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|I am . . . I was . . . God. The one you call the Almighty, the creator of mankind. And now I am dead. [[Odium]] has killed me. I am sorry.
== Lore ==
=== Creation ===
The Shard of Honor was created, like all others, at the [[Shattering]] of [[Adonalsium]], and picked up by [[Tanavast]]. Though the Shards had an agreement to go their own separate ways, he and [[Cultivation]] traveled together to the [[Rosharan system]].{{epigraph ref|sa3|39}}{{wob ref|1169}} However, whatever the actual text of the agreement, Honor did not consider his actions to be breaking it, or exploiting a loophole in it.{{wob ref|10835}} The reason for that could be that Tanavast and Cultivation's vessel were romantically involved.{{wob ref|2786}}
=== God of Roshar ===
On Roshar, Honor and Cultivation became the gods of the [[singer]]s, a native Rosharan species. An unknown period of time later, human refugees arrived from [[Ashyn]], seeking help after accidentally destroying their own world, and the two permitted them to settle on the planet, likely in the region now called [[Shinovar]]. Unfortunately, along with them came [[Odium]], who has killed, up until that point, murdered three other Shards -- [[Dominion]], [[Devotion]] and [[Ambition]] -- and was now gunning for either Honor, Cultivation, or both.{{book ref|sa3|111}}{{wob ref|11813}} When the relations between humans and singers of Roshar broke down, singers turn to him to help them, leading to the creation of the [[Fused]], [[Cognitive Shadow]]s of singers who could be reborn in the bodies of their kinsmen every time they died.{{book ref|sa3|38}}
To help the people of Roshar, Honor created the [[Herald]]s, binding ten people to himself and giving them similar resurrective ability, although one that did not require body snatching.{{book ref|sa3|38}} Moreover, he bound Odium to the Rosharan system, making it impossible for him to leave.{{wob ref|7989}} Unfortunately for him, the Heralds abandoned the Oathpact after numerous [[Desolation]]s in the event known as the [[Aharietiam]].{{book ref|sa|prelude}} Sometime afterwards, Odium succeeded at [[Splinter]]ing him.{{wob ref|9810}}{{wob ref|9973}}
=== Death ===
Death, however, takes a long time for a Shard.{{wob ref|8144}} Before passing away fully, Honor took some measures to help Rosharans in the future. Chief among them was leaving behind a series of visions to warn of the possibility of the [[True Desolation]], and leave behind some information that might be helpful.{{book ref|sa1|75}} He prepared [[Stormfather]] to be his inheritor, and gave him the task of chosing the possible recipients of the visions.{{book ref|sa2|89}} At the very end of his existence, Tanavast was still capable of communicate with humans, but by then he was raving, seemingly overriden completely by the Shard's intent.{{book ref|sa2|113}}
He finished dying and became Splintered shortly after the [[Recreance]].{{book ref|sa2|113}} Tanavast's [[Cognitive Shadow]] merged with Stormfather, along with the largest portion of Honor's remaining power.{{wob ref|1671}} That remaining power is sufficient to keep Odium bound to Roshar, and the Oathpact ongoing.{{book ref|sa3|57}}{{wob ref|5186}}
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