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Your search for the tag 'vessels' yielded 14 results

  • 1

    Interview: Feb 17th, 2016

    Question

    Do any of the Shards have psychoses?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Any of the people? Yes, we all have them.

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  • 2

    Interview: Feb 27th, 2016

    Paladin Brewer

    Are Shard vessels able to have children?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes they are.

    Paladin Brewer

    Even Sazed, with his body being a eunuch?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes, though technically all of Scadrial are the children of Preservation and Ruin.

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  • 3

    Interview: Feb 25th, 2016

    taveren

    Did the original Shardbearers know what Shard they were grabbing?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Another RAFO. Sorry. You're asking really good questions. Really good questions.

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  • 4

    Interview: Feb 27th, 2016

    Paladin Brewer

    Which of the 16 original shardholders know Hoid the best?

    Brandon Sanderson

    RAFO.

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  • 5

    Interview: Feb 27th, 2016

    Paladin Brewer

    Is Hoid related to any of the 16 original Shard bearers?

    Brandon Sanderson

    RAFO.

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  • 6

    Interview: Feb 20th, 2016

    Question

    When a Shardholder dies, how is a new Vessel chosen?

    Brandon Sanderson

    You should read Secret History, it talks about that.

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  • 7

    Interview: Apr 23rd, 2016

    Question

    What's the other god in Scadrial...Trell… or whatnot... [...] mentioning him, are there other really powerful beings out there that aren't related to the Shards?

    Brandon Sanderson

    There are possibly really powerful beings, but… how should we say. [long pause] I mean...There are those who would call Hoid a really powerful being, who exist outside Shards, but if you're talking deific level things in the Cosmere, they're all related to the Shards. Or demigod level.

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  • 8

    Interview: Nov 29th, 2016

    Question

    Was Bavadin nonhuman?

    Brandon Sanderson

    RAFO. There is at least one Shard who wasn't human, but I'm not ready to reveal who was or wasn't just yet.

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  • 9

    Interview: Nov 29th, 2016

    Question

    What was the name of Ambition's Vessel?

    Brandon Sanderson

    RAFO.

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  • 10

    Interview: Nov 30th, 2016

    Borderlands SF-AU Tour (Paraphrased)

    Necarion

    Do Vessels have any flexibility in expressing the intent of a Shard, particularly if the Intent is open to many interpretations?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes they do. So, the Vessel’s mind and how they perceive is going to have a large influence on how things are expressed and I think all of them have some wiggle room. But there are some deterministic things that are also going to push them. You know, holding Ruin, Harmony may not go down the same path that happened to Ati.

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  • 11

    Interview: Nov 30th, 2016

    Borderlands SF-AU Tour (Paraphrased)

    Question

    So Saddeas would express Honor differently than Tanavast?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes he would.

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  • 12

    Interview: Dec 6th, 2016

    Question

    Would it be possible to create a potential Vessel that has a Connection to all 16 Shards? Through a combination of birth planet, genetics, Hemalurgy...

    Brandon Sanderson

    [Hems and Haws] You… So, terminology--the Vessel holds the Shard. Lots of people have connection to Shards without holding them. So, I’m just gonna RAFO that. You guys got YEARS AND YEARS left, before we’re even gonna discuss. But if I tell you now...like...what are you gonna ask?

    Question

    So I got a bit of a Shard-related question. So, the entity that Harmony is, all the other Shards that we’ve had named so far, are any of them combinations, or are they all--

    Brandon Sanderson

    Okay, good question. The only one I would count as a combination is the Dor, right? But it isn’t even a full Shard. So everything else--single holder only when we talk about it okay? That’s an excellent question. Or they’ve been Splintered completely.

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  • 13

    Interview: Dec 6th, 2016

    Question

    Is Ati Ruin’s original Shardholder?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Ohh, good question. I’m gonna go ahead and RAFO that.

    Question

    I have a big theory that someday we are gonna see something more about him.

    Brandon Sanderson

    You will see something more about him for sure! Because Dragonsteel includes--But that’s not what you meant, and I know what you meant.

    Question

    Thank’s for that Reddit comment earlier today about ‘Yeah, if you read Dragonsteel it’s super obvious!’

    Brandon Sanderson

    Well, if someone is asking a question about Cephandrius, I assume that they know about Dragonsteel, because, how else would they hear the name Cephandrius?

    Question

    Secret History.

    Brandon Sanderson

    Ohhhh, I did, that’s right!

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  • 14

    Interview: Dec 6th, 2016

    Argent

    I want to take us back to some Shards before we skip me for the fourth time. So there were a few of the Shards that Rayse Splintered, included Ambition, Dominion, and Devotion.

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes.

    Argent

    And those were all way back in history. So, we know that the Shard’s personality overrides the Vessel’s personality over time?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Strongly influence, and depending on the Vessel, override.

    Argent

    So, did Rayse choose those Shards because--

    Brandon Sanderson

    He went after Ambition first, but didn’t find Ambition until after going after Devotion and Dominion. But Ambition was number one on his hit list.

    Argent

    Was it because of the Shard or because of the Vessel, or the person.

    Brandon Sanderson

    In this case it was the Shard primarily. He was afraid that this was a Shard that would rival him. But, he then got trapped in the Rosharan system.

    Argent

    Which is segue to Shards Investing in Shardworlds. So is it kind of a...passive...the more a Shard stays on a world, the Investiture kind of seeps…

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes, it does. Once you’ve got a Perpendicularity, you are starting...That’s trouble for going other places. But you’ve gotta remember, going other places means multiple things to someone actually holding a Shard. They can exist in the Spiritual Realm, where all things are one. And they can even kind of comprehend it.

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