Braize and Canticle?

[Fallen_Jedi09]

Hey y’all. I just finished my re read of the Sunlit Man and I had a question. Are the cores from Canticle and Braize the same material? Both are described to suck investiture to them. Is Canticles core exerting gravitational pull on the investiture of the Sun? Could you trap a Shard on Canticle in the same way?

 

Love to hear your thoughts. Thanks a bunch

[The Living Avo]

Quote

Questioner (paraphrased)

Canticle has a core basically made of Investiture, is it something similar to Braize?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Yes

Footnote: This was overheard in the signing line and may not be exact
Celsius 232 2025 (July 19, 2025)

Quote

msyverw

So, what's up with Canticle? You've got the sunlight, it appears to be Invested and then the planet's core is trying to suck it up. And you know, where does it go after it does that, and...

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, Canticle was built for a very specific purpose by a very powerful being in the Cosmere, that I will someday get to. You're going to see some more stuff like this. Basically, megastructures that imitate planets or other sort of heavenly bodies.

msyverw

So it's not like some avatar of Autonomy or something like that?

Brandon Sanderson

It's not an avatar of anything, it was built for a specific purpose, yes.

Just wait til I get to the Grand Apparatus, you're gonna love that. What was that voice that talked about a future Cosmere planet? Hmm!

Dragonsteel 2023 (Nov. 21, 2023)

Quote

AllomancerSam (paraphrased)

Is there a shard hiding out in Canticle's core?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

That's a RAFO

Dragonsteel 2023 (Nov. 21, 2023)

These are the best Wobs I could find. At the end of the day, I think most of our knowledge about Braize and Canticle mechanics are just speculation.

[noobedmaster7]

I don't believe the cores are made of the same material. I believe it's been confirmed that canticle is an artificial made planet Probably made by the shard invention. I don't know for certain but I don't think you could trap a shard on canticle. They probably have too much investiture to get trapped. Those are my thoughts and I'm not sure where or how to find the proper WoBs to back this up.