Magic Systems For Full Cosmere Restart RP

[al_lan_mandragoran]

Everyone, list your magic systems in here

This is my first time creating a topic, so if it's in the wrong area I'm sorry

[Argenti he/him]

I don't think we should really pre plan them, as magic systems in the cosmere develop based on the planet as well as the Shard. And I, for one haven't settled on where I'm going to land. And technically, alph could be not virtueosity. Alph could be Ruin, Odium or even Whimsy! Let the magic systems develop naturally.

Edited June 11, 2025 by Argenti

[Tinwatcher I don’t mind]

6 minutes ago, Argenti said:

I don't think we should really pre plan them, as magic systems in the cosmere develop based on the planet as well as the Shard. And I, for one haven't settled on where I'm going to land. And technically, alph could be not virtueosity. Alph could be Ruin, Odium or even Whimsy! Let the magic systems develop naturally.

So we’ll use this once the rp starts?

[Argenti he/him]

Just now, Tinwatcher said:

So we’ll use this once the rp starts?

Yes. Pretty much. As it develops.

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

Magic systems will depend on which Shards settle where. There is almost no chance of seeing the actual Cosmere's Invested Arts here. 

However, once Shards Invest places, we'll use this for magic systems.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

7 hours ago, al_lan_mandragoran said:

Everyone, list your magic systems in here

This is my first time creating a topic, so if it's in the wrong area I'm sorry

I have an idea for one.

Im prob gonna use it, but it works best for cultivation, so ill come up with somethin else if i get a different shard.

[al_lan_mandragoran]

I have an idea too, one that will work best with honor. 

However, @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren is right, we should wait till the RP has actually started, and shards have begun to invest places

[al_lan_mandragoran]

Also, @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren,I think you said somewhere that there will be highstorms. (I think it was the first post, main thread).

Weren't the storms the creation of Honour? And weren't they Honour's perpendicularity, and that's why they draw investiture (stormlight) from the Spiritual Realm?

Doesn't that mean that there won't be any highstorms on Roshar? 

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I think in WAT during the storytelling by Honour, he says "... had given them the ability to bond my storms."

 

[Argenti he/him]

2 hours ago, al_lan_mandragoran said:

Also, @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren,I think you said somewhere that there will be highstorms. (I think it was the first post, main thread).

Weren't the storms the creation of Honour? And weren't they Honour's perpendicularity, and that's why they draw investiture (stormlight) from the Spiritual Realm?

Doesn't that mean that there won't be any highstorms on Roshar? 

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I think in WAT during the storytelling by Honour, he says "... had given them the ability to bond my storms."

 

No. They've always been around since the creation of roshar. The Rider of Storms predates the shattering.

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

8 hours ago, al_lan_mandragoran said:

Also, @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren,I think you said somewhere that there will be highstorms. (I think it was the first post, main thread).

Weren't the storms the creation of Honour? And weren't they Honour's perpendicularity, and that's why they draw investiture (stormlight) from the Spiritual Realm?

Doesn't that mean that there won't be any highstorms on Roshar? 

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I think in WAT during the storytelling by Honour, he says "... had given them the ability to bond my storms."

 

5 hours ago, Argenti said:

No. They've always been around since the creation of roshar. The Rider of Storms predates the shattering.

Honor only Invested the highstorms after he arrived. So they became his.

[ChickenBonanza]

I have had insidious thoughts, recently. My brain has become infected, after playing Final Fantasy IV. Of a world in-Cosmere wherein the life of the planet is sustained through Investiture flowing through the lens of four Light Crystals, being aligned to elements  Wind, Water, Fire, Earth. (Maybe also four Dark Crystals, for a hypothetical underworld.)

If the Crystals were to shatter, the phenomenon associated with each would begin to die and eventually cease. No wind, stagnant water and drought, burned out fires, poisoned and crumbling soil. Like what happens in Final Fantasy V (the only other installment I’ve beaten).

There are other potential uses for Crystals, too. In IV, they power the Lunar Whale, the Tower/Giant of Babel, and Zemus’ prison.

Any potential Invested Art would probably relate to the Job System, but that’s, like, way too RPG for the Cosmere, I think.

I’m not going to pursue this, of course, but ‘twas a thought wriggling.

[Argenti he/him]

3 minutes ago, ChickenBonanza said:

I have had insidious thoughts, recently. My brain has become infected, after playing Final Fantasy IV. Of a world in-Cosmere wherein the life of the planet is sustained through Investiture flowing through the lens of four Light Crystals, being aligned to elements  Wind, Water, Fire, Earth. (Maybe also four Dark Crystals, for a hypothetical underworld.)

If the Crystals were to shatter, the phenomenon associated with each would begin to die and eventually cease. No wind, stagnant water and drought, burned out fires, poisoned and crumbling soil. Like what happens in Final Fantasy V (the only other installment I’ve beaten).

There are other potential uses for Crystals, too. In IV, they power the Lunar Whale, the Tower/Giant of Babel, and Zemus’ prison.

Any potential Invested Art would probably relate to the Job System, but that’s, like, way too RPG for the Cosmere, I think.

I’m not going to pursue this, of course, but ‘twas a thought wriggling.

Something something physical anchors for cognitive concepts, so when they're broken, the spiritweb of the entire world is wounded.

Spoiler

BA ADO MISHRAM

 

[ChickenBonanza]

5 minutes ago, Argenti said:

Something something physical anchors for cognitive concepts, so when they're broken, the spiritweb of the entire world is wounded.

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BA ADO MISHRAM

 

BY THE ALMIGHTY

[Argenti he/him]

1 minute ago, ChickenBonanza said:

BY THE ALMIGHTY

No, but seriously, you totally could do that. They could even be spikes that have glued cognitive concepts onto the world that where then healed into it via timely investiture. Is that really how it works? Probably not. Is it cool? Yes.

[ChickenBonanza]

16 minutes ago, Argenti said:

No, but seriously, you totally could do that. They could even be spikes that have glued cognitive concepts onto the world that where then healed into it via timely investiture. Is that really how it works? Probably not. Is it cool? Yes.

Hmm. A crumbling world, or pieces of many, stitched together in a vague approximation of a planet, heavily warped by the Investiture of its pieces and the flavor of the Investiture used to repair it. Hmm, very cool, indeed.

I’m unsure if Mascarose would be one to go through the effort and risk wasting it. But, perhaps Alph would be up for creating a Spiritual abomination of a planet.

Edited June 16, 2025 by ChickenBonanza
I’m unsure if…

[Argenti he/him]

16 minutes ago, ChickenBonanza said:

Hmm. A crumbling world, or pieces of many, stitched together in a vague approximation of a planet, heavily warped by the Investiture of its pieces and the flavor of the Investiture used to repair it. Hmm, very cool, indeed.

I’m unsure if Mascarose would be one to go through the effort and risk wasting it. But, perhaps Alph would be up for creating a Spiritual abomination of a planet.

Oh, I have plans for him. Just you wait.

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

Hmm...

Autonomy/Honour - Scadrial

Cultivation/Preservation - New Yolen

Virtuosity/Dominion - ???

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

5 minutes ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

Hmm...

Autonomy/Honour - Scadrial

Cultivation/Preservation - New Yolen

Virtuosity/Dominion - ???

uh

actually, preservation (@Spark of Hope still hasent responded to doing it) is only going to be helping with the intial part. I wish to be on my own. Preservation is just (hoperfully) helping me preserve Yolen for New Yolen.

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

Just now, CoderDrag0n8 said:

uh

actually, preservation (@Spark of Hope still hasent responded to doing it) is only going to be helping with the intial part. I wish to be on my own. Preservation is just (hoperfully) helping me preserve Yolen for New Yolen.

Well, depending on what exactly is happening, Spark may be stuck with you on New Yolen.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

3 minutes ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

Well, depending on what exactly is happening, Spark may be stuck with you on New Yolen.

why?

[Through the Living Hope]

10 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

uh

actually, preservation (@Spark of Hope still hasent responded to doing it) is only going to be helping with the intial part. I wish to be on my own. Preservation is just (hoperfully) helping me preserve Yolen for New Yolen.

 

9 minutes ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

Well, depending on what exactly is happening, Spark may be stuck with you on New Yolen.

Huh-

I haven’t just so I make sure I get pres

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

11 minutes ago, Spark of Hope said:

 

Huh-

I haven’t just so I make sure I get pres

Well, If you agree to preserve Yolen, it is more likely that preservation will choose you (you wanting to preserve with no ulterior motive.

[Through the Living Hope]

4 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Well, If you agree to preserve Yolen, it is more likely that preservation will choose you (you wanting to preserve with no ulterior motive.

Well

Yeah

But how does one person preserve a dying planet?

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

2 minutes ago, Spark of Hope said:

Well

Yeah

But how does one person preserve a dying planet?

2 semi-gods you mean

[Through the Living Hope]

13 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

2 semi-gods you mean

Well

yk wut I mean