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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Recreance''' is the catastrophic event in [[Roshar]]'s history when the [[Knights Radiant]], en masse, abandoned their oaths, betrayed their [[Spren]], and laid down their [[Shardblade|Shardblades]] and [[Shardplate]], shattering the orders and plunging the world into an age without Radiants. It is one of the great mysteries and tragedies in the lore of [[The Stormlight Archive]].<br />
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== Description ==<br />
On a single fateful day, the [[Knights Radiant]] across the orders turned away from their Ideals. They renounced their bonds and dropped their [[Shardblade|living Blades]] and [[Shardplate]] upon the stone, walking away from the powers that defined them. The consequence was horrific: the breaking of the [[Nahel bond]] killed the bonded [[Spren]], whose corpses became the "dead" [[Shardblade|Shardblades]] passed down as heirlooms ever after. The screaming of these dead Blades is the cry of the spren slain that day.<br />
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== Cause ==<br />
The reason for the Recreance was long unknown and is one of the saga's central revelations. The Radiants of the time learned a terrible truth -- regarding the nature of [[Honor]], the origins of humanity on Roshar, and the threat that their powers and the [[Voidbringers]] posed to the world. Believing that continuing risked an even greater catastrophe, they chose to betray their oaths and their spren rather than carry forward what they had learned.<br />
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== Aftermath ==<br />
After the Recreance, the orders of [[Knights Radiant]] effectively ceased to exist. Their [[Shardblade|Shardblades]] and [[Shardplate]] were claimed as weapons of war and parceled out among nations and houses, becoming the foundation of Roshar's martial aristocracy. The knowledge of [[Surgebinding]] and the true history of the Radiants faded into legend and suspicion, with the Radiants remembered by many as traitors.<br />
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== Significance ==<br />
The Recreance explains the absence of the [[Knights Radiant]] for millennia, the origin of the dead [[Shardblade|Shardblades]], and the deep wound between humans and [[Spren]] that the reborn Radiants of the Archive must overcome.<br />
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