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== History ==
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
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.
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}}
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 Talenal, which allows the Fused to reborn in a different way. {{book ref|sa4|73}}{{book ref|sa4|116}}
== Mechanics ==
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