Difference between revisions of "Cognitive Shadow"

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 Anti-Stormlight.

Additionally, Cognitive Shadows can be killed by negating their Connection to all three Realms, a process which destroys the anchor against the pull of the [[Beyond]].{{epigraph ref|sa4|92}} The experience is described as having your soul ripped apart.{{book ref|sa4|116}}

When the [[Singerssingers]] turned to [[Odium]] for help in fighting off the humans, he responded by infusing some of them with his power, which turned them into Cognitive Shadows.{{book ref|sa3|38}} They reside on [[Braize]], but return [[to [[Roshar]] during every [[Desolation]]. Since they lost their bodies long ago, they must possess the bodies of living [[singers]]; in doing so they destroy the mind of the possessed body.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} This cycle of rebirth strains the minds of the Fused and, eventually, they go crazy.{{book ref|sa3|38}}Their status as Cognitive Shadows grants them access to the [[Surge]]s.{{wob ref|11156}} [[Odium]] could remove the [[Investiture]] that maintains a Fused, which would send that Fused to the [[Beyond]].{{book ref|sa3|118}}

Prior to Odium's splintering of [[Honor]], the Stormfather was just the [[spren]] of the [[highstorm]] and one of the three [[Bondsmith]] [[spren]]. After Honor's death, the Cognitive Shadow of its Vessel, [[Tanavast]], merged with the [[Stormfather]], though it does not appear that the Stormfather has Tanavast's memories.{{wob ref|4268}}

When [[Endowment]] Returns someone after death, she uses a [[BioChromatic_Breath#Type_I|Divine Breath]] to "staple" the Cognitive Shadow of the deceased person back to that person's body.{{wob ref|4995}} This process results in the Returned losing any memories of their prior life. [[Returned]] must consume one Breath every eight days to fuel their Divine Breath.{{wob ref|6776}} [[Vasher]] states that he is a Type Two Invested Entity because he died while “drenched in power” and left behind a “fossil of a soul”.{{book ref|sa4|15}}

* The mist spirit that Vin sees during [[The Well of Ascension]] is not a Cognitive Shadow. Depending on the scene, it was an actual manifestation of [[Preservation]]{{wob ref|1671}} or [[Ruin's]] imitation of that manifestation.{{msh ref|2|2}}