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The concept of the Tranquiline Halls has its roots in the planet [[Ashyn]]. Before the [[First Desolation]], many humans lived there. Eventually, however, they nearly destroyed the world with the power of [[Surge]]s.{{book ref|sa3|111}}{{book ref|sa3|113}} While some people remained on Ashyn, surviving in floating cities, most traveled to Roshar in an event now known in the Vorin church as the [[Expulsion]].{{wob ref|8243}} [[Honor]] and [[Cultivation]] instructed the [[Dawnsinger]]s to welcome the human refugees, and they were given [[Shinovar]] as their land. At some point, they grew dissatisfied with that limitation, leading to the cycle of [[Desolation]]s{{book ref|sa3|111}}{{book ref|sa3|113}} By the time of the [[Last Desolation]], knowledge of this history had become warped to something closer to modern Vorin doctrine. The Heralds may have encouraged this, as the Herald [[JerizenJezrien]] told the people of Roshar he was going to lead the battle to reclaim the Tranquiline Halls after the end of the Last Desolation.{{book ref|sa3|42}} Every generation of [[Knights Radiant]] eventually discovered the truth, but Honor usually supported them. His failure to do so for the Knights of the time of the [[False Desolation]] contributed to their decision to break their oaths on the [[Day of Recreance]].{{book ref|sa3|13}}

The Heralds are not, as Vorin doctrine claims, leading a war to reclaim the Tranquiline Halls. Instead, after the Last Desolation, nine of them told humankind that they had won and fabricated that story about returning to the Tranquiline hallsHalls to cover the fact that they were abandoning the [[Oathpact]] and remaining on Roshar. The Herald [[Talenel]], the only one who did not break the Oathpact, returned to [[Braize]] to be tortured by the [[Fused]].{{book ref|sasa1|part=prelude}}{{book ref|sa3|42}}

*In the [[Circle of Memories]] in [[Kholinar]], the [[ardentia]] believe that the eleventh painting on the walls that does not represent one of the [[Silver Kingdoms]] is a reference to the Tranquiline Halls.{{book ref|sa2|i|12}} In reality, the Circle of Memories is an [[Oathgate]] and the eleventh painting represents [[Urithiru]].{{citebook ref|sa2|86}}{{book ref|sa3|83}}