LegalBondsmith

I agree with Grunion that this passage refers to the Stormfather acting on request from Melishi (the Bondsmith during the Recreance) to somehow end the cycle of fighting at the time of Recreance. The Bondsmith summons the Stormfather (his bonded spren) in the form of a highstorm during an all out battle with the voidbringers (there is no everstorm at the time, so no conflict between the storms occurs) on the pre-shattered plains and the high storm forcibly removes the voidspren from the voidbringers (just as the high storm allows for changes in form, presumably at the will of the Stormfather, wouldn't it by nice if that was also the case for stripping them of their form) allowing the knights to slay the voidspren (some apparently escape to live another day) maybe with the help of the honor blades (which are subsequently taken by the squires to be hidden away in Shinovar) and creating the parshmen. The battle and storm are so violent (as the highstorm stalls over the battle for an extended period) that the city is destroyed and the plains are shattered. The oathgates were locked pre-battle by the radiants who then abandoned their shards after the voidspren were slain, in the terrible assumption that this would further thwart Odium from returning. This would also explain at the end of WoR why the Stormfather tries to wipe out the army when the everstorm is formed. He tries to prevent the full scale return of both sides, but he is thwarted by the power of odium and the will of the radiants (who do not abandon their shards, but use them). EDIT: Perhaps the KR's didn't kill the voidspren but captured them in spheres and they were buried in the city that was destroyed. That would explain how Venli is able to "acquire" almost 20,000 spren in such a short amount of time and why she is so confident that she can provide enough for the transformation of the entire army of parshendi. The spren were buried under Narak the whole time.

This is my first post, so please be kind. Does anybody else think that the "words" said by Lift as she 'defends' Gawk could be the second ideal for her order of the KR? The way it reads, it is not clear to me that she actually says them, but the words are spoken either in her head or to her in her head (or maybe outloud), kind of like Syl did with Kaladin before he joined the Battle of the Tower. She seems to have the ongoing dialogue with her cultivationspren about why she is willing to sacrifice herself (her gut instinct to run) and return to save Gawk by using regrowth, even though she doesn't know how to use that power yet and that it may result in being captured by Nalan.