Voidbringer
| Voidbringer | |
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 by Sheep
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| Related to | Desolation |
| World of Origin | Roshar |
Voidbringer is the term for a being infused with the power of Odium. Since the arrival of the Everstorm and the start of the True Desolation Voidbringers has been revealed to be the human name for singers, usually either the Regal or the Fused, both which have glowing red eyes. From the Eila Stele, humans learned that originally Voidbringer was the Dawnsinger name for humans, because they brought Odium, the Void, with them to Roshar as their god. At some point the term switched, as singers adopted Odium and his power in order to fight humans and humans adopted Honor and Cultivaiton.
Regals are singers who have adopted forms of power by boding with a voidspren instead of a normal spren. Fused are the Cognitive Shadows of old singers who go to Braize each time they die and return to Roshar at the start of a Desolation. Since the listeners summoned the Everstorm, the Fused can return to inhabit a new willing body every time it passes. Thunderclasts are Fused who inhabit stone instead of a body.
Before the Everstorm
The Voidbringers are a race of creatures known only as myths to most inhabitants of Roshar.[1] Legend tells of a time when they attacked mankind in their homes in the Tranquiline Halls, forcing them to Roshar. The Voidbringers then attacked mankind on Roshar, attempting to force them into Damnation. According to legend, mankind defeated the Voidbringers once and for all during the Last Desolation. However, over the course of The Way of Kings it is implied that the Voidbringers are not as absent as the legends claim.
The Voidbringers are also capable of using Stormlight to fuel magic, though we are not yet certain what they can do. In the prologue of The Way of Kings, Szeth states that he has heard Voidbringers can retain Stormlight indefinitely, without losing any to leaks as humans do when they hold it.[2]
Near the end of The Way of Kings, Jasnah speculates to Shallan that the Parshendi and Parshmen are at least part of the Voidbringer species.[3] At one point in The Way of Kings, during a conversation with Navani, Adolin, Renarin, and Dalinar via spanreed, Jasnah has Shallan sketch a picture of a Voidbringer from an historical text. When the sketch was complete, all agreed that it closely resembled a Chasmfiend.[4]