The Night's Radiance - The Night of the Recreants

Honor blades are able to be set down in the physical world without being dismissed, a opposite to sharp blades. When the wielder of an honor blade dies, the blade vanishes with regular shard blades, as we see them on rechar. That's what we see on the day of the recreants, is that many of the night's radiance, they don't die, but they do dismiss their bond and plunge their blades into the ground at feverstone keep,. Only to be taken up by the humans who are there in a fight to the death for those powerful artifacts.