Aether he/him Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 My first reaction was: um... ok? What do they say on Reddit? I am not sure I'm seeing what this is supposed to imply.
Bloodfalcon he/him Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 You may need to go into a bit of detail if you are proposing something... Are you just showing the similarity in shape between the maps and the Surgebinding chart?
Fifth of Daybreak he/him Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 Look at where the orders are falling on the map. The Lightweavers are off the sea of regret between the nexus of imagination and nexus of truth. The Skybreakers and windrunners are on the expanse of the broken sky. This is pretty cool, even if it's a coincidence. 1
Aether he/him Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 The Truthwatchers are in the Sea of Souls, and the Edgedancers and Dustbringers are placed beside the Nexus of Vapours. Some of the coincidences are quite neat, but I don't think there is anything to it.
Bloodfalcon he/him Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 And one would think that the Nexus of Transition might be closer to Lightweavers and Elsecallers. Who knows what we'll find out about the others though. Could turn out to be very significant eventually. Maybe it more closely relates to where spren live in Shadesmar or something like that. 1
Argent he/him Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 It does seem like the Shadesmar locations can be linked to many of the Orders in some way: Windrunners & Skybreakers near the Expanse of the Broken Sky - because they can "fly" Releasers / Dustbringers & Edgedancers near the Expanse of Vapors - because... well, Dustbringers can blow things up, vaporize them, but the Edgedancers don't quite fit, not as far as we know Truthwatchers inside the Sea of Souls, near the Nexus of Imagination - because they tend to be introverted (looking-inward, soul-searching, etc) and can "imagine" the future Lightweavers & Elsecallers touch the Sea of Regret - but that doesn't really mean anything, except in Shallan's unique case. If anything, Lightweavers should've been right in the middle of the Nexus of Truth Willshapers & Elsecallers are nowhere near the Nexus of Transition, which they should've been Willshapers & Stonewards are on top of the Nexus of Truth, and while I can kind of maybe see the Willshapers there, the Stonewards have no business there Stonewards, however, are near the Expanse of Densities, which sounds about right; but here the Willshapers have nothing to do Finally, the Bondsmiths are kind of nowhere - which, if we pretend they are not near anything (when in fact they are between the Sea of Souls and the Nexus of Transition), is kind of neat because their powers are kind of weird in the first place So... I call coincidences. 7
Aether he/him Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 It does seem like the Shadesmar locations can be linked to many of the Orders in some way: Windrunners & Skybreakers near the Expanse of the Broken Sky - because they can "fly" Releasers / Dustbringers & Edgedancers near the Expanse of Vapors - because... well, Dustbringers can blow things up, vaporize them, but the Edgedancers don't quite fit, not as far as we know Truthwatchers inside the Sea of Souls, near the Nexus of Imagination - because they tend to be introverted (looking-inward, soul-searching, etc) and can "imagine" the future Lightweavers & Elsecallers touch the Sea of Regret - but that doesn't really mean anything, except in Shallan's unique case. If anything, Lightweavers should've been right in the middle of the Nexus of Truth Willshapers & Elsecallers are nowhere near the Nexus of Transition, which they should've been Willshapers & Stonewards are on top of the Nexus of Truth, and while I can kind of maybe see the Willshapers there, the Stonewards have no business there Stonewards, however, are near the Expanse of Densities, which sounds about right; but here the Willshapers have nothing to do Finally, the Bondsmiths are kind of nowhere - which, if we pretend they are not near anything (when in fact they are between the Sea of Souls and the Nexus of Transition), is kind of neat because their powers are kind of weird in the first place So... I call coincidences. A List, a List! Up-vote for the List! 4
Aether he/him Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 You might have invented the art of Listmaking, but I perfected it. There is so much more to Lists than a simple bullet-points. There is categorisation, the skipping of the line to increase readability. What you have done is just summing up a bunch of observations. What I would have done, would be to separate the ones in favour of the theory and the ones who are against into to neat and lucid categories. And I would have bolded the names of the Orders to make each of them clear and distinct. Poke the dragonMaster of Lists and be prepared to unleash his fury! 8
GreyPilgrim he/him Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 (edited) My first thought was that the convergence point of all the lines had something to do with Urithiru. That would make more sense if it were the chart laid over the regular map of Roshar, though. Other than that I got nothing. Edited April 30, 2014 by GreyPilgrim
Bloodfalcon he/him Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 My first thought was that the convergence point of all the lines had something to do with Urithiru. That would make more sense if it were the chard laid over the regular map of Roshar, though. Other than that I got nothing. Good thing those aren't mutually exclusive!
Wherethewindgoes Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 (edited) There might be something important about the positioning of the Heralds, not in relation to the Shadesmar map but to the Silver Kingdoms map, which has the same border but flipped. The only thing I can see is that Jezrien, who is called the Stormfather, is in the direction of the origin. Any thoughts? Edited April 30, 2014 by Wherethewindgoes
Sart he/him Posted June 17, 2014 Posted June 17, 2014 I don't have the Word of Brandon with me, but the 4th expanse (whose name is covered up by the word "Shadesmar") is the Expanse of Vibrance, which makes sense for Elsecallers and Lightweavers, since they control light. It looks like the Expanses line up well with the powers next to them. I'm not sure what to make of this. For those of you don't know, Expanses correspond in some way to other Shardworlds. It's interesting that powers line up to other worlds...
Shaggai Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 I don't have the Word of Brandon with me, but the 4th expanse (whose name is covered up by the word "Shadesmar") is the Expanse of Vibrance, which makes sense for Elsecallers and Lightweavers, since they control light. It looks like the Expanses line up well with the powers next to them. I'm not sure what to make of this. For those of you don't know, Expanses correspond in some way to other Shardworlds. It's interesting that powers line up to other worlds... WoB for the Expanses?
WeiryWriter he/him Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 WoB for the Expanses? There's this: Brandon Sanderson Expanse of the destinies = a world you know. Footnote This seems to reference the map of the Shadesmar that is in The Stormlight Archive. (source) 1
Sart he/him Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 WoB for the Expanses? There's several actually, but it's easier for me to just link to the thread discussing them.
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