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Interview #1049: WOR Signing Report - Kurkistan, Entry #5

Kurkistan

Are flamespren, are they all doing their own thing, or is there some Ideal of “Fire” sitting in the Spiritual Realm that they’re all based on?

Brandon Sanderson

Each spren is based on the Ideal of Fire.

Kurkistan

And is that sitting in the Spiritual Realm?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, we’re using sort of a Platonic Ideal, and that concept is in force, so < sounds hesitant > “yes”, but [spren] are manifestations of it.

Kurkistan

So these Ideals in the Spiritual Realm: Divine Breath, does that heal by accessing some Ideal of Human Health: so a guy who had never had a tongue and doesn’t know how to speak all the sudden has a tongue and can speak? [Note: Talking of Susebron here]

Brandon Sanderson

You are… < LONG pause > You are, um, on the right track.

Kurkistan

Okay…

Brandon Sanderson

Because the Breath is… eh. How can I explain this? You are, yeah… So… So each Breath is a shade of deity, right?

Kurkistan

Yeah.

Brandon Sanderson

And each Breath incorporates into it this sort of idea of being endowed by the deity Endowment, correct?

Kurkistan

Yes.

Brandon Sanderson

And so each Breath you hold brings you one step closer to becoming like that, and so what you’re saying is… is “yes”, kind of true, yes.

Kurkistan

But it’s like within the Breath, not sitting off by itself—

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, yes yes exactly.

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