Clues to Shards in The Way of Kings Epilogue
tor.com/2014/05/22/the-way-of-kings-reread-ep...Posted Oct 8, 2021, 10:14 PM UTC
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Also that's from 2014...
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Just added my comment about his conversation with the guards.
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Posted Oct 8, 2021, 10:14 PM UTC
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Also that's from 2014...
Just added my comment about his conversation with the guards.
So I finished re-reading The Way Of Kings last night and one thing that stuck out to me was Wit's conversation with the guards about intellect, or rather Invention, he talks about the novelty of invention is what is valued, nothing else. Of course to first time readers this is just a simple observation about human nature, but now that we know that Invention is a Shard, a second look now reveals what type of values the Shard of Invention would have. Perhaps giving boons/Investure to those who create and those who copy or simply those who come second to new ideas, banes. If a Shard only values Invention (creativity, fiction, jokes, pranks, lies) then a society that emulates that might not be as advanced or egalitarian as one might assume at first thought.
Interesting - those also kinda feel like the values of Hoid ;) If those were really the values inherent in the shard of Invention, maybe Hoid would have decided to become a vessel after all. (totally j/k but... )
If this is the convo I think....wasn't his whole point that timeliness is what is valued more so?
We don't even know if Invention has a world though.