Lazarus52980 Posted November 16, 2017 Report Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) I'm listening to OB part 2 via audio book and one of the characters who is lamenting about infiltrating the calligrapher’s guild curses saying “by purity's eye…”. Purity sounds like the name of a shard to me… any chance this is a first cosmere mention of a new shard? (New to us anyway…) Edited November 16, 2017 by Lazarus52980 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagerunner Posted November 16, 2017 Report Share Posted November 16, 2017 Nazh is the one who picks up these maps and drawings (and likes to complain about it), so he's almost certainly the one who wrote the page on glyphs. Purity fits with the naming system of the Threnodite system, who had a Shard (Ambition) there at one point. Purity might be a person, or maybe even a place, in Threnody, but not a Shard. Good catch, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowmancer Posted November 16, 2017 Report Share Posted November 16, 2017 I'm still curious as to the identities of the letter-writers Hoid contacts. One I'm fairly positive is Harmony. What do the rest of you think? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOneKEA Posted November 17, 2017 Report Share Posted November 17, 2017 There is a gas giant in the Threnodite system named Purity. I just checked the map in Arcanum Unbounded and verified where it was located in the system; it’s close enough to Threnody that it should be visible from that planet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bean Delphiki Posted November 17, 2017 Report Share Posted November 17, 2017 Dang it! I noticed this will reading and was so sure I'd discovered a new shard. Oh well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnmish Posted November 17, 2017 Report Share Posted November 17, 2017 17 hours ago, Shadowmancer said: I'm still curious as to the identities of the letter-writers Hoid contacts. One I'm fairly positive is Harmony. What do the rest of you think? Yes, the last series of epigraphs in part 2 are definitely Sazed, in convinced they're all shards and the rest all knew Cephandrius (Hoid) pre-shattering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus52980 Posted November 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2017 13 hours ago, TheOneKEA said: There is a gas giant in the Threnodite system named Purity. I just checked the map in Arcanum Unbounded and verified where it was located in the system; it’s close enough to Threnody that it should be visible from that planet. Well, so much for my theory. Thank you for setting me straight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfa Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 That makes it likely that "Purity's eye" is a visible feature of the gas giant's atmosphere, like a giant storm. I think the analogue on earth would sound slightly lamer: "by Jupiter's Red Spot": Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vissy Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 As far as the other letter-writers go, I believe that the leading theories are that they are from Autonomy and Endowment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storms! Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 4 minutes ago, Vissy said: As far as the other letter-writers go, I believe that the leading theories are that they are from Autonomy and Endowment. Pretty sure Brandon confirmed this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormingTexan Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Storms! said: Pretty sure Brandon confirmed this He did confirm Autonomy. Quote Chaos [PENDING REVIEW] (paraphrased) Did you mean to imply that Autonomy wrote the second letter in Oathbringer back there, with the aspects thing? Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] (paraphrased) Yeah, I did. (He did imply that it was supposed to be fairly obvious.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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