Theory: Taldain's Inaccessibility

[ROSHtaFARian2.0]

We know from Khriss that she's in exile, and I believe (but don't quote me on this) that we have WoB that Taldain is at least relatively inaccessible around the time of Secret History, via world-hopping at any rate?

My theory is pretty simple: When Taldain started to become more cosmere aware, and individuals like Khriss learned to worldhop and travel to and from other planets, Bavadin did something deliberately to render it inaccessible via Shadesmar. Thus preserving its Autonomy from the greater cosmere-wide events.

In essence, Khriss' exile is because Bavadin didn't want her worldhopping and curiosity about the cosmere to lead the various warring powers of the cosmere back to Taldain and compromise his world's ability to chart its own future, free of outside influences. As an extension of this, I don't actually believe Trell is Autonomy....rather, I believe Bavadin cut off access to Taldain to keep Trell and Odium and similar forces from doing to it what they're doing to Scadrial and Roshar. IMO, that fits the Intent of Autonomy better than anything Trell or his agents have been shown doing. 

[Landis963 he/him]

Assuming, of course, that Autonomy survives the events of the White Sand trilogy (because it is, I believe, set to be a trilogy).  

[BeskarKomrk he/him]

On 8/11/2016 at 4:49 PM, ROSHtaFARian2.0 said:

We know from Khriss that she's in exile, and I believe (but don't quote me on this) that we have WoB that Taldain is at least relatively inaccessible around the time of Secret History, via world-hopping at any rate?

My theory is pretty simple: When Taldain started to become more cosmere aware, and individuals like Khriss learned to worldhop and travel to and from other planets, Bavadin did something deliberately to render it inaccessible via Shadesmar. Thus preserving its Autonomy from the greater cosmere-wide events.

In essence, Khriss' exile is because Bavadin didn't want her worldhopping and curiosity about the cosmere to lead the various warring powers of the cosmere back to Taldain and compromise his world's ability to chart its own future, free of outside influences. As an extension of this, I don't actually believe Trell is Autonomy....rather, I believe Bavadin cut off access to Taldain to keep Trell and Odium and similar forces from doing to it what they're doing to Scadrial and Roshar. IMO, that fits the Intent of Autonomy better than anything Trell or his agents have been shown doing. 

The WoB you're thinking of, where Brandon says that Taldain is "currently inaccessible", is here:

Seems like a reasonable enough theory, though what constitutes "currently" is always up to individual interpretation. I also personally do not believe that Trell is Autonomy, for what it's worth.