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Questioner
Are the Unmade the analogs to Heralds?
Brandon Sanderson
There is certainly something similar going on there. Be aware that it's not a one-to-one correlation, that they're not exactly the same. For instance: Many of the- the Unmade are referenced by Taravangian in this, and he uses a phrase for them, and that is correct, that's what they are.
The Unmade were "made" or are Unmade because they have never been made? It would be 2 different words in Spanish. Thank you.
That is a good question. I assumed they had never been made but it's possible it is the other.
Argent
(paraphrased)
Is the number of Unmade fixed?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Yes.
Argent
(paraphrased)
Is it ten, is it ten, is it ten, is it ten, is it ten?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Is it ten? No, it's not ten.
Chaos
At JordanCon, you said that Gavilar's black sphere was something that, "It's what you expect it to be." Does that mean that it's holding an Unmade?
Brandon
Not necessarily. Voidlight can be trapped like Stormlight can. Unmade can be trapped like spren can. Does not mean that the sphere has an Unmade.
Questioner
Are the Unmade seeking anything on Roshar?
Brandon Sanderson
The Unmade, are they seeking anything? Technically yes.
Questioner
And are they attracted to something on Roshar?
Brandon Sanderson
Um, yeees.
Questioner
They are both of the above. And also you said--
Brandon Sanderson
The Unmade are not all necessarily sapient. Keep that in mind. Not sapient always in the way that we think of sapience.
Pagerunner
The Starfall vision. Ten Deaths, referring to the Midnight Essence. That's what the one Radiant said, they're the Ten Deaths. Is that the Unmade, the Ten Deaths.
Brandon Sanderson
Well, there's nine Unmade, so...
Chaos
Do you need a perfect gemstone to imprison an Unmade or a powerful spren?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah. Well, the stronger the spren, the better the gemstone needs to be. Those flaws in the crystal structure are going to lead to leaking if it's not. But an Unmade requires an extra-special level of perfection.
Jeremy
(paraphrased)
There are hints in Words of Radiance that the Thrill is tied to an individual entity that Taravangian has studied, possibly one of the Unmade. Does this have anything to do with the hints of why the Knights Radiant turned away? Were the Unmade some of those who did whatever-it-was that tore them apart?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
[This is the one where he stopped me partway through asking, probably due to the wording]. Does it have anything to do with it? Yes. Is it the root cause or the primary reason? I'm not going to reveal that right now.
asmodeus
(paraphrased)
Would the Unmade correspond to the various Knight Radiant Orders by philosophy? Would Odium's champion be his equivalent to the Bondsmiths?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
No, the varieties of the Fused do that. It's not 1-to-1, but think of the Unmade as the analogs of Heralds. Odium has no Bondsmith Analog.
Questioner
Are the Unmade and the spheres that contain them only on Roshar or are they in other planets in the cosmere?
Brandon Sanderson
You need to rephrase that question a little bit. Ask me again, remembering there's a big difference between the Rosharan system and the rest of the cosmere. There's three planets in the Rosharan system.
Questioner
*Gestures* Particularly in these ones.
Brandon Sanderson
It's possible that Unmade influence and existence would extend beyond Roshar.
Blightsong
Was Sadeas ever affected directly by Odium or an Unmade, not counting the Thrill?
Brandon Sanderson
NOT counting the Thrill, ok uhhhhm. There are affects of other unmade around, and Odium's effect - direct effect? I'm going to say, no, maybe some indirect effects.
Blightsong
What about Roshone?
Brandon Sanderson
Uhhhm, no. The Thrill is the main thing that is getting the Alethi so, I mean, there are others around, but it's not as obvious with that as with other things.
dvoraen
Excluding Midnight Essence from Re-Shephir, have we seen at least two examples of the Unmade creating spren that people dismiss as normal, uncorrupted spren? (One type in The Way of Kings, one in Oathbringer, specifically.)
Brandon Sanderson
Humans are not terribly good at determining whether a spren has been touched by Re-Shephir. (That's a yes.)
Blightsong
Did you mean Sja-Anat or can that Unmade also affect Spren in a similar, if not the same, manner?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, that was just me typing too fast.
XS-Terrain
Also, does each of the Unmade have a corresponding order of the Knights Radiant?
Brandon Sanderson
Eh... Kind of.
XS-Terrain
Ok. So there are nine Unmade right, so which one is left out?
Brandon Sanderson
Bondsmith. But it's not as one to one, there's some fuzziness in there.
dvoraen
"To see the future originates with the Unmade..." "Voidbinding is a dark and evil thing, and the soul of it was to try to divine the future." Is it therefore safe to say that Voidbinding, by extension, also originates with the Unmade?
Brandon Sanderson
Not always. But usually.
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
1) The Nightwatcher and Stormfather are parallel entities such that Nighwatcher:Cultivation :: Stormfather:Honor.
2) There is sort of a parallel for Odium, but the parallel is the various Unmade instead of a single entity.
3) They are parallel in that they are all Splinters.
4) The Unmade are voluntary Splinters, because Odium ("like almost all of the other Shards") voluntarily Splintered part of it's power.
5) The Stormfather is different from the others because it's a Sliver.
He also signed my WoR and I asked him to write something about the Unmade:"Most of the Unmade are not what we would call sapient. But a few are different..."
Questioner
You've previously said that Nightblood is the most powerful non-Shardic being in the Cosmere. Is he more powerful than the Unmade or Stormfather in terms of raw Investiture?
Brandon Sanderson
Raw Investiture? Here's the thing, when you say powerful, it can mean lots of different things. More raw Investiture than the Stormfather... probably not. Than the Unmade, probably. I would have to look, I don't have the numbers on this. But the Stormfather is very restricted in what he can do.
Questioner
Someone asked you last year if the Unmade could be bonded and you said technically yes. Have we seen any evidence of this, or will we?
Brandon Sanderson
Uhh, you-- Eh-- Not yet, no. It doesn't really happen. Technically it could but it just doesn't really happen.
AmbiguousPuzuma
In Chapter 19 of The Way of Kings, when Dalinar has a vision of fighting Voidbringers (maybe something else?) as a farmer, he says that he felt the Thrill in the vision. Does this mean that Nergaoul was active there, at the time that vision was "recorded" or was it Dalinar's viewing of the vision that was affected by the Thrill? Would the actual person whose perspective he was seeing have felt the Thrill if he had fought?
Brandon Sanderson
This is a great question, and one I've never been asked before. The answer is going to be a little vague.
First, Dalinar could have felt the Thrill from Nergaoul, and imported it into the vision.
Second, Nergaoul could have been active then, and the farmer could have felt it when he fought.
So both theories are valid. Which is it? I am going to hang back from answering this for now, as I am digging more into the Unmade in a future book.
Argent
The last Unmade, the one that's hypothesized to Dai-Gonarthis. It looks suspiciously to me like Cusicesh, because of the feeling of being drained, because it's a large spren-- Is there something to that or is the feeling just because Cusicesh is a large spren?
Brandon Sanderson
I'm gonna RAFO.
WeiryWriter
Are the Unmade Splinters of Odium?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. Good guess.
Argent
Ba-Ado-Mishram. Just the name sounds a little bit like a Shin name to me because they're all 'Somebody son Somebody' or 'Somebody daughter Somebody', was she a Shin woman at one point?
Brandon Sanderson
I'll RAFO that cause that comes down to, they even asked this in Oathbringer, were they people or not?
Argent
'Cause one of them says they needed to be made and then unmade.
Brandon Sanderson
Mmhmm, so I do not feel I've explicitly said either way.
Argent
And you haven't, no.
Questioner
Are there enough perfect gemstones on Roshar to capture all of the Unmade?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, there are.
Blankets
Can the Unmade be bonded?
Brandon Sanderson
Wow, plausible... Yes, or possible, I should say.
I name my computers and smartphones after spren. But I am out of names. Is there a name you wouldn't mind revealing?
Well, do you need good spren? Or is the occasional evil spren acceptable?
Your call! And evil spren would be fantastic for my new phone.
Ulim. (Also, the Unmade count as spren. You could look those up.)
I didn't think spren could be good or evil??
Most spren are neither. Sapient spren (capable of making choices) can be either one.
Questioner
What’s the most dangerous non-Shard thing in the cosmere?
Brandon Sanderson
Nightblood’s up there, Hoid is up there, but not deadly dangerous, a different type of dangerous, yeah no, what we know of, right now, those, those are in the running. Chasmfiends, chasmfiends are pretty nasty. Whitespines are a little more nasty probably. The… the Unmade are pretty nasty. Yeah. There’s a couple of mercenary troops that you haven’t met yet that are really quite, quite dangerous, I would list them as well.
Questioner
Can you say what would happen if Lift swallowed a gemstone trapping an Unmade?
Brandon Sanderson
...Uh, hahaha. Uh, I'll RAFO that, but that's not that there's something there, it's just that I'm RAFOing that.
Questioner
Do the names of the Unmade correlate to the fragmentation of their spirits?
Brandon Sanderson
No. Good question.
Doombrigade
(paraphrased)
I noticed most of the Unmade have a Middle Eastern mythology inspiration, and could pair them with deities, but I couldn't find a fit for two: Yelig-nar and Ba-Ado-Mishram. Could you tell us their names' origin?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Those two are actully not Middle Eastern but actually inspired by Lovecraft.
Questioner
(paraphrased)
Are the Unmade actually spren as Taravangian thinks they are?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
As far as anyone knows. I'm not going to answer other than that.
Questioner
Can holders of Shards give them up voluntarily? If so, what would happen?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, a Vessel for a Shard of Adonalsium can give up their power if they wish.
As for what would happen...well, there are some variables in there. Kind of like the variables in what happens to a bucket of water if you dump it out. Depends on where it falls, how strong the wind is, what the air is like.
Power dropped like this, if left alone, could end up Splintering and turning into something like spren/seons. It could become something more like the Stormfather--a large, self-aware entity. It could become something like the Dor or many of the Unmade--something proto-aware, but not truly an individual. There are other possibilities as well, depending on lots of factors. (Are sapient beings involved? what is being done with the power--is it concentrated in the Spiritual Realm as normal, or is it being pushed somewhere else?)
zas678
(paraphrased)
Can Odium influence people the same way that Ruin can?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Well, you see, the kandra and the koloss have a "hole" in them that allows Ruin to come in and take over. The Parshendi naturally are protected from this, but when they expose themselves to the storms, and the spren come in, many of these spren have that kind of "hole" in them, and that's what allows Odium to take control of them.
zas678
(paraphrased)
No, I'm talking about how Ruin was able to push people, place things in their minds, stuff like that. Can Odium do the same thing?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Well, Odium wasn't around when those people were created, so it's a little different for him than Ruin. So if he influences people in that way, it's through the Unmade.
Newan
(paraphrased)
Is there some kind of connection between Szeth and Yelig-nar, the Unmade?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Hmm... Szeth has no more of a connection with Yelig-nar than anyone else does.
dvoraen
During the course of Oathbringer, and not counting what happens towards the end of the book, are all nine [Unmade] active in the world again (no longer imprisoned)?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Chaos
Did Unmade exist in the First Desolation?
Brandon Sanderson
Which definition of First Desolation are we using?
Chaos
...Prior to the Heralds being made?
Brandon Sanderson
We'll go RAFO.
Khyrindor
(paraphrased)
Are the Unmade and the Stormfather the same "class" of being?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Technically no, but they are on a similar level. It is a good analogy.
Questioner
Was Shallan's family, during her childhood, being influenced by an Unmade?
Brandon Sanderson
Um, yes.
Questioner
Was it the corrupting--
Brandon Sanderson
I'll RAFO that, but yes, there is some external influence there.
Blightsong
People tend to hear a lot of voices on Roshar in their heads. And I've noticed that a lot of people either have been confirmed to be in contact with Unmade or show a lot of signs of that. Is there a correlation there?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
OddyFan
Did Dalinar use his Bondsmith abilities to catch Nergaoul?
Brandon Sanderson
What happened here has happened before, but a Bondsmith was involved then too. However, Dalinar's personal connection to the Unmade was very important.
Questioner
So the Unmade that caused the False Desolation is trapped in a gem. Are they still there?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Stormlightning
You told someone that Nan Balat likes to hurt things. Like, a supernatural tendency to hurt things.
Brandon Sanderson
It's more along the lines of, "He has suffered some...enhancement of a psychological issue through supernatural effects."
Stormlightning
It's not an Unmade thing?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO! Good question! That's basically a confirmation, isn't it? *teasing laugh*
bridge4shash
Are the Parshendi gods that they abandoned the Unmade?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
dvoraen
What are the titles/bynames/epithets for Moelach, Nergaoul and Ba-Ado-Mishram?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
coltonx9
Is Sja-anat-- Is she wearing a chiton, like a Greek chiton?
Brandon Sanderson
I'll RAFO that.
dvoraen
Does Ba-Ado-Mishram have similar traits to a Borg Queen? In other words, does she consume individuality itself?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
When Shallan reached out to the Midnight Mother, would it have mattered if she used the right hand?
Brandon Sanderson
It would not have mattered. Good question!
wiresegal
What color is Moelach in the Physical Realm?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO
Darkness
(paraphrased)
Ok. The Thrill of Battle and the Thrill of Contest are noted as "distinct". Do the two come from different sources?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
No.
dvoraen
Dai-Gonarthis is speculated by Mythica's author Hessi to be the cause of Aimia's destruction. Does this have relevance to the Night of Sorrows?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
Dalinar walks away with a gemstone. Was Yelig-nar taken as well?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. I will get to Yelig-nar.