vietnamabc Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 From WoK, we knew that Stormform create the Everstorm, so maybe Nightform/Smokeform will create the Night of Sorrows and Decayform will create the Desolation. Currently, there are 13 forms for the Parshendi, I wonder if we can know the total number of their forms, and whether each form is a counterpart to the respective Knight Radiants's order, like Stormform >< Dustbringer. 1
natc Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Didn't the forms total in the hundreds? I think we'd run out of Orders.
vineyarddawg Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Didn't the forms total in the hundreds? I think we'd run out of Orders. I do recall seeing that the "old songs" (or something like that) spoke of hundreds of forms. One would think it would be some multiple of 16, right?
vietnamabc Posted January 7, 2015 Author Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) Didn't the forms total in the hundreds? I think we'd run out of Orders. In Eshonai chapters, total forms used to be hundred but I wonder if it reached that number due to combination (Like Binding to 2 different spren), leaving "Prime" forms to be muliplication of 16. 13 forms are what I counted from the epigraphs: Warform Mateform Workform Nimbleform Dullform Scholarform Artform Mediationform Stormform Decayform Nightform Smokeform Further note, anybody noticed that the layout of the Shatterd Plain itself is disturbingly similar to Elendel: a circular area divided into 8 areas? Edited January 7, 2015 by vietnamabc 3
Dunkum he/him Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Presumably there were hundreds of forms because there are thousands of different kinds of spren, and bonding with the spren is what gives them their different forms (though maybe not all spren will work for whatever reason [too much Honor not enough Cultivation?]). The writer of the WoR Ars Arcanum speculates that there would be 10 forms of voidbinding, I think, one of which is presumably related to Stormform. Decay, Night, and Smoke forms seem likely to be related as well. The Coppermind seems to indicate that there are certain types of "voidspren" that the parshendi can bond with to access the "forms of power" like stormform
Oudeis he/him Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Voidbinding has ten levels per the ars arcanum, not forms
Dunkum he/him Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Voidbinding has ten levels per the ars arcanum, not forms My assumption would be that each of those levels is related to a form (or two to a form like surgebinding with the radiants), which is related to a voidspren (much like the radiants are each related to a specific kind of spren)
Cam Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Are we considering slaveform as a distinct form, or are parshmen not considered parshendi?
taveren he/him Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 yeah i agree that there are probably 10 forms that would count as voidbringers
navybrandt he/him Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Voidbinding has ten levels per the ars arcanum, not forms Would this be similar to the Radiant Oaths? Each new oath gives new powers, so each new Voidform is more powerful than the last?
taveren he/him Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 well each form might get stronger but voidbringers and voidbinding might not be that closely related
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