Another reason for the Recreance

[Andy92]

14 hours ago, King Krooked said:

From my understanding from reading OB, The Recreance occurred because they found out that the Parsh were the original inhabitants of Roshar, AND the discovery that they had already destroyed a planet through Surgebinding. This was the secret that Taravangian was keeping to use against the Coalition as well. It wasn't one or the other that caused it, it was both. Anything else is Tin Foil Hat territory.

I never really understood them all giving up their Radiant powers because their ancestors destroyed a world. It’s kind of like in LOTR when people who know what the rings do always give the warning, “don’t wear this because you can’t control its power.” But people put the rings on despite the warnings. 

I know the Skybreakers didn’t abandon their oaths, but I still feel like you would have had some stragglers from each order say, “just because others couldn’t control their powers doesn’t mean I can’t.” 

I personally believe witnessing the parsh have their Connections severed and turn into mindless drones would have been a much more appalling reason to walk away rather than “your ancestors were destructive people.” 

Edited August 6, 2018 by Andy92

[Calderis he/him]

Considering the timing shown, I don't see how it couldn't have been the final straw. There was active fighting right up to the point of Feverstone Keep. 

There would have been no one to fight if it had been done earlier and no one to bind BAM if it hadn't been done later. 

Call it tinfoil if you wish, but the timing says it's more than coincidence, and that is in the books. 

[Angsos]

Also having a dying god ranting in your head couldn't have helped matters

[Magpro]

I feel one reason for the recreance was that one or more goups in the Radiants orders (Probably the Skybreakers) decided to strip the Listners of their mind, and create the parshman. Other orders disagreed. Windrunners and Stonebreakers and other probably were used to involuntary to do this. Probable at stormseat/shattered plains. When the windrunners and stonebreakers found out what they had done event though involuntary, they saw their oaths broaken, and out of guilt of not being used again and probably seeing the destruction at stormseat broke their bonds. Probably a lot of raidaints and civilians died in that shattering.