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I know, this was mostly for other's benfits.

I don't think it's Nalthian Awakening, any more than Shallan uses Yolish Lightweaving.

Yeah couldn't have said this better myself, Yumi was unraveled and he painted her back into the shape of Yumi; one thing is, We're not sure what it's like when a cognitive shadow dies or if they persist after death like a normal person.

I'll re-read it, but probably closer to a Retuned? *shrug*

No, they are not. They're splinters of Honor and/or Cultivation just the same. Most don't pre-date the shattering (Besides all the investiture was reassigned to them anyway); it is irrelevant if the shard is broken beforehand for splinters to form. As they are from a Virtuosity system, their souls have a lot of Virtuosity in them. Whenever a shard invests in a system, the people who live there gain extra investiture of that shard, be it Preservation, Endowment, or Honor. This is one of the things that differentiates a major shardworld from a minor one. Arcana is a catch-all, very rarely used (it's been used like twice by people asking wobs, and once in the coppermind). As far as I can tell, it's a less sciencey term, basically the same thing as just calling something magic. Most of these "Arcana" are the result of an Invested Art; we are literally told the Machine was awakened (Not the Nalthian version), which is an invested art. The plants are using an Invested Art, because invested art already means any action that causes something magic. You could probably call a Highstorm an arcana if you want, but the nightmares and the machine are the result of an Invested art and thus are of one. It's like calling Nightblood an arcana, he's just some awakening turned up to 11. They are not ghosts, as they are not dead. At least not entirely, as a death in the cosmere comprises two parts. You can bring someone back from the first gate, where physical death occurs. (Pretty much every healing magic can do it.) But you can not, bring some back from The Beyond. It just doesn't work. Sometimes you can make a vague echo of a person by filling their corpse with investiture, but that is a whole different process from making a cognitive shadow. You can call making a lifeless Necromancy, though. What The Machine did was capture the souls of the people and use them as fuel. It's somewhere in-between a Fabrial and Nightblood. (Do you mean the shattering? Or are you referring to Virtuosity splintering herself?) Either way it is plenty of time. Lots of investiture means evolution is speeding up. The Hijo, probably. Either A: The spirits were around before. (You can have splinters of a shard before the shard splinters. Yes, it's confusing) B: Virtuosity's background magic powered them; they used the ambient investiture to form special weight fields. C: They just were not on Komashi before Shattering/Splintering.

Yup, they're all splinters of gods. Spren can mess with connection too it apears. It's not necromancy exactly, it's more it forms cognitive shadows of the people it killed. It's no more necromancy than the shades are. The people's souls served as an initial power source. It just needed something to get it going, once the machine properly started it used the spirits it was attracting to power further motion. The killing itself doesn't have much power, maybe attracting Ruinous investure, or converting the people’s souls to Ruin. Yes, but not to the same extent. Remember the flame spren measurement thing? That's basically the same underlying mechanism. Why? Just because they act like Midnight essence and aren't an Aether doesn't mean the Midnight Mother isn't? It's a term like lightweaving, a word that can mean a lot if magic systems. Sky eels use luck spren. The flying trees do not. Evolutionary convergence. Not really related. Also why are you using the word Arcana? They captured a large portion of all of the investure on a planet in one spot. Funky stuff happens.

Yumi has been a cognitive shadow for a long while. Painter didn't reincarnate her, he just gave her loose investure shape, form, and connection. Since she has a lot of investure, the bond Painter formed between the 3 realms basically manifested her body into a physical one. Ado only knows if she can still call spirits. Probably not though since they love TV now.

He consented to the curse.

And presumably the memory loss is referring to RoW not tress

Yumi was CRAZY! Who new connection could do that?

This book took my theories and threw them out the window. I was expecting a book where they learned from each other by spending time in the other's shoes and grew as people, Yadadada. Sappy stuff. What I was not expecting was that Yumi had been dead for 1700 years, Painter was a master all along, and a vampire god machine was secretly shaping the town, Yumi, and the Nightmares. I wish we had more on virtuosity, but maybe that's for when we explore the 4 armed people? Unpublished

Yeah, so, this is false but like it's irrelevant. She's invested, but... You understand if you read the book.

Hi! I'm soooo excited about SP3 too! Are you here for theories or just seeing everything the cosmere? Heres some tips and tricks for the forum in case you don't know them (I robbed @Treamayne for this XD) (also btw you posted this 4 times, you can hide the others. I presume the forums bugged out and claimed it couldn't post?)

so high or low?

So somone said to me that forging was high-power, which it thought it wasn't. they showed me this WOB and I showed this WOB Theirs a clear contradiction here, but I think that in book stuff aligns more with it being on the weaker side, just very efficient. What do you think?

Honestly, I'm not convinced they're not a bot. (No offense if you aren't, I once saw a guy reply with chat GPT) Who uses the word "resonate"?!

No, I'm staying up later, getting less exercise ect. I'm building bad habits. TPBM is excited for SP3

Death comes for us all

LAST DAY OF PRIDE! Next comes Wrath.

Oh it is.

Soon.