PallonianFire

Thanks! I've generally had pretty good luck with questions over the years, but it's mostly cuz I try not to ask too much forward-thinking stuff. If I more or less know that the answer will be a literal RAFO in a future book, I avoid it. Not foolproof, but it helps.

Okay, I just asked my buddy (who asked the question for me), and he said that "Brandon said he'd already given it away." So I'm really not sure what that means, considering that he just gave us Ambition. Did someone get a WoB about the Vessel that escaped our notice here?

The sky is literally broken in two. Dayside and Darkside. The Cognitive Realm appearance of a planet is tied to how the inhabitants perceive the planet, and if half of Taldain views it as dark and half views it as light...well, broken sky.

On the original topic, I got a WoB on Shards moving on: Basically, it doesn't really tell us anything about SotD (and honestly I was thinking about my theory that Autonomy has left Taldain), but I'd say it's more likely the perpendicularity there wasn't made by a Shard and then left behind, especially with this WoB (emphasis mine): That makes it sound like a spontaneous phenomenon, not the creation of a Shard.

Taldain. I'm telling you, Broken Sky is Taldain.

Holy cow, that is quite a thought. If there's a Shard in Silverlight, they could have a perpendicularity that just opens into vacuum. I admit that my impression of the endmap was that it was an interpretation, since it has the actual constellations painted around the stars and has lines and whatnot connecting them. So if they had knowledge of relative directions of the systems from the accompanying Physical Realm location of Silverlight's CR location, they could have made it from that perspective. If that makes any sense at all.

Well, there's still a sky in the CR, right? And stars (based on the cold sun in Shadesmar).

Okay, full compilation of the WoBs I got at this event. Two are from me during a video chat, four are questions Lauren recorded and sent to me, and the Bavadin/Ambition RAFOs are paraphrased from my friends. Recorded/verbatim Q: Is Nalan using his original Honorblade, or did he bond a spren? A: He's using his original Honorblade. But there's an asterisk here that will come up in Oathbringer. Q: Does Silverlight exist solely in the Cognitive Realm? A: Yes. Q: Were the planets in the Threnodite System named like that in response to Ambition's demise? A: It is not a coincidence that so many of the planets have to do with songs of mourning or passing, in that system. So, you are on to something. (Note: This was kinda, sorta not helpful, since my orginal Threnody was a Shard theory was built on the WoB I got on the Calamity tour re: Threnody being named in memorial of someone.) Q: What does the Red Rip look like in the Cognitive Realm? A: So this is a RAFO, in part because I haven't revealed if there are any planets out there. (Note: Brandon totally knew where I was trying to go with this one, and he doesn't want to let us know if Yolen is part of the constellation.) Q: If a Shard were to divest itself from a planet, would the perpendicularity there disappear? A: Normally the shardpool would cease to exist, but there are circumstances that could prevent the shardpool from disappearing. Paraphrased Q: Was Bavadin nonhuman? A: RAFO. There is at least one Shard who wasn't human, but I'm not ready to reveal who was or wasn't just yet. Q: What was the name of Ambition's Vessel? A: RAFO And another from my video chat with Brandon... EDGEDANCER SPOILERS:

Hah, that was my cousin who asked that. I gave him a "smh" text when he told me lol

Yep. And now we know which one it was! I mean, I assumed Nale was using his, but we couldn't be certain that he hadn't just bonded a spren.

The big discussion on the Shard is going on here.

I'll be absolutely floored if Broken Sky isn't Taldain. The sky there is literally split in two.

Seems Brandon is making a habit of not having Hoid appear on-screen in novellas. M:SH is the only one he's in, and that's a bit of a special story.

Just got a WoB on this. Doesn't really give us an answer, but it does tell us something:

Video chatted in from London: Q: Is Nalan using his original Honorblade, or did he bond a spren? A: He's using his original Honorblade. But there's an asterisk here that will come up in Oathbringer. Edgedancer spoilers:

Big WoB incoming! Had my fiancée ask in Fort Collins if Silverlight exists solely in the Cognitive Realm... ...and the answer is YES!

I'm with you here. I wear contacts, not glasses, but I am exceedingly near-sighted and that fact has become completely ingrained in my identity. I could totally see Renarin having that perspective of himself and identifying as someone with glasses/poor eyesight. He could easily view it not as a "wound" or "infirmity," but just another aspect of himself, like having light eyes.

Nalan had Nightblood in WoR and didn't show any evidence of afterimages.

I prefer Bavadin as both the singular and the plural lol (though Bavadi is also amusing).

We've seen Nalan Surgebind, so no, the Heralds are not Bavadin. Besides, we have WoB that the Heralds are native to Roshar.

Retcon. Originally, Hoid was looking for the Well. But Brandon realized after the fact that with the Pits destroyed, the Well was the only accessible perpendicularity on Scadrial and he had to change it. Essentially, the new official explanation is that Hoid got caught up in events that he wasn't expecting and ended up in the Terris Dominance.

As an aside and slightly off topic, I should note that, of all the planets we've seen, I feel like First of the Sun would have the most Cognitive Realm presence for its oceans. It's got lots of things that hunt based on Cognitive presence, after all. And we don't know how intelligent those huge things in the water really are, though they have to be pretty Cognitively active.

And now we need to come up with a term for a group of Bavadin. I do kinda like pantheon, actually. A murder of crows. A herd of cows. A crowd of people. A pantheon of Bavadin.

I got a WoB from Brandon years ago that that Trell was connected to the religions on Scadrial. So he's definitely important, and that connection was the basis for my firm conviction that Trell in Era 2 is Autonomy.

Selish magics are more or less unique in the Cosmere in their location-based restrictions, though. I don't think using AonDor is a good point of reference for why Surgebinding would be inaccessible for a non-Rosharan. All you need is to attract a spren and form a Nahel bond (though I should mention that I definitely don't think Stump is Vivenna, or from Nalthis at all).