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'''Devotion's Perpendicularity''', also called '''The Lake''' or '''The Pool''', is a [[perpendicularity]] that can be found near [[Elantris (city)|Elantris]] on [[Sel]].

At some point, the perpendiciularityperpendicularity was included in the Elantrian religion, and the secret rooms beneath the meetinghouse, as well as the tunnel to the mountain, built, to provide direct access to the pool from inside the city.{{book ref|elantris|25}}

[[Raoden]], [[Karata]], and [[Galladon]] discovered the perpendicularity after a [[Riino|Hoed]], who had been [[Riino|an Elantrian]] prior to the city's collapse, requested to be taken to an unknown location. The trio were led to a meeting housed in the southwest corner of the city, in which they found a hidden passage to an underground shrine and library. Taking the Hoed through the passage in the library the trio found themselves on the mountains near the city not far from the perpendicularity. When they placed the man into the pool, his pain seemingly decreased and he disappeared, leading the trio to think the pool was a way for Elantrian's to die.{{book ref|Elantris|25}} Although they gave a simplified version of the trip to [[Saolin]] and [[Mareshe]], they kept most of what they had discovered at the perpendicularity a secret in order to prevent mass suicide among the Elantris population.{{book ref|elantris|28}}

When Brandon first wrote Elantris, the perpendicularity, had been included as a plot device to get Raoden on the mountain so he could see the connection between the city and [[Aon]]s.{{wob ref|2211}} Although he knew the pool would be a concentration of power,{{wob ref|3328}} he did not know how it fit in with the magic system included in the book{{wob ref|2216}} nor the wider cosmere.{{wob ref|8521}} By the time Brandon began to write [[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn]], he had a stronger grasp to the role perpendicularities played within the universe.{{wob ref|1802}}