Eternal Khol

Just wouldn't have the same ring to it if it ended up being The Fires of Jalorpalorp, or something like that

Was it not the “Fifth god”? which Topaz learns right before his head is cut off, is actually Emperor Aronack

It seems to me that the getting drawn into the Beyond happens after one dies, obivously, and their spiritweb starts to “dissolve”. Their dissolving Spiritweb being the last thing holding/tying them to the Cosmere A things presence in the three realms, Spiritual mostly, is kind of what gives it existence/meaning/form in the cosmere. And after one dies, their spiritweb, what made them, them…. start to dissolve away, and when none is left, their mind, it feels like to me, who know what it is, is sucked to the Beyond. its possible that when a Shadow is made, nothing is actually sent to the beyond at that time and their reinvoigoration through Investiture just firmly latches their mind/being back to the Cosmere. They are changed, of course, but could maybe still be the same person. If the OG does get sucked to the beyond and the Shadow is just a “copy” i have this idea in my head of after a Shadow dies(if Shadows also go Beyond after they “die”), going to the Beyond and just…. Meeting and chilling with the OG, theirself, and recounting all they had done after the OGs death XD

With the public release of Dragonsteel Prime and knowing that Aether of Night was supposed to be set in the future after DS Prime, apparentely even having some of the same characters... i have been on the lookout for any conenctions and I thought id make this post to theorize and discuss on potential Conenctions ill spoiler the DS Prime info(not sure if i need to? Just being safe though) To start off, I Imagine that the "Shards" in Aether of Night are probably the characters from DS Prime that Brandon was talking about(Hoid is also apparentely in the book... but i dont think anyone has ever found him... so that might just be Brandon misremembering...) DS Prime spoilers Another interesting potential connection i found is that In Aether we find out that during their battle the Fell Twins used their powers(Order & Chaos) to create different "tools" to aide their side in the battle... which culminated in them eventually creating the Night and Illuminous Aethers which are said to be Order and Chaos(the raw power of creation...) in their pure forms... which The Former says was forbidden to men... DS Prime spoilers I havent done a proper reread of Aether since DS Prime's release so thats all i can think of off the top of my head... what connections have you found?

I took that not to mean that their gestation period is insanely long but that the Sho Del numbers are dwindling and if she became an adult, Du Len would pretty much be forced to spend the next 20 years pushing out kid after kid to help perpetuate their race. I dont know, even if someone doesnt know what fain is youd think that a massive bone white tree in the middle of a forest of greenery would merit a mention or some reaction. I always imagined their second set of arms as being like Stitch's from Lilo & Stitch lol. Coming out of the body under the first set, around the waist/ribcage area.

That does seem to be the case... i just wish wed get more of a confirmation. A DS Prime spoiler stream would be awesome! but i get there probably wouldnt be much demand now that its not canon

Yes sir

Good catch! The way the magic is initiated is supposed to reflect the Intent of the Shard(s) as Brandon's said he doesnt want a Shards magic to be limited to its Intent, in what it can do, otherwise the magic itself would be rather limited.

It definitely could be with Brandon saying there is "a" Dawnshard in this book(Hoid is obvi one).... but i cant get out of my head that Frost stated that Hoid has "the power of life" and Jerick "the power of destruction" Doruse also mentions watching over "the source of power'... and Aronacks response is "so thats where he came from?" like there was a Dawnshard or something was present in the village and Jerick found it.

Thats what ive been thinking as well! along those lines anyway. I saw a theory on reddit where someone was thinking that maybe Dragons were "cursed" to have or spend part of their life in human form.. but i was thinking the opposite. That Dragons are just like that. Naturally magical, immortal and having a human form. id also think, if anything, that Dragons as a race are probably older than humans as a race, so if anything, humans are based off of a Dragons "mortal" form The Creation story and some other bits definitely suggest so imo Maybe Adonalsium, for in all their perfectness, saw a flaw in them.. maybe he wanted to created non-divine beings so that they could eventually elevate to and fully appreciate divinity themselves? or even just mortality? edit: the Iriali religion of The One is kinda popping into my head?

Oh wow. So he came up with it pretty much right after HoA. Kinda new to us. but def not new. I saw that WoB too but totally missed the 2009 part at the end

I was looking through WoB's for a specific one and came across this interesting one regarding Atium that i think suggests Brandon had the Atium retcon in mind since at least 2010 The questioner asks what a Atium-Lerasium alloy would do and Brandon goes on to describe Atium as granting "you a glimpse into the vision of everything - past, present, future" We know that the Atium in Era 1 only granted a limited vision of the future not "a glimpse into the vision of everything - past, present, future" So Brandon probably has had the Atium retcon in mind for going on 15 years now Just thought it was interesting and id share https://wob.coppermind.net/events/291/#e9448

I was just thinking of this not 5 minutes ago.... had some theory or idea, regarding Hemalurgy, pop into my head but it totally went out the window when i thought "hemalurged" XD

yeah, I probably should.... but DS Prime was never traditionally published or edited and was written so long ago, so i didnt want to just follow suit and just not label it as narrator/third person omniscent just because the published books dont have those kinds of PoV's.(White Sand Prose and, like i noted, Mythwalker, which were both written directly after DS Prime also have Narrator PoV's) There are a couple PoV's that are def the narrator/third person omniscent, so i dont want to knock the idea that these PoV's might be as well

Mythwalker's Prologue has a third person omniscent PoV https://www.brandonsanderson.com/warbreaker-prime-mythwalker-prologue/ But, yeah, Jerick and Frost are who i was thinking on the first two as well. Not so sure on the last one