Difference between revisions of "Oathpact"

During the Desolations, the [[voidspren]] came from [[Braize]], also known as [[Damnation]], to inhabit the listeners. This bond formed Fused, powerful parshmen with control over surges. Everytime a Fused was killed, the voidspren inhabiting it would simply be born again into a new host. This formed an impossible challenge for the humans, and so came the solution. The Oathpact. Five men and five women gave themselves up. With Honor's blessing, they traveled to Braize and sealed the spren of the enemy there. It prevented the voidspren of the enemy listeners from returning, and so ended the war. Or so Honor thought. While gods and spren cannot break oaths, men can and will. The voidspren captured the Heralds and tortured them. 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 near the end, their souls wore thin. There were only 2 years between the last two Desolations. After the Aharietiam, the Heralds realized that after all that time, there was one Herald that had never broken their oath, and started a Desolation. [[Talenelat]], the Bearer of Agonies. The other Heralds abandoned the Oathpact, leaving only Talenelat to uphold it by himself. For over four and a half millennia, Talenelat 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.▼

The Heralds and the Shard [[Honor]] were the only two parties who were part of the Oathpact.{{wob ref|2898}} [[Odium]] being bound to the [[Roshar]] System was not a direct result of the Oathpact but the Oathpact is part of it. {{wob ref|6273}}▼