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'''Cognitive Shadow''', also known as a '''Type Two Invested entity''',{{book ref|sa4|15}} is a term used to refer to a spirit that has not yet moved into the afterlife.{{wob ref|8836}} While the manifestations of this kind of entity can vary depending on the [[Shardworld|world]] it occurs on, Cognitive Shadows can occur on any planet in the [[cosmere]]. [[Vasher]] refers to them as a Type Two Invested entity.{{book ref|sa4|15}}

Cognitive Shadows can be created by a variety of processes. Some of them are created when a person has sufficient attachment to something in the [[Physical Realm]]. When a [[Vessel]] that has held onto a [[Shard]] for a long time dies it becomes a Cognitive Shadow that can continue to act.{{wob ref|1391}} Depending on how they are made, Cognitive Shadows are sometimes bound to the planetary system they were made on, and are unable to leave it either through the Physical or Cognitive Realm.{{book ref|sa4|82}}{{wob ref|4843}}{{wob ref|16490}} It is possible to overcome this issue.{{wob ref|10799}}

It is theoretically possible for a Cognitive Shadow to form a [[Nahel bond]] with a human.{{wob ref|3239}} They are not able to burn [[God Metal]]s.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|4}} They may be able to create objects from nothing, if they view it as an extension of themselves and are [[Connection|Connected]] to them.{{book ref|yumi|29}}{{wob ref|16341}}

Cognitive Shadows look different in the Cognitive Realm, where how they became a Cognitive Shadow will influence how they look.{{wob ref|14504}} Shards could create a physical body for Cognitive Shadows.{{wob ref|15841}}

A Cognitive Shadow can be permanently killed by the use of a [[raysium]] dagger touching a gem of anti-Light of the type of [[Investiture]] associated with the Cognitive Shadow.{{book ref|sa4|102}}{{book ref|sa4|97}} For instance, a raysium dagger with an [[anti-Voidlight]] gem can permanently kill a [[Fused]],{{book ref|sa4|97}}, and a Herald can presumably be similarly killed with Antianti-Stormlight. Cognitive Shadows will turn into [[sunheart]]s when exposed to the sun on [[Canticle]].{{book ref|tsm|13}}{{wob ref|16344}}

After his death, Kelsier found the [[Well of Ascension]] in the Cognitive Realm and, with [[Leras]]' help, merged with it. As a result, he became infused with [[Preservation]]'s power and became a [[Cognitive Shadow]], though, since the Well was created as a prison, he was unable to leave.{{msh ref|1|1}} After [[Vin]] released [[Ruin]] from the Well he was able to travel the Scadrian Cognitive Realm and influence the [[Physical Realm]], though he was unable to actually leave the Cognitve Realm because his "ties to the Physical Realm [had] been severed" by his death.{{msh ref|2|1}} With the help of a device made by the [[Ire]], he was able to hold the [[Shard]] of Preservation after [[Leras]] died, though, according to [[Ruin]], he made for a weaker [[Vessel]] than a normal person.{{msh ref|6|4}} Some time after the [[Catacendre]], [[Kelsier]] found a way to recreate his physical body using [[Hemalurgy]] and return to the Physical Realm.{{book ref|mb6|epilogue}} Upon death, he lost his ability to use [[Allomancy]] and has not recovered themit despite regaining a body.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|4}}