Doctorhow Posted September 16, 2018 Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 Forgive me if this has been brought up before but I hadn’t encountered it in the forums and it seemed pretty interesting. In a March 10, 2017 WoB, Brandon specifically refers to Adonalsium using the possessive pronoun “his”. The full quote (in response to a question from B-more_freshout reads “The death of Adonalsium, and the questions surrounding the persistence of his power, is THE single pervasive theme of the works”. I was under the impression that we were currently uncertain whether Adonalsium was a being/force/whatever. This quote, however, seems to suggest that Adonalsium was a specifically male being. Please let me know if you have any thoughts/corrections/points I should’ve considered. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calderis Posted September 16, 2018 Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 Well, it could have been male and not been mortal. It may even have developed one over time through people anthropomorphising it. I think it was something akin to a Spren. As such, if people thought of it as male, it may have become so for all intents and purposes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imriel452 Posted September 16, 2018 Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 I do have a signed book which refers to Adonalsium as him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashspren Posted September 16, 2018 Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 Though the "similar to spren" idea is probably the most likely option, I find myself wishing that Adonalsium was a force, rather than a being with a gender. That way, we don't find the most powerful force in the universe to be strictly male or female. We see that power is divided pretty evenly across the Cosmere between male and female people/beings (the Heralds, for example, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Shards are also split eight-and-eight), and I think that this could also be the case for Adonlasium. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripheus23 Posted September 16, 2018 Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 "We had the wrong pronoun all along." ~ Zased 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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