Who exactly broke the oath and why ?

[samsocial]

This might be a stupid question but I am still confused with this 

Who exactly broke oaths ? I understand the radiates broke it but why ? why would they give up the power available to them ?

Also, even Harards broke oathpact, but none seems bothered by it (except Jasna who wanted to kill them).

Why there is another rule for them? 

 

[spaidapig he/him]

1 hour ago, samsocial said:

Who exactly broke oaths ? I understand the radiates broke it but why ? why would they give up the power available to them ?

In Oathbringer we learned about the content of the Eila Stele, a fragment text written in Dawnchant, the old language of the Dawnsingers.
Through the translation of this text, we got to know that the histrorical Voidbringer were in fact humans who came from Ashyn, one of the other planets in the Rosharan System, and not the Singers.

As the Radiants of old learned about this, and about what led to the disparture from Ashyn, they were worried about their powers leading to another destruction. 
This alone would not have led to the Recreance, as this has happened before and through Honor, the Radiants often managed to cope with their feelings.
The problem during the time of the Recreance was, that Honor was dieing and going mad. Instead of comforting the Radiants about the past, he was ranting about history repeating itself and the supposed destruction of Roshar through the hands of the Radiants.

Because of this desperation, the Radiants and their Spren agreed on letting their oaths behind and to part ways. Little did they know, that this would kill their Spren leading to a Genocide among many Radiantprens.

 

1 hour ago, samsocial said:

Also, even Harards broke oathpact, but none seems bothered by it (except Jasna who wanted to kill them)

Now it gets a bit difficult, because as of now, the Oathpact is still "working". The Heralds are still Connected to each other, what we see in them reacting to the death of Jezrien. Furthermore, Taln was able to give the Humans on Roshar 4.500 years of peace, which would not have been possible if the Oathpact was broken. Well, the pact is really almost broken down, but until now it still stands.
 

Iirc, Jasnah wanted to kill the Heralds to seal the fused back on Braize, like it was before, not out of spite for breaking an Oath

[Alcatur]

3 hours ago, samsocial said:

This might be a stupid question but I am still confused with this 

Who exactly broke oaths ? I understand the radiates broke it but why ? why would they give up the power available to them ?

Adding to the above:  Surges are regulated by Honor. Oaths are artificial system used to regulate them; Spren can be far less discerning. 

 

With Honor dying and unable to regulate the sourges, there was probably fear that unrestricted surgebinding would result in Ashyn 2.0 on Roshar. Species - wide lobotomy of Parshmen probably only served to reinforce the fear of unrestricted surges (though the decision may have been taken before this happened) and the Orders themselves were clashing with each other at the time. So to avoid a catastrophe of fighting between orders and the danger of unrestricted sourges, when it looked like enemy was gone for good, Radiants and the Spren agreed to abandon the bonds and cease the usage of their powers. 

 

Note that it doesn't look like the oaths were actually broken. It was done by mutual agreement, that the bonds had to be broken. But a side effect of Ba-Ado imprisonment was the creation of deadeyes; and most of Radiants got slaughtered soon after thus being unable to pass the true version, and Hierocracy spent some time painting them as villains. 

Edited October 6, 2021 by Alcatur

[samsocial]

Thanks guys for answers. It makes few things clear.