Questioner
Is soulstamping a form of corrupted Investiture?
Brandon Sanderson
Not in most instances, but it is possible to make it such.
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Questioner
So, we know in Mistborn there is this running... you can say, motif about Ruin being associated with the color black and Preservation with the color white, we see a lot of very subtle and a lot of very unsubtle...
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, yes.
Questioner
Is such a motif present in any other books? I think I see it in Stormlight.
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, in Stormlight you can see it. So, Ruin is a red-gold... not Ruin, Odium. Odium is a red-gold. Honor is a blue-white and Cultivation is green, obviously. So, those motifs stay, when you... when you see a red or a gold, it's a reddish gold sort of thing, either of those colors, it's going to be Odium.
Questioner
Even when we something we might suspect to be outside influence in other worlds?
Brandon Sanderson
Not necessarily, because red can also mean corrupted Investiture in the Cosmere. So, I would call Odium's real color gold, because you're going to see red when Odium is corrupting other things, so...
Questioner
It's not necessarily on Roshar.
Brandon Sanderson
It's not necessarily Odium. So, you're asking for the invading force on Mistborn, it doesn't necessarily mean Odium because it's red. So red just kind of means corruption. I've talked about that before, so. Not necessarily, not definitive, yeah.
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Roger
As I understand it, red is a sign of corruption in the cosmere. I just reread The Emperor's Soul, and it mentioned wisps of red smoke when Shai tests the Soulstamps. Does this mean she is corrupting Gaotona's soul?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, that is what that means. Corruption doesn't have to have the negative connotation, right? Basically, it means an outside influence is changing the Spiritual nature of the soul. And, yeah, that's exactly what is happening right there. Now, I would call that a pretty good thing, but... like, all of those things, where she is playing with someone's soul, and changing it, and changing their past, and things like this. This is, by cosmere definition, corrupting someone's soul. That's expressly what it is.
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Questioner
I noticed during Oathbringer, is there a symbolism between the color red? Because I noticed that red is mentioned many times. Is it tied directly to the Thrill?
Brandon Sanderson
When I am using red specifically for spren and eye color, I'm doing it intentionally. It means something. I'm not gonna tell you what it means yet.
Questioner
Azure's cloth was red, and Adolin picked up a red glass sphere.
Brandon Sanderson
Some of that is going to be coincidence. But the color of the thing that is going to Scadrial is not coincidence.
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Sishal (paraphrased)
How was Glys corrupted? Was the process similar to the lesser spren, like painspren?
Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)
It is similar, but Glys is self-aware, so slightly different process, but similar. It is through Sja-anat.
Sishal (paraphrased)
Did Sja-anat have to convince Glys to corrupt him then?
Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)
RAFO.