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Hi guys, I was re-hearing the Words of Radiance and I noticed something odd that made me think. I only have the audiobook, so I cannot produce the quotes, but Pattern said he was attracted to Shallan's lies. At first I assumed those were the lies she told herself about her mother, but that cannot be possible: Her mother wanted to kill her precisely because of Shallan's abilities and she was killed by Shallan using Pattern in shardblade-form. Now I am wondering, what lies Shallan could possibly have been making that were so "powerful" that they attracted one of very few, if not even the only, Cryptic that has come to bond with a human? The way Shallan spoke to Hoid implies her childhood was fairly uneventful until Pattern came and her mother tried to kill her. Or is that maybe another lie she has told herself? Perhaps something traumatic happened even before that? She had to have been broken at some point, or else she would not have been able to form a bond with pattern and she must have been bonded to him for some time, since she progressed at least far enough to use him as a shardblade. I think there is even more crazy stuff in Shallan's childhood. What do you think?