TheOneKEA Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 I was admiring the high-resolution background image on the 17th Shard Tumblr when I noticed that the flag held by the foreground character had a symbol on it that I hadn't observed before. I looked at it more closely and it looks like one of the symbols on the inside cover image, the one that shows the Ten Orders of the Knights Radiant, but I didn't see an exact match. I went and checked the other inside cover image and I didn't see an exact match for the symbol there either, so it doesn't appear to be either a symbol of the Knights or a symbol of the other group. Has anyone been able to figure out what that symbol may represent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windrunner he/him Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 I don't know if it necessarily represents anything. It might just be a symbol Michael Whelan painted for the cover. The covers aren't intended to be one hundred percent canonically correct, often to just give a feel for the book or a specific moment in the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOneKEA Posted October 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 I don't know if it necessarily represents anything. It might just be a symbol Michael Whelan painted for the cover. The covers aren't intended to be one hundred percent canonically correct, often to just give a feel for the book or a specific moment in the book. That's certainly a possibility, but it looks so much like the inside cover symbols that I initially assumed that Brandon asked Whelan to put it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter he/him Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 This has actually been brought up before in the Isasik Shulin thread, just so you know. (I tend to agree that it is a sylized version of the bottom right "order" on the Voidbinding chart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOneKEA Posted October 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 This has actually been brought up before in the Isasik Shulin thread, just so you know. (I tend to agree that it is a sylized version of the bottom right "order" on the Voidbinding chart. Whoops, I should've searched more carefully. That thread is quite fascinating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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