Seons, why are they still around after the Reod

[Leon]

ok, i hate it when people prefece with this, but i went a few pages deep and didnt see hardly anything about elantris let alone this specific topic...

Why do the Seons live on after the Reod, if the core of thier existanse is an Aon and the Aons power left when the earthquake happened and fundementaly chagned the Aon's then how do the seons keep living?

this may be answered later on in the book, im just doing my first re-read and seeing Ien float around amelessly got me wondering.

[darxbane]

My guess is that their link to their master keeps them sane.

[Reaves]

I think its because the Aons didn't completely lose their power. Galladon (that is his name, right? its been a while...) could still draw the Aons before the Dor was fixed, even though they couldn't do anything, similar to the way the Aons just floated around aimlessly, not doing anything.

[Miyabi]

I actually think Brandon explained this a long time ago in some thread, I don't have a link though, but I do remember the explanation.

When a Seon is made there is a bunch of energy that is stored in them.  That energy is what keeps them alive and allows them to function the way that they do.  So the affecting of the Dor wouldn't cause them to lose power, however when their owner is afflicted with the Shaod they are then connected back to the Dor and its ruined state causes them to go insane.

[Leon]

Thanks for all the responses!

based off what you said, does that mean that the Aons could have run out of power had Raodin not figured out how to let the Dor flow again?

[GreenMonsta]

I don't think they would have lost their power because it never seemed to be degrating. It just changed. the way the aeon's were being drawn was still drawing some power just not enough to get any desired effect. Seeing how the aeon's and the seons maintined their power after the initial change of the aeon's form it seems likely that further power loss would not happen. That is of course if there were no more earthquakes.

[Comatose]

Perhaps the Seons also keep working because they are a piece of a shard?

That whole stored energy thing sounds a lot like lifeless creation by the way.

[Leon]

Perhaps the Seons also keep working because they are a piece of a shard?

That whole stored energy thing sounds a lot like lifeless creation by the way.

from what i understand of shards, so far there physical manifestations have either been lakes or actual people.  The four that i think we have seen are ruin/preservation in mistborn (the well of assention had a lake, and i believe so did the pits) the lake outside elantris and i assume that Jaddeth has a lake under ground somewhere.