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10 books really?
So very un-Sanderson like
So very un-Sanderson like
And stop posting sooooo much...I think I might finally be able to start reading in a week or so and there's already four pages of discussion to read too!
Ysterday I found something that might give us a better clue about how the Voidbringers, Parshendi, parshmen, chasmfiends et co are related to each other:
Chapter 36 the quote before the actual chapter (bolding mine):
It could mean there are voidish creatures that are not mortal, and that there are different voidish "races". Do we actually know if the Parshendi die of old age? (Obviously they die in the battle). What do you all make of this? I'm also starting to think that spren are somehow connected to the highstorms too. Could they also be voidish creatures - they are not mortal in any case. And there are no spren and no highstorms in Shinovar, for example.
Born from the darkness, they bear its taint still, marked upon their bodies [marbled skin?] much as the fire marks their souls.
Death upon the lips. [?] Sound upon the air. [singing?] Char upon the skin. [the marbled skin]
Did a goblet, of all things, have a soul? - - She'd taken the light from the sphere and given it to the goblet - the spren of the goblet - as a bribe to transform. Was that how Soulcasting worked? [Shallan]
Not sure why you'd have your limb broken off for an idea...Nice finds Taika Sedai! I'm really enjoying the re-read
I've been thinking about the Cosmere and the Parshendi, and it seems like there are some similarities to the Koloss in Mistborn. They both have an odd skin type, they both are very private about their dead. Is the singing a type of Soothing? The Koloss could be controlled by Soothing, maybe the Parshendi can be controlled somehow? It's just a thought I wanted to put out there, though the limb may have broke off on me :P
That's correct. While the Parshmen are capable of speech, they almost never talk (that we know of).the Parshendi are singing, while the parshmen do not (I think?)
- and I think he also saw the place where the Parshendi live:"as if something very large had hit them at the center, sending rippling breaks outward"
Or the Parshmen could be a receiver of sorts, or some kind of spying device in the middle of Alethi (and other human) communities. Specially if they have a group-consciousness, as I think they do."There was a large plateau at the center, but with the darkness and the distance, he could not see much. There were lights, though. Someone lived there."
Shallan froze, realizing for the first time what she'd been drawing. Not another scene from the alleyway, but a lavish room with a thick, ornamented rug and swords on the walls. A long dining table, set with a half-eaten meal.
And a dead man in fine clothing, lying face-first on the floor, blood pooling around him. She jumped back, tossing aside the charcoal, then crumpled up the paper. Shaking, she moved over and sat down on the bed among the pictures. Dropping the crumpled drawing, she raised her fingers to her forehead, feeling the cold sweat there.
Something was wrong with her, with her drawings.
So, my first thought was this was the scene of her father's death (BTW I cannot remember if that's ever confirmed). But her reaction doesn't totally make sense with that. Thinking there's something wrong with her drawings doesn't seem to make sense with drawing a scene she witnessed and was scared by when she's already in a scared state of mind. To me, it makes more sense that she drew a scene she had never actually witnessed, that she was either seeing something that happened somewhere else, or foretelling something that was going to happen.