Keep up the good work dude! I'm a new Stormlight Archive fan who just finished the series (the 4 books) and am excited to read the fifth! You deserve much more credit though for your work!
Thank you for the kind words Sule! Just started the channel almost 2 weeks ago, and we're looking forward to years of creating Cosmere content and engaging with other fans.
1. I do appreciate that you pronounce it the right way. Though that sounds dumb and I will continue to pronounce it the wrong way. What fascinates me is Hoid's phrasing near the start. Now that you are essentially immortal. We already know dragons live until killed, so he was already a type of immortal. But the phrasing suggests this immortality is a new development. You wouldn't tell someone "now that you are immortal, as you have always been..." so this sounds like it means more than just, he's a dragon. For the longest time, I suspected the answer was that Frost is currently carrying Hoid's Dawnshard, the one inimical to violence and destruction. However listening to the letter again gave me a new thought. I personally think there is a Dawnshard of Be, the direct opposite of the Dawnshard Rysn bears, to Change. I think Be is the Command of stasis, the injunction for a thing to resist change. Powers like cadmium perhaps. Things like the Fifth Heightening where a person just stop changing. It seems like this might also convey immortality, perhaps in a different manner than Hoid's. I suspect Hoid's was something like Life, and it keeps him from harm by just healing any damage done to him. I think perhaps because Frost has Be, he just can't be harmed in the first place. I expect that aluminum and silver are expressions of these four primal Commands. Or, well, two of them, and then we'll find two more. Aluminum cannot be changed by Investiture (except, oddly enough, in the case of Preservation's own Investiture, the one Shard that you'd think would be most attuned to the Dawnshard of stasis. I think Aluminum and Be are related somehow. And then silver, it can be affected itself, but its touch disrupts active Investiture. Shades, sand mastery, aethers. I suspect it's connected to the opposite Dawnshard of Hoid's, the Command of destruction and death.
1. I agree it sounds worse, which is precisely why I pronounce it that way - and also the fact that it is technically correct, even if Brandon stated that it doesn't matter how you pronounce it. 2. I like your theory on the Dawnshards, it makes a lot of sense. We want to do a video on Dawnshards at some point, but a problem that we keep running into is that there is simply not a lot of information on them. We only have Rysn's Dawnshard named, and that could give us an insight into the potential names of the other 3. Since these are the primal commands that Adonalsium used to create all things suggest that we could hypothetically categorize substance, energy, and investiture into these 4 categories or (more likely) hybrids of these categories. Also, Brandon has stated that 1 of the four dawnshards behaves differently than the other 3, which is annoyingly cryptic. Since the Aethers are unrelated to Adonalsium, meaning he didn't create them or they possibly predate him, their relation to dawnshards and their reaction to silver makes me wonder how its all connected. We're cooking up a theory and script about the Shards and Dawnshards right now, so stay tuned - because this is the exact topic that has been interesting us as of late. Thanks for the essay Sule, we always welcome more theories! - Zaq
@@Lightcallers Yeah, my theory comes from two things, the fact that they were used to create all things, and the fact that they're called Commands (and, less so, because they were used to shatter Adonalsium.) Brandon likes to homage things. The Simple Rules on Threnody are based on the rules of the Sabbath in Judaism. Soulstamps are based on stamps he saw on artwork in Korea. So when it comes to something as fundamental as the creation of the universe, I look at the things in ancient myths which are intended to encompass all of existence, and one of the most classic examples happens to include an element of Change. The expression of this I happen to know best it the Greek Fates, or the faces of Hecate. Creation, Change, and Death. Now, life and death are pretty clear opposites, so if Brandon is going to balance it out and he wanted a number that worked out in math with 16, adding Be to balance Change fills in a blank space. The other part is that they are Commands. So where I look for "where does everything fit under this" is, arcana. Obviously we see the clearest example of Commands in Awakening, but I believe all arcana have them. It's just that for something like allomancy, the Command is hardcoded, you burn steel and there's just the one Command it can give, it's just the Intent of which lines you choose to Push on that toggle it on and off. Anyway I've written too long an essay again, but basically I think every Command for every arcana falls into one (or a mix of several) of the primal Commands. So we have things like hemalurgy and bloodsealing or the creation of Nightblood which all boil down to Destroy, or we have soulcasting which is Change, or Progression which is Life.
@@Lightcallers Oh, funny story about pronouncing things and Brandon's take on it. Years and years and years ago I was at an event he did in New York with two other authors (I think Paolini and Rothfuss, maybe) and we were allowed to write questions on index cards and they'd pick some of them for the authors to answer. My entire question consisted of: "Pronounce this: Sazed". Brandon got the question, stood up, and talked for nearly ten minutes on how while he has a pronunciation in his own head, we are all the final directors of the movie that plays in our minds when we read his books, and however we want to pronounce it is the right way. Then he turned to walk back to his seat and before anyone in the audience could say anything, one of the other two authors was like, "Brandon. You didn't say the word." And he turns back, shocked, and is like, oh, sorry, "say-zed".
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Keep up the good work dude! I'm a new Stormlight Archive fan who just finished the series (the 4 books) and am excited to read the fifth! You deserve much more credit though for your work!
Thank you for the kind words Sule! Just started the channel almost 2 weeks ago, and we're looking forward to years of creating Cosmere content and engaging with other fans.
1. I do appreciate that you pronounce it the right way. Though that sounds dumb and I will continue to pronounce it the wrong way.
What fascinates me is Hoid's phrasing near the start. Now that you are essentially immortal. We already know dragons live until killed, so he was already a type of immortal. But the phrasing suggests this immortality is a new development. You wouldn't tell someone "now that you are immortal, as you have always been..." so this sounds like it means more than just, he's a dragon.
For the longest time, I suspected the answer was that Frost is currently carrying Hoid's Dawnshard, the one inimical to violence and destruction. However listening to the letter again gave me a new thought.
I personally think there is a Dawnshard of Be, the direct opposite of the Dawnshard Rysn bears, to Change. I think Be is the Command of stasis, the injunction for a thing to resist change. Powers like cadmium perhaps. Things like the Fifth Heightening where a person just stop changing.
It seems like this might also convey immortality, perhaps in a different manner than Hoid's. I suspect Hoid's was something like Life, and it keeps him from harm by just healing any damage done to him. I think perhaps because Frost has Be, he just can't be harmed in the first place.
I expect that aluminum and silver are expressions of these four primal Commands. Or, well, two of them, and then we'll find two more. Aluminum cannot be changed by Investiture (except, oddly enough, in the case of Preservation's own Investiture, the one Shard that you'd think would be most attuned to the Dawnshard of stasis. I think Aluminum and Be are related somehow. And then silver, it can be affected itself, but its touch disrupts active Investiture. Shades, sand mastery, aethers. I suspect it's connected to the opposite Dawnshard of Hoid's, the Command of destruction and death.
1. I agree it sounds worse, which is precisely why I pronounce it that way - and also the fact that it is technically correct, even if Brandon stated that it doesn't matter how you pronounce it.
2. I like your theory on the Dawnshards, it makes a lot of sense. We want to do a video on Dawnshards at some point, but a problem that we keep running into is that there is simply not a lot of information on them. We only have Rysn's Dawnshard named, and that could give us an insight into the potential names of the other 3. Since these are the primal commands that Adonalsium used to create all things suggest that we could hypothetically categorize substance, energy, and investiture into these 4 categories or (more likely) hybrids of these categories. Also, Brandon has stated that 1 of the four dawnshards behaves differently than the other 3, which is annoyingly cryptic. Since the Aethers are unrelated to Adonalsium, meaning he didn't create them or they possibly predate him, their relation to dawnshards and their reaction to silver makes me wonder how its all connected. We're cooking up a theory and script about the Shards and Dawnshards right now, so stay tuned - because this is the exact topic that has been interesting us as of late.
Thanks for the essay Sule, we always welcome more theories!
- Zaq
@@Lightcallers Yeah, my theory comes from two things, the fact that they were used to create all things, and the fact that they're called Commands (and, less so, because they were used to shatter Adonalsium.)
Brandon likes to homage things. The Simple Rules on Threnody are based on the rules of the Sabbath in Judaism. Soulstamps are based on stamps he saw on artwork in Korea.
So when it comes to something as fundamental as the creation of the universe, I look at the things in ancient myths which are intended to encompass all of existence, and one of the most classic examples happens to include an element of Change. The expression of this I happen to know best it the Greek Fates, or the faces of Hecate. Creation, Change, and Death. Now, life and death are pretty clear opposites, so if Brandon is going to balance it out and he wanted a number that worked out in math with 16, adding Be to balance Change fills in a blank space.
The other part is that they are Commands. So where I look for "where does everything fit under this" is, arcana. Obviously we see the clearest example of Commands in Awakening, but I believe all arcana have them. It's just that for something like allomancy, the Command is hardcoded, you burn steel and there's just the one Command it can give, it's just the Intent of which lines you choose to Push on that toggle it on and off.
Anyway I've written too long an essay again, but basically I think every Command for every arcana falls into one (or a mix of several) of the primal Commands. So we have things like hemalurgy and bloodsealing or the creation of Nightblood which all boil down to Destroy, or we have soulcasting which is Change, or Progression which is Life.
@@Lightcallers Oh, funny story about pronouncing things and Brandon's take on it. Years and years and years ago I was at an event he did in New York with two other authors (I think Paolini and Rothfuss, maybe) and we were allowed to write questions on index cards and they'd pick some of them for the authors to answer. My entire question consisted of: "Pronounce this: Sazed". Brandon got the question, stood up, and talked for nearly ten minutes on how while he has a pronunciation in his own head, we are all the final directors of the movie that plays in our minds when we read his books, and however we want to pronounce it is the right way.
Then he turned to walk back to his seat and before anyone in the audience could say anything, one of the other two authors was like, "Brandon. You didn't say the word." And he turns back, shocked, and is like, oh, sorry, "say-zed".
@@Lightcallers I'll confess I've always thought it was just pronounce "sool". You're kinda pronouncing it like it's aonic.
Now this one is just a reference to the Jack Garrett pronunciations in the audiobook haha.
- Zaq
It is E-LAHN-TRIS and I will fight you on this 😡
Dominion and Devotion didn't splinter to have Aon Ela mispronounced 🤧
- Zaq