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Brandon Sanderson / Re: *Spoilers* General Shard List
« on: October 16, 2010, 07:47:50 PM »
If we go back to the main shard phrase we were using before WoK, the two we've met (Endowment and the Pool in Elantris), the one we've seen the power (Skai with the Dakhor?), that leaves one we'd seen the influence of, but left, presumably Odium.

This leads to a bit of a quandary though, as if Odium had already been on Sel when Elantris occurred, then Aona and Skai are already dead. If that's the case, how can one of them be speaking to Raoden in the pool?

This leads to two theories from me:
1. The events of Elantris happened after Odium came and destroyed Skai and Aonas conciousness and splintered their shards. The splinters became the Elantrians and the Dakhor monks. The power of the shards remained in them, and the Elantrians collected what used to be the body of the shard into a pool. When one falls into this pool, it receives the general characteristics of the shard (like release), without having a specific conciousness attached to it. The earthquake occurred after Odium had already left due to simple tectonic plate movement, altering the splintered shard with no set conciousness to fix it.


2. The events of Elantris occured before Odium came. It is the conciousness of Aona that speaks to Raoden in the pool, much like the conciousness of Ruin spoke to Vin. In this case, we haven't seen the 4th shard spoken of above, because it isn't on Sel.  It is on the Warbreaker planet, and wants to take away life such as Endowment likes to give life. As a result, many of the Wars seen on the planet have been particularly bloody, like the Manyyears (or whatever it was called) War, and the war Lightsong dreamed about. We saw its influence in driving the Pahn Kahl to attept to get an Idris-Hallandren War.

Personally, the second theory makes more sense to me as far as Elantris goes, though I'm kind of taking a wild shot in the dark as far as the influence shard would go.

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But if these people died, we'd lose pretty well all the most interesting characters in the series.

Like EODO, the only character on the list that I really didn't like was Roshone. I really liked Sadeas throughout the book, and the Taravingian reveal at the end is awesome. 

In fact, I can't help but like Taravingian. Here's a guy who believes in the Almighty, as evidenced by his debate with Jasnah early in the book, knows he's completely dooming himself by his actions to whatever doom these guys believe in, and yet continues his actions because he believes his saving the world. And for all we know, he might be right with what he's doing. He calls these people his dear friends, and is still willing to sacrifice them. Evil? Completely. But he might be just what the world needs at this point.

Yeah, I would much prefer a Taravingian book to a Shallan, Adolin, or another Kaladin book, but I don't think it's happening. Some characters need to remain mysterious.

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