Difference between revisions of "Day of Recreance"

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The '''Day of Recreance''' was the final act of the [[Knights Radiant]], around two-thousand Rosharan years before the [[True Desolation]].{{book ref|sa3|56}}{{wob ref|9655}} Nine of the ten orders abandoned their [[Shardblade]]s and [[Shardplate]] and broke their oaths, killing their [[spren]]. The [[Order of Skybreakers]] was the one order that did not participate; instead, the Skybreakers hid themselves away.{{book ref|sa3|40}} For around two thousand years{{wob ref|9655}}{{book ref|sa3|56}}, the reason for the Recreance remained unknown until it was rediscovered in the [[Eila Stele]] during the [[True Desolation]].

The Knights Radiant somehow discovered that [[Surgebinding]] had destroyed [[Ashyn]], the world mankind first inhabited, and that humans then invaded Roshar, the [[Dawnsingers]]' land. When previous generations had learned this fact, [[Honor]] had counseled them that their cause was just. During the generation of the Recreance, Honor was deteriorating under the onslaught of Odium and did not do so. Instead, he raved about the [[Dawnshard]]s, ancient weapons responsible for the destruction of Ashyn, and promised the Radiants they would also destroy [[Roshar]]. In order to save the world, nine orders decided to give up their powers so that Roshar wouldn't be destroyed like their first world was.{{book ref|sa3|113}} There were also other motivations for the Recreance, but these are currently unclear, but likely has to do with the imprisoning of Ba-Ado-Mishram during the False Desolation.{{book ref|sa4|94}}{{epigraph ref|sa4|94}}{{epigraph ref|sa4|97}}{{book ref|sa4|115}}

* [[wikipedia:wikt:recreant|Recreance, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary]], is a word meaning shameful cowardice, lack of faith to one's honor or duty, apostacyapostasy, disloyalty, or desertion.