Dawn Men, I mean Singers

[pizzastrology]

So, we know Sanderson has a lot of history with the Elenium books by David Eddings, and the series contains the Dawn Men, described as the common ancestor from which the various humans, as well as the trolls, were descended. The Singers in general have a lot in common with the Dawn Men, including unusual hearts, some form of natural armor, and, comparing now to the parsh, social status as basically herd animals following a magical intervention by humans. 

Maybe this is just a neat point of influence, maybe there's something about the Dawn Singers to glean here, rafo basically. The obvious question from comparison seems to be "What if the Dawn Singers were a third party from the humans and the singers as we understand them?" Could that be a thing? Distortion of knowledge over time is a thing, but that seems like a lot. 

Unless magic. There are a couple systems under-accounted-for in our system, and we don't know much about the Dawn Singers switching to Odium's side, like, the ground floor details. This leads us deeper into rampant speculation of course. But, say voidLight-Weaving accomplished disguising the Dawn Singer precursor race as parshendi-singers. Suddenly it all sounds like ancient aliens conspiracy theory, which idea Sanderson's played with before (not the Shards, well yes the Shards, but I mean The Ones Above who put the ancient aliens in the 'present'). 

Perhaps this is getting toward the Aimians? Rysn calls those shadows cast in the wrong direction voidbringer shadows, so if there could be a connection between the dawn singers and voidlight, the Aimians could be a reasonable guess. Siah Aimians can shapeshift somehow, after all, and they're extremely long lived and functionally immortal. 

What do you think? Any reason to read into the Eddings connection? Anything to read into the idea of the Dawn Singers as not actually parshendi after all? An Aimian connection, or one to some other type of beings? I hate to think Jasnah's wrong, but it's to me an interesting line of inquiry. 

Edited April 24, 2019 by pizzastrology

[Karger he/him]

Pardon me but this is just asking for aluminumfoil hats convention!

Edited April 24, 2019 by Karger