KalSpear he/him Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 I just read the rough draft of the prologue today and was confused. Thaidakar(Kelsier) is supposed to be a cognitive shadow stuck on Scadrial. How is he able to show up on Roshar? Anyone with answers pls let me know.
Through the living jeff he/him(straight) Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 Potential Elantris spoilers Spoiler He was using a seon. (I think) 1
KalSpear he/him Posted April 3, 2024 Author Posted April 3, 2024 15 minutes ago, TwinSouls said: Potential Elantris spoilers Hide contents He was using a seon. (I think) You can use a seon to make you look normal? He started off looking like he was physical and then turned into a ball. It has been a long time since I read Elantris so I don't remember how they work.
Through the living jeff he/him(straight) Posted April 4, 2024 Posted April 4, 2024 I’d thought the same thing when I’d read it. but it sounds like when Kelsier disappears a seon goes down into the castle…
alder24 Posted April 4, 2024 Posted April 4, 2024 13 hours ago, KalSpear said: I just read the rough draft of the prologue today and was confused. Thaidakar(Kelsier) is supposed to be a cognitive shadow stuck on Scadrial. How is he able to show up on Roshar? Anyone with answers pls let me know. That's 100% a Seon. They can show a face so why not an entire body and a cloak? It's just a type of Lightweaving. He didn't look normal at all - he was blue: Quote Thaidakar remained still for a moment. Then, with an audible sigh, reached up with gloved hands and took down his hood. Gavilar froze—for despite their several interactions, he’d never before seen the man’s face. It was blue. Was he...Aimian? Natan? No, this was a softer, glowing blue. Like Thaidakar was made entirely of white-blue light. He was younger than Gavilar had imagined—in his younger middle years, not the wizened elder he’d seemed. And he had a large spike, also blue, through one eye. The point jutted out the back of his skull. [...] He was cut off as Thaidakar transformed. His face melted away, features withdrawing into his head—which became a simple floating sphere. Glowing, with some kind of arcane rune at the center. The cloak vanished into wisps of smoke that evaporated away. Gavilar growled, hungry. That...that looked a lot like what he’d read of the powers of Lightweavers. Knights Radiant. Was Thaidakar— “Deliver Restares to me,” the sphere said, vibrating—though it had no mouth. “Or else. That is my ultimatum, Gavilar. You will not like to be my enemy.” The sphere of light turned nearly transparent, difficult to track as it moved to the door, then shrank, bobbed down and vanished through the crack underneath. A glowing sphere with a rune at the center - that's Seon. RoW ch 115: Quote She removed her hand and situated herself at the desk. Adolin fell silent, waiting and watching as Shallan lifted the top of Mraize’s cube. With help from Kelek, they’d gotten it open without harming the thing inside: a spren in the shape of a glowing ball of light, a strange symbol at the center. No one here recognized the variety of spren, but Wit called it a seon. Spoiler FeatherWriter I have to ask about using the word "avatar" for Thaidakar sending avatars... does Kelsier actually have anything resembling a real avatar or is he just using the word and lying through his teeth? Brandon Sanderson Oh yeah, he's mostly lying through his teeth. Basically — this is not canon, because I might come up with a better [idea] - but in my head, I have him with a large cloak with a Seon on top indicating his face [hosts laugh] It was something along those lines. He wants them to think that he is capable of getting to Roshar in a meaningful, physical way. Spoiler! he can't get off Scadrial, and it's really annoying to him. At least by this point in the continuity, in fact a little past it, because the Wax & Wayne books... *multiple people* [Tangent where he forgets where in the timeline Wax & Wayne actually falls, and Chaos corrects him. Answer ends up being that it takes place after Stormlight 5, as he has usually said.] Brandon Sanderson As of the Alloy era, he is still unable to get off of Scadrial. Chaos Guess we'll learn about that in Era 3, if it's all Kelsier stuff. Brandon Sanderson Era 3 will definitely involve some Kelsier stuff. Let's just say he's perturbed. Shardcast Interview (Jan. 23, 2021) 1
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