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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

Kaladin kind of went back on his Oaths in the second book, right?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Yes. He started down that path.

Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

How could Shallan or Lightweavers go back on the Truths they make? And did Shallan do any of that in Oathbringer?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

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 [PENDING REVIEW]

So then, what happened with the Lightweavers during the Recreance? Did they break their Oaths?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

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 [PENDING REVIEW]

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 [PENDING REVIEW]

I'd have to go look at the notes... I don't think-- No, he was not. No. Definitely no.

R'Shara [PENDING REVIEW]

How long ago was the Recreance?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

4500 years.

R'Shara [PENDING REVIEW]

No, that was Aharietiam?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Oh, the Recreance!

R'Shara [PENDING REVIEW]

2,000 or more?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Around. I've got the timeline, I'd have to pull it up and look.

Zas678

How long before-- How long either before modern day or before the Heirocracy was the Recreance?

Brandon Sanderson

Um...

Zas678

Like 200 years-ish? 100 years-ish?

Brandon Sanderson

Okay, Recreance to Heirocracy is what you're asking? 

Zas678

Yes. Or to modern day, I don't care.

Brandon Sanderson

Uh, so Recreance to Heirocracy... Heirocracy 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. Heirocracy 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 [PENDING REVIEW]

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 [PENDING REVIEW]

Ahh, good question. They did not evaporate.

Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

Dalinar's visions are the memories of Honor, correct?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Yes. Yes, they are things specifically created by Honor...

Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

Does that mean that the Recreance happened before Honor's death... since Dalinar sees it?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

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.

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 [PENDING REVIEW]

How close is the enslavement of the parshmen to the Recreance, timeline-wise? 

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Um, fairly close, as timeline issues go, but still many decades.

Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

Did it play any kind of factor in the decision?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Absolutely. But we're not talking about it happening next year. But it was a factor, how about that?