Snipexe
Does the size-- Let's say you have a really big Aon, and you had it pretty far away from Elantris, does the size of the Aon allow it to be more powerful?
Brandon Sanderson
To an extent, yes.
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Questioner
Could you build Aons or something similar to Aons off of the natural landforms on Roshar, like the Dawncities and the other cities that are sort of symmetrical?
Brandon Sanderson
The Elantrian magic system, the Selish magic systems, are the ones that don't work very well-- don't interact very well with other worlds... Other ones are a lot more easy to interact between worlds.
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Questioner
Could an Elantrian just write an Aon above Nightblood and then use it forever?
Brandon Sanderson
Use it forever? No.
Questioner
Forever is pushing it.
Brandon Sanderson
No, no, I mean, Nightblood would destroy an Aon pretty quickly. It would pull power through it--
Questioner
It would be like trying to put too much power through a small--
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, it would just rip it up to shreds. You'd get a little use out of it. He would eat the very structure of it, if that makes any sense.
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Questioner
If all the Elantrians combined their efforts and made a massive Aon, an Aon Daa, would it be like a Death Star?
Brandon Sanderson
*laughs* To do Death Star? This would be a lot of Investiture and a lot of work. This is theoretically possible.
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Argent
Would Aons work even better if they were drawn with a cartographer's or calligrapher's attention to detail? ...If you draw a map of Arelon?
Brandon Sanderson
*long pause* Yes and no. The answer really is, it depends. I'm going to say, on average, yes.
#56
Argent
Regular Aons can be specialized and enhanced using modifiers. Can Elantris be further augmented with such modifiers?
Brandon Sanderson
Theoretically plausible.
#57
Questioner
The magic system from Elantris has a lot of drawing things, and the system from Warbreaker has a lot of colors. Would you be able to combine that, if you did a rune with colors?
Brandon Sanderson
This is possible, yes. It's an interesting combination, it would work in interesting ways.
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DoritoJH
So, AonDor is super versatile and powerful.
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, but region-locked!
DoritoJH
Yes, it is region locked, exactly. If a full Feruchemist using nicrosil were to create an unlocked medallion that allowed an Elantrian to store Connection to Elantris' location, would it let them use AonDor at full power as long as they were tapping that Connection?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. That should work just fine.
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Just understand that the medallion's going to have to be usable by everyone in order to work. You're going to have to jump through some hoops, but I think what you want there would work. And for those of you listening, that would be the harder way to unlock AonDor. There are easier methods.
#59
Michael Rap
We know that Soulcasters who Soulcast long enough become savants, and that manifests physically. Is what happens to people during the Shaod physically related to savantism?
Brandon Sanderson
"Related?" You gotta watch out for terms like that in detailed Cosmere questions because of course they're "related." Are they "related" in a significant way that you should draw parallels between? Probably not. They're related in that being highly Invested does things to you, so yes. But savanthood is a different style of your Spiritual DNA being rewritten. I mean, that is what's happening, when you're becoming Elantrian, so... how about I give a "halfway in between significant and insignificant?" Moderately significant relationship between these two things, but not a direct relationship.
Sorry, that terminology is kind of weird for me to parse with "Is it related".