Hatsfortrade

Hey! so I just finished going on the forums and I haven’t seen this come up yet. Can we confirm that when Yumi was going to the pools each morning that was Virtuosity’s perpendicularity? First I think it is highly important that she does the same ritual every day. Dip in pool of water. With meditation to keep her focused on her purpose to create art and help her people. Which with a still mind would prevent her from accessing the investure at the shard pool. Also very important to note when she left the first pool. Painter found it odd she was wet. When they first bathed together. This could exactly be investure based condensation like that seen on shard blades. Second in the book Hoid clearly makes note she is a highly invested entity. (Enough to come back as a cognitive shadow because she wanted to) but where is she getting this investiture from? Third Small note but with all this extra investiture it probably makes her stacking rocks easier. (Like a Windrunner lashing) Fourth how can we consider this as an ecology? Brandon loves to create and play out far out scenarios. We know the father machine was able to expand its pattern of acquiring investiture. After an error caused it to behave not as the scholars intended. Why not entrap a highly invested being that every day would refresh. So it created a system everyday she gets dunked and harvested for energy. Creating lies, so that she believes every day she is going to a different town. In reality if the planet was as hot as she described. A planet where people wear clogs to prevent burns. I believe normal water would be very hard if not impossible to find. I still think her creating art was a crucial step, as that was how she attracted spirits. But instead of giving it to the towns folk, she was actually giving it to the father machine. Like giving breaths. please let me know what you think!