Cosmere Encyclopedia

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Adonalsium

God, also known by Singers as Origin of Songs. It created the Rosharan system and three primeval spren: Wind, Stone and Night. Adonalsium has been destroyed during the event known as Shattering of Adonalsium and its power divided into sixteen parts, known as Shards of Adonalsium.

Allomancy

One of the three forms of Investiture on Scadrial. Users of Allomancy are Allomancers.

Allomancy comes from Preservation and relies on burning Allomantic metals by Allomancers, which in turn provides them with specific power bound to the kind of burned metal. Side effect of burning Allomantic metals is that it creates Allomantic pulses, which Allomancers who burn Bronze can detect.

There are sixteen basic Allomantic metals. They come in pairs: one is the base metal, while the other one is its alloy. One is “pushing” metal and the other is “pulling” metal. Some metals influence things which are outside of Allomancer’s body (external metals), others influence their internal powers. Other way of dividing Allomantic metals is by the type of power they influence: physical or mental attributes, enhancement of other Allomantic powers and manipulating time (temporal metals).

Allomantic Metals

Physical	Pushing	Pulling	Pushing	Pulling	Mental
External	Steel Pushes from nearby metals; allows detection of other metals	Iron Pulls to nearby metal; allows detection of other metalss	Brass Soothes emotions	Zinc Enflames emotions	External
Internal	Pewter Increases physical abilities	Tin Sharpens senses	Bronze Allows detection of Allomantic pulses	Copper Hides the fact of burning Allomantic metal	Internal
External	Nicrosil Enhances power of currently burned metals by other Allomancer	Chromium Depletes metal reserves of other Allomancer	Bendalloy Speeds up time	Cadmium Slows down time	External
Internal	Duralumin Enhances power of currently burned metals	Aluminum Depletes metal reserves of Allomancer	Electrum Reveals Allomancer's future	Gold Reveals Allomancer's past self	Internal
Enhancement	Pushing	Pulling	Pushing	Pulling	Temporal

Some Allomancers can burn God Metals, which provide other effects than the ordinary Allomantic metals. Some God Metals, like Lerasium, can be burned by anyone.

Ambition

One of Shards of Adonalsium. Its original Vessel was Uli Da, but she was killed by Rayse who held the Shard of Odium at that time.

Shortly after Shattering Uli Da had visited Threnodite System, where she, Odium and Mercy fought against each other, ultimately loosing to Odium.

Aon

Name of the writing system and glyphs used on Sel, as well as the name of the first glyph of the system. All glyphs together are called Aons and the first glyph is Aon. Aons serve as a base for AonDor magic system.

Aons are tightly connected with geography of Arelon. All Aons base on the shape of the first Aon Aon, which itself bases on the shape of Arelon. After Reod shape of Aons have changed, adding the line at the bottom right, representing the chasm created during the earthquake. Without that line, Aons are incomplete and don’t work as intended for their magical purposes.

Each Seon displays a glowing Aon at its core.

Aons aren’t invented but rather discovered.

Aona

Original Vessel of Devotion. Together with Skai she violated the pact of original Vessels to not settle on the same world, and they both settled on Sel. Later, Rayse arrived at the system and killed Aona and Skai. Their combined Investiture creates the Dor.

AonDor

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Arelon

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Ascension

The act of taking the power of Shard of Adonalsium.

Ati

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Atium

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Autonomy

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Awakening

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Bavadin

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BioChromatic Breath

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BioChromatic Entity

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Breath Equivalent Unit (BEU)

Unit of measurement of Investiture, based on the quantity of Investiture in one BioChromatic Breath.

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Catacendre

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Chan Ko Sar

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Cultivation

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D

Dawnshard

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Devotion

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Dominion

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Dor

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Edgli

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Endowment

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Euridrius

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Feruchemy

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God Metal

Solid mianifestation of Shard of Adonalsium’s Investiture. Known God Metals are: Atium, Malatium, Harmonium, Lerasium, Trellium and Raysium

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Harmonium

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Harmony

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Hemalurgy

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Hoid

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Honor

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Invention

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Investiture

Base of all cosmere magic systems. Investiture is measured in Breath Equivalent Units.

It naturally belongs to the Spiritual Realm. In large quantities, it causes time dilation in Cognitive and Physical Realms, where time and space do matter.

Energy, relativistic mass and Investiture are different forms of the same thing, deriving from the famous Einstein’s formula E = mc², which is a special case of energy-momentum relation with momentum equal to 0.

Investiture manifests itself differently on different worlds, for example as Awakening on Nalthis, as Stormlight on Roshar or as Allomancy on Scadrial.

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Koravellium Avast

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Leras

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Lerasium

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Malatium

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Medelantorius

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Mercy

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Mistborn

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N

Nalthis

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Nightblood

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Odium

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Preservation

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Rayse

Original Vessel of Odium. Killed by Taravangian with Nightblood.

Raysium

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Realm

Place of existence. In cosmere everything exists in one of three Realms: Physical Realm, Cognitive Realm and the Spiritual Realm. On Roshar the theory of three Realms has been first proposed by the scholar Gavarah.

Physical Realm is a Realm which we perceive with our senses.

Cognitive Realm is the world of thought and perception. On Roshar Shadesmar is on the Cognitive Realm.

Spiritual Realm is made entirely of Investiture and lies beyond space and time. Shards are almost entirely contained in the Spiritual Realm.

Reason

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Reod

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Roshar

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Rosharan System

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Ruin

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Scadrial

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Scadrian System

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Sel

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Selish System

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Seon

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Shadesmar

Section of Cognitive Realm in the Rosharan system. It is the kingdom of spren. Also known as Makari Sin by the Shin.

Shard of Adonalsium

Piece of Adonalsium’s power created during the Shattering. Each Shard is named after its purpose or its Intent, which defines how they act and what they’re capable of. To be used, Shard needs a Vessel: a person who holds its power.

When two or more Shards are being held by one person, they mix and create a new Intent. Although the Intents of individual Shards still exist, the mix constitutes as a new Shard. In total, 65535 Shards can be created this way, including the one made of all sixteen primary Shards.

Primary Shards are: Ambition, Autonomy, Cultivation, Devotion, Dominion, Endowment, Honor, Invention, Mercy, Odium, Preservation, Reason, Ruin, Valor, Virtuosity and Whimsy.

Shattering of Adonalsium

Event after which Adonalsium was destroyed and its power divided into sixteen parts, known as Shards of Adonalsium. It took place over 10000 years before the True Desolation.

Adonalsium was killed by Aona, Ati, Bavadin, Chan Ko Sar, Edgli, Euridrius Hoid, Koravellium Avast, Leras, Medelantorius, Rayse, Skai, Tanavast and Uli Da, using the dawnshards.

Shin

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Skai

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Spren

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Tanavast

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Taravangian

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Threnodite System

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Trellium

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True Desolation

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Uli Da

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Valor

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Vasher

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Vessel

A person who took one or more of Shards of Adonalsium.

Virtuosity

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Warbreaker

Warbreaker or *Warbreaker the Peaceful is the title of Vasher which he held on Nalthis.

Whimsy

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Zahel

See: Vasher.