Koloss17 She/They Posted August 1, 2020 Posted August 1, 2020 What the heck is Shuden? There was a trail of light coming from his hand and he snapped some necks of the Dakhor monks. I’m sorry if this was posted before, which it most likely has.
--delete-- Posted August 1, 2020 Posted August 1, 2020 Shuden is just a person from JinDo. The light has to do with ChayShan: https://coppermind.net/wiki/ChayShan
Koloss17 She/They Posted August 2, 2020 Author Posted August 2, 2020 I checked and there was not much known about chayshan. All I could find is just that page but no more info. Is there more information to be had about ChayShan?
Weltall Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 No, but there's enough information about other magic systems on Sel that we can make some practical guesses. Like, he's not unique in being able to do that and it really is largely a question of training (no system we've seen a lot of details on has single practitioners) and ChayShan would be even more effective closer to JinDo as all Selish magic droops off in power at distance. Elantris is about as far from the borders of JinDo as it is from Teoras and we saw how Raoden's strength with AonDor fell off a cliff. We're likely to learn more about pretty much everything to do with Sel whenever Brandon writes the planned sequels.
Tglassy Posted August 3, 2020 Posted August 3, 2020 My assumption is that Sel magic works by mimicing the land itself. So Aon's look like the landscape around Elantris. Dakor (sp?) monks grow their bones in shapes to resemble their homeland, which infuses their bodies with power. My assumption was that Chayshan is a body movement, where they are sort of tracing out their landscape, similar to Aons but differently.
Weltall Posted August 4, 2020 Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) All the magic systems that we know of have some sort of representation of their region. Aons have geographic elements in their designs (that the geography suddenly changed was the entire problem afflicting the magic), soulstamps have a representation of MaiPon on the reverse side and the Dakhor monks' bones are apparently based on ancient Fjordell characters. ChayShan presumably has something like that as well, whether it's some small part of the initial motions or the broad patterns Shuden makes or somewhere in between. Edited August 4, 2020 by Weltall
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