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|participants=The [[Knights Radiant]]
|effects=Death of Radiant [[spren]], Disbandment of the Knights Radiant
|era=[[Era of Solitude]]
|world=Roshar
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
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The '''Day of Recreance''' was the final act of the [[Knights Radiant]], around two-thousand Rosharan years before the [[True Desolation]].{{book ref|sa3|56}}{{wob ref|9655}} Nine of the ten orders abandoned their [[Shardblade]]s and [[Shardplate]] and broke their oaths, killing their [[spren]]. The [[Order of Skybreakers]] was the one order that did not participate
== Lead Up ==
:''See also: [[False Desolation]]''
Right before the Recreance, the Radiants had been fighting in the [[False Desolation]]. [[Ba-Ado-Mishram]], one of the nine [[Unmade]], had learned how to [[Connection|Connect]] to the singers to give them forms of power and [[Voidlight]]. The fighting was particularly intense at this time.{{epigraph ref|sa2|41}} In an attempt to stop the fighting, the Radiants sent a strike team to try and imprison Ba-Ado-Mishram using the unique powers of the [[Bondsmiths]]. {{epigraph ref|sa3|79}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|80}} Presumably this strike team succeeded, as the singers lost their [[Identity]] and Connection and were unable to think or act independently, becoming what are known as [[parshmen]].
While this was occurring, the Knights Radiant were forced to abandon [[Urithiru]]. For some unknown reason, later revealed to be Mishram's imprisonment{{book ref|sa4|49}}, the [[Sibling]] withdrew from the tower. People blamed this withdrawal on increased conflicts among the Radiants and claimed the Sibling withdrew intentionally, but scholars of the time disagreed.{{epigraph ref|sa3|68}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|70}} Some of the tower's protections failed, leading to wilting plants and cooling air, but other functions, such as
== Cause ==
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The Knights Radiant somehow discovered that [[Surgebinding]] had destroyed [[Ashyn]], the world mankind first inhabited, and that humans then invaded Roshar, the [[Dawnsingers]]' land. When previous generations had learned this fact, [[Honor]] had counseled them that their cause was just. During the generation of the Recreance, Honor was deteriorating under the onslaught of Odium and did not do so. Instead, he raved about the [[Dawnshard]]s, ancient weapons responsible for the destruction of
[[Mayalaran]] indicated that the Recreance was a conscious choice,
== Feverstone Keep ==
{{image|The Recreance by Caio Santos.jpeg|side=right|width=500px|The Recreance at Feverstone Keep}}
:''See also: [[Feverstone Keep]]''
According to [[Dalinar's visions]], [[Feverstone Keep]] was one of the locations where the Radiants dropped their Plate and Blades. It was a fort near [[Rall Elorim]] that the parsh were pushing towards.{{epigraph ref|sa3|84}} The Orders of [[Stonewards]] and [[Windrunners]] were on the front lines fighting.
The majority of them walked back to the keep. A scout sent out to meet them reported that they were friendly, but the men inside were confused as to why the Radiants were coming. While wearing their Shardplate, the Radiants charged forward in a line. When they stopped just within bowshot, more Windrunners dropped from the sky to join them. One man in a blue cape stepped forward, drove his Blade into the ground, removed his Plate, and turned to walk away. As he did so, the glow of the weapons began to fade. The other Knights followed his lead. There were soldiers waiting for the Radiants to return from the keep.
Men inside the keep came out and examined the discarded weapons. Initially, some officers yelled for the Blades to be left alone. They were quickly overwhelmed, however, as men rushed to claim a weapon. It did not take long for the scramble to deteriorate into a fight, with men using their newly obtained Blades to kill
== Aftermath and Legacy ==
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Society quickly changed after the Recreance and began to form the culture seen in modern Roshar. Those in power wanted control of the Shardblades. To prevent women from wielding them, they encouraged following [[Arts and Majesty]], a philosophical
Spren societies were completely decimated. The majority of the surviving spren were mere children at the time
Within two hundred years of the Recreance, knowledge of the Radiants was already beginning to be lost. It was difficult to distinguish facts, superstition, and lore.{{book ref|sa2|77}} At some point, many Shardblades were lost, as hundreds were dropped during the Recreance, and only around eighty are known in the modern world.{{book ref|sa1|52}}
== Trivia ==
* [[wikipedia:wikt:recreant|Recreance]], is a word meaning shameful cowardice, lack of faith to one's honor or duty, apostasy, disloyalty, or desertion.
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