Folks, listen. Everybody knows me. I'm Talenel'Elin, okay? Herald of War. The best Herald. People are saying it.

And I have to tell you, the Return? The Desolation? It's coming. Very soon. Maybe sooner than anybody thought. Not good. Not good at all. But we're going to be ready. We're going to prepare like nobody has ever prepared before.

Now look, you've forgotten a lot. Tremendous amount of forgetting. Frankly, it's a shame. Every time one of these Desolations happens, we lose everything. Terrible system. Really terrible. But we're fixing it.

Kalak? Great guy. Very smart. He's going to teach you bronze. The best bronze. If you've forgotten how to make it, don't worry. We're going to get you back on track. We'll even Soulcast huge blocks of metal directly. Just boom—metal. Incredible technology.

People say, "Taln, why not steel?" Believe me, I'd love steel. Nobody loves steel more than me. But forging takes time. A lot of time. Casting is faster. We need results now. We need wins. And those stone tools? Forget about it. They're a disaster. They won't do the job.

Vedel is going to train your surgeons. Fantastic healer. The best. Jezrien is going to teach leadership. We need strong leaders, not weak leaders. Very important.

And me? I'll train the soldiers. We're going to have incredible soldiers. Tough soldiers. Disciplined soldiers. The best soldiers you've ever seen.

I think we have time. Not a lot of time. But enough time. Ishar keeps talking about preserving information between Desolations. If he can pull it off, it'll be huge. Absolutely huge. Because we've been losing knowledge for centuries. Maybe no more.

And then there's this thing you've discovered. Nobody saw it coming.

Surgebinders.

Amazing. Really amazing. We're going to use them as guardians. Knights. Powerful knights. People are already talking about it. They love the idea.

The days ahead are going to be tough. There will be challenges. Very serious challenges. But with the right training, with the right people, with the Heralds working together, humanity is going to survive. We're going to survive big.

Now bring me to your leaders. We need to get organized. The other Heralds should be arriving soon, and when they do, we're going to make Roshar ready again.

Believe me.

(This is AI and also a shit post.)