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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Warbreaker: Free Ebook
« on: July 20, 2009, 12:31:42 AM »
I wonder if you could use Hemalurgy to steal Breath?
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Understood, but as I have said multiple times, I gave plenty of compliments at the beginning of the post.
I think that it is also very important to remember a previous theory from this board about Endowment. The Tears of Hallendren are very similar to Atium. They can only grow in that place, have an integral part in the magic system and provide the economy that Hallendren rests on. The proximity to the tears and their dyes could also affect Endowments ability to return people.
I agree, the Pool is linked to the Dor. Now, more importantly, how is it linked to the Dor.
Alendi's "Piercings of the Hero"?
The other lake in Alendi's bumps?
Spook gets repaired, does Cett get his legs?
Was there ever anything to Reen's obsidian?
2) A manifestation of Ruin's gathered consciousness, much like the dark mists in book two. The lake was still around in Vin's era, but had been moved under ground. (Note that the Well is a very similar manifestation. You've also seen one other manifestation like this....)
I don't think that the Dor and the Pool are the same thing, though you may be right about the Warbreaker shard. It seems that the Dor is just an energy with nothing guiding it any more, and if something was guiding the Dor, they would want it released. The Pool wanted to let Raoden relax, let him die in peace, but he refused because he saw a way to bring back Elantris.
You're conflating the power with the person, just because the Dor's power is straining to be used doesn't mean the person won't want to end the agony of a Hoed, or formerly Hoed, Elantrian. Besides, the Pool struck me as very similar to the Well of Ascension (Preservation's Pool) and the Black Pool (presumably Ruin's) that Alendi saw. With this I would conclude that the Pool near Elantris was the Dor's body (as the WoA was Preservation's), and the voice Raoden heard in the Pool was the Dor's voice.
Ookla, I don't see why there should be. Alendi's Diary has reliability issues, but I could certainly check the descriptions of the Well and the Pool to see.
This is not entirely accurate. Lerasium and atium are, respectively, Preservation and Ruin's "bodies". Wasn't the Well of Ascension part of Preservation's Cognitive part? I seem to remember something like that.
Also, if Ruin, Preservation, and Endowment are any basis, whatever Shard(s) in Elantris would have a similar abstract concept.
I don't think that the Dor and the Pool are the same thing, though you may be right about the Warbreaker shard. It seems that the Dor is just an energy with nothing guiding it any more, and if something was guiding the Dor, they would want it released. The Pool wanted to let Raoden relax, let him die in peace, but he refused because he saw a way to bring back Elantris.
Perhaps "Tranquility"? That's the best I can think of thus far, having not read Elantris in a long time. A Shard wanting peace and harmony like that would probably be immensely passive in its magic. Maybe.
There are other possibilities for which four Shards we are missing. I'm going to start a long-winded post on the subject right now
I don't think that the Dor and the Pool are the same thing, though you may be right about the Warbreaker shard. It seems that the Dor is just an energy with nothing guiding it any more, and if something was guiding the Dor, they would want it released. The Pool wanted to let Raoden relax, let him die in peace, but he refused because he saw a way to bring back Elantris.