The Cosmere Connections in Elantris You Missed

Continuing my Year of Sanderson re-reads I dive into all the Cosmere related content and hidden secrets I could find in Brandon Sanderson first ever published Cosmere Novel Elantris.

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[picivyvortac]

I always got the idea that Sando intended to return to Cel much sooner but with the success of mistborn ended up shifting his energies.

[seanhalpin]

cant wait for the next two elantris novels.

Sel is arguably the strongest planet, the limits on what can be done with the Dor, or lack there of is nuts.

[Time_Traveling_Corgi]

You have to take into account the aspects of the Shards. Devotion and Domination. Raoden wasn't special from birth, but as he spent more time in Elantris and earned the devotion of the Elantrians, his power increased. Same with Domination Wyrms Domination is what alsos them to channel more of the door.

[peterwm]

I always assumed the reason its very hard to reach sel through the cognitive realm is because of the way the 2 shards residing there were shattered and explosive effect of accessing the Dor. If I recall correctly the Dor is like a highly pressurized air tank, when you release some of the pressure it comes bursting out like a fire hose.

Dahkor sure sounds a lot like another magic system we are all very familiar with... can twist and modify the body... requires human sacrifice...

[BuggMann]

It would be crazy to me if Adolin somehow got to sel and perform a kata and find out that he could use dor

[tonykuriger]

I guess you could call seons.... Sel-phones.

[GraveKing]

I know someone else in the comments just stated 'hemalurgy, ' but I do think there is a connection between the Dahkour bone-monks and hemalurgy. The fact that it involves sacrifice made me suspect it on my last read-through, especially since it's been confirmed that hemalurgy does work Cosmere wide, and is not limited to allomantic and feruchemic abilities.

Maybe the spiritual connection to the Dor of 50 people provides a measure of protection from the Dor? That said, none of the Dahkour monks seem to be spiked, so I'm kinda stumped there. Could be small spikes embedded in the bones? I have a feeling the next Sel book will clear most of this up, though.

[DarrenHuckey]

Dude - Great video. First time to hit your channel and this was perfect for where I’m at. I’ve read almost all of the Cosmere books, but like you, Elantris was one of my first and I’ve forgotten almost everything. I’ve been trying to go back and reread for the specific purpose of finding these Cosmere connections, but struggling to do so. This video has given me the push I needed to put my nose to the grind. Great work. Thanks again!

[Time_Traveling_Corgi]

Imagine a Kandra with bones invested with The Dor.

[denglongfist]

Shu-Dereth, the best pyramid scheme in the history of fantasy

[johnv]

I started with Elantris before any other Sanderson novels and I loved it! I think the idea of it is awesome and I've reread it a couple times. My controversial take is I thought it was better than Warbreaker, I thought that was his weakest book by far.

[connorslocum]

Seons gotta be the mark of another shard once being on Sel. They're just way different from all the other magic there.

[seanhalpin]

Also, book two on sel is gonna be called Dahkour (spelling, its been a while)

He plans on writing era 3, at once, then releasing era 3 book 1, elantris 2, era 3 book 2, etc etc etc

[seanhalpin]

One last thing, the bone magic, plays a role in the emperors soul (the bone creatures that get blood stamped) and is likely the 13th aether on Lumar, the bone spore. Which i wouldn't be shocked to learn all has to to do with white sand and autonomy

[ldvalencia.author]

You made me wanna read it again. I think I’m gonna this year now.

[NMiller_]

I love Elantris, I don't understand why it gets such a bad rep.

[unfire]

The idea has been floated that the lake that dissolves the mad Elantrians (Hoed? Hoaden?) is a partial Perpendicularity. My theory is that when the Shards are...shattered? The perpendicularity on that world gets a little wonky. See the Novella where Kelsier gets to the one and hangs out with Mist for so long. And most important in my mind is Warbreaker's world, the Shard actively has banned Hoid since he left after being the Storyteller in that book. Her active involvement in the Perpendicularity is the reason for the flowers that make the dye in the world so powerful. How all these waters are involved in Shadesmear I think will be the main focus for the next quintuplet.

[kinkykoilykawaii]

I really need to do a third re-read of this book. I haven’t done one since over 5 years ago.

[jobypash]

Elantrians were not the ones who looked down on violence. It was the government that took over after the fall of Elantris. If you read the book, it was Prince Raodens father that outlawed that. The Elantrians had Aons for attack, as seen by how Raoden and his companions fight Dilaf and his followers.

[jkessler]

WHAT I never would have thought to connect the religion of Jaddeth and the organization of the suits on Scandal, how long has Autonomy been at this?! I've done re-listen a while ago but that was before all the secret projects and not I want to go back and pay more attention to side characters that are confirmed to be main characters in the later Elatris sequels and the magic systems