Can I just throw out a random theory on the Knights Radiant here? I was reading the back of the book, and ended up just staring at the line, "before the Heralds abandoned us and the Knights Radiant turned against us." for ten minutes.
For no apparently reason it occurred to me that maybe the Radiants have somehow 'fallen from grace' for lack of a better term, and that maybe they got cursed, or something to that effect.
It's been a long time since I have had the book--I just barely got it back--and I'm too lazy to look it up, but I remember something about the Voidbringers being the parshmen, or at least that's what Jasnah thinks. Any chance the Radiants are Parshendi? or vise versa?
I just had to write it down before I started pulling apart the flaws 
Any thoughts?
I don't think it was so much the knights that fell to grace, but the humans around them. Without the threat of the voidbringers, humanity started fighting amongst themselves, and the knights got sick and tired of being used in these fights, so they gave up and let humanity fight amongst themselves.
You'd think if they were sick and tired of all the fighting they would have hidden the Blades and Plate away where nobody was going to find them anytime soon, of course, maybe the other orders besides the Windrunners and Stonewards did, and that's why there are hundreds of Shards missing. Rather then you know leaving the fighting people with even better ways to kill each other.
Or it could be just their way of saying "You know what? You want to use these things to slaughter each other, you have fun with that. We're done."
You know, the scene where the Knights Radiant gave up has always seemed more than a little bit unusual to me.
In the other visions Dalinar saw, even for other parts of that same vision, things seemed "normal" until the Almighty patched in his extra message. Humans reacted in the way humans normally react. We didn't have the complete background, but that's OK; the feeling that it's there never really seemed to waver. But with that vision---things seemed really, really odd. Why didn't the Knights Radiant respond to Dalinar's questions? Why didn't they at least say something to the people they were abandoning? That whole scene seemed like a nightmare, not a piece of history. Something happened with that vision, and I'm not sure what, exactly. I don't think it's a "Odium tampered with the visions," not the same way it happened in Mistborn. But something seems really, really off.
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. The one thing I do believe for certain is that he's lying to the Forsaken, except perhaps to Ishamael.
