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I understand things a lot more visually so I made this in order to put my personal thoughts in order in regards to how the magic system works on Roshar. Since I'm new to the Cosmere (haven't read all the related books tbh) and I'm still trying to decipher the epilogue notes from the books, I wanted to put this out here and let me in on your thoughts, in order to make things clearer. So how I've understood it so far, in order for a power to manifest in the Physical realm, it needs to exist in the Cognitive as an idea and pump Investiture from the Spiritual realm. Or to word it even more correctly, it's from the Spiritual realm that Investiture "falls" to the Cognitive, where some of it gets funneled into an idea/ideal/intent, and that idea manifests in the Physical world as a power like Heraldic powers, Surgebinding, Voidbinding, Old Magic and fabrials. I've put up on the drawing above of what I currently understand as correct, but please feel free to correct me. Interesting bits that I want to verify: - Knight Radiants drew their power (presumably) from Cultivation and Honor (and no other Shard?). So what happens now that Honor is dead? - what Shard is behind the fabrials? - when Honor died and his investiture started diminishing, the Oathpact weakened (got smaller and smaller) and that's why the Heralds might've started to go mad. I'm guessing their divine attributes were sustained by the Oathpact, and that's why they slowly started going mad? So it would make sense that Nale, who has become part of a Radiant order, has somehow started gaining Investiture from somewhere else, so his divine attributes would no longer be affected by Honor's intent anymore? - gems and gemhearts somehow override the cognitive idea? - Parshendi had gems in their hair, could that have been the reason they were available for Odium to turn them into Fused?