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'''Death Rattles''' are a phenomenon related to the [[Unmade]] [[Moelach]]. His presences causes some dying individuals to experience precognitive events in the form of cryptic utterances, in the final moments of life.{{epigraph ref|sa2|82}} The emergence of the death rattles appears to coincide with the expedition of King [[Gavilar Kholin]] of [[Alethkar]] where the [[Parshendi]] were first encountered.{{cite}}
King [[Taravangian]] of [[Kharbranth]] has been harvesting these death rattles, in a secret hospital under his palace, in an effort to supplement the [[Diagram]].{{book ref|sa1|71}}{{book ref|sa2|i|14}} The individuals who do this work are known as [[Silent Gatherer]]s.{{book ref|sa1|endnote}}
== Known Death Rattles ==
{{quote|You've killed me. Bastards, you've killed me! While the sun is still hot, I die!|Collected on Chachabah 1171, 10 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|The love of men is a frigid thing, a mountain stream only three steps from the ice. We are his. Oh Stormfather... we are his. It is but a thousand days, and the Everstorm comes.|Collected on Shashahes 1171, 31 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone?|Collected on Kakashan 1171, 5 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|A man stood on a cliffside and watched his homeland fall into dust. The waters surged beneath, so far beneath. And he heard a child crying. They were his own tears.|Collected on Tanatesev 1171, 30 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|I'm dying, aren't I? Healer, why do you take my blood? Who is that beside you, with his head of lines? I can see a distant sun, dark and cold, shining in a black sky.|Collected on Jesanach 1172, 11 seconds pre-death, by
This rattle appears to reference [[Shadesmar]], based on the description of the sun and sky, and a [[Cryptic]].
{{quote|I have seen the end, and have heard it named. The Night of Sorrows, the True Desolation. The Everstorm.|Collected on Naneses 1172, 15 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|I'm cold. Mother, I'm cold. Mother? Why can I still hear the rain? Will it stop?|Collected on Vevishes 1172, 32 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|They are aflame. They burn. They bring the darkness when they come, and so all you can see is that their skin is aflame. Burn, burn, burn...|Collected on Palahishev 1172, 21 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|Victory! We stand atop the mount! We scatter them before us! Their homes become our dens, their lands are now our farms! And they shall burn, as we once did, in a place that is hollow and forlorn.|Collected on Ishashan 1172, 18 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|Ten people, with Shardblades alight, standing before a wall of black and white and red.|Collected on Jesachev 1173, 12 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.|Collected on Chachanan 1173, 84 seconds pre-death, by
This rattle appears to reference the sixteen [[Shard]]s of [[Adonalsium]]. Three of which, [[Honor]], [[Cultivation]], and [[Odium]], are invested in Roshar.
{{quote|I'm standing over the body of a brother. I'm weeping. Is that his blood or mine? What have we done?|Collected on Vevanev 1173, 107 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!|Collected on Vevahach 1173, 8 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|The burdens of nine become mine. Why must I carry the madness of them all? Oh, Almighty, release me.|Observed on Palaheses 1173, collected secondhand and later reported to the
This rattle appears to be from the perspective of the [[Herald]] [[Talenel]], the only Herald to be return, through death, to wherever the Heralds went to be tortured between [[Desolation]]s at the end of the [[Last Desolation]].
{{quote|A woman sits and scratches out her own eyes. Daughter of kings and winds, the vandal.|Collected on Palahevan 1173, 73 seconds pre-death, by
This rattle is believed to refer to the Herald [[Shalash]], the daughter of the Herald [[Jezrien]], Herald of Kings and patron of the [[Order of Windrunners]].{{cite}} Shalash is also [[Baxil]]'s mistress who destroys art, including depictions of a specific Herald, believed to be those of Shalash herself.
{{quote|Light grows so distant. The storm never stops. I am broken, and all around me have died. I weep for the end of all things. He has won. Oh, he has beaten us.|Collected on Palahakev 1173, 16 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|I hold the suckling child in my hands, a knife at his throat, and know that all who live wish me to let the blade slip. Spill its blood upon the ground, over my hands, and with it gain us further breath to draw.|Collected on Shashanan 1173, 23 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|Re-Shephir, the Midnight Mother, giving birth to abominations with her essence so dark, so terrible, so consuming. She is here! She watches me die!|Collected on Shashabev 1173, 8 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|The death is my life, the strength becomes my weakness, the journey has ended.|Observed on Betabanes, 1173, 95 seconds pre-death, collected secondhand and later reported to the
This rattle appears to reference the [[Immortal Words#The First Ideal|First Ideal]] of the [[Knights Radiant]]: Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.
{{quote|Above the final void I hang, friends behind, friends before. The feast I must drink clings to their faces, and the words I must speak spark in my mind. The old oaths will be spoken anew.|Collected on Betabanan 1173, 45 seconds pre-death, by
This rattle appears to be from the perspective of Kaladin during the [[Battle of the Tower]], moments before he swears the [[Immortal Words#Ideals of the Windrunners|Second Ideal of the Windrunners]]. The "final void" is a chasm over which he is jumping. The "friends behind, friends before" are the members of Bridge Four behind him and the army of [[Dalinar Kholin]] trapped by Parshendi before him. The "feast I must drink" is Stormlight stored in the gemstones knotted into the malen Parshendi's beards. The "words I must speak" is the Second Ideal. The "old oaths" are the [[Immortal Words]].
{{quote|In the storm I awaken, falling, spinning, grieving.|Collected on Kakanev 1173, 13 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|The darkness becomes a palace. Let it rule! Let it rule!|Collected on Kakevah 1173, 22 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|I wish to sleep. I know now why you do what you do, and I hate you for it. I will not speak of the truths I see.|Collected on Kakashah 1173, 142 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|They come from the pit, two dead men, a heart in their hands, and I know that I have seen true glory.|Collected on Kakashah 1173, 13 seconds pre-death, by
This rattle appears to refer to Kaladin and [[Shallan Davar]] returning to the Warcamps at the [[Shattered Plains]] following an ill-fated expedition. The "pit" is a reference to the chasms. the "two dead men" are Kaladin and Shallan, presumed to be dead after falling into a chasm. The "heart" is an emerald [[gemheart]] they harvested from a [[chasmfiend]] they encountered and killed on their return journey.
{{quote|I see them. They are the rocks. They are the vengeful spirits. Eyes of red.|Collected on Kakakes 1173, 8 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|That chanting, that singing, those rasping voices.|Collected on Kaktach 1173, 16 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|Let me no longer hurt! Let me no longer weep! Dai-gonarthis! The Black Fisher holds my sorrow and consumes it!|Collected on Tanatesach 1173, 28 seconds pre-death, by
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{{quote|They named it the Final Desolation, but they lied. Our gods lied. Oh, how they lied. The Everstorm comes. I hear its whispers, see its stormwall, know its heart.|Collected on Tanatanes 1173, 8 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|All is withdrawn for me. I stand against the one who saved my life. I protect the one who killed my promises. I raise my hand. The storm responds.|Collected on Tanatanev 1173, 18 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above.|Collected on Tanatanev 1173, 18 seconds pre-death, by
{{quote|He watches! The Black piper in the night. He holds us in his palm... playing a tune that no man can hear!|Observed circa 1172. Subject was [[Cenn]], a member of [[Kaladin]]'s squad in Brightlord [[Meridas Amaram]]'s army.{{book ref|sa1|47}}}}
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