Geekritique Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 (edited) In my research to gain info on the ten major planets within the Cosmere, I found a fairly major flaw with the Coppermind wiki page for Ashyn and the unpublished Cosmere work The Silence Divine. It says on the wiki page that the book is set on Ashyn. If you follow the link to the post user "theofficetroll" is quoting from a Q&A session about the Greater Roshar system. Brandon states "Odium's presence is felt on Roshar, but he is on Brayse, the 3rd planet in the system." theofficetroll asks if that Shard is on The Silence Divine, a confusing question. Brandon answers a different question, perhaps misunderstanding the question: "Oh, you mean Ashen. Ashen is mostly barren with small fertile patches." Brandon meant that Ashyn was the third planet in the system, not that the Silence Divine takes place there. Perhaps he thought the asker was confused as to the identity of the third planet he had just made mention of. To confirm that this is actually a mistake, Words of Brandon (compiled) x 2 comes to the rescue. Therein the question and answer states: Q: Does the Silence Divine take place in the Cosmere? A: It does, it takes place on a planet called Threnody. There is no shard on that planet however. The magic is more something you interact with, not something you perform b/c there isn't a shard there. So there's no shard on Threnody, but it's still considered a Minor Shardworld. Interesting. I do not know how to make changes to the wiki page, so I'll leave that to you fine gentlemen. Unless I'm entirely wrong. Edited December 10, 2014 by Geekritique Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter he/him Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Umm I'm not sure what the issue is? The Silence Divine does take place on Ashyn, and Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell takes place on Threnody. Threnody is a minor Shardworld, all inhabited worlds are called Shardworlds, it's a minor one because it lacks its own Shard. As for the thing in the WoB thread Brandon made a mistake (which I made a note about in the Theoryland entry) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze1616 he/him Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 (edited) Two things. First, this topic may have been more suited for the Coppermind Wiki Forum, located on this sites main forum page. Second, the WoB in the "Words of Brandon (compiled) x 2" was actually a mistake on Brandon's part. The Silence Divine does take place on Ashyn, and Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell takes place on Threnody. Given both works have the word silence in them, it was a reasonable mistake to make. Edit: Ninja'd. Edited December 10, 2014 by Blaze1616 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter he/him Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Also the officetroll asked about The Silence Divine in that instance because we knew previously that The Silence Divine took place on a planet in the same system as Roshar, but Brandon wouldn't tell us what it was called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geekritique Posted December 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Ahhh. Okay, very good. Thanks for clarifying. Powers that be, please close this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze1616 he/him Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Powers that be, please close this thread. Bah, no big deal. We've all made mistakes, and we're a nice community here. No need to be ashamed (assuming that's the reason you said this). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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