FarmhouseGamer Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 I was re-reading The Emperors soul the main character was talking about different markings she used to change what the mark did. Is this and indication that soul stamps are just another way of drawing aons in a way that you dont have to be an Elantrian to do? Or am I being stupid? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calderis he/him Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 9 minutes ago, FarmhouseGamer said: I was re-reading The Emperors soul the main character was talking about different markings she used to change what the mark did. Is this and indication that soul stamps are just another way of drawing aons in a way that you dont have to be an Elantrian to do? Or am I being stupid? All of Sel's magics are form based. The implementation is what varies. So they are similar, but they aren't the same thing. Make sense? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmhouseGamer Posted October 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2017 Yeah, like how the monks of da'cor's bones are fjordish characters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmhouseGamer Posted October 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2017 Or have fjordish characters in them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent he/him Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 Yeah, you are getting it. I don't know how aware you are of the laws of magic in the Cosmere (or how much of the Cosmere you know about), but there is something special about the magic systems on Sel, and it results in a lot of its magics integrating locations - maps and landmarks - somehow. Aons feature a representation of the Atad Mountains to the east/right, the Sea of Fjorden to the north/up, and the lake Alonoe in the middle; Soulstamps contain a crude image of the Rose Empire. And so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landis963 he/him Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 Soulstamps contain a crude image of MaiPon as their setting mark, not the Rose Empire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent he/him Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 2 minutes ago, Landis963 said: Soulstamps contain a crude image of MaiPon as their setting mark, not the Rose Empire. Oh yeah, that's right. Been some time since I read TES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted October 2, 2017 Report Share Posted October 2, 2017 For reference, here's Brandon saying that all magic on Sel is a single system that manifests in different ways, for the reasons others have mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The One Who Connects he/him Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 Have a Sel WoB that the magics were Programming based even before the Shards were Splintered. Quote Before Sel's Shards were Splintered, were the Investitures there still form-based? Brandon Sanderson Umm... yes. They are all programming-based. But of course, with true programming, the form doesn't matter, it's the numbers. And in this case the form does. The actual depictions do matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillLangdon he/him Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 On 9/30/2017 at 5:40 PM, FarmhouseGamer said: I was re-reading The Emperors soul the main character was talking about different markings she used to change what the mark did. Is this and indication that soul stamps are just another way of drawing aons in a way that you dont have to be an Elantrian to do? Or am I being stupid? Definitely not being stupid. They are similar, but different. So with drawing Aons, Elantrians are able to sort of draw a hole into the cognitive realm, and alow the power there (Referred to as the Dor) to seep through that hole in a particular shape, detirmined by which Aon is being drawn. With Soul stamping, one is instead pushing the stamp through the boundary of the physical realm, into the cognitive, and pushing the Dor into the spiritual web of the stamped object, with the shape of the stamp. So, similar, but different too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara she/her Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 16 minutes ago, BillLangdon said: So with drawing Aons, Elantrians are able to sort of draw a hole into the cognitive realm, and alow the power there (Referred to as the Dor) to seep through that hole in a particular shape, detirmined by which Aon is being drawn. That's one of the best explanations I've seen about how Aons work I'm stealing! (Although I also have to point out that this thread was answered almost 6 months ago, and didn't really need to be necro'd ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillLangdon he/him Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 Sorry! New to the forum. #newbfail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara she/her Posted March 6, 2018 Report Share Posted March 6, 2018 No worries! And welcome! General rule of thumb is to not revive a thread that seems finished, unless there's new information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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