A question about how connection would work

[The_Nimanator]

So we know that all the scadrians are born with a connection to preservation and ruin (Harmony now), with metal born having a stronger connection. So what would happen if 2 metal born went to Nalthis and have a child, would that child still have that connection to Harmony? Could they be metal born? Would they be born with a breath because of where they are born or would no connection be formed with endowment? Would a child of two people from Nalthis born off world be born without breath? What about someone born in space, would they be born with no connection at all?

 

This follows up to the next question of whether the nightwatcher didn't come to worldhoppers because they lack a connection to cultivation?

[CryoZenith he/him]

Some of those questions were directly answered in the following WoB. Hope this helps!

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JoyBlu

In order to have a Breath, do you have to be native to Nalthis?

Brandon Sanderson

Not to be given Breaths, but people who are not native to Nalthis are not born with that Investiture.

JoyBlu

So, you have to be born on that planet?

Brandon Sanderson

There are exceptions. Most of the time.

JoyBlu

If both your parents were Nalthians, and they moved off planet, and they had a child that was born on a different planet—

Brandon Sanderson

It is possible for that child to have a Breath, but it would not continue too long. But yes, that child would probably have a Breath, depending...

Joyblu

If both of his parents had Breaths.

Brandon Sanderson

Mmmhmm.

Orem Signing (March 16, 2019)

As for your last question, the Nightwatcher doesn't care. You don't have to be from Roshar, you don't have to be Connected to Roshar, you don't have to be Connected to Cultivation, you don't need anything genetically speaking. The Nightwatcher can grant boons to anyone who asks for boons.

Edited January 21, 2022 by CryoZenith

[Duxredux he/him]

I think The_Nimanator is referring to the flashback when Dalinar goes to meet the Nightwatcher and Felt makes a note that she didn't appear to him because he might be too foreign. Is it because he was a Scadrian or for a different reason? He's a single point of data, but one that seems deliberately placed.

[Quantus he/him]

41 minutes ago, Duxredux said:

I think The_Nimanator is referring to the flashback when Dalinar goes to meet the Nightwatcher and Felt makes a note that she didn't appear to him because he might be too foreign. Is it because he was a Scadrian or for a different reason? He's a single point of data, but one that seems deliberately placed.

That's a matter of Spren though. They can Bond with anyone they want (even a Yolen Native that is arguably barely human anymore) but some may or may not find traits to be Distasteful, like being a worldhopper or having Spikes, etc. But that will vary from spren to spren, both within and between the different spren races.  So far as we know the only actual requirement are the same sort of Spiritual cracks that Snapping provided for mistborn.  

[The_Nimanator]

5 hours ago, CryoZenith said:

Some of those questions were directly answered in the following WoB. Hope this helps!

I didn't realize that it was already asked, thanks for the link it's pretty interesting to see how people born offworld get breaths.

 

4 hours ago, Duxredux said:

I think The_Nimanator is referring to the flashback when Dalinar goes to meet the Nightwatcher and Felt makes a note that she didn't appear to him because he might be too foreign. Is it because he was a Scadrian or for a different reason? He's a single point of data, but one that seems deliberately placed.

Exactly that, I assume that he was denied because he had too much of another non roshar shard in him that the nightwatcher ignored him

[CryoZenith he/him]

5 hours ago, Duxredux said:

I think The_Nimanator is referring to the flashback when Dalinar goes to meet the Nightwatcher and Felt makes a note that she didn't appear to him because he might be too foreign. Is it because he was a Scadrian or for a different reason? He's a single point of data, but one that seems deliberately placed.

Sure, but it's also explicitly stated that Hoid had a conversation with the Nightwatcher. Felt's guess says more about what Felt believes than about what is the case. Wouldn't be the first time Brandon had a character deliberately say something incorrect to indicate something about their epistemic limits.

(in fact arguably fiction writers don't do this enough)