Lightblood Posted May 14, 2019 Posted May 14, 2019 The flute I'm refering to is the flute that Hoid gives to Kaladin and he leaves in the camps. This question was prompted by this WOB Quote NeedsAdjustment Is Hoid's flute actually [the Lord Ruler]'s? Brandon Sanderson RAFO! Stormlight Three Update #4 (Oct. 5, 2016) So do we know anything about this? Can someone find where TLR is described?
0 Karger he/him Posted May 14, 2019 Posted May 14, 2019 17 minutes ago, Lightblood said: So do we know anything about this? Can someone find where TLR is described? To the best of my knowledge TLR has never been described as playing a flute.
0 Calderis he/him Posted May 14, 2019 Posted May 14, 2019 It comes from Well of Ascension, and it's a really random question. Vin sees a flute when she goes into the hut inside Kredik Shaw. Quote She stepped into the small building-within-a-building. It had only one room. The floor had been torn up by Elend's crews, searching for the atium. The walls were still hung, however, with the trappings the Lord Ruler had left behind. She raised her lantern, looking at them. Rugs. Furs. A small wooden flute. The things of his people, the Terris people, from a thousand years before. Why had he built his new city of Luthadel here, to the south, when his homeland—and the Well of Ascension itself—had been to the north? Vin had never really understood that. I doubt they're related.
0 Lightblood Posted May 14, 2019 Author Posted May 14, 2019 Thanks for finding that @Calderis!!! The coppermind only had this to say Quote Torol Sadeas found it and had possession of it before his death, and Hoid wants it back.[3] It may be related to Meridas Amaram's collection of flutes.[4] So I think there might be more to this than meets the eye. Maybe not TLR, but why was it important enough for Sadeas to want to keep it? Also we don't know exactly how Cosmere Aware Amaram was but why was he keeping a collection of flutes? Just a bit of worldbuilding?
0 Zelly Posted May 15, 2019 Posted May 15, 2019 I think several people have asked Brandon questions regarding the flute's history/whereabouts and the general answer is always RAFO.
0 first void Posted June 11, 2020 Posted June 11, 2020 Sanderson was inspired by several different authors. If you read through some of R.A. Salvatore, you find a special flute (and many talking/special weapons). This flute is given to Artemis, a near emotionless assassin, by Jaraxle, a drow mercenary and trickster similar in attitude to Hoid. The flute was made by an ancient monk and it has the ability to calm and....alter? re-arrange? do something to the mind. If this was the inspiration of Hoid's flute, this may have been an attempt on Hoid's part to influence or cure Kaladin's extreme depressive episodes.
0 Eternal Khol he/him Posted June 11, 2020 Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) the flute has went from Hoid to Kaladin to Sadeas to Amaram(maybe) to Lift(she'll have it in RoW) we know almost nothing about the flute except the hands its been in and that Wyndle said it "looks strange" to him Edited June 11, 2020 by Eternal Khol
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The flute I'm refering to is the flute that Hoid gives to Kaladin and he leaves in the camps. This question was prompted by this WOB
So do we know anything about this? Can someone find where TLR is described?
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