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{{image|Arcanum Unbounded.jpg|The cover of ''[[Arcanum Unbounded]]'', featuring [[Khriss]]|side=right|width=300px}}
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! rowspan=3 |[[Rosharan system|Rosharan System]]
| [[Ashyn]]
| ''None''
| ''[[The Silence Divine]]'' (unpublished)
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'''[[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}}
 
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}}
 
'''[[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}}
 
'''[[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 leftwas forced to leave, and the [[Forests of Hell]], which is home to dangerous [[Cognitive Shadow]]s known as [[Shade]]s. Perpendicularities on Threnody are unstable and have a morbid origin.{{au ref|Threnody}}
 
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}}
! rowspan=1 |''Unknown''
| [[Canticle]]
| ''None''
| ''[[The Sunlit Man]]''
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! rowspan=1 |''Unknown''
| [[Lumar]]
| ''None''
| ''[[Tress of the Emerald Sea]]''
| {{wob ref|15428}}
! rowspan=1 |''Unknown''
| [[Yolen]]
| ''None''
| [[Dragonsteel (series)|Dragonsteel series]] (unpublished)
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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}}
 
{{image|Odium - XV the Devil.jpg|[[Odium]] and the [[Fused]]|side=right|width=200px}}
Sometime after [[Honor]] and [[Cultivation]] arrived on [[Roshar]], Odium traveled to the [[Rosharan system]].{{wob ref|9934}} 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}} At some point while he was in the system, Honor and Cultivation used their power to trap him in the system.{{book ref|sa3|38}} At some point before this, humanity destroyed Ashyn via unrestrained Surgebinding enhanced by a Dawnshard, leaving it largely uninhabitable outside of a few patches of land, and fled the planet to Roshar with Odium around seven-thousand Rosharan years (7700 Standard years)millennia before the True Desolation.{{book ref|sa3|111}}{{book ref|sa3|113}}{{au ref|roshar}}{{book ref|sa4|14}}{{book ref|sa4|111}}
 
As a result of being trapped in the system, 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}} As a result of his past clashes with Shards, Odium has "scars that do not heal," which makes him more careful about future engagements.{{book ref|sa3|16}}
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