im_not_superman Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 I have a hypothesis that splits off and follows different possible threads. -Brandon says that it is possible to bring together and recombine the Shards. -The Shards exist on all three planes of existence (Physical, Spiritual, Cognitive) -There is a shardpool representing each of the shards that have made a world their home. My theory is that there is an actual connection between all the shards, and being represented by the residing body, the shardpool. But maybe I'm using 'connection' too loosely. These connections would be closer to (in my mind) to a relationship of a black hole/white hole, or the strings of time as seen in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure". Each Shardpool is connected via this connection or webway (screw it, I'll throw 40k into the mix too.). Worldhopping could be possible by using the webway as a type of "portal" (the how, no idea) and gaining access to other worlds through use of the webway. Which would explain how it is more difficult to get to a world that has a shattered shard. It's possible to get there, but not as easily as when the shard is present. Is this new... or has someone already covered this, and I missed it? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald101 Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 (edited) I have a hypothesis that splits off and follows different possible threads. -Brandon says that it is possible to bring together and recombine the Shards. -The Shards exist on all three planes of existence (Physical, Spiritual, Cognitive) -There is a shardpool representing each of the shards that have made a world their home. Would you mind giving the source for this? Thanks. As far as worldhopping is concerned, we know a fair bit about how this works. The "webway" you're thinking of is actually just the cognitive realm (source), and is the main way people worldhop. Distances in the cognitive aren't the same as in the physical because the cognitive skips over places where there aren't any sentient beings (source). Many people (myself included) think that shardpools are how worldhoppers typically get into shadesmar, but that's currently unconfirmed. Edited October 18, 2015 by Emerald101 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 (edited) Would you mind giving the source for this? Thanks. As far as worldhopping is concerned, we know a fair bit about how this works. The "webway" you're thinking of is actually just the cognitive realm (source), and is the main way people worldhop. Distances in the cognitive aren't the same as in the physical because the cognitive skips over places where there aren't any sentient beings (source). Many people (myself included) think that shardpools are how worldhoppers typically get into shadesmar, but that's currently unconfirmed. Technically speaking, all we have evidence for is that they're ways people get out of the Coginitive realm, but that's probably irrelevant, as Brandon has been dropping hints about where the Shardpool in Elantris might have led... If you combine access to the Cognitive Realm, (Shadesmar, per WoB, is Roshar's slice of the realm, not the whole thing) with the ability to be functionally immortal, that's certainly enough to worldhop. You might also want the ability to cross vast distances faster, (while Brandon has said you can walk between worlds this way, he's also heavily implied it would take you a very long time) so it would be helpful to possess either some sort of speed-enhancing ability, (like allomantic pewter-dragging, allomantic flight, or feruchemical steel) or a teleportation ability to help you make those trips in a timely manner, or as an alternative to being ageless. Edited October 19, 2015 by Ari Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze1616 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Technically speaking, all we have evidence for is that they're ways people get out of the Coginitive realm, but that's probably irrelevant, as Brandon has been dropping hints about where the Shardpool in Elantris might have led... I cannot stress how highly I recommend you read the bonus scene in the Post Script of the Elantris 10th Anniversary Edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwelfthOfSnackTime Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 I have a hypothesis that splits off and follows different possible threads. -Brandon says that it is possible to bring together and recombine the Shards. -The Shards exist on all three planes of existence (Physical, Spiritual, Cognitive) -There is a shardpool representing each of the shards that have made a world their home. My theory is that there is an actual connection between all the shards, and being represented by the residing body, the shardpool. But maybe I'm using 'connection' too loosely. These connections would be closer to (in my mind) to a relationship of a black hole/white hole, or the strings of time as seen in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure". Each Shardpool is connected via this connection or webway (screw it, I'll throw 40k into the mix too.). Worldhopping could be possible by using the webway as a type of "portal" (the how, no idea) and gaining access to other worlds through use of the webway. Which would explain how it is more difficult to get to a world that has a shattered shard. It's possible to get there, but not as easily as when the shard is present. Is this new... or has someone already covered this, and I missed it? So to paraphrase your post you believe that the shardpools are almost like wormholes? That's what it sounded like to me anyway. I've been leaning toward this idea myself, that they are wormholes through the Cognitive Realm that make it so that you don't have to walk all the way to another world. I have no evidence to back it up with except my intuition though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 I cannot stress how highly I recommend you read the bonus scene in the Post Script of the Elantris 10th Anniversary Edition. Sweet. I don't have access yet due to Amazon being terrible at updating their ebooks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC01 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 As I understand it, positing a Shardweb between the pools is not the same as Shadesmar/the Cognitive Realm. If I'm not mistaken, the Shardpools are not necessary for travel for those gifted with Transportation. Also, I'm pretty sure I read that the pools are the only easy way to magically travel to and from Sel because of the way the weird way the Shards there behave. So they're not quite the same as the Cognitive Realm, even if they will take you straight there. Hoid almost certainly does not normally need the pools to worldhop. Other than travelling to and from Sel, there is no reason (that we know of) that he ever would. That means that when Rock saw him show up on Roshar through a pool, he was probably coming from Sel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linkcwz Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Sweet. I don't have access yet due to Amazon being terrible at updating their ebooks. You gotta contact their ebook support team and ask nicely to update it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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