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Disagree. It says in RoW that she broke her oath after she killed her mother because she was so angry and broken at her she had done. We also know that for years she could still see the shardblade behind the picture (which still brings the point of why her father never at least tried to sell in for a fortune). You’re theorizing, which is fine; but don’t just state as fact that she somehow magically dismissed Testament. It wasn’t ever explained well in this book (which is why I posted asking), so we don’t know. Hopefully we get more information about it in the next book as I’m guessing we will see some advancement in the deadeyes storyline (my guess is that Adolin will get the bond Maya at some point in the next book)

No, she summoned pattern to kill Tyn. And how could she dismiss the blade anyway once she broke her oath? The blade would have needed to be gemmed and dismissed. From what we know of the recreance, the blades materialize when the oath is broken, and then stay until bonded and dismissed.

So Shallan’s big reveal this book was that she had abandoned her oath and killed her first spren. I didn’t think a lot about it until later, but was it ever explained, why did her father never use or sell the shard? Even if he was trying to hide the fact that she had killed her mother, it seems like (especially in the desperate later years) he’d have found a way to leverage such a powerful resource. We know he had it because shallan could always see it behind the painting in the safe where he hid it. Is it still just sitting in the Davar mansion even now?