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  17. [Discusion] Row spoilers

    in Stormlight Archive

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    So I was thinking about spren death and started to wonder what happens to the investiture when the spren die. I found the following WoB.

    Spoiler

    James Clifford

    Science question!

    Brandon Sanderson

    Ohh science. Is it real science, or fake science?

    Adam Horne

    It is Brandon science.

    Brandon Sanderson

    Fake science!

    James Clifford

    With the discovery of anti-Investiture in Rhythm of War, would the correct form of anti-Investiture be usable to clear up the mess in the Sel Cognitive Realm. If so, would this completely destroy a splintered Shard?

    Brandon Sanderson

    *laughs, coughs, and is otherwise stunned* That would not be a good idea. So why would that not be a good idea? So no, this would not clear up the problem. The problem that's going on in the Cognitive Realm in Sel is that a bunch of Investiture that should be in the Spiritual Realm has been packed into the Cognitive Realm instead, through a very weird circumstance of events. If you were to introduce a bunch of anti-Investiture of the right type there, you would just generate an explosion that would be a very bad thing. Matter cannot be created or destroyed, Investiture can't be either, so it's actually changing forms. It's going from Investiture into energy! Which you know, does not leave the system. So the investiture would eventually make its way back around, you can't destroy anything in the Cosmere, just like you can't destroy anything in our universe. But you can make it change forms. And so, what's going on there is just this hope by a certain individual that what has happened there will prevent the power from becoming self-aware.

    It's basically Odium being like "alright I just murdered you people, I don't wanna have to come back and do it again". So he's trying to figure out a way to make this happen. As it currently stands (again, these things can change when I write future books), it was partially happenstance that he took advantage of rather than something that he was able to set up very intentionally from the beginning, but he was definitely a part.

    YouTube Livestream 32 (June 3, 2021)

    So, if investiture can't be destroyed or created only changed (conservation of energy) then if enough spren died would they end up forming honor or would something else happen?

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  21. These Stupid Ranks

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by The Wandering Wizard

    5 minutes ago, EmulatonStromenkiin said:

    congratulations! for that, you get an upvote!

    Thank you. I now get to inadvertently oppress my own people.

    Edit: Dang it now I get to die many time a day.

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