VirtuousTraveller Posted January 6, 2017 Posted January 6, 2017 Quote It was difficult, for those old rhythms were so dull. Buried within those new rhythms, the names of which she intuited somehow, she could almost hear voices speaking to her. Advising her. If her people had received such guidance over the centuries, they surely would not have fallen so far. -Words of Radiance, Interlude 11 (bold emphasis mine) Eshonai is talking about these new rhythms that came when she assumed Stormform, which seems to be the result of a bond with Odium/Unmade/voidspren. Does this quote sound familiar to anything else in the cosmere? Quote LOCKE219 () Was Wyrn's drive to topple Elantris purely a typical, conquest-related motivation? Or did it arise after Fjordell gained access to the Dor? BRANDON SANDERSON () The Skaze have a large amount of influence on most politics and most working in Fjordell. We know Odium was on Sel at one point and the Skaze seem to behave in an evil, influential way in their advisement of the Fjordell Empire, similar to these "new" rhythms Eshonai experiences on Roshar. Coincidence?
The One Who Connects he/him Posted January 6, 2017 Posted January 6, 2017 2 minutes ago, VirtuousTraveller said: Eshonai is talking about these new rhythms that came when she assumed Stormform, which seems to be the result of a bond with Odium/Unmade/Voidspren. Does this quote sound familiar to anything else in the cosmere? We know Odium was on Sel at one point and the Skaze seem to behave in an evil, influential way in their advisement of the Fjordell Empire, similar to these "new" rhythms Eshonai experiences on Roshar. Coincidence? Not quite. Quote I had no idea Odium left little bits of his power on Sel... I guess it kinda makes sense for evil monks to be powered by pure hate, though. Brandon Sanderson Odium did not leave his power behind, one should note. He left several other powers which are now, to a large extent, mindless... Secondly, The Skaze are pretty much splinters of Dominion. Quote Skaze are the evil Seons, and are related to Skai. Seons are related to the AonDor and thus Aona. So Odium is only involved insofar as allowing them to come into being by killing Dominion. I will say that if the voices are related to the Unmade in some way, then the "voices" could just be the touch of Splinters on things, just as you can hear Spren/Seons talk. It could still be an intriguing connection, but maybe not to the extent you are thinking.
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