Difference between revisions of "Devotion's Perpendicularity"

|books=[[Elantris (book)|Elantris]]

'''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}}

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}}