Retribution

Retribution is the name taken by Taravangian after the Contest of champions and his merging of the Shards Odium and Honor.
His perpendicularity is in the Shattered Plains. Due to his combination of two Shards, he is considered to be one of the most Invested beings in the cosmere. He is considered to be one of the biggest threats in the cosmere.
== Intent ==
Born from the resonance between Honor and Odium, Retribution is an Intent about upholding oaths and destroying those who break them or believe that they are not of utmost importance. The Shard cares little about the heart of the oaths kept, and more if the exact definitions were followed.
== Associated Magic ==
Retribution holds both the Shards Odium and Honor, and they have become intermingled.
=== Light ===
Light is the gaseous form of Retribution's Investiture. The light associated with Retribution is Warlight, which has a dark blue-white appearance.
Retribution also has influence over the Lights of its two Shards, Stormlight and Voidlight.
=== Storms ===
Retribution is able to manipulate the powerful weather patterns of Odium and Honor on Roshar. Soon after forming, Retribution had the Everstorm consume the highstorm, causing a slowness bubble to form around the planet. Since then, Retribution left the Everstorm to constantly blanket the majority of Roshar, though much less violent than before. 
=== Surgebinding ===
Surgebinding on Roshar is a magic system derived from both Honor and Cultivation. To utilize it, a person must bond a higher spren, which allows them to inhale Stormlight and use it to control Surges, a set of ten fundamental forces, although a single spren bond allows access to only two of them. Some Surges favor Honor, and others Cultivation, although only Adhesion is 'purely' of Honor.
Apart from spren bonds, Retribution, through Honor, can also grant the use of Surgebinding through the Honorblades, weapons made out of his Investiture. Like spren, each Honorblade grants access to only one pair of Surges; in fact, Surgebinding came about as spren attempted to imitate the Honorblades.
According to the Fused, Honor is responsible for making the Surges into natural law.
=== Voidbinding ===
The Rosharan magic system associated with Odium is Voidbinding. Very little is known about it at the moment, including the specific powers it grants or the method of acquiring the ability to Voidbind. What is known is that there are ten levels to it, and that it involves something called the Voidbindings, which might be the name of individual powers, analogous to Surges. It is highly likely that predicting the future is one of those powers.
=== Spren ===
Spren are Splinters holding the Investitures of both Honor and Cultivation, though in different proportions depending on the type of spren. Some spren are of pure Honor or pure Cultivation, though which type gets to call themselves "closest to Honor" is a matter of some debate among their society. Odium has created numerous spren in the Rosharan system, known collectively as Voidspren. Some of them are intelligent, and capable of autonomous thought in the Physical Realm despite not being bonded to a living creature, in contrast to most spren of Honor or Cultivation. Others are as mindless as ordinary emotion or nature spren. Singers can bond the latter to become Regals, taking the spren into their gemhearts to gain forms with supernatural abilities ranging from speaking all languages, to summoning lightning.
Retribution is able to influence and draw in all spren made of either Odium or Honor, though this is currently being prevented by the Oathpact.
==== Unmade ====
Standing apart from regular voidspren are the Unmade, a group of nine great Splinters of Odium, each granted immense power. Their abilities vary from Unmade to Unmade--some are capable of influencing human minds, some can grant powers to other creatures, and others have the ability to change spren. Likewise, their levels of intelligence vary; while Sja-anat is almost human-like, Nergaoul behaves more like a blind force of nature or animal.
=== Fused ===
Fused are Cognitive Shadows of singers bound to Retribution. This grants them numerous benefits, chief among them the ability of resurrection by taking over the bodies of their living kinsmen. During the True Desolation, this can occur when the Everstorm passes over singers who have been mentally primed to let something into their gemhearts. How this bonding happened before the Everstorm existed is unknown. Odium is able to take away their immortality.
The Fused can use Voidlight to heal themselves, as well to fuel their use of Surges. Unlike Knights Radiant, the Fused have access to only one Surge each. However, Leshwi claims that the Fused are more skilled with their Surge, due to the Fused being more internally focused, while the Radiants are more externally focused.
=== Passions ===
By Connecting with someone, Retribution is able to take away their negative emotions and passions, including fear, anger, pain, and insecurities. When negative emotions arise, they are quickly sucked away by Odium, leaving the person feeling nothing. This Connection can be disrupted, allowing the person to feel their pain in full.
He is also capable of feeling emotions of others as if they were his own.
=== Direct Intervention ===
Retribution is able to directly interact and punish those who break their oaths. This retribution can manifest through the sublimation of the oathbreaker into a red mist, as he did to Hoid. It can also manifest through the exertion of some measure of control over highly Invested Cognitive Shadows formed just after an oathbreaker's death.
== History ==
=== Night of Sorrows ===
Retribution was formed after Odium merged with Honor, after Dalinar renounced his oaths while holding Honor. This included the contract that bound the two Shards and Cultivation to Roshar and drew the attention of the other Shards. Immediately after forming, Retribution withdrew all Stormlight from the world and caused the Everstorm to consume the highstorm, so that his Light would be the only available source of Investiture. He also caused the new Everstorm to spread across the entire continent, so that all life would wither unless people relied on his Light to survive, though this also made the storm decrease in intensity. Szeth describes the darkness caused by the storm as similar to that of the "hateful hour" between the setting of Salas and the rising of Nomon, with occasional illumination from the constant red lightning.
The merging of the Shards, alongside the Everstorm consuming the highstorm, also caused time to temporarily slow down around Roshar. This time dilation was projected to last roughly eighty years for the rest of the cosmere, during which only ten years would pass on Roshar.
Shortly after Retribution's Ascension, Odium's Investiture withdrew from his perpendicularity, the Well of Control. A day later, the pool began filling with a thick blue-black fluid-like substance that pulsed to the Rhythm of War, likely indicating the birth of Retribution's perpendicularity.
Within hours of his Ascension, Retribution sent a messenger to the listeners and instructed them that they could freely receive his Light if they left their spheres out at midnight and asked him to bless them. He also promised that he only saw himself as an interested party offering help, not as the listeners' god. About a month and a half after his Ascension, Retribution withdrew the Everstorm from Azir, in recognition of the fact that they had won their independence on the terms of the agreement for the contest of champions.
After Ascending, Retribution swiftly went into hiding before the other Shards moved against him, planning to return to Roshar later.
== Notes ==