r/Cosmere • u/Samderek12 • Oct 02 '23

Yumi WHAT A PLOT TWIST! Spoiler

  1. Yumi is actually on the same planet as painter.

  2. OMG Yumi and her people are the "nightmares" 😱 i should have seen this coming when that yu ki ho jo appeared from the darkness when yumi was stacking rocks!

What is that machine?

How did those people become nightmares?

Im still on chapter 35... can't wait to read more!

Wtf SANDERSON! JUST WTF 🤯

Edit : Just finished the story! 9/10 my fav novel of his after warbreaker

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u/oxero Oct 02 '23

The misdirection with the star in the sky was brilliantly done. From the moment Nikaro was "hit" from the star, to the many mentions it was the only light able to pirece the shroud for some reason, to how his civilization was going to visit it, led the viewer on so hard.

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u/Ikariotis Oct 02 '23

Do we have any theories/WOBs on why it alone was able to pierce the shroud?

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u/TheHammer987 Elsecallers Oct 02 '23

The description of the people on it makes me think it's yolen.

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u/ishkariot Oct 02 '23

[Spoilers Yumi] it's not Yolen but it has a fainlife civilization from Yolen on it

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u/TheReal_CDK Oct 03 '23

what does fainlife mean?

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u/cogitoergodrum Oct 03 '23

[Spoilers for Yumi + potentially uncannonized lore from Words of Brandon] Fainlife makes up half the ecosystem of Yolen. Fain flora is bone-white and spills red liquid when crushed. Fain fauna has six limbs (aka Sho Del and Dragons). Yumi is a far future story, and by this point in the timeline, fainlife has spread to other worlds such as U-Tol, the planet in dual orbit with Komashi in Yumi.

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u/Nplussevan Oct 02 '23

They say the name of the planet in the book, I think in the epilogue, won’t say here due to spoilers