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Like seriously I just checked the coppermind and it turns out that Voidbinding has nothing to do with the fused powers as I had assumed but instead comes from the Unmade somehow. Does that mean Amaram and Aseudan were Voidbinders since they both swallowed Yelignar? Were the Alethi who used the thrill Voidbinders I need answers.

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10 minutes ago, Mraize's Lost Aviar said:

Like seriously I just checked the coppermind and it turns out that Voidbinding has nothing to do with the fused powers as I had assumed but instead comes from the Unmade somehow. Does that mean Amaram and Aseudan were Voidbinders since they both swallowed Yelignar? Were the Alethi who used the thrill Voidbinders I need answers.

RAFO

We have not been given that information yet. Your theory is one of the popular ones, some also believe that what Renarin does with his Enlightened Spren is Voidbinding. There are other options as well, but the short answer is that we don't have a confirmed answer.

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15 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

RAFO

We have not been given that information yet. Your theory is one of the popular ones, some also believe that what Renarin does with his Enlightened Spren is Voidbinding. There are other options as well, but the short answer is that we don't have a confirmed answer.

We know that Renarin is voidbinding.

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Argent

Let's talk about Renarin, and Voidbinding. So, with that page we talked about, Renarin Voidbinds. I asked about visions, you pointed to Voidbinding chart, he Voidbinds. Is that using Stormlight to power abilities different from the Surgebindings we've seen?  

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. 

Argent

Is that what voidbinding is? 

Brandon Sanderson

No, but close. You're on the right track. We are gonna get into that, I'm not gonna tell you what the chart means, and things like that. But yeah, something really weird is happening there. 

Footnote: The chart referenced is the back endsheet in The Way of Kings.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/176/#e8461

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Frustration said:

We know that Renarin is voidbinding.

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Argent

Let's talk about Renarin, and Voidbinding. So, with that page we talked about, Renarin Voidbinds. I asked about visions, you pointed to Voidbinding chart, he Voidbinds. Is that using Stormlight to power abilities different from the Surgebindings we've seen?  

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. 

Argent

Is that what voidbinding is? 

Brandon Sanderson

No, but close. You're on the right track. We are gonna get into that, I'm not gonna tell you what the chart means, and things like that. But yeah, something really weird is happening there. 

Footnote: The chart referenced is the back endsheet in The Way of Kings.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/176/#e8461

 

 

 

 

 

 

So that chart does mean something

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23 hours ago, Treamayne said:

RAFO

We have not been given that information yet. Your theory is one of the popular ones, some also believe that what Renarin does with his Enlightened Spren is Voidbinding. There are other options as well, but the short answer is that we don't have a confirmed answer.

It is voiding Brandon confirmed it. 

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On 1/16/2023 at 8:14 PM, Frustration said:

We know that Renarin is voidbinding.

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Argent

Let's talk about Renarin, and Voidbinding. So, with that page we talked about, Renarin Voidbinds. I asked about visions, you pointed to Voidbinding chart, he Voidbinds. Is that using Stormlight to power abilities different from the Surgebindings we've seen?  

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. 

Argent

Is that what voidbinding is? 

Brandon Sanderson

No, but close. You're on the right track. We are gonna get into that, I'm not gonna tell you what the chart means, and things like that. But yeah, something really weird is happening there. 

Footnote: The chart referenced is the back endsheet in The Way of Kings.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/176/#e8461

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here I thought that chart was just a fancy surgebinding chart… interesting.

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Some more WoBs:

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Argent

Let's talk about Renarin, and Voidbinding. So, with that page we talked about, Renarin Voidbinds. I asked about visions, you pointed to Voidbinding chart, he Voidbinds. Is that using Stormlight to power abilities different from the Surgebindings we've seen?  

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. 

Argent

Is that what voidbinding is? 

Brandon Sanderson

No, but close. You're on the right track. We are gonna get into that, I'm not gonna tell you what the chart means, and things like that. But yeah, something really weird is happening there. 

Footnote: The chart referenced is the back endsheet in The Way of Kings.
Oathbringer Chicago signing (Nov. 21, 2017)

 

TheFoxQR (paraphrased)

Is there temporal symmetry in between the Surge-binding and void-binding charts, from the front and back covers of The Way of Kings? As in, Surgebinding is a re-emerging system of the past, vs Voidbinding being a newly emerging system that will fully exist in the future?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

You can assume that Voidbinding has not been fully explored, but that parts of it have been looked into in the past. So I wouldn't say that temporal symmetry fully holds.

General Reddit 2019 (Aug. 3, 2019)

 

Argent

Voidbinding, and what Renarin does, we are still very confused about how much--

Brandon Sanderson

I am happy that you are very confused about that, because I haven't explained it very much.

Argent

Ok.

Brandon Sanderson

And Renarin didn't figure it out very much.

Argent

And he hasn't figured out it much, yeah. And we're not even sure whether he's a Voidbinder.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes.

Argent

He's probably a Voidbinder, right. Then I'm not going to ask you that, because you're going to say RAFO.

Brandon Sanderson

Yup.

JordanCon 2018 (April 22, 2018)

 

dvoraen

"To see the future originates with the Unmade..." "Voidbinding is a dark and evil thing, and the soul of it was to try to divine the future." Is it therefore safe to say that Voidbinding, by extension, also originates with the Unmade?

Brandon Sanderson

Not always. But usually.

Skyward Pre-Release AMA (Oct. 22, 2018)

 

Chaos

You've recently said that Rosharans call everything Surgebinding. So my question is: does Khriss call what the Fused do "Surgebinding"?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes.

Chaos

Interesting. We still don't know what Voidbinding is, but we'll get there eventually, I'm sure.

Brandon Sanderson

You will.

Shardcast Interview (Jan. 23, 2021)

 

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