Malim

Greetings all,

I've been a long time reader of these forums, but just now decided to come out of the shadows. 

I discovered Mr Sanderson through his work on TWoT series.  I was crushed when Robert Jordan died and was worried that any other author wouldn't be able to bring the series to a good conclusion.  When I found out that Brandon had been picked I went out and got a copy of Elantris and became hooked.

I love all the theories and discussions on these boards.  They keep the fan boy in me under control enough to wait for the next book, so keep 'em coming!

See you all in the forums

I would argue that Shallan's powers won't belong to the Lightweaver order for 2 reasons.

1. I hold that Shallan's 2 powers are Transformation, and her memory-type ability that she uses for drawing (though I'm sure there is more to it)

 

I actually see this as evidence for Shallan being a lightweaver.  From what we have seen of lightweaving, it involves creating illusions, etc.  Bending or translating light if you will.  Shallan's artisic ability strikes me as another form of this.  She takes a "Memory" ie a mental photograph, and translates it into an exact drawing.  Interestingly it seems to work on things that cannot normally be seen (the truthspren).  While this might simply be transformation, it seems to me that the Lightweaving we have seen also involves transformation: Hoid's fire became a picture show.

Also, Hello all from a long time lurker