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Questioner
Kaladin kind of went back on his Oaths in the second book, right?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. He started down that path.
Questioner
How could Shallan or Lightweavers go back on the Truths they make? And did Shallan do any of that in Oathbringer?
Brandon Sanderson
No, the Cryptics-- remember, how the spren is viewing this is very important. The Cryptics have an interesting relationship with truth. Harder to break your Oaths in that direction with a Cryptic. Harder to move forward, also, if you're not facing some of these things and interacting with them in the right way. But, while I can conceive a world that it could happen, it'd be really hard to for a Lightweaver to do some of the stuff. Particularly the ones close to Honor, you're gonna end up with more trouble along those lines, let's say.
Questioner
So then, what happened with the Lightweavers during the Recreance? Did they break their Oaths?
Brandon Sanderson
They did break their Oaths. I mean, breaking your Oaths as in "walking away from the first Oath" will still do it, regardless of what Order you are. You can actively say, "I am breaking my Oaths and walking away." Anyone has that option. But you also are holding the life of a spren in your hand.
Jeremy
(paraphrased)
There are hints in Words of Radiance that the Thrill is tied to an individual entity that Taravangian has studied, possibly one of the Unmade. Does this have anything to do with the hints of why the Knights Radiant turned away? Were the Unmade some of those who did whatever-it-was that tore them apart?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
[This is the one where he stopped me partway through asking, probably due to the wording]. Does it have anything to do with it? Yes. Is it the root cause or the primary reason? I'm not going to reveal that right now.
Questioner
Hi. Our question is Cosmere. It's, knowing that Odium destroys whomever may become a menace for him, then is it possible that the Knight Radiant broke their vows not to attract his attention over Roshar?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. Why the Knights Radiant broke their bonds is something I RAFO, because it is an important, big plot element of the series.
Questioner
So, you've told us that Vasher had knowledge about Shardblades before he created Nightblood...
...Can you tell us if Nightblood was created before the Recreance?
Brandon Sanderson
I'd have to go look at the notes... I don't think-- No, he was not. No. Definitely no.
R'Shara
How long ago was the Recreance?
Brandon Sanderson
4500 years.
R'Shara
No, that was Aharietiam?
Brandon Sanderson
Oh, the Recreance!
R'Shara
2,000 or more?
Brandon Sanderson
Around. I've got the timeline, I'd have to pull it up and look.
Zas678
How long either before modern day or before the Hierocracy was the Recreance?
Brandon Sanderson
Um...
Zas678
Like 200 years-ish? 100 years-ish?
Brandon Sanderson
Okay, Recreance to Hierocracy is what you're asking?
Zas678
Yes. Or to modern day, I don't care.
Brandon Sanderson
Uh, so Recreance to Hierocracy... Hierocracy is in recent memory. Recreance is not.
Zas678
Okay. So that's probably like a 500-year difference. Something like that.
Brandon Sanderson
Uh, yeah, or more. Hierocracy, though, is recent-ish memory.
Questioner
When Syl says in The Way of Kings that she had been with other men who have killed. Is she-- Why is she able to say that?
Brandon Sanderson
Syl's memories, the longer she's bonded the more access to them she has, from times before. She knows some of these things. She'll never get it all back.
Questioner
From the time before Kaladin.
Brandon Sanderson
From before Kaladin, from before the Recreance, yes.
EHyde
I was wondering if, at the Recreance, the Radiant were deliberately trying to put Shardblades in the hands of non-Radiants? Since they left them all outside a military base.
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
The missing number of Shardblades. I just want to confirm that, when the Blades were abandoned, that all of them stayed in the Physical Realm. My question is, did some just evaporate?
Brandon Sanderson
Ahh, good question. They did not evaporate.
patmanzero
Maya told the honorspren not to take their sacrifice. If the Recreance was a deliberate act between Radiants and spren, would spren like Maya consider new bonds?
Brandon Sanderson
That is also a RAFO. I'm sorry.
Questioner
Dalinar's visions are the memories of Honor, correct?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. Yes, they are things specifically created by Honor...
Questioner
Does that mean that the Recreance happened before Honor's death... since Dalinar sees it?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. But Honor's death, like Preservation's death, is a protracted event.
Viper
(paraphrased)
Question about timelines—Was Honor splintered BEFORE or AFTER the Day of Recreance?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
You know, I'm going to RAFO that for now.
Jurble
Dear Mr. Sanderson,
Given the motivation per the books that the Knights believed they were giving up their Surgebinding powers to prevent the destruction of Roshar à la Ashyn, in practical terms how did e.g. Windrunners break their bonds?
Since they believed they were doing the right (honorable) thing wouldn't simply deciding "I'm breaking my oaths for the good of Roshar" not damage the bond (especially if Fifth Ideal Windrunners have [attitude] similar to Nale's comment regarding his bond)? Or can one break the bond by force of will or decision as opposed to betraying oaths in a practical sense?
Brandon Sanderson
There is an explanation to give here, but it would have spoilers for Rhythm of War and Book Five, so I'll RAFO for now. Ask me in about three years and four months.
unknown
The screams that Dalinar thought he heard/felt when the Windrunners/Stonewards abandoned their shard, what are they?
Brandon Sanderson
In that scene, oaths were being broken, and bonds were being severed. This wasn't pleasant for the spren.
KiManiak
So this may be RAFO bait, but in Dalinar's Feverstone Keep vision, when the Radiants discard their Shards are they doing that to any entity in particular in specific?
Brandon Sanderson
Definitely a RAFO.
ParadoxicalWims
What time of day did the Recreance happen?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO! :) (In that case, that's shorthand for "I haven't written the scene, so I haven't settled on a time-frame.")
AkaBesd
Did the Reod coincide with the Recreance?
Brandon Sanderson
These two are not at the same time, but good question.
EHyde
And, how were the Radiants able to summon their Shardblades at the Recreance if they'd already decided to break their oaths?
Brandon Sanderson
Their Shardblades are part of what brought them to—part of the Oathpact—but breaking the Oathpact did not affect their ability to bond or unbond Shardblades.
Questioner
How close is the enslavement of the parshmen to the Recreance, timeline-wise?
Brandon Sanderson
Um, fairly close, as timeline issues go, but still many decades.
Questioner
Did it play any kind of factor in the decision?
Brandon Sanderson
Absolutely. But we're not talking about it happening next year. But it was a factor, how about that?
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