Taika Vinh
Aes Sedai
Interesting thought about Soulcasting! I think it might very well be something along what you wrote. And what if Shallan's drawing ability, which was at least once described as capturing the soul of things was related to soulcasting somehow. I don't know if it's only a figure of speech, though (the capturing of soul). If it's like you said, that things have an essence (somewhat like in Platonic forms), the people able to soulcast somehow understand and change it. So Shallan's ability to capture souls would be understanding and representing without changing? (Might be a bit over the top though ) I'm wondering if the soulcasting could be done to living things... Would be really scary.
From this on I'm writing about things that happen until chapter 28, sorry!
Anyway, I've now read chapter 28 (sorry, got caught up and couldn't stop...) and so far I've only noticed not-living things being soulcast into something else. Mostly rocks - into smoke, food. And human excrement into smoke too. And it was just mentioned that some Lighteyes that died in the battle were soulcast into statues. But does somebody remember how (or from what) did they soulcast the barracks and other buildings in the Shattered Plains? Air?
Ah, the Shattered Plains. Kaladin said they were not natural, and later Dalinar looks at the map of them and ponders about patterns - he's sure there's a pattern in them, but can't see it (because the maps don't show them completely). I'm certain we'll get some major info about that later. Could the skin of the Parshendi (described as marbled red and black) somehow relate to the shattered plains "pattern"? Also the Parshendi apparently know more about the Plains than the Alethi. Where do they come from, what's the singing at battle, where did they get the Shards, what for did they start the war? But that's one of the major mysteries of the whole series, and I don't think we have enough info about them to start speculating credibly. I wonder if Jasnah's theory (in the end part of the whole book) about the Parshendi and parshmen is correct...
From this on I'm writing about things that happen until chapter 28, sorry!
Anyway, I've now read chapter 28 (sorry, got caught up and couldn't stop...) and so far I've only noticed not-living things being soulcast into something else. Mostly rocks - into smoke, food. And human excrement into smoke too. And it was just mentioned that some Lighteyes that died in the battle were soulcast into statues. But does somebody remember how (or from what) did they soulcast the barracks and other buildings in the Shattered Plains? Air?
Ah, the Shattered Plains. Kaladin said they were not natural, and later Dalinar looks at the map of them and ponders about patterns - he's sure there's a pattern in them, but can't see it (because the maps don't show them completely). I'm certain we'll get some major info about that later. Could the skin of the Parshendi (described as marbled red and black) somehow relate to the shattered plains "pattern"? Also the Parshendi apparently know more about the Plains than the Alethi. Where do they come from, what's the singing at battle, where did they get the Shards, what for did they start the war? But that's one of the major mysteries of the whole series, and I don't think we have enough info about them to start speculating credibly. I wonder if Jasnah's theory (in the end part of the whole book) about the Parshendi and parshmen is correct...
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