Difference between revisions of "Oathpact"

During the Desolations, Odium had given his soldiers powers, allowing them to remain past their deaths as Cognitive Shadows. After being killed, these singers, known as the [[Fused]], were able to take over the bodies of other singers and manipulate the [[Surge]]s with [[Voidlight]]. Everytime a Fused was killed, its soul would simply be born again into a new host. This formed an impossible challenge for the humans as their strongest enemies could never be permanently killed, and so cameOathpact thewas solution:created theto Oathpactsolve this problem.

Five men and five women gave themselves up voluntarily to this pact, who would be known as the ten [[Herald]]s. With Honor's blessing, they traveled to [[Braize]] and sealed the spren of the enemy there. It prevented the Fused from returning, and so ended the war. OrBut so Honor thought. While gods and spren cannot break oaths, men can and will. Thethe Fused capturedtortured the Heralds andon torturedBraize them.and Eventuallyeventually, one of the Heralds would break, starting a new Desolation. At the beginning, the Heralds were strong and hundreds of years passed between Desolations, but nearnearly the2500 endyears later, theirthe soulsHeralds worestarted thinto lose their sanity.{{book ref|sa4|}} There were only 2 years between the last two Desolations., Afterwhich [[Aharietiam]],leaves thehumans Heraldsno realizedtime thatto afterrebuild allsociety. thatTo timesolve this problem, therenine wasHeralds onefound Heralda thatway hadto never brokenabandon the oathOathpact and started a Desolation.leaving [[TalenelatTalenel]], thewho Bearerhas ofnever Agonies.broken The other Heralds abandoned the Oathpactonce, leaving only Talenelat to uphold it by himself. For over four and a half millennia, TalenelatTalenel withstood the torture of the enemy, but he finally broke, joining the other nine who still live. This caused the True Desolation, currently occurring on Roshar.{{book ref|sa3|38}}

After the [[Last Desolation]], nine of the Heralds thought they abandoned the Oathpact, leaving only [[Talenel|Talenel'Elin]] to uphold it.{{book ref|sa1|part=prelude}} However, despite what they believe, all the Heralds are still bound to the Oathpact.{{wob ref|5186}} Dalinar saw the Oathpact and noted a particularly strong, still potent connection when he touched [[Nale]] with [[bondsmith]] powers.{{book ref|sa4|47}}