+Invocation Posted March 7, 2019 Posted March 7, 2019 The process of Oathgate transportation is likely Physical -> Cognitive -> Spiritual -> Cognitive -> Physical in another location, with the Cognitive bit going by too fast to notice. Is this related, perhaps, to the two spren of the Oathgates? One is white, one is dark. The Cognitive is (mostly) an obsidian wasteland and the Spiritual is described as a place of blinding white light. Now, in order to corrupt the destination of an Oathgate, such as the one in Alethkar, would you not have to corrupt the Spiritual one? Then, you cannot be transferred to the Spiritual Realm and come out in a different place, and instead are stuck in Shadesmar, again, as shown in the Alethkar venture in Oathbringer. What happens if Sja-anat were to corrupt the Cognitive Realm spren? Do you just disappear, or go nowhere, or skip directly to the Spiritual (unlikely, because that would be really difficult to do, I believe)? 3
Kramerfarve Posted March 7, 2019 Posted March 7, 2019 Assuming that is how oathgate spren function, if you prevent the transfer to the cognitive for an Oathgate, it would create a decent trap to prevent someone from going somewhere instead of leaving somewhere. You would be transferred to the spiritual from one gate, be pulled back to the cognitive by the one at your destination, and then stopped because you weren’t transferred back to the physical. I don’t know what would happen if you tried to start an oathgate that had a corrupted cognitive, but I’d think nothing would happen, and you’d just stay there. 1
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