The Physical Realm is the most readily understood as it is merely the manifestation of the world as experienced by the characters, with properties similar to our own.The Shards Honor ( Almighty/ Tanavast), Cultivation and Odium have influence on Roshar.Īll things exist in three Realms: the Physical, the Cognitive, and the Spiritual. On many if not all worlds, the method of binding with a magic is directly related to the Shard or Shards on that world as is its use. When a Shard comes to a world, it imbeds into the magic of that world altering it to match its Intent. When a person holds a Shard, they are imbued with its power, but they also become the Shard and have an overriding desire to follow that Shard's Intent. Shards are named after a specific action or ideal, called an Intent. Shards are related to many, if not all, magic systems on those worlds. There are sixteen Shards, scattered amongst ten Shardworlds. Please improve it in any way that you see fit, and remove this notice once the article section is more complete. Due to as yet unrevealed events, Adonalsium has been Shattered into pieces, known as Shards of Adonalsium, or Shards for short, which are themselves each pieces of the power of Creation itself.Įxpansion required: It is requested that this article section be expanded.

At this point it is understood to be the cosmere's power of Creation that permeated everything. Overview Īdonalsium's exact nature has not yet been revealed. Nalthians have something kind of extra special because they can use it in different ways, but everybody has something like that. He is a linchpin to the overarching story within the cosmere.Īccording to Brandon, just as it is with Investiture, one cannot destroy anything in the cosmere, but one can make it change forms. Sometimes this character uses the name Hoid, and sometimes he can only be recognized by appearance. So far there is one character who appears in all of the full-length cosmere novels that he has created. The first book Brandon sold, Elantris, was embedded with these elements and he kept putting them in subsequent novels. But as a way of still having a huge fantasy series, Brandon made all of these independent stories a 'hidden epic.' That is, he seeded continuing characters and elements into all of these different worlds, now known as the cosmere. That way, if a publisher didn't like one book, said publisher could pitch a different one, which one can't do with a huge fantasy series. While he was selling his initial works to publishers, Brandon was encouraged to write books set in different worlds as opposed to a huge epic fantasy series.

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