Nalthis Star Chart, Starsight Contest, and Allomancy Dice

Cognitive Anomaly= Vax, Simple as that.

For real though, what the heck is a cognitive anomaly?

It’s either Yolen, Vax, Silverlight or a Dawnshard.

*dusts hands off* case closed!

I'm going to go off the deep end of science here, but it looks like the the cognitive anomaly is at a Lagrangian Point -- either L4 or L5 depending on the direction the planet orbits.

A Lagrangian Point is basically a location in space created by 2 bodies (like a planet and sun) that a 3rd body (another celestial body, or a spacecraft) can orbit, despite being empty. There are only 5 Lagrangian Points, L4 and L5 are located 60 degrees ahead and behind the planet on its orbit respectively. Both points are completely stable, meaning that any object in or orbiting the point would stay there almost forever, having an extremely low change of ever moving relative to the planet. Many planets in our own solar system have small objects located in or around their Lagrangian Points.

With the cognitive anomaly being around 60 degrees away from the planet, it looks like it could be an object in the physical realm stuck in the L4 or L5 point that has some conscious something on it, making it register in the cognitive realm.

TL;DR

Due to wired laws of physics it is totally possible, and even likely, that a small celestial body is located in the exact spot in the physical realm where the cognitive anomaly is. An object like that could certainly create a 'anomaly' in the cognitive realm in the right circumstances.

Anyways, thanks for induing my science nerdyness. Super cool that we got the star chart; I can't wait for the essay and planet map! Should be super interesting to see what the challenge is.

48 minutes ago, Wyndlerunner said:

For real though, what the heck is a cognitive anomaly?

It's an anomaly related to the cognitive realm. Totally self explanatory.

Now what's causing the cognitive anomaly is an entirely different question, and one I have no idea of.

47 minutes ago, thegatorgirl00 said:

It's an anomaly related to the cognitive realm. Totally self explanatory.

Now what's causing the cognitive anomaly is an entirely different question, and one I have no idea of.

True, I do suppose that was what I meant. 

Vax, is that you?

4 hours ago, OrangeJedi said:

I'm going to go off the deep end of science here, but it looks like the the cognitive anomaly is at a Lagrangian Point -- either L4 or L5 depending on the direction the planet orbits.

A Lagrangian Point is basically a location in space created by 2 bodies (like a planet and sun) that a 3rd body (another celestial body, or a spacecraft) can orbit, despite being empty. There are only 5 Lagrangian Points, L4 and L5 are located 60 degrees ahead and behind the planet on its orbit respectively. Both points are completely stable, meaning that any object in or orbiting the point would stay there almost forever, having an extremely low change of ever moving relative to the planet. Many planets in our own solar system have small objects located in or around their Lagrangian Points.

With the cognitive anomaly being around 60 degrees away from the planet, it looks like it could be an object in the physical realm stuck in the L4 or L5 point that has some conscious something on it, making it register in the cognitive realm.

TL;DR

Due to wired laws of physics it is totally possible, and even likely, that a small celestial body is located in the exact spot in the physical realm where the cognitive anomaly is. An object like that could certainly create a 'anomaly' in the cognitive realm in the right circumstances.

 

Anyways, thanks for induing my science nerdyness. Super cool that we got the star chart; I can't wait for the essay and planet map! Should be super interesting to see what the challenge is.

 

I'm with you in this. And I'll add that it looks like there should have been something there at one point of the time and suddenly it wasn't anymore. But the universe still remembers. The cognitive part of that body still remembers it's place and is stuck there, stubborn, refusing to "die". 

4 hours ago, Axies said:

refusing to "die".

Yes, all of that, and I'm assuming that the Gold die is not real solid gold

i can't find the information for the contest in the newsletter pls help

15 hours ago, Wyndlerunner said:

True, I do suppose that was what I meant. 

I thought you were asking what the anomaly is, which is a perfectly valid question.

Endowment is spending so much time peering into the future and simulating possible outcomes that it has manifested on the Cognitive as a future simulation Nalthis? 

I'm guessing the position of the anomaly corresponds to the point in the near future that Endowment most closely watches (as future prediction becomes less accurate the farther in the future that you go).  Something less than a quarter rotation, or greater than 3/4 depending on which way things are spinning?  So something like 2 or 10 months into Nalthis' possible future.

Anyone else curious about the appearance of Harmonium? Its all shiny!

Oh My that Nalthis chart is gorgeous! Isaac has seriously ruined other maps for me. He is amazing. And I think they misspelled Vax as Cognitive anomaly. 

My own theory about the Cognitive Anomaly. It represents the point in Nalthis's orbit where the planet was located when Nightblood was created. Yes, the creation of one of the most heavily Invested objects in the Cosmere was so disturbing that it created an cognitive "snapshot" of the entire planet!