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The '''Sons of Honor''' are a secretive group on [[Roshar]]. Their goal is to return the dominance of the [[Vorinism|Vorin]] church. They seem to be under the leadership of [[Restares]], and are referedreferred to as his cronies by the [[Ghostbloods]].{{book ref|sa2|54}}

The Sons of HonourHonor have similar origins to the Diagram.{{wob ref|3399}} At some point the Envisagers formed as a splinter group of the Sons of HonourHonor.{{wob ref|14534}}

The Sons of Honor existed before [[Gavilar Kholin]] joined their organization, but he helped to greatly expand their numbers and influence. Notably, he was the one who recruited Amaram to join them.{{book ref|sa3|40}} The group was mainly founded upon religious grounds aiming to restart the desolationsDesolations.{{book ref|sa3|88}}{{book ref|sa3|prologue}} Some leaders of the group, such as Gavilar and Restares, had additional motives and plans for the group, both primarily used the Sons of HonourHonor to further their own goals.{{book ref|sa4|7}}{{book ref|sa4|4}} Restares responded favourablyfavorably to GavilarsGavilar's plans and the two worked together to return the desolationsDesolations.{{book ref|sa4|82}} Gavilar held a variety of meetings with the leadership of the Sons of Honor as well as their leader Restares. On the night of his death, more of these meetings took place.{{book ref|sa2|prologue}}{{book ref|sa3|prologue}} Gavilar suspected the Ghostbloods of being behind the assassination though he also considered Restares might have been responsible.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}}

Following the death of Gavilar, Restares and Amaram made more frequent contact with each other, with Amaram seemingly taking over from GavilarsGavilar's previous role.{{book ref|sa4|4}} However he ultimately served and followed the orders of Restares, often deferring to him for guidance.{{book ref|sa2|52}}{{book ref|sa1|51}} Under his leadership, Restares managed to convince Amaram to take the shardsShards [[Kaladin]] won and kill any witnesses, and Amaram decided to spare and enslave Kaladin as a sign of his thanks instead.{{book ref|sa1|51}} Amaram later would be sent to the [[Shattered Plains]] to help with the war effort there, while at the plainsPlains, he continued his research into the connection between the [[parshsendilistener|Parshendi]] and voidbringersVoidbringers as well as trying to find the lost city of [[Urithiru]].{{book ref|sa2|52}} After the [[Battle of Narak]], Amaram sent word to Restares that the Sons of Honor were successful in restarting the Desolations, though in truth they had no part in starting the [[True Desolation]].{{book ref|sa2|88}} It is unknown if Amaram actually believed he had helped restart the Desolations. Before leaving to settle in Urithiru, Amaram recognized that the madman in Dalinar's warcamp was in fact [[Taln]] and went to recover him from his cell.{{book ref|sa2|88}} At this time he survived an assassination attempt by the Ghostbloods.{{book ref|sa2|88}}

During the move highprinces [[Thanadal]] and [[Loradar Vamah|Vamah]] decided to stay at the war campswarcamps.{{book ref|sa3|2}} Thanadal took the opportunity to create his own virtual kingdom in the area and control trade through the Shattered Plains.{{book ref|sa3|104}} Vamah acted similarly.{{book ref|sa3|21}} Following the death of [[Torol Sadeas|Highprince Sadeas]] during the settling of Urithiru, Ialai took over from her husbands duties. At this time the ghostbloodsGhostbloods began actively spying on her due to her status as an unknown element.{{book ref|sa3|22}} Ialai decided to name Amaram as the new Highprincehighprince of houseHouse Sadeas.{{book ref|sa3|27}} At the orders of Dalinar Kholin, Amaram and Sadeas forces were moved to help clean up and secure Theylen[[Thaylen cityCity]].{{book ref|sa3|96}} [[Odium]] used Amaram's frustrations at these orders as well as the truth about the [[Heralds]] to convince him to join Odium's forces. With this change, the Sadeas troops also defected.{{book ref|sa3|120}} Amaram was killed during the battle.{{book ref|sa3|120}}

After the battle[[Battle of Thaylen Field]], IalaiHouse becameSadeas thewas leaderhumiliated, ofand theIalai Sons of Honour, due tobecame the humiliationleader of House Sadeas at the battleSons of ThaylenHonor Fieldand she moved back to the Shattered Plains.{{book ref|sa3|122}} She did what she could to regain the previous power of the Sons of Honor but due to the death of Gavilar and the actions taken during Amaram's leadership, there was little she could do.{{book ref|sa4|4}} Ialai spent most of her time trying to get in contact with Restares and also began to investigate references she had heard before to the wider Cosmere[[cosmere]].{{book ref|sa4|7}}{{book ref|sa4|9}} The Ghostbloods began a final push to eliminate the Sons of Honor and began by assassinating Thanadal despite his attempts to negoiatenegotiate.{{book ref|sa4|7}} Seeing this, Vamah attempted to flee the plainsPlains{{book ref|sa4|6}} but was also killed by the Ghostbloods.{{book ref|sa4|7}} Seeing these events Ialai decided to try and hide within her lands. This ultimately failed and she was assassinated by a [[Shallan Davar|Ghostblood agent]].{{book ref|sa4|7}} At this stage it was believed by Mraize that the Sons of Honor were destroyed. Following its destruction, Shallan was given a mission to locate their ultimate and last surviving leader, Restares.{{book ref|sa4|13}}

The Sons of Honor have an antagonistic relationship with both the [[Ghostbloods]] and the [[Skybreakers]]. [[Mraize]] sends [[Shallan]] to spy on Amaram in order to discover what secrets the Sons of Honor know.{{book ref|sa2|43}} After receiving Shallan's intelligence, they unsuccessfully try to assassinate him.{{book ref|sa2|88}} After the battleBattle of Thaylan Field, the Ghostbloods spent the next year successfully assassinating the leadership of the Sons of Honour.{{book ref|sa4|7}} The Ghostbloods also greatly hate and despise Restares for assisting Gavilar.{{book ref|sa4|82}} Despite this however, Mraize acts dismissive towards the Sons of Honor, referring to them simply as Restares's cronies.{{book ref|sa2|54}} The Skybreakers also tried to have Amaram killed as a strike against the Sons of Honor when they send [[Helaran Davar]] to his army with [[Shardblade]] and [[Shardplate]] to kill him.{{book ref|sa3|40}} This plan, however, resulted in the Sons of Honor gaining control of another set of shards.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}} The leader of the Skybreakers, [[Nale]] also assisted the [[Parshendi]] in assassinating Gavilar Kholin.{{book ref|sa4|77}}