Hyperspace!

[John Flamesinger he/him]

So I was wondering: there are 3 realms, right? The Physical, the Cognitive, and the Spiritual. The Spiritual has no locations. Could that mean that if you used a perpendicularity and went to the Spiritual realm, and wanted to go somewhere (Ex. Scadrial to Roshar) and left the perpendicularity would they end up in that place, similar to the nowhere in Skyward? If it worked, it could save time for worldhoppers, that's for sure.

[Calderis he/him]

The Oathgates are pretty much proof that this works. 

Teleportation in the Cosmere should basically work by using the Spiritual Realm to "Fold space" 

OB spoilers. 

Spoiler

And while it's not quite Canon yet, this is how Brandon is trying to work out people coming to Roshar from Ashyn 

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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

Did humans come to Roshar through Shadesmar?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

It is technology or magic closer to how the Oathgates work. But it was like that. It's not canon but right now that's what I have. It's not canon because there are certain things I have to work out before that can work...

By the way I'll just say to the tape recording that I haven't canonized, like for instance if they traveled to Shadesmar to get to Shinovar from Ashyn. Right now I have that not being via Shadesmar, but the mechanics of that might not work out, and I might have to default to Shadesmar. So there's certain things, you'll see, where I say, "This isn't the canon answer, it's where I have things right now."

Overlord Jebus [PENDING REVIEW]

So Urithiru might end up being a spaceship after all.

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

It's not that. Right now I have them using something closer to Oathgating, but it opens up a huge can of worms, when I'm not requiring direct-- When I'm sending through Spiritual Realm it opens up cans of worms, and I have to just make sure the mechanics on that are tight before I do it.

Emerald City Comic Con 2018 (March 1, 2018)

 

Edit: additionally, Skyward was originally a Cosmere story that got pulled out of it. So the Nowhere probably was the Spiritual Realm. 

Edited May 13, 2019 by Calderis