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Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

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Selajana: Origin of the Stone

There is a problem that we don't know which precise language Brandon is using because there is like a dozen. We actually have a canonical translation of Selajana from one of one of the people at Dragon's Hill. So according to her, like she does, Jana means origin of the stone. Vishwathar the translation that some people have speculated is world bearer, something that bears the world. Another option is a world's edge. That's more like if you look more like Nepali apparently. Maybe that's like a cliff. You feel like you'd be able to say something like sky though. Does that be a little more obvious?

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