Honor
Honor | |
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por botanicaxu
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Recipiente | Ninguno |
Lascas | Tanavast, Padre Tormenta[1] |
Astillas | Spren |
Estado | Astillada |
Perpendicularidad | Perpendicularidad de Honor |
Magia | Potenciación[2] |
Residencia | Roshar |
Universo | Cosmere |
“Soy…, fui…, Dios. El que llamáis Todopoderoso, el creador de la humanidad. Y ahora estoy muerto. Odium me ha matado. Lo siento. ”
Honor es una de las dieciséis Esquirlas de Adonalsium, y una de las tres, junto con Cultivación y Odium, que se encuentran en el sistema roshariano. El Recipiente original de Honor se llamaba Tanavast. Tras su muerte a manos de Odium, Honor acabó Astillada.[4] La Investidura de Honor se asocia normalmente al color azul-blanco.[5]
Intención
Honor defiende los juramentos, los acuerdos y la unión entre cosas. Los Fusionados lo consideran el dios de las leyes naturales del universo.[6]
Magia asociada
Luz Tormentosa
La luz tormentosa es una forma gaseosa de Investidura que está asociada a Hono. No fue creada por él, ya que una versión primigenia de esta existía desde antes de su llegada a Roshar, pero a día de hoy, ha sido subsumida a él.[7] La Astilla más grande de Honor, el Padre Tormenta, es responsable de crear y mantener las altas tormentas las cuales traen luz tormentosa consigo.[8][9]
La luz tormentosa es crucial para el ecosistema roshariano. Numerosos animales forman vínculos con spren menores, que probablemente requieran de luz tormentosa para nutrirse. Además, grandes cantidades de luz tormentosa son necesarias para los Cantores a la hora de cambiar de forma.[10] En Shadesmar, los spren obtienen sustento de la luz tormentosa.[11] Mientras que los humanos no la usan normalmente por ellos mismos, su presencia los hace significativamente más sanos.[12]
Surgebinding
Surgebinding is a magic system derived from both Honor and Cultivation.[2] To utilize it, a person must bond a higher spren, which allows them to inhale Stormlight and use it to control Surges, a set of ten fundamental forces, although a single spren bond allows access to only two of them.[13] Some Surges favor Honor, and others Cultivation, although only Adhesion is 'purely' of Honor.[14]
Apart from spren bonds, Honor can also grant the use of Surgebinding through the Honorblades, weapons made out of his Investiture.[15] Like spren, each Honorblade grants access to only one pair of Surges; in fact, Surgebinding came about as spren attempted to imitate the Honorblades.[16]
Spren
Spren are Splinters holding the Investitures of both Honor and Cultivation, though in different proportions depending on the type of spren. Some spren are of pure Honor or pure Cultivation, though which type gets to call themselves "closest to Honor" is a matter of some debate among their society.[17]
The most notable spren of Honor is the Stormfather. Unlike most other spren, Stormfather was created by Honor intentionally; moreover, he has merged with Tanavast's Cognitive Shadow, granting him greater access to the Spiritual Realm.[9][18]
Direct intervention
Honor's particular intent lends itself well to binding and forming bonds. Among others, he bound Heralds to himself and tied them to the cycle of Desolations, creating the Oathpact to protect Roshar.[19] He also tied Odium to the greater Rosharan system through some other means, making it impossible for Rayse to depart unless either the planet is destroyed or whoever holds the largest remnant of Honor's power willingly releases him.[20][21]
History
Creation
The Shard of Honor was created, like all others, at the Shattering of Adonalsium, and picked up by Tanavast. Though the Shards had an agreement to go their own separate ways, he and Cultivation traveled together to the Rosharan system.[22][23] However, whatever the actual text of the agreement, Honor did not consider his actions to be breaking it, or exploiting a loophole in it.[24] The reason for that could be that Tanavast and Cultivation's vessel were romantically involved.[25]
God of Roshar
On Roshar, Honor and Cultivation became the gods of the singers, a native Rosharan species. An unknown period of time later, human refugees arrived from Ashyn, seeking help after accidentally destroying their own world, and the two permitted them to settle on the planet, likely in the region now called Shinovar. Unfortunately, along with them came Odium, who by that point had murdered three other Shards -- Dominion, Devotion and Ambition -- and was now gunning for either Honor, Cultivation, or both.[26][27] When the relations between humans and singers of Roshar broke down, singers turned to Odium to help them, leading to the creation of the Fused, Cognitive Shadows of singers who could be reborn into the bodies of their kinsmen every time they died.[19]
To help the people of Roshar, Honor created the Heralds, binding ten people to himself and giving them similar resurrective ability, although one that did not require body snatching.[19] Moreover, he bound Odium to the Rosharan system, making it impossible for him to leave.[16] Unfortunately for him, the Heralds abandoned the Oathpact after numerous Desolations in the event known as the Aharietiam.[28] Sometime afterwards, Odium succeeded at Splintering him.[4][29]
Death
“I remember at the end Honor was more obsessed with oaths. There were times when the oath itself was more important than the meaning behind it. But he was not a passionless monster. He loved humankind. He died defending you. ”
—The Stormfather[26]
Honor's death, however, was a protracted event.[30] Before passing away fully, Honor took some measures to help Rosharans in the future. Chief among them was leaving behind a series of visions to warn of the possibility of the True Desolation, and to leave behind some information that might be helpful.[3] He prepared the Stormfather to be his inheritor, and gave him the task of choosing the possible recipients of the visions.[31] At the very end of his existence, Tanavast was still capable of communicating with humans, but by then he was raving and no longer supported the Knights Radiant.[32]
He died and his Shard was Splintered shortly after the Recreance.[32] Tanavast's Cognitive Shadow merged with the Stormfather, along with the largest portion of Honor's remaining power.[18] That remaining power is sufficient to keep Odium bound to Roshar, and the Oathpact ongoing.[21][33]
Influence
“The Almighty accepted the excellence of any man or woman, regardless of what they did. ”
Honor is well known among the Rosharan people, and worshiped as a god.[3] Vorinism calls him the Almighty and claims that he's the only deity, considering worship of Cultivation to be pagan.[35] He's believed to be the creator of both Roshar and mankind.[36] In the Vorin tradition, he has ten names, the last of which, Elithanathile, is only used by ardents, the Vorin priests.[36] It's said he resides in the hearts of all people.[37] As it's commonly believed that perceiving him directly would cause one to burst into flames from his sheer glory, he's typically represented by a divine prism with ten facets.[36][38]
Vorins believe that the Almighty is also responsible for sorting out the dead and deciding on their afterlife. The best possible outcome is to be sent to battle in Tranquiline Halls, the lost paradise, and reclaim it from the Voidbringers. To achieve this, one has to pick a Calling - a purpose in life - and a Glory, an aspect of the Almighty that one strives to emulate.[34]
Honor is also worshiped in Azir and the surrounding countries, though there he's known simply as God.[39] The singers worshiped him and Cultivation once, before the arrival of Odium.[26]
Trivia
- In Magic:The Gathering colors, Honor would be white.[40]
Notes
- ↑ JordanCon 2016
— Arcanum - 2016-04-23# - ↑ a b Boskone 54
— Arcanum - 2017-02-18# - ↑ a b c El camino de los reyes capítulo 75#
- ↑ a b Google+ Hangout
— Arcanum - 2012-04-17# - ↑ ICon 2019
— Arcanum - 2019-10-15# - ↑ El ritmo de la guerra capítulo 31#
- ↑ Emerald City Comic Con 2018
— Arcanum - 2018-03-01# - ↑ Palabras radiantes capítulo 83#
- ↑ a b Arcanum Unbounded Seattle signing
— Arcanum - 2016-12-01# - ↑ Palabras radiantes interludio I-5#
- ↑ El camino de los reyes capítulo 101#
- ↑ Firefight Phoenix signing
— Arcanum - 2015-01-21# - ↑ Stormblessed.com interview with Brandon Sanderson
— Arcanum - 2010-12-25# - ↑ FanX 2018
— Arcanum - 2018-09-06# - ↑ Boskone 54
— Arcanum - 2017-02-17# - ↑ a b Words of Radiance Philadelphia signing
— Arcanum - 2014-03-21# - ↑ Writing for Charity Conference
— Arcanum - 2012-03-17# - ↑ a b /r/books AMA 2015
— Arcanum - 2015-03-12# - ↑ a b c Juramentada capítulo 38#
- ↑ Shadows of Self Lansing signing
— Arcanum - 2015-10-13# - ↑ a b Juramentada capítulo 57#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 39 Epígrafe#
- ↑ 17th Shard Forum Q&A
— Arcanum - 2012-09-26# - ↑ Legion Release Party
— Arcanum - 2018-09-19# - ↑ Rithmatist Albuquerque signing
— Arcanum - 2013-05-22# - ↑ a b c Juramentada capítulo 111#
- ↑ Skyward Seattle signing
— Arcanum - 2018-11-10# - ↑ Preludio al Archivo de las Tormentas#
- ↑ Alloy of Law Los Angeles signing
— Arcanum - 2011-11-10# - ↑ Oathbringer release party
— Arcanum - 2017-11-13# - ↑ Palabras radiantes capítulo 89#
- ↑ a b Juramentada capítulo 113#
- ↑ Salt Lake City ComicCon 2017
— Arcanum - 2017-09-23# - ↑ a b El camino de los reyes capítulo 18#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 29#
- ↑ a b c El camino de los reyes capítulo 7#
- ↑ El camino de los reyes capítulo 45#
- ↑ El camino de los reyes capítulo 33#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 122#
- ↑ Skyward Pre-Release AMA
— Arcanum - 2018-10-05#