Difference between revisions of "Investiture"

Color is an important part of the [[cosmere]] and its magics,{{wob ref|10444}}{{wob ref|11713}} and is relevant to every manifestation of Investiture.{{wob ref|9439}} Some magic systems are connected through how color works within them.{{wob ref|12285}}{{wob ref|12710}} Certain colors are linked to a change in Investiture, such as corrupted Investiture being red.{{wob ref|13074}} How color is viewed and therefore how it affects Investiture is mainly through people's perception of it.{{wob ref|14141}} Holding large amounts of Investiture for prolonged periods, such as with Breaths[[Breath]]s and Dawnshards[[Dawnshard]]s, will give a person enhanced perception of colors.{{wob ref|14328}}

Every [[Shard]] is associated with certain colors.{{wob ref|13074}}{{wob ref|1210}} Their [[perpendicularity|perpendicularities]] are also associated with their colors.{{wob ref|8910}}

;'''[[Cultivation]]''': Cultivation’s Investiture is typically associated with the color green.{{wob ref|13074}}

;'''[[Devotion']]'': Devotion’s Investiture might be associated with sapphire colors.{{book ref|elantris|25}}{{wob ref|8910}}

;'''[[Honor]]''': Honor’s Investiture is typically associated with the color blue-white.{{wob ref|13074}}

;'''[[Odium]]''': Odium’s Investiture is typically associated with “burning” gold or violet-black colors,{{book ref|sa3|57}} though it is also often red, the color that signifies corrupted Investiture.{{wob ref|13074}}

;'''[[Preservation]]''': Preservation’s Investiture is typically associated with the color white.{{wob ref|3031}}{{wob ref|13074}}

;'''[[Ruin]]''': Ruin’s Investiture is typically associated with the color black.{{wob ref|3031}}{{wob ref|13074}}

;'''[[Harmony]]''': Harmony’s Investiture is not typically associated with the colors of Preservation and Ruin.{{wob ref|14914}}

;'''[[Virtuosity]]''': Virtuosity's colors appear to be cyan and magenta.{{book ref|yumi|1}}

;'''[[Awakening]]''': Awakening an object has a cost of draining the color of nearby objects. Color appears to act as a fuel for Awakening. Objects drained of their color usually turn grey, although an Awakener who achieved [[Heightening#Tenth_Heightening|Perfect Invocation]] could drain objects more fully, turning them white.{{book ref|wb|57}} Colors outside the visible spectrum, like ultraviolet, can be used as fuel for Awakening.{{wob ref|9552}}

;'''[[Heightening]]''': The Third Heightening grants Perfect Color Recognition, the ability to instantly and instinctively determine exact shades of colors and their hue harmonics.{{book ref|wb|3}} The Tenth Heightening grants Color Distortion, the natural and intrinsic ability to bend light around white objects within their BioChroma, creating colors from them as if from a prism.{{book ref|wb|15}} The Tenth Heightening also grants Perfect Invocation, the ability to draw more color from the objects Awakeners use to fuel their art. This leaves objects drained to white, rather than grey.{{book ref|wb|58}}

;'''[[Royal Locks]]''': Members of the royal family of [[Idris]] can change their hair color. Normally the color of the Royal Locks reflects the person's emotional state by default but this can be controlled through training and discipline.{{book ref|wb|2}} They can also change their hair color to unnatural colors.{{wob ref|12651}} Which particular color that will match up with which particular emotion is based on associations that people in the culture give them and the user's own perspective.{{wob ref|13043}}

;'''[[Knights Radiant]]''': Each Knights Radiant Order is associated with a color. When a [[Surgebinder]] summons their [[Shardblade]], their eyes will change to match their Order's color.{{wob ref|6848}}{{wob ref|8628}}

;'''[[Soulcasting]]''': When Soulcasting, both Surgebinders and [[fabrial]] users are limited by the types of gems available to them.{{wob ref|2784}} While the chemical composition of the gemstone is important, its color is paramount, with every color of a polestone corresponding to one of the [[Ten Essences]]. Some polestones are the same type of crystal but with different color and chemical signatures, such as sapphires and rubies both being types of corundum.{{book ref|sa4|part=ars}} Much like how [[iron]] and [[steel]], despite being very similar chemically, are different metals in the Metallic Arts, the exact color and chemical signatures are enough to differentiate the polestones. As a result, an off-color polestone acts much like an impure alloy in Allomancy.{{wob ref|4080}} If a polestone was drained of its color by an Awakener, it would still hold Stormlight but would have the properties of a dusty or cloudy quartz.{{wob ref|3203}}{{wob ref|295}} If a [[spren]] was trapped inside, they would be released.{{wob ref|292}} Although the type of polestone [[Stormlight]] is stored in is irrelevant for most [[Surgebinding]], polestones do have an important impact on Soulcasting. Namely, they determine what kind of substances a Soulcaster can transmute objects into.{{wob ref|2784}}

;'''Dawnshards''': The Investiture of each [[Dawnshard]] grants Heightening-like abilities,{{wob ref|14339}} allowing a person to see colors more vividly than before.{{book ref|sa3.5|Epilogue}} This is not intrinsic to Dawnshards, but rather to high quantities of Investiture in general.{{wob ref|14328}}