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Interview #1153: Calamity-Chicago, Entry #3

Argent

Returned, they don’t quite fit the other splinters—their Breath, rather—because it’s the divine breath that’s the splinter right?

Brandon Sanderson

Ehhhhhhh…. Ehhhhhhh….

Argent

Okay, that was vague.

Brandon Sanderson

Not a 100% correlation there

Argent

So in that case it’s not entirely fair to say that the Returned are vessels for…

Brandon Sanderson

No… Well, more vessels than the people that are in T’Telir… So, Endowment is in control of what’s happening, right?

Argent

The giving of _____

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. So what you’ve got to remember—and this is something that people keep mistaking is- something like a spren is still part of the god, and it’s not that different from the fact that the rock has a part of the body in it, and that everything is kind of made—in [the] Mistborn world in particular—everything is made out of their essence. And so… the breath _are_ similar, but it’s less that- they’re not autonomous in most cases and it’s more like- it’s like a hybrid of what’s happening in Mistborn where everybody’s got a bit of Preservation in them. Everyone’s got a bit of Endowment in them.

Argent

Innate investiture.

Brandon Sanderson

Innate investiture that they are born with.

Argent

I was looking to _Divine_ Breath, _____ specifically.

Brandon Sanderson

Oh _Divine_ breath! Divine Breath is it’s own special thing, and it’s more like what happened with the Honorblades, in that the god is pouring a bit of its investiture, infusing the magic ____.

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