Hey uhh, has anyone got theories about El the Fused in the ROW epilogue? Wild thought, but what if El is short for Elithanathile (Tanavast) and the title he lost was "He Who Transforms"? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I couldn't find anything that explicitly said that the vessel had died when the shard Honour was splintered, and Fused are cognitive shadows stamped onto a body so it's not like, the stupidest idea right?
uhhh thanks tumblr user itsjustviolet for scaring the everloving shit out of me right before i go to bed /j. also that is hecking TERRIFYING. this could be possible, but there’s a couple of unexplained things if this is true: lezian tells el that a human stole his title. as far as we know, the only title bestowed upon humans by the fused are He Who Quiets (>:( moash) and Voice of Lights ( ;__; navani). But yeah it’s super yikes that the names and the cognitive shadow shit and the “He Who ___” title line up 😬😬😬. And this wouldn’t be the first ‘haha lol ur gods are evil now have fun you bastards’ Sanderson has pulled (see: Heralds). Also, a vaguely related side tangent, He Who Transforms actually makes me go 🤔🤔🤔 bc I get Cultivation vibes from that. It’s possible that this is one of the cases where Vorin mythology is off the mark & inaccurate and has over time incorporated part of Cultivation’s original powers into the version of the Almighty (Honor) that they believe in, especially because it seems the ardentia isn’t aware of Cultivation.