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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. But the Fused tortured the Heralds on Braize and eventually, 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 nearly 2500 years later, the Heralds started to lose their sanity.{{book ref|sa4|}} There were only 2 years between the last two Desolations, which leaves humans no time to rebuild society. To solve this problem, nine Heralds found a way to abandon the Oathpact and leaving [[Talenel]], who has never broken once, to uphold it by himself. For over four and a half millennia, Talenel 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
It is later revealed that in fact Talenel didn't break despite 4500 years of torturing. The [[everstorm]] was created as a "backdoor" to bypass
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