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== Becoming Truthless ==
The leaders of the Shin can name someone Truthless as punishment for a fundamental betrayal of their people.{{wob ref|8847}} Szeth is named Truthless after making a claim that the [[Voidbringers]] and [[Knights Radiant]] will return to [[Roshar]], which the leaders of the Shin consider to be a dangerous lie.{{book ref|sa2|i|14}} He is also equipped with [[Jezrien]]'s [[Honorblade]], though that is a special case and not usually done.{{wob ref|5089}} While he is Truthless, the Stone Shamans of Shinovar intend
When Szeth discovers that the claim for which he was called a liar and made Truthless is actually true, he begins to think of himself as never having been Truthless at all and stops following the rules accordingly.{{book ref|sa2|88}} This may indicate that it is generally possible to have one's Truthless status retracted, though that is not certain, given that he makes that decision unilaterally and is in a somewhat unstable mental state by that time.
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