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I'm afraid I'll have to post a wall of WoBs to get to it, so bear with me here Here's what we have regarding the God Beyond: I understand that a lot of people connected the idea of the God Beyond with the Beyond, which Brandon has said he's not going to talk about in any manner that might make one side or the other correct and the other incorrect. I didn't find any WoB that says that the God Beyond is connected to the Beyond. Brandon talks about capital-G God when he talks about this. The God Beyond doesn't necessarily have to be a capital-G God analogue, I couldn't find any WoB that definitively made a connection between the two ideas. This could be up to interpretation, I think. I took some of those WoBs to mean that that's how people in the Cosmere who believe in the God Beyond view the entity. I have floated the idea around that the God Beyond might be an entity similar to Adonalsium from beyond the Cosmere, which is, after all, a small star cluster in the deep black People have also speculated on the possibility of the mysterious light and warmth Dalinar feels originating from the God Beyond I've also seen the idea that the God Beyond might be the opposite to Adonalsium, citing these WoBs: So what do you guys think? Is the God Beyond an idea or an entity? Which one do you prefer?

The concept of the God Beyond has been bugging me for some time, and I finally got a sharable answer from Brandon via Reddit message: I think this clarifies the relatinship between the God Beyond and the Beyond. A problem solved!

Brandon has said that Nightblood is the only exception to the Cosmere’s version of the laws of thermodynamics; he causes a net loss of investiture in the Cosmere. Doesn’t this also happen with people’s souls after death? Souls are made from Spiritual Realm investiture. If souls fly to the “Beyond,” doesn’t that also remove investiture from the Cosmere? There’s a WoB somewhere that soul’s investiture somehow gets recycled (IIRC, and I may not be). That suggests the God Beyond ISN’T “Beyond” or at least has a pipeline back to the Spiritual Realm once the investiture has been scrubbed clean of the soul’s Connections. Thoughts?

Ok so I literally just finished Secret History, I had this crazy idea, and a quick forum search didn't bring anything up about this, so here goes. Through out SH, the place after death is referred to as the Beyond. Khriss says that Adonalsium was killed. When people die, they go to the Beyond. Adonalsium was a god, who has now gone to the Beyond. One could even say that he's a God Beyond. Drops mic. Walks out. Other than the logical consistency of this idea, the only other piece of evidence I have for it is that the Beyond is spelled with a capital B. Even if I'm wrong and the God Beyond isn't Adonalsium, the fact the Beyond is capitalized, means that the Beyond is a real thing, and by extension, the God Beyond. Also if this has been brought up before, I'm sorry. I have failed all of you.

In Secret History, Preservation calls the Spiritual Realm, or "What Happens Next" as "Beyond". On several worlds, we've seen references to "The God Beyond." It makes me wonder if there is a unifying "God" or force that is controlling or manipulating evens from the Spiritual Realm, where Shards and their derivatives can't really see. It could even be the soul of Adonalsium, since presumably, he went Beyond after he died? What do you guys think? Coincidence or significance? On a different note, I'm really surprised that Spook didn't decide to hang around like Kelsier after he died.

The God Beyond is an entity that is worshiped on multiple shardworlds. Here is a coppermind page about it. In the spirit of covering my bases, here are some other things it could be: The God Beyond is a planet. The God Beyond is an entity in the cognitive realm, formed by the collective hopes of humanity across the cosmere. The God Beyond is a character who is weak now, but later becomes powerful and travels back in time. The God Beyond is the ugly lizard crab thing. The God Beyond is Brandon Sanderson himself. The God Beyond is Peter's sideburns. The God Beyond is Calamity. The God Beyond actually doesn't exist. It's just a coincidence. The God Beyond is the physical embodiment of Kobold King's rep. The God Beyond is a spaceship full of dragons. The God Beyond is Bela.