What about Aon Rii? Talk about Aon Rii. What are the random dots? Are they valuable metals?
Honestly, I don’t remember. [laughter] I’ll be straight up honest with you, I designed the Aons—When I designed the Aons, they all had things like that. Like “Oh, that’s what this will be,” but I was not as good about taking notes of things then. I didn’t have the wiki that I now have.
What I would give for one hour with that wiki.
I didn’t have all of that stuff, so I can say “Yeah, that’s going to be valuable metals”, and canonize it that way, but I don’t remember what I was actually thinking when I designed it. It was my first time doing anything like that, like [?] sort of thing. I hadn’t ever done anything like that before, so I was just flying by the seat of my pants.
In fact, there’s a fun story about that, a story I don’t think I told during the annotations, I might have. Originally, I wrote it, and used all the Aons as like little things about characters’ personalities.
Really?
Like Rao is spirit, and Ene (eenee) is wit. Well, all the other ones were things like that, to the point that the traitor character, his Aon’s the one that meant Betrayal. Like this, all the characters have little things like that. And then my editor saw it and said “Ah. Do you really want to give away everyone’s personality? And who’s going to name their kid Betrayal? And I was like “That was really stupid Brandon, why did you do that?” But at the time, I didn’t know if I was going to have a dictionary in the back or anything, and so I had to go back and rename almost all of them. I left Rao and Ene, but I renamed almost all the—renamed the wrong word. I shifted all the meanings and things like this so that everyone would have a name that would make sense that you would name a person. And none of them meant anything more than what they actually mean.
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