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The Changing of Planetary Focuses (WaT stuff)

On an unrelated initial interjection, what even is Nalthis’ Focus? Command would be hella weird to be tied to the planet of color, and Awakening’s Commands being so prevalent is on purpose. (There was a WoB about Commands as a universal thing in the Cosmere, but to a lesser degree than to what is seen in Awakening, to prevent systems from feeling same-y.) It’s weird. Also Roshar’s Focus is one-hundo percent the Surges, don’t @ me.

The idea of powers changing over time reflective of their source is one that I am unsure on. Like, do planetary Focuses stay consistent if a Shard unInvests a planet? If Surgebinding remains consistent in Stormlight 6, as it seems to do in Sunlight Man, would that imply that once the creation of a magic system is cemented, it’s intricacies are less affected by Shard status?

Would Honor, Cultivation, and Odium even fulfill the requirements for such a change? Cultivation’s quick exit should have left Spiritual remnants of herself Invested on Roshar. To do so completely is a whole process, as far as I remember the Words. What about Honor/Odium? Is their slow, more complete extraction a thing to worry about?

Do such things even matter, if the separate sources of the power itself might still be aligned with the Spiritual Aspect of Roshar? The Spren would maintain such a connection, surely, and it is their essence bonded to the souls of nascent Surgebinders that allow their Surgebinding. What about Fused?

What about things such as Preservation’s sDNA? A magic drawing directly from Preservation? Are such things set in stone when the sDNA template is created, or is it a continuous reflection of the Shard’s power through a Focus?

Would Ruin’s Hemalurgy know to act through Metal if Ruin is not tied to Scadrial’s Realmatic Focus of Metal? That function is not tied to sDNA like Allomancy or Feruchemy, so how severely would that react? (There is a WoB noting that Hemalurgy probably would not stop working should Ruin unInvest Scadrial, but I’m fairly sure that such a thing was talking about Hemalurgy as a universal system, like Lightweaving.)

What about the Dor? Surely Odium made certain to extract completely Devotion and Dominion from Sel’s Spirit? It still acts through Sel’s forms and manages to power new system as different Cognitive Ideals of nationhood arise. (I’m pretty sure there are words about that.) Is merely being in the Cognitive Realm of a planet enough to power a new system, and be reflective of that planet’s Focus? What would happen if a chunk of Dor found its way to a new planet? Would a new system form, with a Focus tied to that planet, not Sel’s forms?

One thing thats hard to say for certain is if there are true magic systems outside of Shardplanets and their systems.

Like, Threnody has weird Evil things going on with Shades, but I would not call that a system. Nor Canticlites and the Charred. Just standard Invested entities and Connection processes.

First of the Sun’s Aviar are different. What gives those parasites the powers to the Aviar, and their ability to create bonds to share them? I mean, they’re Invested, but the variety of effects could potentially signify a tie to a Focus. Iunno, man.