The implications of the shattering of devotion and dominion.

[Lesser spren]

 

I don't think think we put enough focus on Elantrian investiture.

Intriguing facts

Sel is a system with many magic systems, which instead of getting power from the spiritual realm, they siphon the power directly from the Dor (the two splintered shard's power)

Elantrian magic seems is the only investiture (we know of) where the magic's power is linked directly to the practitioner's proximity to Elantris (which is curiously located next to a perpendicularity)

Sel magic seems unusually versatile even among Sel magics, allowing teleportation, illusions, transmutation, healing, energy summoning, strength/speed increase, emotion manipulation (likely via connection), among presumably many others

 

Brandon said that Elantris was an “oddball among the cosmere magic systems”

Keshu taught that “God would come to earth once all mankind was unified” unified, being a vague term

Wryn's letter to Hrathen stated that “the time for [Jaddeth’s] ascension is near” likely referring Jaddeth coming up from underground

The Fjordells seemed suspiciously interested in Destroying Elantris even when the inhabitant were, comparatively defenseless

theories

1. All the Elantrians are technically all ascended at once calling upon the directly Dor’s power using Aons as “codes” so theoretically anything a shard can do, an elantrian can do as well provided the know the correct Aons.

  That would mean an Elantrian the is the Shard so any Seons connected the an Elantrian are not longer to the person’s identity but instead to the shard itself. So when the Reod happened all the seons could only pull their connection to the physical realm from the blocked off Dor.

 

1. Wryn was not talking about “ascension”  in the literal sense but in the Shard sense. He needed all the elantrians killed so the power wouldn’t be connected to anyone alive anymore, that way the shard’s intent would let someone else bear the power totally. Maybe there are many other perpendicularities on Sel and if someone were to control, or “unify” all of them they would be able to put the shards back together and “Fully” ascend.

[Eternal Khol he/him]

31 minutes ago, Lesser spren said:

All the Elantrians are technically all ascended at once calling upon the directly Dor’s power using Aons as “codes” so theoretically anything a shard can do, an elantrian can do as well provided the know the correct Aons.

Thats exactly how ive viewed them. They have a constant connection to the power(somewhat like Vessels do)
 

They're, in a sense, kinda like Unbound mini "shards"(exept not, because they dont actully hold the power, for the most part, they're just capable of directing it in whichever manner they please)

Thats what makes them so powerful. They can actively shape whatever they want their magic to do(and they can make it do anything, as long as they know the "codes"), as opposed to a allomancer who just gets "swallow iron=push metal"

Edited February 2, 2021 by Eternal Khol

[Mr. Misting he/him]

Yeah elantrians are weird, the magic system is much less constrained because the Shards are dead and their investiture are the source. No limits were ever placed on them. I never thought of them as mini shards but that totally makes sense.

On 2/2/2021 at 3:24 PM, Lesser spren said:

Wryn was not talking about “ascension”  in the literal sense but in the Shard sense. He needed all the elantrians killed so the power wouldn’t be connected to anyone alive anymore, that way the shard’s intent would let someone else bear the power totally. Maybe there are many other perpendicularities on Sel and if someone were to control, or “unify” all of them they would be able to put the shards back together and “Fully” ascend

That is a very cool theory that I think could be very plausible. If only ten or so Elantrians were alive would they be one tenth as strong as a shard? The one question I have is when all the elantrians were taken by the Shaod, no one said that the other Sel magic systems increased in power, or maybe it just wasn't mentioned. Either way it would be very hard to ascend but this raises a lot of cool questions.