Shadowtog Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 I recently completed a re-read through Mistborn:Secret history. During the re-read, I noticed a vague reference to a potential 11th shard. Initially, due to my copy being an eBook, I assumed was a typo in the formatting of the book. Obviously if you haven't read the book by now this could give away something minor in the terms of plot. Spoiler Quote You always jump at stories, Alonoe. Not every coindcidence is a sign of someone drawing upon Fortune - seated man It has occured to me since that this is a reference to another possible shard. The theory behind this is that the names of shards is always capitalized wherever they appear in cosmere novels. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata he/him Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 Fortune seems to be a Spiritual Attribute widely knowed from the Cosmere schoolar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagerunner he/him Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 1 hour ago, Shadowtog said: I recently completed a re-read through Mistborn:Secret history. During the re-read, I noticed a vague reference to a potential 11th shard. Initially, due to my copy being an eBook, I assumed was a typo in the formatting of the book. Obviously if you haven't read the book by now this could give away something minor in the terms of plot. Hide contents It has occured to me since that this is a reference to another possible shard. The theory behind this is that the names of shards is always capitalized wherever they appear in cosmere novels. Welcome to the Shard, and good catch - capitalized words when we don't expect them can be big clues to something interesting going on behind the scenes. There was some discussion over in the Secret History subforum about this a while back, here and here. The consensus we came to was that the Ire have a way to manipulate luck that is similar to Feruchemical Chromium in the behind-the-scenes Cosmere mechanics. There's a parallel to Identity: different magic systems key into Identity in different ways (in Warbreaker, you can't recall someone else's breath; in Mistborn, you can't use another Feruchemist's metalminds). Same for this concept of Fortune: it's the same Fortune we've seen on the Feruchemical Table, but the Ire can apparently interact with it in a different way. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PallonianFire he/him Posted September 9, 2016 Report Share Posted September 9, 2016 Yeah, unfortunately not a Shard. I got final confirmation of this at the JordanCon Q&A in April: Quote Q: As of Secret History, are the IRE aware of Feruchemical chromium? A: Not as fully aware - They don’t know everything. Q: The Spiritual Feruchemical metals - are all four of those Cosmere-wide things? A: The short answer is yes. The long answer is, there are certain things such as Investiture and whatnot, that when we write the books we translate different words as the same word because they’re the same meaning. So what you’re getting it is when they use the word “fortune”, do they mean exactly the Feruchemical, and the answer is no - but it is a very similar concept. The whole transcript (full of lots of good tidbits) is here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARARITA he/him Posted September 10, 2016 Report Share Posted September 10, 2016 (edited) I'm rereading Elantris for the 400 millionth time (cuz I gots a brite shiny leatherbound from my good son) and - just came across this name ....Alonoe Alonoe is the name of the lake - dot - in the basic Aon So that person is named after the lake ....or the lake is named after that person did I mention that Sanderson is all awesome and all powerful and I wuv him --- so many little things everywhere Edited September 14, 2016 by ARARITA clarification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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