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Dragonsteel Nexus 2024 ()
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On Canticle, the rings around the planet are blue and gold and they're non-equatorial, which are both noted in the text. Is there something about the rings (the color or non-equatorialness) that points to either who made it or the purpose of it?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, but it's a pretty tenuous and vague one. But there's a yes in there.

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Seth

I notice a lot of similarities between the Charred and the Inquisitors. Loss of personality, corruption of Investiture, bloodlust, violent tendencies, etc. The Scadrian scientists were responsible for teaching the Cinder King how to create them, and they mentioned how you have to add a "special form of Investiture" to the sunhearts in order to result in a Charred warrior. My question is: is that "special Investiture" Hemalurgy or Connected to Ruin?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. Good job.

Adam Horne

This is why you don't make your questions yes or no.

Brandon Sanderson

Well no, I don't know if I would have said more. I think that is an excellent question. Sometimes you don't want to ask yes or no questions. Sometimes you do, because you want to know if you're theorizing the right direction. This is the way to ask a yes or no question. I don't know that I would have given any more, and so asking it yes or no lets me say yes rather than RAFO. And I think I would have RAFO'd it if they would have asked it more open-ended. 

Dragonsteel 2023 ()
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msyverw

So, what's up with Canticle? You've got the sunlight, it appears to be Invested and then the planet's core is trying to suck it up. And you know, where does it go after it does that, and...

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, Canticle was built for a very specific purpose by a very powerful being in the Cosmere, that I will someday get to. You're going to see some more stuff like this. Basically, megastructures that imitate planets or other sort of heavenly bodies.

msyverw

So it's not like some avatar of Autonomy or something like that?

Brandon Sanderson

It's not an avatar of anything, it was built for a specific purpose, yes.

Just wait til I get to the Grand Apparatus, you're gonna love that. What was that voice that talked about a future Cosmere planet? Hmm!

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Legionrip

In Sunlit Man there is an incredible amount of Investiture at the core of Canticle. We know that Odium, Ambition, and Mercy clashed near Threnody but that Ambition did not die there. Could Canticle be a grave or tomb for the corpse of Ambition and its Investiture?

Brandon Sanderson

It could be, but it's not.

Legionrip

It would connect the Threnodites being in both systems. The rings could be intended to keep the Investiture from spilling out into the rest of the system and making it incredibly dangerous to traverse like Sel.

Brandon Sanderson

This is a great question and a great theory; but I know where Ambition's corpse is, and it's not there.