Handcrafted Death Rattles

[+ElephantEarwax he/him]

Try your hand at the creepy and eloquent. Make your own death rattles and post them.

Here is my go. 

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"A man sits, fearing the past. Failing to act, he allows the past to repeat itself."

-Collected circa Tanat 1173. Subject was a lighteyed carpenter.

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"I feel the burning poison flow through my body, moved by my heart and the life it brings. It cannot be stopped, not now, not ever"

-Observed Ishi 1172. Subject was a young darkeyed boy found lying in an alley.

 

Edited April 8, 2020 by ElephantEarwax

[+Invocation]

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"Those that see far overlook what's under them. Those that see close fail to see what's coming. Beware, beware. The stone comes."

-Obtained in the field on the third day of the third week of the month of Shash (Shashachach) 1172, from a dying Alethi messenger boy in the Sadeas princedom, 28 seconds pre-death.

 

[Chiberty]

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"The liar returns from the sky. Bathed in darkness and filled with light, he destroys us! Oh, holy stones, we are no more!"

-Collected Tanatannat 1175, 9 seconds before death. Subject was a darkeyed soldier of some renown.

 

[+Doomstick he/him]

watch this get big and then people mistake these for real ones

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

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"The light is increasing, but the pain grows. It is too much. It is too much! The light will consume us all! It envelopes and consumes, and nothing shall escape it! Oh, Great One, where have you gone?"

-Collected on Jesachev, 1170, from a blind darkeyes, 87 years of age. Death was natural, not induced, and the rattle appears no different than the others.

Oh heck yeah

Edited December 11, 2019 by Ookla the Imperial

[Knight of Iron she/they]

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"O, Almighty, where do you hide? What rock, what sky, what stars hide your face? I have seen the end, and I die!"

- Secondhand account, taken sometime in the month of Shash. Subject was a mere servant. Wording is considered questionable.

 

Edited December 11, 2019 by Knight of Iron

[Ghanderflaffle she/her]

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“With shadows of red they come! They come to destroy, to decimate. They are death!

-Collected Ishi 1174, from a darkeyed craftsman of little renown.

 

[One_Armed he/him]

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"once they were ten, but now only the law remained"

— Collected on Vevishes 1172,  17 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed male child, approximately ten years old.

This is a reference to the :"broken one rules" rattle.

[NameIess]

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"So beautiful,  once so very beautiful."

- collected secondhand. Subject was an old Shin man. sample considered useless.

 

Edited December 17, 2019 by Llstml

[SirWolfe]

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"A man holds rage and joy within his arms and weeps"

-Collected on Nanishi 1174, 16 seconds pre-death, by an off duty Silent Gatherer. Subject was an elderly Thaylen woman crushed by rubble during the Battle of Thaylen Field. Sample of particular note.

This is a reference to Dalinar. Should I spoiler it?

 

[GeneralHZRD he/him]

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"The light, the light! It burns my eyes and leaves me in the dark. Oh where has the light gone?"

-Collected on Ishi 1173, 20 seconds pre-death. Subject was a Azish minstrel of some renown.

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"From shadows they came, and into shadows they return. We saw their faces, and they were our own."

-Collected on Jesachev 1174, 12 seconds pre-death. Subject was a Reshi child of about 7 years.

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"Such hate, such pain. We see the rage they... the..." 

-Collected secondhand, the subject, an Alethi male, is reported to have died mid-sentance. Sample is incomplete, therefore, considered useless.

 

[Elend Venture he/him]

A man, a murderer and turncoat, he thinks himself guilty, we know him as guilty! Yet he did no wrong!

 Collected Jesachev 1173. 15 seconds pre-death. Subject was a lighteyed stonemason of the Ninth Dahn.

 

Edited January 18, 2020 by Elend Venture

[+Ed Venture]

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It ends.     
It all ends.   
The light burns, the faces change.  
End it all. 
Light hates me. Light change me.   
End it.

- Collected SahIshi 21 seconds pre-death Subject was a painter with a love of nature. 

[AonEne he/him]

“Father, they will not listen! As I beg, they will not save us! And we will die from the love in our sphere...see how it glows...” - collected on the 1st of Ishi 1172, three seconds pre-death. Subject was an elderly Silent Gatherer who collapsed during his work. 

“Don’t you see the laughing girl, as she dances through the wind with her partner? He does not laugh.” - collected on the 2nd of Ishi 1172, fourteen seconds pre-death. Subject was a young lighteyed boy. 

“I fear for the seer most, of them all. The glass breaks around him and he cannot escape it.” - collected on the 3rd of Ishi 1172, twenty-two seconds pre-death. Subject was a darkeyed mother. 

“The Thorn in his side will fall, and the Brightest One will win.” - collected on the 4th of Ishi 1172, five minutes pre-death. Subject was a lighteyed Azish woman. Sample is of particular note. (Message from a Silent Gatherer, scribbled on a paper along with the record containing this Death Rattle and given to a courier: Bring to Adrotagia immediately. Possible significance in relation to the Diagram.) 

[Lunar Blessing she/her]

Let me just go through and upvote all of you real quick cause these are awesome.

[+Doomstick he/him]

*didnt make one*
*still got upvoted*
 

Spoiler

Haha!

 

[Lunar Blessing she/her]

8 minutes ago, DoomStick said:

*didnt make one*
*still got upvoted*
 

  Reveal hidden contents

Haha!

 

Whoops, fixed it! 

[+Doomstick he/him]

5 minutes ago, Blessing of Potency said:

Whoops, fixed it! 

I mean, I didn’t see a problem...

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

*necroes due to boredom*
 

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“Oh, the storm! My soul ripped from my body, my heart from my chest! The storms clash! What have we done? WHAT HAVE WE DONE?”

- Collected Ishi 1173, 10 seconds pre-death, from a darkeyed craftsman of the second nahn.

Referencing the WoR climax, of course.

[AonDoor he/him]

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"I like trains."

Collected on Palahevan 1171, 5 hours pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a blacksmith who had lost his family in a fire. Considered useless.

 

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

2 hours ago, Ookla the Johnny Boy said:

"I like trains."

Collected on Palahevan 1171, 5 hours pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a blacksmith who had lost his family in a fire. Considered useless.

This made me laugh way too much.

[AonEne he/him]

On 1/29/2020 at 11:43 PM, Ookla the Well-Intentioned said:

“The Thorn in his side will fall, and the Brightest One will win.” - collected on the 4th of Ishi 1172, five minutes pre-death. Subject was a lighteyed Azish woman. Sample is of particular note. (Message from a Silent Gatherer, scribbled on a paper along with the record containing this Death Rattle and given to a courier: Bring to Adrotagia immediately. Possible significance in relation to the Diagram.) 

Shoot, did I accidentally predict Taravangian here?  

I'd totally forgotten about this thread but I'm loving it! 

"The king of the sky sips poison with lips that have long since stopped moving." - collected on the 8th of Palah 1170, fifteen seconds pre-death. Subject was a young thief who attempted to break into the Silent Gathering rooms. 

"He does not know why he fights, and yet still he does, and will until...oh Stormfather, he will forever; he will never fall." - collected on the 10th of Tanat 1171, fourteen seconds pre-death. Subject was a lighteyed blacksmith's son. 

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

"Oh, Stormfather! The bond reforged, the power unleashed! Are we doomed? We are doomed..."

- The 25th of Jesachev, 1171. Subject was a young lighteyed boy of the eighth dahn.