Difference between revisions of "Sons of Honor"

| Lives will be lost. It has ever been our burden as the Sons of Honor. To return the Heralds, to return the dominance of the Church, we had to put the world into a crisis.

| [[Amaram]]'s letter to [[Restares]]{{book ref|sa2|88}}

The '''Sons of Honor''' are a secretive group on [[Roshar]]. Their goal is to return the dominance of the [[Vorinism|Vorin]] church. They seem to be under the leadership of [[Restares]], and are referedreferred to as his cronies by the [[Ghostbloods]].{{book ref|sa2|54}}

The Sons of Honor appear ruthless and have little regard for the loss of innocent life in the pursuit of their goals.{{book ref|sa1|51}}{{book ref|sa2|88}} Despite their organization being based around Vorinism, their leaders do not appear to strictly follow the gender norms dictated by the church. [[Amaram]] uses the [[stormwarden script]] to get around the prohibitions on writing.{{book ref|sa2|52}} Restares likely knows it as well, given Amaram's letter was written in the script.{{book ref|sa2|88}} The group also identifies itself as highly patriotic and loyal to [[Alethkar]].{{book ref|sa3|120}}{{book ref|sa4|5}} despiteDespite this however, they consider the monarchy of Alethkar to be heretics and seeksseek to overthrow them and replace them with [[Ialai]].{{book ref|sa4|4}}{{book ref|sa4|5}} Ialai, however, has no interest in becoming queen and instead seeks to instate [[GavinarGavinor]] as Kingking.{{book ref|sa4|7}}

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The Sons of Honor have an antagonistic relationship with both the [[Ghostbloods]] and the [[Skybreakers]]. [[Mraize]] sends [[Shallan]] to spy on Amaram in order to discover what secrets the Sons of Honor know.{{book ref|sa2|43}} After receiving Shallan's intelligence, they unsuccessfully try to assassinate him.{{book ref|sa2|88}} After the battleBattle of ThaylanThaylen Field, the Ghostbloods spent the next year successfully assassinating the leadership of the Sons of HonourHonor.{{book ref|sa4|7}} The Ghostbloods also greatly hate and despise Restares for assisting Gavilar.{{book ref|sa4|82}} Despite this however, Mraize acts dismissive towards the Sons of Honor, referring to them simply as Restares's cronies.{{book ref|sa2|54}} The Skybreakers also tried to have Amaram killed as a strike against the Sons of Honor when they send [[Helaran Davar]] to his army with [[Shardblade]] and [[Shardplate]] to kill him.{{book ref|sa3|40}} This plan, however, resulted in the Sons of Honor gaining control of another set of shards.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}} The leader of the Skybreakers, [[Nale]] also assisted the [[Parshendi]] in assassinating Gavilar Kholin.{{book ref|sa4|77}}

== Notable Members ==

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