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=== Splintering of Honor and the True Desolation ===
Some timeSometime after the [[Recreance]],{{wob ref|8144}} [[Odium]] finally managed to [[Splinter]] [[Honor]],{{wob ref|9810}} even though [[Cultivation]] was assisting Honor in some way.{{wob ref|2729}} Honor, however, had prepared for this eventuality by, among other things, giving the [[Stormfather]] the power to create new [[honorspren]] and recording a [[Dalinar's visions|series of visions]] for the Stormfather to show to potential [[Order of Bondsmiths|Bondsmiths]].{{book ref|sa3|28}}
Approximately 4,500 years after the [[Last Desolation]], [[Odium]] and his servants developed the [[Everstorm]] and guided the [[listeners]] to summoning it,{{book ref|sa4|73}}{{book ref|sa4|86}} thus allowingallow the [[Fused]] to circumvent the Oathpact and return to [[Roshar]] without [[Talenel]] breaking.{{book ref|sa3|38}}{{wob ref|14869}}{{book ref|sa4|73}} As Odium's isforces nowgrew wagingcloser to enacting their plan, Hoid began reaching out to the dragon [[True DesolationFrost]] againstand several of the peopleShards, ofasking Rosharthem to help in keeping the cosmere safe from Odium. Aside from Harmony, whilewho [[Dalinarhad Kholin]]not andpreviously been aware of the newlythreat re-foundedOdium [[Knightsposed, Radiant]]they attemptall rejected Hoid's request as they considered Odium's binding to stopthe [[Rosharan system]] himsufficient.{{bookarticle ref|sa2|89Letters}} AtAfter the [[Battleyears of Thaylen Field]]preparation, Odium's agreedservants tosuccessfully aguided contestthe of champions[[listeners]] to decidesummoning the fateEverstorm,{{book of Roshar.ref|sa4|73}}{{book ref|sa3sa4|11786}}
beginning the [[True Desolation]].
With the advent of the Everstorm, [[Dalinar Kholin]] founded a [[coalition of monarchs]] to oppose Odium's forces and the [[Knights Radiant]] were re-established.{{book ref|sa3|96}}{{book ref|sa2|89}} Acting on the advice Honor had left in his series of visions, they pushed Odium to agree to a contest of champions so that he could be forced to leave Roshar in peace for some period of time.{{book ref|sa1|75}}{{book ref|sa3|16}} Odium eventually agreed to such a contest during the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]],{{book ref|sa3|117}} but withdrew before the terms for the contest could be set.{{book ref|sa3|122}}{{book ref|sa4|50}}
Leading up to the True Desolation, and during it, Hoid interacted with various Shards, and requested Harmony talk to other Shards considering the threat Odium posed to the cosmere at large, to minimal success.{{epigraph ref|sa3|33}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|42}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|53}}{{epigraph ref|sa4|24}}{{epigraph ref|sa4|25}}
About a year later, Odium returned to set the terms for the contest. Ultimately he and Dalinar agreed that, no matter the outcome of the contest, Odium would remain bound to the [[Rosharan system]] and would cease hostilities against the [[coalition of monarchs]], with only the fate of [[Alethkar]], [[Herdaz]], and Dalinar's soul depending on the outcome of the contest.{{book ref|sa4|112}} The protections specified for [[Hoid]] in Dalinar's initial, written, proposed contract also appear to be in effect.{{book ref|sa4|epilogue}} The contest is set for the tenth hour of the [[Roshar#Calendar|tenth day of the month Palah]] at the top of [[Urithiru]].{{book ref|sa4|112}}
Shortly after Odium came to this agreement with Dalinar, [[Taravangian]] orchestrated an attack on Odium with [[Nightblood]], which killed Odium's Vessel, [[Rayse]].{{book ref|sa4|113}} Taravangian then Ascended as the new Vessel of Odium; he remains bound by the agreement Rayse made with Dalinar and plans to beat Dalinar.{{book ref|sa4|114}}
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