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Void to Hoid! Dragonsteel 2022 Words of Brandon 1

Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

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The Cost of Breaking an Oath

It's really heavily implied in the first all-printer letter that the shards made a pact not to settle near each other. Given that a full half of the shards ended up doing just that, what is the cost from them breaking their oath? You implied earlier there's always a cost for hoid. For taking his protections. And Brandon says, the wording of those things allows them to agree together, but it also gives them a little bit of power over one another. Which is very interesting implications for the roshar and system, right?

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