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{{quote|They are aflame. They burn. They bring the darkness when they come, and so all you can see is that their skin is aflame. Burn, burn, burn....|Collected on Palahishev, 1172, 21 seconds pre-death. Subject was a baker's apprentice.{{epigraph ref|twok|7}}}}
The '''Voidbringers''' are a group of creatures that attacked the humans of [[Roshar]] in a series of wars known as [[Desolation]]s.{{book ref|twok|45}} In the four and a half millennia since [[Aharietiam]],{{book ref|sa3|38}} much of the factual evidence on the Voidbringers has faded into myth and legend, as well as [[Vorin]] doctrine.{{book ref|sa1|45}} Voidbringers were said to have cast humanity out of the Tranquiline Halls and fought the [[Herald|Heralds of the Almighty]] and [[Knights
Despite the fact that the Voidbringers were mostly dismissed as legends and folklore, the scholar Jasnah Kholin feared what was to come and tried to surmise the true nature of Voidbringers, hypothesizing that the singers were the Voidbringers. {{book ref|sa1|72}} In actuality, upon the arrival of the [[Everstorm]], the Voidbringers were revealed to be a large coalition of various beings allied with the Shard Odium--not solely singers. Furious at their displacement and slavery at the hands of humankind, the Voidbringers are intent on taking Roshar for themselves.{{book ref|sa3|109}}
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