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Cosmere

c¼h 2022-11-17

Merovius

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Spoilers?

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The Shattering of Adonalsium

Image Credit: Connor Chamberlain

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHOeznYJiJJ/

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Shards

Devotion

Dominion

Preservation

Ruin

Odium

Cultivation

Honor

Endowment

Autonomy

Ambition

Invention

Mercy

Valor

Whimsy

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Shardworlds

Cosmere Star Map

Image Credit: Isaac Stewart

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Investiture

  • "The stuff Magic is made out of"
  • Part of/Created by Shards
  • Splinters
  • Cognitive Shadows

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Realmatic Theory

  • Physical Realm
    • Matter, Planets, Bodies…
  • Cognitive Realm
    • Separate world, but "tied" to the Physical Realm
    • Distances generally shorter than in the Physical Realm
    • Exact image varies from world to world
  • Spiritual Realm
    • No time, no space
    • Realm where your "spiritweb" resides
    • Contains most of the Shards' investiture
  • Perpendicularities
    • Places where the realms intersect
    • Created by large concentrations of Investiture

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"Cosmere Awareness"

  • Worldhopping
    • Khriss
    • Hoid
  • Organisations
    • Ghostbloods
    • 17th shard
    • Ire

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Shard Worlds

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Roshar (Stormlight Archive)

Starchart Rosharan System

Image Credit: Isaac Stewart

Map of Roshar

Image Credit: Isaac Stewart

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Roshar (Stormlight Archive)

  • Shards: Honor, Cultivation
  • World
    • Highstorms
    • Invertebrate Life
    • Mobile plants
  • Magic
    • Surgebinding
    • Spren
    • Shardblades/Shardplate
  • Culture
    • Extremely varied
    • Parshendi
    • Parshmen

Shardplate and Shardblades

Image Credit: Ben McSweeney

Parshendi Couple

Image Credit: Dan dos Santos

https://www.muddycolors.com/2021/01/vogue-parshendi/

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Scadrial (Mistborn)

Starchart Scadrian System

Image Credit: Isaac Stewart

Map of the Final Empire

Image Credit: Isaac Stewart

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Scadrial (Mistborn)

  • Shards: Preservation, Ruin
  • World
    • Ashmounts
    • Mists
    • Mistwraiths/Koloss
    • Dynamic
  • Magic: The metallic arts
    • Allomancy
    • Feruchemy
    • Hemalurgy
  • Culture
    • Absolutistisches Imperium
    • Skaa

Table of Allomantic Metals

Image Credit: Isaac Stewart

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Sel (Elantris, The Emperor's Soul)

Starchart Selish System

Image Credit: Isaac Stewart

Map of Sycla

Image Credit: Isaac Stewart

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Sel (Elantris, The Emperor's Soul)

  • Shards: Devotion, Dominion
  • World
    • Earthlike 🤷
    • Multiple independent nations and empires
  • Magic
    • AonDor (Arelon)
    • ChayShan (JinDo)
    • Dhakor
    • Forgery (MaiPon)
    • Blood Sealing (Dzhamar)
    • Seons/Skaze

AonDor

Image Credit: Shuravf

https://shuravf.tumblr.com/image/181181963406

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Nalthis (Warbreaker)

  • Shard: Endowment
  • World
    • Earthlike 🤷
  • Magic
    • BioChromatic Breath
    • Returned
    • Awakening
    • Lifeless
  • Culture
    • Theocracy

Starchart Nalthian System

Image Credit: Isaac Stewart

Awakening

Image Credit: Ari Ibarra

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/KagwOr

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Taldain (White Sand)

Starchart Taildain System

Image Credit: Isaac Stewart

Map of Dayside

Image Credit: Isaac Stewart

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Taldain (White Sand)

  • Shard: Autonomy
  • World
    • Tidally locked planet
    • Dayside/Darkside
  • Magic
    • Sand Mastery
  • Culture
    • Dayside: Various desert nations
    • Darkside: Relatively advanced, technologically

Sand Mastery

Image Credit: Julius Gopez

(White Sand graphic novel)

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Other systems

  • Drominad System/First of the Sun
    • “Sixth of the Dusk”
    • Magic: Aviars, Telepathy
  • Threnodite System/Threnody
    • “Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell”
    • Shard: Ambition?
    • Shades
  • Yolen
    • “Dragonsteel” (unpublished)
    • Location of the Shattering of Adonalsium

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