Difference between revisions of "Summary:Words of Radiance/Chapter 1"

Jasnah emerges from below deck, and sees Shallan's sketch of Shadesmar. ShallahShallan is surprised that Jasnah has decided to explain Shadesmar to her, but Jasnah says, "I know through painful experience how dangerous Shadesmar can be. If I leave you in ignorance, I'll be to blame if you get yourself killed there." She explains that it is "not truly a location...Shadesmar is here, all around us, right now. All things exist there in some form, as all things exist here....All things have three components: the soul, the body, and the mind...Shadesmar, is what we call the Cognitive Realm--the place of the mind." Jasnah then expresses trepidation about returning to Shadesmar, and reminds Shallan that Jasnah knows little more of the place than Shallan does, despite having been aware of its existence for six years. Jasnah elaborates, "There is an entire world, Shallan, of which our minds skim by the surface. A world of deep, profound thought. A world created by deep, profound thoughts. When you see Shadesmar, you enter those depths. It is an alien place to us in some ways, but at the same time we formed it. With some help." She says spren are part of the cognitive world that have "leaked" into the physical world. Jasnah says that information is hard to get from the spren because of "our ancient betrayal", the details of which they do not share with Jasnah.