Difference between revisions of "Heraldic Epochs"

The Heraldic Epochs began with the conflict between humans and [[Singers]], when the latter decided to ally with [[Odium]].{{book ref|sa3|111}} To combat this, [[Honor]] chose ten [[Herald]]s, thus forming the [[Oathpact]].{{book ref|sa1|part=prelude}} In short, the Oathpact stated that as long as the Heralds were on [[Braize]], Odium could not start another [[Desolation]]; to combat this, he tortured the Heralds until at least one of them broke. A single such cycle - a period of peace punctuated by a Desolation - was a single Heraldic Epoch. As each time, the Heralds broke faster, the Epochs grew shorter and shorter, with the initial ones separated by over a century, while the very last were only years apart.{{book ref|sa3|38}} In total, there were somewhere between fifteen and fifty Desolations.{{wob ref|10816}} While many chronological details are uncertain, it is known that the [[Worldsinger]] [[Senne Khald]] lived in the Sixth Epoch,{{wob ref|16437}} and that [[Dalinar's visions|Dalinar's vision]] of [[Midnight Essence]] creatures attacking the town of Starfalls takes place in the Eighth.{{book ref|sa3|34}}