Editing Cosmere

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!colspan=5 style="background:#CCCCFF;" |Significant Worlds of the Cosmere

| ''Unknown''

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! rowspan=1 |[[Nalthian system|Nalthian System]]

| [[Nalthis]]

| [[Endowment]]

| ''[[Warbreaker]]'', ''[[Nightblood (book)|Nightblood]]'' (unpublished)

| {{wob ref|1120}}{{wob ref|5984}}

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! rowspan=3 |[[Rosharan system|Rosharan System]]

| [[Ashyn]]

| ''None''

| ''[[The Silence Divine]]'' (unpublished)

| {{au ref|Roshar}}{{wob ref|8869}}

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| [[Braize]]

| [[Odium]]

| [[The Stormlight Archive]]

| {{au ref|Roshar}}{{wob ref|5984}}

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| [[Roshar]]

| [[Cultivation]], [[Honor]]

| [[The Stormlight Archive]]

| {{au ref|Roshar}}{{wob ref|5984}}

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! rowspan=1 |[[Scadrian system|Scadrian System]]

| [[Scadrial]]

| [[Preservation]], [[Ruin]] ([[Final Ascension|combined]] as [[Harmony]])

| [[Mistborn (series)|''Mistborn'' series]]

| {{au ref|Scadrial}}{{wob ref|5984}}

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! rowspan=1 |[[Selish system|Selish System]]

| [[Sel]]

| [[Devotion]], [[Dominion]]

| [[Elantris trilogy|''Elantris'' trilogy]], ''[[The Emperor's Soul]]''

| {{au ref|Sel}}{{wob ref|5984}}

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! rowspan=1 |[[Taldain system|Taldain System]]

| [[Taldain]]

| [[Autonomy]]

| ''[[White Sand]]''

| {{au ref|Taldain}}{{wob ref|5984}}

=== Trishardic Systems ===

The [[Rosharan system]] consists of three planets of note. '''[[Ashyn]]''' was nearly destroyed in an apocalypse long ago, though a few cities remain floating in the atmosphere.{{wob ref|8243}}{{au ref|Roshar}} Certain bacteria on the planet are able to grant magical powers, including the ability to keep the floating cities aloft.{{wob ref|12271}}{{wob ref|1862}} '''[[Roshar]]''' is a planet with a [[highstorm|powerful storm]] that frequently blows across the continent and where [[spren]] can cross into the Physical Realm.{{au ref|Roshar}} '''[[Braize]]''' is the prison of the [[Fused]] where the [[Herald]]s are tortured between [[Desolation]]s.{{book ref|sa3|38}} The system is home to the Shards [[Cultivation]] and [[Honor]], though the latter has been Splintered; additionally, [[Odium]] is currently trapped in the system.{{au ref|Roshar}}

=== Dishardic Systems ===

'''[[Scadrial]]''' is the most technologically advanced planet and the most similar to [[Yolen]].{{au ref|Scadrial}}{{wob ref|6732}} Its [[Metallic Arts|three magic systems]] all use metal to store and access [[Investiture]].{{book ref|mb4|part=ars}} The system is home to the Shards [[Preservation]] and [[Ruin]], who have since combined into [[Harmony]].{{book ref|mb3|82}}

'''[[Sel]]''', also known as '''Seol''', is a large planet with three great domains.{{au ref|Sel}} It has many magic systems, which are tied to the user's location and are accessed by creating shapes in the proper form, rather like programming.{{wob ref|1768}} The system is home to the Shards [[Devotion]] and [[Dominion]], who have both been Splintered by Odium.{{au ref|Sel}}

=== Monoshardic Systems ===

The planet '''[[Taldain]]''' is tidally locked between two stars, a blue-white supergiant and a white dwarf. The side of the planet facing the former, [[Dayside]], is a vast desert where Investiture arrives from the light of the star. [[Darkside]] faces the white dwarf, leaving it in perpetual twilight; many things there fluoresce in ultraviolet light. Its [[Shard]], [[Autonomy]], keeps the planet isolated from the rest of the cosmere.{{au ref|Taldain}}

The [[Drominad system]] is home to several planets, all of which have water as a dominant feature. Three of them are inhabited by humans, the most of any planetary system in the cosmere at the time Khriss wrote her essay on the system. The innermost planet, '''[[First of the Sun]]''' has a [[perpendicularity]], though the region around it in the Physical Realm is incredibly dangerous,{{au ref|Drominad}}{{book ref|sotd}} and is home to [[Patji (being)|Patji]], an avatar of Autonomy.{{wob ref|9385}}

'''[[Nalthis]]''' is a world of color. Color is needed to fuel its magic system, [[Awakening]], and those with large amounts of [[Breath]] will enhance the colors around them and can see perfect shades of colors.{{book ref|wb|prologue}} When someone dies, [[Endowment]], the resident Shard, occasionally sends their [[Cognitive Shadow]] back as a [[Returned]] to prevent a tragedy they foresee after their death.{{book ref|wb|57}}{{wob ref|5943}}

'''[[Threnody]]''' is a planet with two principal parts: the [[Fallen World]], which is under the control of an unknown entity called the [[Evil]] that is so dangerous that everyone was forced to leave, and the [[Forests of Hell]], which is home to dangerous [[Cognitive Shadow]]s known as [[Shade]]s. The system used to be home to the Shard [[Ambition]], whose Splintering has severely warped planet.{{au ref|Threnody}}{{epigraph ref|sa4|27}}

The [[UTol system]] is located near where the Shard [[Virtuosity]] Splintered herself and home to two habitable planets.{{book ref|yumi|1}}{{book ref|yumi|part=anotherepilogue}} The eponymous planet of '''[[UTol]]''' is a water-dominated planet inhabited by [[Sho Del]] that seems to be well-known in the cosmere by the space age.{{book ref|yumi|30}}{{book ref|yumi|part=anotherepilogue}} Its sister planet '''[[Komashi]]''' is home to humans and [[Splinter]]s of Virtuosity known as [[hijo]];{{book ref|yumi|17}} before the destruction of the [[father machine]], it was notable for an eternal [[shroud]] of black Investiture covering the planet.{{book ref|yumi|1}}

=== Non-shardic Systems ===

'''[[Canticle]]''' is an extremely small planet with a dense, Invested core.{{book ref|tsm|19}} The light of the system's host star is also Invested; when that light reaches the surface of Canticle, it is quickly pulled down to the planet's core, superheating everything in its path.{{book ref|tsm|39}}{{book ref|tsm|45}} As a result, people living on the planet must keep moving constantly in order to stay ahead of the sunrise.{{book ref|tsm|1}}

'''[[Yolen]]''' is the original planet of humans and the location of the [[Shattering]].{{wob ref|5702}}{{wob ref|11602}} It has few inhabitants in the modern era and has been hidden from most of the people of the cosmere.{{wob ref|6545}}{{msh ref|3|2}}

=== Other Notable Worlds ===

'''[[Dhatri]]''' is the homeworld of the [[aether]]s, though they have since spread around the cosmere;{{wob ref|15136}}{{wob ref|15428}}{{wob ref|16254}} the world has been made inhospitable due to an entity known as the [[dark aether]].{{book ref|mb7|47}}

'''[[Lumar]]''' is a backwater planet that is home to the [[aether spores]], a compressed form of [[aether]] that grows dangerously fast when touched by water, which are produced by a variant strain of the aethers on the twelve moons that hang close to the surface of the planet.{{wob ref|15428}}{{book ref|tress|28}}{{book ref|tress|31}}

Little is known about '''[[Bjendal]]''', '''[[Mythos]]''', '''[[Obrodai]]''', and '''[[Vax]]'''. Additionally, there is the homeworld of the [[Sleepless]],{{book ref|sa3.5|18}}{{wob ref|15873}} which may be one of those four planets.

During this time, Adonalsium created several planets, including the entire [[Rosharan system]].{{wob ref|3952}}{{wob ref|9283}} Most of the planets in the cosmere existed and were named prior to the Shattering,{{wob ref|7262}} though [[#Worldhoppers|worldhopping]] was much less common at the time.{{wob ref|13219}}

Eventually, around ten-thousand years before the [[True Desolation]],{{book ref|sa4|i|1}}{{book ref|tsm|11}}{{wob ref|1355}}{{wob ref|9683}}{{wob ref|2728}} a group of people that opposed Adonalsium came together and plotted its destruction.{{wob ref|4078}}{{wob ref|2539}} This group included people of all three sapient species on [[Yolen]]: humans, [[dragon (cosmere)|dragons]], and [[Sho Del]].{{wob ref|9676}} To achieve their goal, they created a weapon{{wob ref|5602}} that utilized the [[Dawnshard]]s.{{book ref|sa3.5|19}} In an event known as the [[Shattering of Adonalsium]], the weapon was used to "undo" Adonalsium,{{book ref|sa3.5|19}} splitting it into the sixteen [[Shard]]s;{{msh ref|3|2}} the weapon was expended in the process,{{wob ref|2246}} though remnants of it exist in the Physical Realm and are responsible for Hoid's immortality.{{wob ref|10439}} As part of the Shattering, sixteen of the people who had opposed Adonalsium took up the new Shards and became the first Vessels.{{msh ref|3|2}} There was some sort of force that caused Adonalsium to shatter into the Shards that it did,{{wob ref|9956}} and the distribution of the Shards to the Vessels was not random.{{wob ref|5490}} The Shattering occurred on Yolen, though there is some "weirdness" with regard to Yolen and location,{{wob ref|11602}} and occurred all at once.{{wob ref|1292}} As a result of the Shattering, all Investiture in the cosmere became aligned with one of the sixteen Shards.{{wob ref|8605}}

After the Shattering, the new Vessels made some sort of agreement to not interfere with each other,{{epigraph ref|sa3|39}} though the exact agreement was somewhat ambiguous and the Vessels who suggested it did not make sure to get a formal oath from the others.{{wob ref|10835}}{{wob ref|13144}} Regardless, the Shards then went their separate ways. Most settled on a planet, though [[Virtuosity]] instead chose to instead travel around the cosmere before eventually Splintering herself near the [[UTol system]].{{wob ref|15530}}{{book ref|yumi|1}} Some chose to go off on their own,{{au ref|Taldain}}{{au ref|Threnody}} while others stayed together with other Shards.{{au ref|Sel}}{{au ref|Scadrial}}{{au ref|Roshar}} Around this time, [[Ruin]] and [[Preservation]] created the planet [[Scadrial]], using the non-fain parts of Yolen as a guide.{{au ref|Scadrial}}{{msh ref|3|2}}

Soon after the Shattering, or possibly even beforehand, the Vessel of Odium, Rayse, decided he wanted to become the strongest being in the cosmere.{{wob ref|6685}} However, Odium is, by its nature, selfish and Rayse did not want the Intent of an additional Shard to make him into something else, so he instead decided to destroy the other Shards so that there would be no one left to challenge him.{{wob ref|6685}}{{wob ref|4130}}{{epigraph ref|sa1|22}}{{book ref|mb7|20}} To do so, he developed a way to [[Splinter]] a Shard's power, which also results in the death of its Vessel.{{epigraph ref|sa1|22}}

Odium's first target was [[Ambition]], as he feared that it would be a threat to him. However, while searching for Ambition, over 7700 years before the [[True Desolation]],{{book ref|sa4|14}}{{book ref|sa4|76}} he encountered the Shards [[Devotion]] and [[Dominion]] on [[Sel]] and attacked them,{{wob ref|1550}} likely because he could argue they had violated the Vessel's pact to not interfere with each other.{{epigraph ref|sa3|37}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|39}}{{wob ref|8358}} In the ensuing battle, Odium successfully splintered Devotion and Dominion and killed their Vessels, Aona and Skai.{{au ref|Sel}} In order to ensure that no one could take up their Shards, he then somehow moved most of their Investiture from the Spiritual Realm into the Cognitive Realm, which made the [[Expanse of the Densities|Selish Cognitive Realm]] incredibly dangerous and the Selish Invested Arts location-dependent.{{wob ref|9616}}{{au ref|Sel}}{{wob ref|4129}}

Sometime after he Splintered Devotion and Dominion, Odium finally found Ambition, who had settled in the [[Threnodite system]]. Odium attacked and mortally wounded Ambition, though the Shard fled and was ultimately Splintered elsewhere,{{au ref|Threnody}} in a battle with Odium and [[Mercy]].{{epigraph ref|sa4|27}} These clashes resulted in a wound in the Spiritual Realm and left ripped-off chunks of Ambition's power in the Threnodite system, which twisted the people and planet of [[Threnody]].{{au ref|Threnody}}{{epigraph ref|sa4|27}}

A long time after the Shattering, Odium got permission from [[Honor]] and [[Cultivation]] to join them in the [[Rosharan system]].{{wob ref|9934}}{{wob ref|15869}} Odium never intended to Invest himself in a planet,{{wob ref|227}} but, at some point, he became Invested in the Rosharan system to the point where he would now have to leave some of his power behind or forcibly tear it out in order to leave.{{wob ref|9852}}

Early in his time in the Rosharan system, Odium took an interest in the humans living on [[Ashyn]] and encouraged them to experiment with [[Surgebinding]].{{book ref|sa4|111}} Those experiments, combined with at least one Dawnshard, set the entire planet on fire, leaving it largely uninhabitable outside of a few small pockets, causing most of the population to flee to Roshar.{{book ref|sa3|111}}{{book ref|sa3|113}}{{book ref|sa4|111}}{{au ref|Roshar}}

At some point while he was in the Rosharan system, Honor and Cultivation used their power to trap him there.{{book ref|sa3|38}} As a result, Odium has since been waging a war to free himself from whatever binds him to the system so that he can continue his quest. To that end, he Splintered off pieces of his power to create the [[Fused]],{{book ref|sa3|38}} the [[Unmade]],{{wob ref|9207}} and [[voidspren]],{{au ref|Roshar}} and also Invested in the Rosharan system enough to create and grant access to Invested Art known as [[Voidbinding]].{{wob ref|1540}} When the Fused first appeared, Honor created the [[Herald]]s, who could seal the Fused on [[Braize]], though the Fused tortured the Heralds into allowing them to return to [[Roshar]]. Every time a Herald broke, a [[Desolation]] would begin and the Heralds and [[Knights Radiant]] would fight the Fused until they could be sealed on Braize again. This situation continued for millennia and the Shards remained at a stalemate, especially after nine of the Heralds abandoned the [[Oathpact]], leaving it to [[Talenel]] alone, who was better able to withstand the torture on Braize.{{book ref|sa3|38}}

Odium's repeated clashes with other Shards have left him with "scars that do not heal," forcing him to become more careful about the battles he engages in.{{book ref|sa3|16}}

After the death of the [[Lord Ruler]], Ruin was successfully able to manipulate [[Vin]] into taking up the Well's power and then releasing it, which allowed him to be free.{{msh ref|2|3}} Once free, Ruin was unable to immediately Splinter Preservation, but brought his power to bear against what remained of Leras, slowly killing the Vessel.{{msh ref|3|2}} The [[Ire]], aware of Leras's impending death, sought to use [[Ire's orb|a device]] to [[Connection|Connect]] one of their members to Preservation and Ascend in {{date|1025|fe}}.{{msh ref|5|2}} The device, however, was stolen by Kelsier, who used it after Leras finally died, taking up the portion of Preservation's power that Leras had still been holding and preventing Ruin from Splintering Preservation.{{msh ref|6|4}}

Leras, when he held Preservation's power, had foreseen all this and planned for both Ruin and Preservation to be left without a Vessel so that [[Sazed]] could take up both Shards and their Intents could moderate each other.{{book ref|mb3|82}} As a result of one person holding both Shards, Ruin and Preservation's power began to intermingle, and Sazed became known as [[Harmony]].{{wob ref|4115}} It is considered a single Shard, much like a king of two countries is still just one king.{{wob ref|6486}} This consolidation of two Shards with one Vessel caused some of the other Shards—notably Odium and [[Autonomy]]—to feel threatened or even scared and to begin making plans for dealing with Harmony.{{book ref|mb7|20}}{{wob ref|1025}}{{wob ref|7319}}

With the advent of the Everstorm on {{Rosharan date|1173|10|10|3}}, [[Dalinar Kholin]] founded a [[coalition of monarchs]] to oppose Odium's forces and the [[Knights Radiant]] were re-established.{{book ref|sa3|96}}{{book ref|sa2|89}} Acting on the advice Honor had left in his series of visions, they pushed Odium to agree to a contest of champions so that he could be forced to leave Roshar in peace for some period of time.{{book ref|sa1|75}}{{book ref|sa3|16}} Odium eventually agreed to such a contest during the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]],{{book ref|sa3|117}} but withdrew before the terms for the contest could be set.{{book ref|sa3|122}}{{book ref|sa4|50}}

About a year later, in {{rosharan date|1175}}, Odium returned to set the terms for the contest. Ultimately he and Dalinar agreed that, no matter the outcome of the contest, Odium would remain bound to the Rosharan system and would cease hostilities against the coalition of monarchs, with only the fate of [[Alethkar]], [[Herdaz]], and Dalinar's soul depending on the outcome of the contest.{{book ref|sa4|112}} The protections specified for [[Hoid]] in Dalinar's initial, written, proposed contract also appear to be in effect.{{book ref|sa4|epilogue}} The contest is set for the tenth hour of the [[Roshar#Calendar|tenth day of the month Palah]] at the top of [[Urithiru]].{{book ref|sa4|112}}

As Autonomy's plans neared completion in {{date|348|FA}}, she trapped Harmony in a shroud that sharply limited his ability to see the future and prepared the leader of the Set, [[Telsin Ladrian]] to become the avatar Trell.{{book ref|mb7|19}}{{book ref|mb7|55}} Both of her plans for Scadrial were ultimately stopped, as [[Waxillium Ladrian]] and [[Wayne]] killed Telsin and prematurely detonated the bomb planned to destroy Elendel while [[Marasi Colms]], with help from the Ghostbloods, drained and collapsed the perpendicularity Autonomy had created for her [[men of gold and red]] to travel through, preventing them from destroying the planet.{{book ref|mb7|69}}{{book ref|mb7|71}}{{book ref|mb7|64}} Autonomy then withdrew from Scadrial,{{book ref|mb7|74}} saying that they had proven themselves for the moment, but that they plan to return.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|1}}

* ''[[Wind and Truth]]'', the fifth and last book of the first arc of [[The Stormlight Archive]],{{wob ref|9442}} scheduled for release on December 6, 2024.{{tor ref|brandon-sandersons-fifth-stormlight-archive-book-gets-publishing-date|Brandon Sanderson's Fifth Stormlight Archive Book Gets Publishing Date|date=2023-12-18}}

* ''[[Sixth of the Dusk]]''{{wob ref|10273}}{{wob ref|15579}}{{wob ref|16524}}

* ''[[The Sunlit Man]]''{{wob ref|15579}}{{wob ref|16342}}{{wob ref|16524}}