Perpendicularites on Scadrial after WoA

[Friendshipspren]

So when kelsier destroyed the pits of hathsin , he destroyed the perpendicularity there. 

Similarly did vin destroy the perpendicularity at the well by freeing ruin ??

How long were the perpendicularlites defunct ? 

We know hoid went back out to the cosmere pretty soon. 

Is the shardpool mentioned in era 2 , preservations shardpool relocated or a new one ? 

Why weren't khriss and nazh able to use the well like hoid did ? 

Could they have ? Could vin have slid into the cr and talked with kel, after freeing ruin if she knew what to do ??

Edited July 13, 2021 by Friendshipspren
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[Quantus]

As far as we can tell, a Perpendicularity will form naturally on any planet where a Shard is in Residence, unless they take conscious steps to do something else with it, like put it in a storm or something.  

The Pits would have started working again and producing Atium after enough time, had Ati survived.  The Well was the other one, and would have in theory worked for a Perpendicularity once it filled back up.  

We dont have any confirmed details of the Perpendicularities in Era 2, including whether there is one or two of them.  Sazed moved enough landscape that it could be anywhere in theory.  We know both K&N and Hoid have managed to get on and off world, which implies that one is working, or else they've both found a new means of worldhopping.  There a broadsheet that mentions a woman coming across a perfectly blue pool somewhere in the mountains in the Southern Roughs, and a sudden appearance of a strange figure by the pool.  This is the best bet we have for a Perpendicularity in Era 2.  The Counter-argument is that the source of Harmonium is obviously somewhere in the South, and at least in Era 1 both God-metals formed right there at the perpendicularity.  

 

[+Bzhydack]

On 13.07.2021 at 11:30 PM, Quantus said:

The Counter-argument is that the source of Harmonium is obviously somewhere in the South, and at least in Era 1 both God-metals formed right there at the perpendicularity.  

This is not nessecerly counter-argument, this can simply means there are two Perpendicularities - Kelsier somehow gets to the South Scadrians fast enough after Catacendre, and considering fact he probably dont walk in Physical Realm.... Also Scadrian Cognitive Realm is probably rather small, because Scadrial is rather empty planet.

[Quantus]

16 hours ago, Bzhydack said:

This is not nessecerly counter-argument, this can simply means there are two Perpendicularities - Kelsier somehow gets to the South Scadrians fast enough after Catacendre, and considering fact he probably dont walk in Physical Realm.... Also Scadrian Cognitive Realm is probably rather small, because Scadrial is rather empty planet.

Fair enough.  My point was that previously it had been one Godmetal Per Perpendicularity, so it would follow that if the two Shards are intermingled enough to crystalize a new Godmetal, they are intermingled enough to have the separate Perpendicularities come together.  But if you are right and he's maintaining two Perpendicularities, that would also open the possibility that Harmony actually has two different Godmetals with different ratio's of Ruin to Preservation.

[Fezzik]

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Mojonero

In Era 1 there was an imbalance between Ruin and Preservation because humans had a bit more Preservation than Ruin in them. After Harmony became a thing did this imbalance become [ir]relevant because both powers turned into one, or is it something Sazed had (or has) to deal with?

Brandon Sanderson

This is a RAFO for now--should come up in Era 3.

General Reddit 2021 (Jan. 5, 2021)

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little wilson

Are Ruin and Preservation separate in Sazed or are they fully combined together like can he give one of them, or does he have to give both.

Brandon Sanderson

They are not fully combined. I mean that's not the way this works. He could pull off a piece of one even and make-- stuff like that. That's totally, totally viable. I mean it's basically what happened with the spren. The spren existed before even Honor was destroyed and things like that.

little wilson

So, did the-- my gosh, on Sel-- the Aons-- not the Aons-- the seons did they exist before the Splintering?

Brandon Sanderson

They did not. That's a good question. But they are not the majority of the power. They're just little pieces, they are like the sparks when something gets destroyed. The sparks are not the majority but they are the sparks that were thrown off, if that makes sense?

Holiday signing (Dec. 12, 2015)

The first one says that the Ruin/Pres imbalance is still a thing and will be a plot point in era 3, and the second says Harmony can pull off pieces of his own power and could theoretically make spren, or something similar.

 

Edited July 22, 2021 by Fezzik