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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]]. Every time a Fused was killed, the soul would simply be born again into a new host. This made an impossible challenge for the humans as their strongest enemies could never be permanently killed, and so the Oathpact was created to solve this problem.
Five men and five women gave themselves up voluntarily to this pact, who would become 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 until one of the Heralds broke. Thus the Heralds and the Fused would return, starting a new Desolation. At the beginning, the Heralds held strong and hundreds of years passed between Desolations.{{book ref|sa3|38}} Around 2500 years later,{{book ref|sa3|38}}{{book ref|sa4|76}} the Heralds started to lose their sanity, and there was less than a year between the last two Desolations, which left humans no time to rebuild society.{{book ref|sa3|38}} To solve this problem, nine Heralds found a way to abandon the Oathpact and left [[Talenel]], who has never broken, to uphold it by himself.{{book ref|sa1|part=prelude}} The Heralds as well as the Stormfather thought that this would end the Oathpact entirely, at least for the Heralds abandoning it. However, despite what they believe, all the Heralds are still bound to the Oathpact,{{wob ref|5186}} although it has been weakened to the point of near-destruction.{{book ref|sa3|38}} For over four and a half millennia, Talenel withstood the torture of the enemy alone, but eventually he was returned to Roshar. Although Talenel did not break, it is currently unknown what caused his return.{{wob ref|14869}} This coincided with the True Desolation, currently occurring on Roshar.{{book ref|sa3|38}}
With the Oathpact weakened and the Everstorm present on Roshar, the Fused only returned to Braize briefly and were reborn in the next Everstorm.{{book ref|sa2|88}} The potential restoration of the Oathpact was a subject of some discussion among the modern day Radiants seeking to defeat the Fused. Jasnah Kholin considered trying to locate a Herald to ask them to return to Damnation or kill them to seal away the Fused again.{{book ref|sa3|39}} Dalinar approached Ishar who in a moment of lucidity claimed the Oathpact could be reset, although he said that he will need Dalinar's help to complete the task.{{book ref|sa4|111}}
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