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Ok, so Vax is the Shardworld Brandon refuses to talk about. It is the last word spoken by Ati(Ruin) as he left the Cognitive Realm. Is it possible that Vax is the last place that Ati was without the Shard before his death, in other words, the place where Adonalism was Shattered? It would explain a lot.

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https://wob.coppermind.net/events/256-oathbringer-london-signing/#e8605

 So, Investiture predates the Shattering of Adonalsium, all Investiture was from Adonalsium, all Investiture got assigned to one of the 16 Shards when Adonalsium was Shattered. Some of the Investiture was not on Yolen but location is irrelevant. So Investiture is related to Shards even on planets where none of the Shards are inhabiting. 

Most of the questions on the shattering assume it happened on yolen. Dragonsteel is on Yolen, Dragonsteel is the story of the future vessels, so it is an easy jump to make.

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For reference, I haven't found a WoB that says the Shattering happened on Yolen directly but we can infer it from the following two:

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Xyrd (paraphrased)

During the events of Stormlight Archive, is Yolen still populated?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Yes... yes, I would say so since a letter is written to somebody on Yolen.

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mysteriouspenguin

What non-worldhopper character we've seen so far is the most cosmere-savy?

Brandon Sanderson

Frost or Sazed, most likely.

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Frost knew all of the Vessels, inhabits and has not left Yolen and claims that Rayse is 'what we made him to be' (emphasis added), ergo the Shattering happened on Yolen.

Also, the Vessels were all from Yolen which is pretty suggestive as well, and we know that Dragonsteel will be set on Yolen and is going to feature the event itself. So plenty of reasons to infer that Yolen was also the location of the Shttering even in the absence of the above WoBs.

On Vax, my own guess is that it's the (new) name for the planet that Aether of Night takes place on and that Brandon is going to have Preservation and Ruin have played some background role there, since we know through Peter that Brandon cannibalized an entity from that book into Ati/Ruin and it would be a cute nod towards that. There was also speculation that it might have been the setting for The Dark One, before Brandon definitively pulled that one from the Cosmere.

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Argent

Is Vax a planet?  It’s clearly suggested that it is.

Brandon Sanderson

What’s that?

Argent

It’s heavily suggested that it is.

Brandon Sanderson

It is heavily suggested that it is a place.

Argent

It's a place. Okay, I'll take that.

*talking to other attendees* Vax is a place.

Brandon Sanderson

No no, heavily suggested that it's a place, is what I said!

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So are we sure Vax is a Shardworld? Because this implies it isnt. 

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We're not certain, no. However, Brandon loves messing with us and will sometimes say things like this when he could have given a straightforward answer, just to keep us discussing things. For example, Brandon would frequently frame any and all discussions of the man who showed up in the WoK epilogue as 'the man calling himself Taln' and implying that he may not be Taln... until he suddenly was. No obvious reason to give us the runaround except to screw with our heads for a bit.

For Vax as a planet specifically, Khriss mentions it in the same context as a number of other planets, in the same sentence as Taldain and just a short while after she called out Sel as being unique for one's birthplace being the determining factor in what Investiture you can access. Nothing in there suggests Vax is anything other than a planet.

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On 7/22/2018 at 9:30 AM, Weltall said:

We're not certain, no. However, Brandon loves messing with us and will sometimes say things like this when he could have given a straightforward answer, just to keep us discussing things. For example, Brandon would frequently frame any and all discussions of the man who showed up in the WoK epilogue as 'the man calling himself Taln' and implying that he may not be Taln... until he suddenly was. No obvious reason to give us the runaround except to screw with our heads for a bit.

For Vax as a planet specifically, Khriss mentions it in the same context as a number of other planets, in the same sentence as Taldain and just a short while after she called out Sel as being unique for one's birthplace being the determining factor in what Investiture you can access. Nothing in there suggests Vax is anything other than a planet.

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Narkac

Can you give us a hint on the madman identity, the man everyone think he's Taln ?

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone think he's Taln!

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