Ixthos

The Cosmere's worlds are interconnected and in some way related. However, the Cosmere itself seems to be a term that only applies to a dwarf galaxy or cluster, or a region of a dwarf galaxy or cluster. The universe the Cosmere is inside of doesn't have a name, which raises questions about if there is life outside the group of worlds?

Theories

1. The focus of the planets are based on the images on the chart, either due to the people who made the chart affecting the nature of those planets based on what they believed, or they believed those things about those constellations and planets because of feedback from what was present on the planets
2. The distances and relative locations of the planets in the Cognitive realm is based on the beliefs of the people who made the map, as the stars are unlikely to be close together physically based on how they appear from a single location, but if the location was what the only people believes, and their belief affects the Cognitive realm, the distances and paths would be affected.

Observations

1. Religions seem to be unique on each planet and based on real world beliefs on the supernatural. New planets introduced will be explorations of other ideas that haven't been covered by other planet's belief systems and traditions
2. Except for Scadrial all planets with shards have a moon, so if there is a relation between shards and moons, it might be replaced by Ruin and Preservation being part of the planet
3. Water appears solid in the Cognitive realm, while air doesn't seem affected. Regular matter combines together into a single object, while souls appear different to non-living objects, and bacteria don't seem to manifest, though they do have enough presence to maintain an area. Plants grow from the water, even if it is just a cup, and the planets seem to reflect the property of the planet 

Questions

1. Is there life outside the Cosmere cluster, and if so, how does it relate to the Cosmere?
2. If there is life outside the Cosmere, is it related to the red stars?

Theories

1. The more shards present at a location, the more powerful the resulting system or systems would be
2. Shards are constrained in how their system manifests due to the properties of the planet, but deliberately making a planet lets them affect how it is structured. If they settle they will not be able to prevent a system
3. Identity is a type of connection for what one considers a part of themselves, from the atoms of their bodies to the items they own that they consider intrinsic to themselves to their memories and emotions. Connection is any relation other than that. Fortune is connections across time relating to events. Investiture is the power that forms those links.

Observations

1. All the systems are related and parts of a single larger system, so all systems can likely interact to a greater or lesser extent with the same properties, though the systems on the main worlds are most likely the best and most versatile at it.
2. Investiture is the base of material in the setting, and matter is a form of investiture and investiture is a form of matter and a form of energy - does that mean shards can defeat entropy?
3. Ruin was upset that it was loosing investiture due to Seers, but shards can also claim investiture from elsewhere

Questions

1. Does anything prevent a spren or awakened object from holding a shard?
2. Do other systems, such as Aethers or Tzai Blows, affect or use the bind points that Hemalurgy uses?
3. How do atoms and molecules relate to the cognitive realm?

Scadrial was specifically made by two shards, and its systems all use metal.

Theories

1. Scadrial was specifically placed on an out of the way star not considered major on the chart so that it would not be affected by the perceptions of those who made the chart
2. Aluminium will be used in future novels as the containers for metal flakes, protecting them from being affected by others when an allomancer wants to drink them
3. [See the metallic arts theories below]

Observations

1. Ruin considered the planet old, but had worked with Preservation to assemble it. Either Ruin considered all planets old, or Scadrial was made out of another planet

Questions

1. If Ruin had won, what would have happened to allomancy, feruchemy, and hemalurgy - would the inquistors still have had abilities if the planet was destroyed?

The metallic arts are strongly interconnected, and affect all three of the realms in the cosmere. The fact that metal is also the solid form of investiture, and that the planet was specifically made, raises questions as to the purpose of the systems and how they relate to the others.

Theories

1. The metallic arts were specifically made to affect the structure of the Cosmere, and as a two shard system, the three metallic arts were more flexible and powerful than other systems, with the exception of the systems of the other main planets.
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3. Feruchemy and hemalurgy can affect the spiritual and cognitive realms, and allomancy can be used to provide excess power. It is likely that a spike could be used to link two people or machines together, and provide power from one to the other - it would be possible to be granted an ability remotely
4. Between the 1980's and space opera, and possibly during the space opera, hemalurgy would be used to provide the equivalent of cybernetic implants, as inquisitors seem very cyberpunkish, and it would fit the aesthetic
5. As Bleeder showed, spikes can be used to grant telepathy - combined with either the other arts, or investiture from other planets either in pure form (such as Awakening) or altered (a Lerasium and Edglium alloy for example) could be used to form wireless fabrial-type machines that can be remotely controlled (see above theory)
6. Copper feruchemy combined with allomancy could be used to provide memory to electronic devices, and possibly copper wires could be used to transfer this from one location to another -  Feruchemy and allomancy can be used to make a computer
7. The medallions most likely made using hemalurgy specifically as part of the process (I hope I'm wrong, but it could strain relations if allomancers and feruchemists have to die to make each one)
8. Hemalurgy can change the powers slightly based on how they are connected to the individual using power - steel inquisitors can see the individual parts of the metals, so it probably changes their perception of materials. The power is only slightly changed.
9. Nicrobursts can use their abilities to control or program allomancy based computers
10. Connection combined with rioting or soothing increases the effect
11. An alloy of steel or iron with another metal allows one to twist or spin a metal, iron one way and steel the other. Another likely lets the metal be moved perpendicularly to the allomancer
12. Kandra spikes are made by melting two spikes together and then separating them.

Observations

1. The three metallic arts allow for affecting the three realms, and have close interactions with one another.
2. Mancy means divination - bronze allomancy was the first known example, so associating it with being given knowledge would be logical.
3. Feruchemy contains an implication of chemistry, so it would make sense it involves changing metal
4. Hemalurgy is similar to metallurgy, and hema is blood
5. Surgery on Scadial - assuming they don't just use medallions - could be interesting with "accidentally" removing a part of someones powers, accidentally granting powers, or if a spike is used during surgery to increase strength and likelyhood of recovering, if a part broke of inside someone it could cause side effects

Questions

1. Metals can be melted, dissolved, reconstituted, and welded together. What affect would this have on the metals properties in the three systems, such as what would happen if two spikes were welded together into a single spike?
2. What would happen if a single spike were used to kill two people, both with the same ability?

Theories

1. Ten is important to the whole system - strange that Braize is associated with another number

Observations

1. Roshar has three moons and three shards - interesting that it has more moons than Sel

Questions

1. How does one access the moons of Roshar from Shadsmar? Is it via nexus?
2. How does one travel to Ashyn and Braize? They don't seem to map to expanses
3. If one travelled to Roshar from one of the expanses, would one have the option to go to Ashyn, etc.?

Theories

1. Windrunners can use the surge of Adhesion for telekinesis, namely pushing objects back. Also, reverse lashings are a combination of Adhesion and Gravitation.
2. Skybreakers can't use reverse lashings - making one object pull another - but can use the surges of Gravitation and Division to split objects, making them fly apart
3. Lightweaving can be used to fire energy beams
4. Shardblades can be used as a focus for Lightweaving energy bolts
5. [Removed, but says there is a link between three of the surges and a system on Yolan]
6. Cultivation and Odium both have affected Ashyn's infection system
7. Voidbinding does not affect the surges, but is related - the void is not absence but the "voiding" of a promise, etc.?

Observations

1. Windrunners protect, and are associated with vapour which is clear. Preservation on Scadrial is associated with the mists, which can be seen through though not fully clearly
2. Skybreakers are associated with smoke and are headed by Nale. Nalthis has BioChroma, which is described as an iridescent gas
3. Ruin was associated with ash and destruction - the ash indirectly - while Dustbringers have Ash spren and can destroy
4. Tension and Cohesion are stated as affecting the soft and strong Axial interconnection. Jasnah referred to the axi of the air when she soulcast it. Axi are thus probably the Cosmere or Rosharan term for atoms or molecules.
5. Sapphires, rubies, emeralds, topaz, and heliodor are compounds of aluminium
6. If Ash becomes a Dustbringer she would have an Ash spren

Questions

1. N/A

Theories

1. Dominion and Devotion deliberately intended to set up the civilisation on Sel with intentions that they gain power and be used by them

Observations

1. Sel has a moon, which might indicate their is a shard

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As Silverlight is present in the Cognitive realm, it seems unlikely that its location is random.

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Observations

1. If the rest of Ambition is present it wouldn't be safe to use its perpendicularity normally, seeing as how it would be somewhere in space, but it would be helpful if one where using a ship that travels in the cognitive realm (see Cosmere theories)

Questions

1. N/A

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Awakening is the most clearly capable of making machines and tools of the systems.

Theories

1. Awakening can be used to make space ships
2. Breath can be used as an emergency fuel for other systems

Observations

1. Vashar observed that placing some of his own body on something he used Awakening on helped, so Breaths either imprint on the person using them so parts of their body acts as a focus, or another additional hair or skin from someone uninvolved would also make it easier

Questions

1. Do Breaths stick with a cognitive shadow, so if Kelsier had more than a cognitive body, had some Breaths, lost that body, and then gained a new body again, would he still have Breaths?

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Observations

1. Threnody doesn't have a moon but one of its neighbours does, which might indicate that a shards remains are in the system

Questions

1. Does any other planet in the system have parts of the dead shard?

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The appearance of the constellation the star appears in is that of a fisherman

Theories

1. As mentioned, the significance of the water on the planet is either due to the beliefs of the inhabitants of where the painting was made, or the painting reflects something which the people believes because the area has water

Observations

1. N/A

Questions

1. How long ago was the planet colonised?
2. Was the hostile life near the pool originally present before Autonomy's interest and is actually related to autonomy investiture, or did Autonomy make the life hostile?

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