Oxinabox Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 So we know that the Kandra take Atrium in payment for a contract. Presumably a larger ammount of atrium lets you contract there services for a longer amount of time. But can anyone find any references to how you meet up with the Kandra to set up the contract? I remember Kesler, in the first book, saying he'ld spend the last of there Atrium on TenSoons contract, but I can't remember ever reading how you start one. All i can think of is wandering around the Mists carrying Atrium, and being all "Here Kandra Kandra Kandra, got a nice been of Atrium for you..." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aradel Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 I think your spellcheck went a little crazy on you. I highly doubt walking around with an atium bead is going to find you a kandra. They most likely have a complex network of human contacts or drop points. Leave a message at this place at this time... Contact this man and display your bead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordofsoup Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 I always thought that you needed to contact a member of one of the Cantons. Dont know which, it was never mentioned. Only a few priests knew anything about the Atium drop in the Kandra homeland. so I assume that they were the ones who contacted them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aradel Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 I always thought that you needed to contact a member of one of the Cantons. Dont know which, it was never mentioned. Only a few priests knew anything about the Atium drop in the Kandra homeland. so I assume that they were the ones who contacted them. Which I had completly forgotten. Marsh proved that certain obligators can be bribed, even in the canton of inquizition. And HoA states outright that the kandra were loyal to TLR. He would have made sure that there were ways to contact them, which would mean the obligators of his church are prime suspects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxinabox Posted February 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 ... I highly doubt walking around with an atium bead is going to find you a kandra... That was a joke. It seems a little off to me the Kandra having a network of humans. Though I guess the Obligators are the govenors of all contracts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevenThumps Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Brandon Sanderson mentions in one of his annotations about the Contract, but I don't remember right at this moment. I know it was book 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJWB0mb Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 if the kandra are shape shifters why would they need a net work of humans? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Because there are relatively few Kandra compared to humans, and far fewer outside the Homeland at any given time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJWB0mb Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 true but it would seem best to cut the middle man out of such an operation. the few who know the better and all that. and being shape shifters they could be a few people at once so one kandra doesnt need to be only one person in such an operation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 But the Obligators are already in place and in the know, set up by the guy who is running the Kandra scam (The Lord Ruler). Why not just use them anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahak Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Brandon Sanderson mentions in one of his annotations about the Contract, but I don't remember right at this moment. I know it was book 3. Chapter 59 Annotations Always before, anyone who wanted to hire a kandra left a message in a designated place in Luthadel. The kandra found you—a creature who was under direct Contract by the Lord Ruler to act as an intermediary. The kandra Contract was completely confidential, even from the Lord Ruler—though he probably could have demanded to know the details of who the kandra were working for at a given time. He didn't bother, as he never thought that one would be used in a plot against him. The kandra who arranged Contracts—a member of the Fifth Generation—would travel to the Homeland with the signed papers and the atium, and would send a new kandra out to serve the new master. Nobody left the homeland without a Contract, and if their Contract ended or their master died, then they returned immediately to the Homeland. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikomis Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 Except, of course, for Rogue Kandra. A fun little option I didn't have any real information on until the RPG came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaropti Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 Just to let you know Kelsier never contracted TenSoon, it was OreSeur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevenThumps Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Chapter 59 Annotations Always before, anyone who wanted to hire a kandra left a message in a designated place in Luthadel. The kandra found you—a creature who was under direct Contract by the Lord Ruler to act as an intermediary. The kandra Contract was completely confidential, even from the Lord Ruler—though he probably could have demanded to know the details of who the kandra were working for at a given time. He didn't bother, as he never thought that one would be used in a plot against him. The kandra who arranged Contracts—a member of the Fifth Generation—would travel to the Homeland with the signed papers and the atium, and would send a new kandra out to serve the new master. Nobody left the homeland without a Contract, and if their Contract ended or their master died, then they returned immediately to the Homeland. Thanks. I knew it was somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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