CognitiveShadow he/him Posted October 30, 2024 Posted October 30, 2024 So in the pre-released chapters Shallan is able to "be" Drehy and suck in the stormlight that he had used to lash her into the air: Quote But Shallan’s eyes followed Adolin as he fell thirty feet and crashed into the beads. He’d suffocate down there. Shallan screamed, struggling as the Lashing carried her away from him. No. No. No! Shallan… Shallan had been Lashed by Drehy. Be. Drehy. She sucked up the Stormlight Lashing her in place. Then, with nothing holding her up, she dropped to the beads after Adolin. I was just doing a re-read and hit the scene in Oathbringer when they try to use the Oathgate and get sent into the Cognitive Realm instead of getting sent back to Urithiru. In that scene, there is a moment where Shallan reaches out to touch a flame and experiences what it is like to be Drehy... coincidence??.... Do you think this is part of how she was able to "be" him and take on his identity, or is this just a random occurence? Does she need to have interacted with someones flame/soul in the Cognitive Realm in order to do something like this? Or is it just a small bit of foreshadowing that she will be doing some Identity stuff in the future? Quote "Living souls bobbed around, a swarm of them entering the Oathgate control chamber. One brushed Shallan - Drehy the bridgeman. For a brief moment she felt what it was like to be him, worried for Kaladin, panicked that nobody was in charge, that he would have to take command. He wasn't a commander - you couldn't be a rebel if you were in charge. He liked being told what to do. That way he could find a method to do it with style." Interesting, no? 6
logicless.bt Posted October 30, 2024 Posted October 30, 2024 I mean, the real question is why there's no allusion to this in the moment. There could very easily be a line like "Shallan remembered Drehy's panic during [that scene] and drew on it." And if it's THAT easy to form a significant Connection with someone -- just touch their soul in shadesmar -- then there's gonna be serious shenanigans down the line 1
CognitiveShadow he/him Posted October 30, 2024 Author Posted October 30, 2024 6 minutes ago, logicless.bt said: I mean, the real question is why there's no allusion to this in the moment. There could very easily be a line like "Shallan remembered Drehy's panic during [that scene] and drew on it." And if it's THAT easy to form a significant Connection with someone -- just touch their soul in shadesmar -- then there's gonna be serious shenanigans down the line Yeah, definitely a good point. It could absolutely just be a coincidence that she experienced a connection with Drehy a couple books back. It just seems so interesting to me that she had both of these experiences and they both involved Drehy specifically. No idea what that means or if it means anything, but it caught me off guard while I was in my re-read since I'd just recently read the new chapters for WaT too.
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