i think the recreance is linked to the listeners/parshendi

[sh3nahz]

hello guys this is my first post hope this makes sense here goes my theory

 

i ve just read books 1 and 2 and just been reading theorys on various forums but i havent come across this one yet as such.  it stuck me as i was reading eshonai's interludes when she was talking about the differences between listener/voidbringer forms that it seems to involve captured spren. she alludes that the listeners decided to denounce their gods and chose to become dull form/parshmen out of choice and this lead to a racial cleansing of all memories of other forms/songs that could turn them into servents of their gods. it stuck me as their wasnt a time reference to when this happened and my mind linked it to the stories of cities worth of spren being killed during the KR recreance. Also, there is no reference of when the parshmen were enslaved. In dalaners visions before feverstonekeep  there are no parshmen around but in the time the story takes place there are everywhere in all cities/towns. i thought this was odd untill eshonais interludes.

 

this might seem long winded and im probably joining a few other theories (sorry for any liberal plagiarism) but i beleve that after the heralds abondoned the oath pact, the KR became more fragmented as hinted in the back stories on each chapter in WOR. that the nations and orders became fractured and started in fighting. those quotes hint of trechery and whole orders turning on one another. after while they stopped functioning as a whole and abandoned Urithiru fighting off voidbringers/listeners. during this time they learnt of the braking of the oaths. (maybe from one of the heralds) and felt betrayed.

 

During this period of time a faction of the voidbringers atuned into that song of peace of internal screaming stormform eshonia found and decided to brake form their gods. They seperated from the voidbringers forms that the now fractured KR were fighting and made a plan to turn all listeners into dullform/ parshmen. they made a plea to KR. the KR feeling betrayed and tired of fighting came together one last time to try and solve the voidbringer and a potential new desolation by forcing the spren to turn voidbringers into their dullforms/parshmen. this whole act betrayed their oaths and they caused their own bonded spren to die. Eshonai notes theire is little difference between dullform/ parshmen. Maybe the dullform/listerners where the group that choose the path to cleanse their race and stop desolations and the parshmen are the voidbringers that where forced by the KR killing whole populations of spren to change them hence their lack of intelligence compared to listeners because of the violent change compared to the listeners choice. After which mankind enslaved the parshmen.

 

i belive the recreance  might have resulted from the desperation the KR fractured and betrayed by the heralds oathbraking and attempting one final combined 10 ordered effort to stop another desolation being convinced by the listeners/parshendi.They might have thought this would be the only way as only one herald was left to fight in damnation.

 

i belive they thought the heralds had abandoned the world and nations and would not be around to help rebuild the orders in time if another desolation came so their bonded spren scraficed themselves staying in shard/pate form for future generations to be used to defend roshar. this is why they abdoned the shards at towns/forts and cities rather than hide them so the peoples of roshar would have a chance to fight back having the heralds forsake their duty.

 

anyway i hope this long winded theory makes sense

[TwelfthOfSnackTime he/him]

That's an interesting theory. I've never thought to connect the Recreance to the Listeners abandoning their gods. while it sounds like a good connection I don't believe that the Parshendi turned away at the same time as the KR though. that would mean that the last Desolation never really ended when the Heralds thought it did and that it was going on the whole time via the Odium controlled Parshendi. Now that doesn't mean that the Parshendi didn't have something to do with the Recreance. if I'm remembering right it was thought to have been caused by a terrible secret coming to light, at least Mr. T thinks so. The Parshendi could have been the once to tell them that secret, which may have been the same secret that they used to break away from their gods in the first place.

[Witborn]

I've thought for a while that the Recreance is related to the acts of the Last Legion. I also wonder if Feverstone Keep was somewhere near the shattered plains.