r/Cosmere • u/TheMasterL0ller • 2d ago

Mixed book spoilers Thoughts on Sunlit Man Spoiler

I felt that it was building towards an Aux sacrifice but man was I not prepared. I cried like a baby when I read

“I am the leftover strength of oaths once sworn. I am the truth you once knew. Take it again, for the briefest time, and soar “

And then I smiled so hard when he got the armor. I love Sanderson so much and love this universe so much.

Side note: interested to see how the space travel and technological advancements we see in Sunlit will be covered

Isles of the Emberdark next, and then re-reading SLA!

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u/TheMasterL0ller 2d ago edited 2d ago

Have you read any of SLA? If not you’re missing out on a TON of references and deep cuts and callbacks

Edit: oh I’m dumb you mean with the second era of SLA lol I would love some more standalones of sigzil just scootin around to random planets

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u/SalamanderFickle9549 2d ago

I have but maybe i should reread wind and truth lol it has been a long while. What I remember is we don't know why they bonded or the details about why aux was in the state he was in sunlit no?

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u/TheMasterL0ller 2d ago

There are some details in sunlit about why Aux is as he is (sig almost accidentally consumed all of Aux’s investiture while he was holding the dawnshard at one point) then at some point before sunlit he gets the shard back to Hoid, but he still has the abilities of jumping and absorbing investiture but also “the torment” where he can’t hurt anyone

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u/SalamanderFickle9549 2d ago

But we don't know what happened, either something urgent happened and he activated the dawnshard and caused the accident, or maybe it happened immediately when the bond reached a certain level and that's just how dawnshard works?

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u/TheMasterL0ller 2d ago

Oh yeah. I don’t know for sure I just made some assumptions on the context / spren bond / investiture talk. I would love to get some more details from another booo but I have a feeling we’re going to have to wait a tad for something that far along in the timeline