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{{event info
|participants=[[Knights Radiant]]
|effects=Enslavement of singers, Ba-Ado-Mishram's imprisonment
|world=Roshar
{{spoilers|book=sa3}}
{{quote|A legend. Considered pseudohistorical. [[Dovcanti]] wrote an epic about it somewhere around fifteen hundred years ago. The claim is that some Voidbringers survived Aharietiam, and there were many clashes with them afterward. It’s considered unreliable, but that’s because many later
The '''False Desolation'''
==Background==
{{quote|Something must be done about the remnants of Odium’s forces. The parsh, as they are now called, continue their war with zeal, even without their masters from Damnation.|Drawer 30-20, first emerald{{epigraph ref|sa3|77}}}}
It is unclear when the False Desolation began, but when [[Dalinar Kholin]] showed Jasnah and [[Navani Kholin]] a vision of the [[Recreance]], Jasnah suspected the Radiants fought in the False Desolation.{{book ref|sa3|56}} If this is correct, then False Desolation occurred around then, about two thousand years from the present day, or two thousand five hundred years after [[Aharietiam]], the Last Desolation.▼
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==Ba-Ado-Mishram and a New Desolation==
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Previous
The False Desolation
This period of fighting
==The Strike Team==
{{sidequote|So Melishi retired to his tent, and resolved to destroy the Voidbringers upon the next day, but that night did present a different stratagem, related to the unique abilities of the Bondsmiths; and being hurried, he could make no specific account of his process; it was related to the very nature of the Heralds and their divine duties, an attribute the Bondsmiths alone could address.|’’[[Words_of_Radiance_(in-world)|Words of Radiance]]’’ chapter 30, page 18{{epigraph ref|sa2|58}}|right|500px}}
The Radiants eventually sought an edge in the conflict. Scholar Radiants teamed up to
The plan required a special prison--likely a [[perfect gemstone]]--as well as [[Melishi]],{{epigraph ref|sa3|79}} the only [[Bondsmith] of the generation.{{epigraph ref|sa2|58}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|67}} The Radiants did not know what exactly Ba-Ado-Mishram's imprisonment would do to the singers. They were certain that it would prevent them from using forms of power, but they didn't know what else could happen. Melishi sought to destroy the Voidbringers{{epigraph ref|sa2|58}} and was confident the plan would succeed, but [[Naze-daughter-Kuzodo]] warned of
==Aftermath and Legacy==▼
▲The plan required a special prison--likely a perfect gemstone--as well as Melishi,{{epigraph ref|sa3|79}} the only Bondsmith of the generation.{{epigraph ref|sa2|58}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|67}} The Radiants did not know what exactly Ba-Ado-Mishram's imprisonment would do to the singers. They were certain that it would prevent them from using forms of power, but they didn't know what else could happen. Melishi sought to destroy the Voidbringers{{epigraph ref|sa2|58}} and was confident the plan would succeed, but [[Naze-daughter-Kuzodo]] warned of unintended side effects.{{epigraph ref|sa3|81}} The Radiants believed this would end the war the Heralds promised them.{{epigraph ref|sa3|82}}
''See also: [[Day of Recreance]]''▼
▲==Aftermath and Legacy==
{{quote|We are uncertain the effects this will have on the parsh. At the very least, it should deny them forms of power. Melishi is confident, but Naze-daughter-Kuzodo warns of unintended side effects.|Drawer 30-20, fifth emerald{{epigraph ref|sa3|81}}}}
The costs to Ba-Ado-Mishram's imprisonment were higher than any Radiant could have expected. There were indeed side effects to their action, as [[Naze-daughter-Kuzodo]] warned. Since Ba-Ado-Mishram was Connected to the vast majority of singers, her imprisonment ripped out Connection and Identity from the singers' souls.{{book ref|sa3|17}} This meant that these singers were essentially
▲''See also: [[Day of Recreance]]''
▲The costs to Ba-Ado-Mishram's imprisonment were higher than any Radiant could have expected. There were indeed side effects to their action, as [[Naze-daughter-Kuzodo]] warned. Since Ba-Ado-Mishram was Connected to the vast majority of singers, her imprisonment ripped out Connection and Identity from the singers' souls.{{book ref|sa3|17}} This meant that these singers were essentially labotomized, unable to think and unable to act. The singers had no form, and would later be termed as "slaveforms".
Fighting occurred near Feverstone Keep, and since that is the site of many Windrunners and Stonewards abandoning their oaths,{{book ref|sa2|52}}{{book ref|sa3|56}} it is possible that this
Because of this massive chaos, ordinary humans likely had no idea of the true reason for the singers' enslavement.
When the singers
In modern times, the False Desolation was considered pseudohistorical
==See Also==
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