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But if anyone were going to try something so foolhardy, it would be Cephandrius.”
The woman remained seated, though she reached for something at her side. A little tube with a handle on the bottom. She pointed it toward him, treating it like some kind of weapon.
“My name is Khriss, of Taldain.”
Once you step behind the curtain and see the actors as the people they are, it becomes harder to pretend the play is real.”
“Anyway, there was a God. Adonalsium. I don’t know if it was a force or a being, though I suspect the latter. Sixteen people, together, killed Adonalsium, ripping it apart and dividing its essence between them, becoming the first who Ascended.”
Adonalsium originally created the first humans, therefore your gods had a pattern to use.”
I must speak with the rest of the Ire.” As she said the word, this time Kelsier got a sense of its meaning in the language of the green plants. It meant “age,” and he had a sudden impression of a strange symbol made from four dots and some lines that curved, like ripples in a river.
