Secret Project 3 Opposites and Some Food for Thought

[Yumiya]

There seem to be a lot of opposites in Secret Project 3. I think this hints at the nature of the two planets and their source of investiture (Virtuosity).

 

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TLDR: Similarities of opposites between the two worlds might suggest that a single world was created and then "bonded" in to two mirror type worlds by virtuosity during her shattering, which also created the hions, spirits and nightmares. 

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Between worlds:

• Male/Female (yumi vs painter)
• Light and hot/Dark and cool  (shroud vs star?*)
• Guilted into working too hard because no one else can do it /Shown to be only a replaceable cog in the machine (Liyun vs Sukishi)
• Revered Profession/Menial Labor (priestess vs janitor)
• Overachiever/Underachiever (37 spirits vs only bamboo paintings)
• Ritualistic/Secular
• Ancient/Modern (in terms of technology)
• Rural/Urban (at least in the areas we have seen)
• Nightmares Evaporate/Spirits split into opposites (cases of potential investiture usage being opposite to the world***) 
• Underground/Below ground (spirits vs nightmares as sources of investiture) 

Torio:

• Fire and water. Liquid and light (As Yumi's description of bathing ritual)
• One vaguely male, one vaguely female (Difference between halves of bound spirit)
• Blue/Orange (as spirit colors**)

Kilahito:

• Teal/Magenta (as hion colors**)

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* Sanderson has directly mentioned the shroud and that it causes the darkness, but had not really mentioned anything about the day star other than it is red-orange  (which is cooler than the earth's sun) and closer than the listener's sun. If it is closer that might cause higher temps, but there are also references to water not being rare on Torio. Instead it is "concentrated, centralized, elevated". Maybe water in the atmosphere is causing the intense heat, like a clear version of the shroud.

** Sanderson has answered questions about the presence ( or lack ) of yellow (search yellow on words of sanderson on the coppermind) It is therefore notable that the color pairs would be opposite if they did not shy away from yellow. Blue should go to yellow but goes to orange. Magenta should go to green but goes to teal. 

*** So it water being dropped on the floor in Torio will evaporate. Similar to the description of the nightmare vanishing. (Instead, like water trapped on a hot plate, it just…evaporated.) Yet, when Yumi makes bonds with the spirits they split, like hions (twin bands of pure energy). Maybe banishing a nightmare creates a spirit and bonding a spirit creates hions? Two sides of the same coin.

 

Want to dig into the golden rule/fib seq wrt art and virtuosity. Also the idea of the extent of world hopper influence and colonization. 

[LewsTherinTelescope]

21 hours ago, Yumiya said:

TLDR: Similarities of opposites between the two worlds might suggest that a single world was created and then "bonded" in to two mirror type worlds by virtuosity during her shattering, which also created the hions, spirits and nightmares. 

The parallels are definitely interesting. I have no idea how such a thing would occur, but... well... this is Brandon lmao. He can probably make it work, if so.

21 hours ago, Yumiya said:

** Sanderson has answered questions about the presence ( or lack ) of yellow (search yellow on words of sanderson on the coppermind) It is therefore notable that the color pairs would be opposite if they did not shy away from yellow. Blue should go to yellow but goes to orange. Magenta should go to green but goes to teal. 

SteveMcQwark on the Discord had an interesting observation about this, though I don't know enough myself to add much to it.

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All the talk about "cyan and magenta, but where's yellow" reminds me that the colours on the cover mock-up aren't the print versions of the colours (hues separated by 120°), but are instead separated by the golden angle (~137.5°) on an RGB colour wheel. The whole Fibonacci thing is because it converges on the golden ratio, which is commonly used in art. Maybe this is a coincidence, but if not...

 

 

[teknopathetic]

When I read SP3, I got the feeling that someone split the planet and separated it into a Light Sphere-Planet and a Dark Sphere-Planet. Painter's planet is described pretty close to how the shadow-orbs are described. 

Edited April 20, 2022 by teknopathetic

[Lego Mistborn]

I wrote up a theory about the splitting of one world, It's in my signature if you want to check it out, maybe add some comments as I think your notes could be really helpful in developing it further @Yumiya