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After the [[Last Desolation]], nine of the ten [[Herald]]s could no longer bear to return to [[Braize]] to be tortured by the [[Fused]], and instead gave up the [[Oathpact]]. One Herald, [[Talenel]], had been killed in the final battle and had automatically returned to Braize; with him there, the Oathpact remained intact and the Fused were sealed away. They also left behind the [[Knights Radiant]] to continue to protect the people of Roshar.{{book ref|sa1|part=prelude}}
Around the time of the [[False Desolation]], the newest generation of Radiants learned that humans were not native to Roshar and had essentially been taking the [[singer]]s' land for millennia. Around this time, something—possibly [[Melishi]] trapping the [[Unmade]] [[Ba-Ado-Mishram]]—caused the singers to be stripped of their [[Connection]] and [[Identity]], leaving them mostly unable to act for themselves. [[Honor]] did not support the Radiants through these events, instead raving about how they would destroy Roshar. As a result, all of the Knights Radiant except the [[Order of Skybreakers]] broke their [[Immortal Words|oaths]], killing their [[spren]] in an event known as the [[Recreance]]. Some time after this, Odium finally [[Splinter]]ed Honor, though not before Honor was able to make some arrangements to guide the people of Roshar through the coming fight with Odium.{{book ref|sa3|113}}
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The True Desolation formally began due to unknown reasons, four and a half millennia after the [[Aharietiam]], allowing the Fused to return to Roshar. The Herald [[Talenel]] then returned to Roshar to warn the people of their coming and prepare them to fight, arriving outside of [[Kholinar]]. Upon entering the city, he proclaims that the Desolation has come and that he has failed, before falling to the ground, unconscious.{{book ref|twok|epilogue}} Talenel is later brought to the [[Shattered Plains]] where he is widely viewed as a madman. He repeats the same mantra warning of the coming desolation.{{book ref|sa2|i|7}}
Meanwhile, some [[voidspren]] were laying the groundwork for the Fused to return. One, [[Ulim]], successfully made contact with the singer [[Venli]], who was researching new forms to help the [[listener]]s fight the [[War of Reckoning]] against the Alethi. With significant help from Ulim, Venli discovered [[Regal#stormform|stormform]].{{book ref|sa3|i|6}}{{book ref|sa3|i|7}} Though [[Eshonai]] worried about that stormform would open the listeners up to their gods, she volunteered to take the form as a test of its nature and abilities.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}} She is unable, however, to control the form and, with Venli's assistance, convinced most of the rest of their people to adopt it as well.{{book ref|sa2|i|11}} During the [[Battle of Narak]], the stormform singers used its power to summon a new storm of Odium, known as the [[
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