight Archive]]
}}
{{quote
|The Voidbringers were cast back into the Tranquiline Halls. The Heralds followed to force them out of heaven as well, and Roshar’s Heraldic Epochs ended. Mankind entered the Era of Solitude. The modern era.
|[[Kabsal]] to [[Shallan]]{{book ref|sa1|45}}
}}
▲The '''Era of Solitude'''
== Silver Kingdoms ==
The [[Silver Kingdoms]] existed from some time prior to [[Aharietiam]]{{book ref|sa1|45}} until likely just after the [[Day of Recreance]].{{book ref|sa1|32}} The Knights Radiant supported a unified kingdom across the land connecting everyone via [[Urithiru]], with [[Alethela]] being the center of protection for all of the Kingdoms.{{book ref|sa1|19}} After the fall of the Knights, and with [[Urithiru]] abandoned (leaving each kingdom isolated) they would no longer be able to function as they had.{{book ref|sa1|45}}
== Beginning ==
The Era of Solitude began after the [[Last Desolation]] known as [[Aharietiam]].{{book ref|sa1|45}} After being told that the [[Voidbringer]]s had been defeated by the remaining [[Herald]]s, mankind began rebuilding for the first time in years.{{book ref|sa1|part=prelude}}
The current calendar in the Era of Solitude did not begin at the end of [[Aharietiam]], but a date approximately three thousand years afterward.▼
*'''[[Aharietiam]]''' - Began the Era of Solitude.{{book ref|sa1|45}}
*'''The [[False Desolation]]''' - War with [[Singer]]s not led by the [[Fused]].{{book ref|sa3|56}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|77}}
*'''The [[Day of Recreance]]''' - Knights Radiant broke oaths and abandoned [[Shard]]s.{{book ref|sa1|52}}
*'''The Collapse of the [[Silver Kingdoms]]''' - While unknown when the [[Silver Kingdoms]] fell, without the Knights Radiant the system would have broken down by this point.{{book ref|sa1|45}}
*'''The Death of [[Honor]]''' - Honor was killed and the power he held was Splintered by [[Odium]].
*'''Dynastic Collapse in Bayala''' - A dynasty collapses in [[Bayala]] due to the influence of [[Ashertmarn]] in {{rosharan date|480}}
*'''The [[Hierocracy]]''' - Classical [[Vorinism]] attempted to control the world, much of history was sanitized during this time.{{book ref|sa2|3}}
*'''The Sunmaker Conquests''' - [[Sadees|Sadees the Sunmaker]] overthrew the Hierocracy and reunited Alethkar, before attempting to conquer the world, leaving a deep effect upon many different countries.
*'''The [[Scouring of Aimia]]''' - [[Aimia]] suffered a cataclysm of some kind.{{book ref|twok|36}}
*'''Emuli Lurnip Famine''' - Emul goes through a devastating Lurnip famine.
*'''Reunification of Alethkar''' - The reunification of Aelthkar under the Kholin Banner
*'''The [[Eighty's War]]''' - A war between [[Tukar]] and [[Emul]] over control of [[Sesemalex Dar]] broke out in {{rosharan date|1167}}, with Tukar being led by the Herald [[Ishar]]
*'''The [[Assassination of Gavilar|Assassination of Gavilar Kholin]]''' - Gavilar Kholin, the king of Alethkar, was assassinated by the Listeners during the treaty celebration on {{rosharan date|1167|9}}.{{book ref|twok|prologue}}
*'''The [[War of Reckoning]]''' - A war between the Alethi and the Listeners following the assassination of Gavilar Kholin, which led up to the True Desolation.
*'''The [[True Desolation]]''' - the coming of the [[Everstorm]] ended the Era of Solitude.
== The End ==
▲== Events Defining the Era of Solitude ==
The Era of Solitude lasted up until the return of the [[Fused]] and [[Odium]]. This takes place the day the [[Listener]]s created the [[Everstorm]] the Beginning of the [[True Desolation]].
== Time Keeping ==
▲The current [[Vorin]] calendar in the Era of Solitude did not begin at the end of [[Aharietiam]], but a date approximately three thousand years afterward. This date that starts the calendar takes place some time after the [[Day of Recreance]] but before the [[Hierocracy]].{{wob ref|125}}
== Notes ==
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|title=History of [[Roshar]]
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|prev=The [[Last Desolation]]
|this=The Era of Solitude
|next=The [[True Desolation]]
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