Ripheus23 Posted August 10, 2019 Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 In my quest to imagine unusual endgames for the cosmere, I have been drawn more and more to the idea of the Dor as a focal point for a "final threat." One impression I have is that the Dor as it stands amounts to a mass of Investiture-gravity, one that can form not only a perpendicularity (as it has?) but possibly something that could draw other dead Shards into itself, from across the cosmere. This would depend on the physics of perpendicularities, which the texts don't contain enough information on yet, even with WoBs. OTOH... The Set is extremely clearly related (inspirationwise) to Cantor's set theory. Mathematics is important to the cosmere (well, it's important to everything; but narratively speaking, it's a major theme of the saga). AonDor is an example of a magic system that revolves explicitly around mathematics as such. There are people "waiting to see what happens with"/hack the Dor. So... My theory is that there might end up being a "scramble for Sel," like the European "scramble for Africa," where different spacefaring systems go to Sel to try to take advantage of the mathemagic in order to unlock the infinite power of infinite sets. Not necessarily to reconstitute Adonalsium, but maybe to just replace him... At any rate, to either divert or control the Shards as they stand? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karger he/him Posted August 11, 2019 Report Share Posted August 11, 2019 13 hours ago, Ripheus23 said: (as it has? Yes at least one(it is in Elantris). 13 hours ago, Ripheus23 said: e Dor as it stands amounts to a mass of Investiture-gravity, The Door is the CR. The CR is basically two dimensional. I am not sure that anything there can produce any gravity(How would that work? If one idea gets too big do other ideas start being pulled into it?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara she/her Posted August 11, 2019 Report Share Posted August 11, 2019 2 hours ago, Karger said: The CR is basically two dimensional. It's not two dimensional, it's just flat and consecutive. But it has length, width and height. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halyo_Alex he/him Posted August 11, 2019 Report Share Posted August 11, 2019 the CR isn't 2d, it's just that the lack of cognitive presence in outer space means that there's basically nothing for the CR to be based on so the distances get massively condensed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karger he/him Posted August 11, 2019 Report Share Posted August 11, 2019 2 hours ago, RShara said: It's not two dimensional, it's just flat and consecutive. But it has length, width and height. Source of the "sort of." In the physical realm gravity is caused by masses that warp the space but I am not sure how that would work in the CR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripheus23 Posted August 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2019 Well the Dor is starting to make the surface of Sel come alive or what so maybe there would be a mass perpendicularity bleedthrough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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