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Dalenthas
Does the Well of Ascension still exist in the new world? Or is it no longer necessary? I assumed that Preservation collected there like Ruin collects in the Pits of Hathsin, so if Atium keeps forming then the well should keep filling...
Brandon Sanderson
The Well (and the small wells in the Pits) is no more. For now at least.
Argent
Location of Shardpools: are they determined by the Shard, by the planet, or something else?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. *laughter* RAFO. We end on a RAFO.
TheFulgid
Is it possible to make a perpendicularity large enough that you can move large groups of people through?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Questioner 2
Or a spaceship?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Questioner
(paraphrased)
Are there one or two Shardpools [Perpendicularities] on Scadrial?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
RAFO.
clyguy
Do shardpools grant, basically, easier access into the Cognitive or Spiritual Realm--
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Questioner
What would happen if Nightblood was drawn inside of a perpendicularity?
Brandon Sanderson
It depends on the perpendicularity. It has a good chance of collapsing it.
Windrunner
As you've stated that the magic of First of the Sun is natural and independent of any particular Shard, what is the nature of the pool on Patji? Is it also a natural manifestation of magic, a perpendicularity, or simply a pool like any other?
Brandon Sanderson
It's a natural manifestation, but on a much smaller scale than you might find on other worlds.
Questioner
Does Hoid go to the same place the Elantrians are going?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Questioner
Was the Trust in [Hero of Ages] a perpendicularity?
Brandon Sanderson
So... No. Asterisk.
Questioner
Does she use the Shardpools to get between various worlds.
Brandon Sanderson
The Shardpools are the primary method that most people use to get between worlds.
Shal
<Why AonDor is not used around Shardpool? Was it a cultural thing or...?>
Brandon Sanderson
There are more than cultural reasons.
Questioner
Can you tell us anything about perpendicularities?
Brandon Sanderson
Can I tell you anything about perpendicularities? No. *laughter*
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
He RAFO'd any questions about where the Shardpools [Perpendicularities] are.
Aurimus
Is the liquid in the Well of Ascension Invested mercury? What is the chemical composition of lerasium + atium?
Brandon Sanderson
No.
RAFO!
Argent
Both times when Kaladin has had to survive a Highstorm outside, he finds himself in an area of unnatural calm. Is the eye of the Highstorm not entirely in the physical realm? I've had this feeling that the calm area pulls people into Shadesmar, at least a little...
Brandon Sanderson
This is not 100% physical realm.
Questioner
In Secret History, Nazh briefly mentioned that there's requirements or conditions to become a Cognitive Shadow. Can you tell us one of those?
Brandon Sanderson
Uh, lots of Investiture. Is one way. As a certain person discovered.
Questioner
If that person were to not have entered Preservation's pool, it still would have given the same result?
Brandon Sanderson
If they had not, they would be gone.
Questioner
I wasn't clear. If they had done a different pool, not Preservation's.
Brandon Sanderson
Oh, if they had been able to Invest themselves heavily, then they could have stuck around, yes. That wasn't Preservation's pool, that was more a function of--dipping themselves, pulling an Achilles inside of a Shardpool when you are dead, turned out to work. It's not the only way, not everyone on... Threnody, for instance, is heavily Invested.
Questioner
What about [Nightblood] compared to a Shardpool?
Brandon Sanderson
Nightblood compared to a Shardpool? Depends on the Pool.
Questioner
Do any of the worldhoppers that we've met so far-- Do they all just use this sort of perpendicularity to travel?
Brandon Sanderson
Perpendicularity is the primary way to get between planets.
Questioner
But are we going to get a conventional inter-planetary travel, like based on Allomancy maybe?
Brandon Sanderson
You have seen conventional inter-planetary travel in Arcanum Unbounded, in the story Sixth of the Dusk, which takes place many hundreds of years after most of the stories in the cosmere. So yes.
Questioner
Ok so that's where it's--
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah there's actually space travel involved in that story but not from the main characters, they just reference them, but yes.
Khyrindor
(paraphrased)
Hoid went through Cultivation's Shardpool to get to Roshar as opposed to Honor's. Yet, he notes he never got along well with Cultivation. Why did he choose her Shardpool rather than Honor's?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
You're making assumptions!
Khyrindor
(paraphrased)
Is it possible that it is Honor's?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
It's possible.
Why does Devotion's Shardpool act so differently from Preservation's?
For similar reasons to why the Dor acts so differently from Preservation's essence...
Benjamin velvel nayman
Brandon said this is the first confirmation of a second Shardpool on Sel when he signed my book.
Brandon Sanderson
There is a second Shardpool.
Questioner
So, Hoid says he couldn't use the Pits anymore, but couldn't he have used the Trust, with a lot of atium all together? Would that have not formed a Perpendicularity?
Brandon Sanderson
No. There's a reason for that.
PallonianFire
If a Shard were to divest itself from a planet, would the perpendicularity there disappear?
Brandon Sanderson
Normally the Shardpool would cease to exist, but there are circumstances that could prevent the Shardpool from disappearing.
Questioner
So I was reading the Wheel of Time and in the first one when they get to the saidin and saidar, the pools—they're very similar to Shardpools.
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, and that is something that he kind of dropped. The Eye of the World is just like pure saidin, and I would be surprised if that weren't an unconscious influence on me. I didn't think of it when I was coming up with these but that's definitely way back in my brain when I was creating these.
Questioner
I guess... At what point or which book will Sixth of the Dusk eventually tie in to?
Brandon Sanderson
So... Heh...
Questioner
And if that is unanswerable, then how many years until that book comes out?
Brandon Sanderson
It's not unanswerable, but it's a ways off. The problem is that's a weird planet, and visiting it from Shadesmar is-- it just-- in the Cosmere Collection I'll talk about that, okay? It's a weird planet, and getting to it is interesting.
Questioner
Okay...
Brandon Sanderson
There's no Shard in residence, but there's a Shardpool. But it's on... one of the most dangerous places... that exists. And so, let's just say it's not going to be relevant until you can regularly travel there somehow that doesn't involve popping up into a giant death trap.
Questioner
Okay, follow-up question though. How many people have tried to pop up, only to find out it was a death trap?
Brandon Sanderson
Go ahead and read what Khriss has to say about it.
ElephantEarwax
If Dalinar summoned his perpendicularity during a highstorm, while the perpendicularity was open, would the areas that the highstorm was over not have spheres become Invested/full of Stormlight?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO!
zas678
What would happen if Nightblood cut into a Shardpool?
Brandon Sanderson
Um, well I'm going to RAFO that for sure.
WeiryWriter
Is the Well of Ascension Preservation’s Perpendicularity? Or at least related to it (i.e. one is in the Physical Realm but the other is in the Cognitive but are still essentially different aspects of the same “thing”)?
Brandon Sanderson
You're on the right track.