Crackpot Theory

[SPECTRE120]

I have a theory with no evidence whatsoever but I thought that it'd be cool (and hey, if it is proven true in 10 years or something, I'll have bragging rights):

Yolen is so hard to find because Adonalsium was their sun and now the planet is just wandering without a star.

Any thoughts?

[alder24]

6 hours ago, SPECTRE120 said:

I have a theory with no evidence whatsoever but I thought that it'd be cool (and hey, if it is proven true in 10 years or something, I'll have bragging rights):

Yolen is so hard to find because Adonalsium was their sun and now the planet is just wandering without a star.

Any thoughts?

Then Yolen would be frozen to death, so cold that even the atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen would turn into snow. 

Isles of the Emberdark spoilers:

Spoiler

We will know the answer with the release of Isles of the Emberdark, which does include some scenes from Yolen. And from preview chapters we have, it looks like Yolen still have a sun:

[JohnnyKaizen he/him]

9 hours ago, SPECTRE120 said:

I have a theory with no evidence whatsoever but I thought that it'd be cool (and hey, if it is proven true in 10 years or something, I'll have bragging rights):

Yolen is so hard to find because Adonalsium was their sun and now the planet is just wandering without a star.

Any thoughts?

I suppose you could be right but in a wrong way on this. Investiture can have a gravitational effect, and if Adonalsium was centered near/on Yolen and then Shattered, could Yolen's star system have started wandering off in the Cosmere (or been pushed off into space)? Or could the Shattering have cause some sort of distortion to spacetime? So not the sun, but the laws of Cosmere physics around Yolen's system went wonky somehow?

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

All I know is that there is a WoB somewhere (well, I think it's a Word of Isaac, technically (or at least someone who isn't Brandon)) about Yolen's astronomy being wonky. So the idea of Adonalsium having some kind of astronomical effect on the system, and then the Shattering disrupting the normal system, would make sense.

But, also, minor Wind and Truth Preview Chapter Spoilers (nothing plot related):

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They mention something about a compass that points to a location called the Grand Knell, I think, which is referred to as the place where a god died. This seems to me like where the Shattering happened, so Cognitive Realm navigation is effectively calibrated to Yolen's subastral. I don't think such compasses would be reliable if Yolen was drifting in space, unless it's subastral doesn't move relative to the subastrals of all the other planets. 

I also just realized, though, that if the compass does point directly to Yolen, it doesn't make sense why it would be hard to find, so maybe it's something else. Or everyone knows where Yolen is but no one knows how to get there.

I dunno. I'm just throwing stuff out at this point.