OdiYum Posted October 3, 2023 Report Share Posted October 3, 2023 If a person from our universe moved over to the cosmere, would they bring over concepts with them. Obviously their knowledge and memories would be there but would that create a counterpart in the spiritual realm? Could that person align themselves close to a spider-man ideal and get spider powers? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alder24 Posted October 3, 2023 Report Share Posted October 3, 2023 26 minutes ago, OdiYum said: If a person from our universe moved over to the cosmere, would they bring over concepts with them. Obviously their knowledge and memories would be there but would that create a counterpart in the spiritual realm? Could that person align themselves close to a spider-man ideal and get spider powers? Earth is not a part of Cosmere - just saying. A single person from Earth won't influence Cosmere magic enough to create such phenomena. But generally a large group of people have some leverage over a magic system with their perception, but that system itself was set up in a specific way so that's a very limited influence. Even creating a new spren type isn't as simple as thinking about something new. Something like you propose couldn't happen. Spoiler Argent My understanding of the... spren is that they grant powers based on what they understand to be fundamental? Ish? Brandon Sanderson Ish. I wouldn't 100% go with that. I would say these are the fundamental forces-- They aren't as scientific as our fundamental forces, but I would say it's more than just what the spren view and what the humans view in that case. But they are more philosophical than scientific, in cases. Argent Other cognitive beings, could they-- A spren on Earth. Would it grant electromagnetism surge, for example? Brandon Sanderson That, I would say yes. Skyward Chicago signing (Nov. 16, 2018) Spoiler Argent Spren grant control over surges because surges are perceived as fundamental powers on Roshar. Would other Cognitive beings grant different powers based on what they perceive to be fundamental? Such as electromagnetism is on Earth? Brandon Sanderson It is plausible, although this was set up in a specific way. Argent By Honor or Adonalsium? Brandon Sanderson RAFO on that. Set up might be the wrong word. There were seeds that caused this to happen the way it did. Argent The Surgebinding thing? Brandon Sanderson Yes, specifically... Those influenced what people perceived as fundamental forces. JordanCon 2018 (April 22, 2018) Spoiler zandi (paraphrased) Are the scholars influencing the behavior of the spren with their beliefs? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Belief and expectations influence all the magic systems. Footnote: Brandon has said later that some magics, such as Allomancy, don't care about beliefs Shadows of Self Boston signing (Oct. 14, 2015) Spoiler Just_A_Silvereye In the cosmere, if everyone on a planet believes unicorns exist, would some kind of unicorn shadow appear in the Cognitive Realm as a result? If yes, could you create an actual, physical unicorn out of it? Brandon Sanderson No, it's not going to quite work this way. What's going to happen if everyone believes unicorns exist, but they don't, there's various things that could happen. You might end up with some Investiture taking on this persona and becoming this, but it's not like you can create it, but over time you might end up with the equivalent of a spren. Then it's not going to be just a physical unicorn running around. It's gonna have more spren aspects, and my guess would be that over time these things feed each other. Right? Like people see one, and then they describe, "This is what it looked like," and that changes the public perception to better match. And then over thousands of years what you end up with is, "Hey there's things in the forest over there that are a type of mysterious creature that are transparent and look a little like a horse with a horn, but maybe fly," or things like this. You would end up with something in the middle, between the two of them. Things wouldn't naturally pop up on Shadesmar unless there's free Investiture in that same sort of way. YouTube Spoiler Stream 5 (Dec. 2, 2022) If that person Ascended to a Shard, and was a huge fan of Spiderman, then there might be some invested art close to this idea popping out on his planet. But invested arts aren't created by a Shard, they form naturally and spontaneously based on interaction between Shard and a world they're investing. Therefore that person would have to Ascend to a proper Shard that shares some core ideas with Spiderman - a Shard like Valor for example. Still, that's very unlikely and just random. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OdiYum Posted October 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2023 That’s too bad lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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