adonalsium age?

[Clarkmon22 He/Him]

In tlm, TwinSoul talks about the age of the aether's. I noticed people talking a lot like they believed twinsoul (saying it like its a fact), and that adonalsium is younger than the aether's. was this ever confirmed by Brandon?

[Treamayne]

42 minutes ago, Clarkmon22 said:

In tlm, TwinSoul talks about the age of the aether's. I noticed people talking a lot like they believed twinsoul (saying it like its a fact), and that adonalsium is younger than the aether's. was this ever confirmed by Brandon?

Not specifically.The Aethers claim to be older (or at least equally old) and he has confirmed they at-least predate the Shattering and have something different going on. But their claim to be older entirely is currently neither confirmed nor denied. 

WoBs:

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Bumtown1

Is Adonalsium a unique being or are—were—there others?

Brandon Sanderson

RAFO! The aethers would say that there were lots. That there's like a bunch of aethers and Adonalsium. That they were co-equals. The aethers would say there were lots of them.

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ChromatiCaos

You said that all Investiture got assigned to a Shard when Adonalsium got Shattered, which Investiture do the Dawnshards draw from? What about the aethers?

Brandon Sanderson

Dawnshards and aethers both predate the Shattering, and the rules don't apply to them.

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Pagerunner

If a well-studied singer were to become an aetherbound, how would they (with their innate understanding of tones) evaluate the core aethers' claim to be independent of Adonalsium and the Shards?

Brandon Sanderson

They would not have enough experience with the cosmere in general to be able to say yes or no.

How about this. If they went to all the different tones and compared them, they would find something different happening with the aethers, I think is what the question is getting at. So there is some evidence cosmereologically for the aethers' claims to be independent of Adonalsium. There are also evidences that arcanists could put forward that say otherwise.

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Hope that helps

[Clarkmon22 He/Him]

thanks!