Lord Ruler's children?

[djammmer]

From tonight's Seattle signing...

Q) did the lord ruler have any children?

BS) yes.

[djammmer]

I'm guessing this was already well known...

[natc]

You could've waited more than one minute to test our reactions.

But yeah it sounds familiar.

[Kaymyth she/her]

Yes, there's a thread about this on the Cosmere Theories board.

[Voidus]

Yes but it's only pretty recently known still. Some time in the last year I think we found out.

[Yata he/him]

we have also link:
 

 

Q. Are any of the Lord Ruler's descendants kandra?

A. No.

Q. Have we seen any them in Era 2?

A. Yes.

Q. Where?

A. There are a lot of descendants, percentage-wise, but you're looking for something that isn't there. There are descendants of the Lord Ruler, but there's not some secret coven. It's not outside of reason to say that some of his descendants are part of a coven, but it's not like some super-secret magic society.

Edit: Link added

Edited February 18, 2016 by Yata

[Meg]

I admit that I didn't know until I've read Yatas post yesterday.  I hope I'm not the only one to loose track of all the WoBs around every now and then. That said, I'd always appreciate links to (elder) WoBs or threads that some is referring to.

[DeadFencer]

I think he revealed it in a Reddit AMA. Someone asked and Brandon answered. It was crazy. Everyone freaked out for a few days.

[WeiryWriter he/him]

In the future reports like this should really go in the relevant event thread (it just makes it easier on those of us who eventually have to go through and index everything).  And SafestPear we did find this out in a reddit AMA last year.  There's also a fairly lengthy thread about this over in the Cosmere Theories subforum.

[IndigoAjah he/him]

Seems pretty clumsy of the Lord Ruler given how scared he is of another compounder being born

[natc]

Well it's not out of the question that he had non-feruchemist children in his packman days.

[Voidus]

Seems pretty clumsy of the Lord Ruler given how scared he is of another compounder being born

Not to be too dark or anything but he might have used them as a source of spikes when he got low. 

[fyodor]

I think that BS said that kids had to do with his plot to abandon his job so they sound like they were post ascension.

[Pathfinder]

This is what I wrote in the other thread:

 

Not necessarily. He could have had the children, ascended, the children grow up, maybe have a family of their own, the children notice Rashek isn't acting like Rashek anymore (Ruin's influence), complain, heated fight, he kills them, regrets it, and begins to question all he has done with the final empire. Meanwhile his grandkids, hidden away (and maybe even convinced the Lord Ruler they too are dead) so as not to end up like their parents grow up elsewhere, and propagate. The Lord Ruler still influenced by Ruin and Preservation convinces himself that a never ending tyranny is actually still a good idea, and continues. Meanwhile his descendants continue in the background all the way to the alloy of law era. 

[Stormgate he/him]

I'm working on a fanfic about TLR's daughter, Lutha or Lutha. But before I do so, I need information.

Are TLR's children the Southern Scadrians?

I literally just had this idea.

[emailanimal he/him]

I'm working on a fanfic about TLR's daughter, Lutha or Lutha. But before I do so, I need information.

Are TLR's children the Southern Scadrians?

I literally just had this idea.

 

 

No.  Any children Rashek might have had pre- Final Empire would have been (given his past as a Terris nationalist) Terris. Since none of the kandra are his descendants (and presumably none of the mistwraiths), I suspect that he actually did not have children before he ascended.

 

After he ascended, his children could have been results of various liaisons with both noble and skaa women, but clearly they would not have been South polers.

[natc]

Not all children of feruchemists have the power, and only people with active feruchemical abilities became mistwraiths. That argument is flawed, as Terris obviously still exist.