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Granted. Turns out taking E doesn't really change you that much. You get a better color discrimination, and you're at greater risk of breast cancer now. The Nightwatcher feels bad and gives you a double jump ability. The bane is the risk of cancer.

I wish to be able to beam motivation into everyone's brain at will

Granted. You get a rat that goes around petting things. It lightly pats things around your house, but it hates you and runs away from you as much as it can. Your neighbor eventually adopts it, and it loves them. You can see it running around their house, petting their things.

I wish I had more time to do stuff I actually want to do

Granted. You now own every Way of Kings leatherbound book. The world economy collapses and it's all your fault.

I wish Tyler blows up

Granted.           and               but                           which also means       .                         , so                            .     unfortunately.                                            ,                               .           the                 ,              for                     turkey sandwich.

I wish I get all the nutrition I need and I never have to worry about my food intake

20 hours ago, Through the Living Hopper said:

Granted. You just constantly feel small amounts of pain.

I wish to actually be motivated to finish my book, and then do it exactly as I want it to be. 

Granted. You finish the book, and it's a pretty good book. However, some big company decides that you're an easy target, and sues you for copyright infringement over using the word "and," which they have exclusive rights over. You spend the rest of your life fighting in the court of law and never touch the pen again.

I wish people would act like decent human beings 

Granted. You don't make a wish and so the Nightwatcher blows you up into a billion smithereens.

I wish I can enter and exit time loops at will

Granted. You understand it perfectly, no strings attached. So well in fact, that you decide to make a career out of it and go into accounting. This makes you a lot of money and you get kinda rich, but your life has been entirely devoted to math. Your hair has fallen out from the stress. Your soul has shriveled up and you've lost all meaning in life.

I wish I can absorb the artistic talent of people around me

Granted. Falsch foirf garrubis et karrhim almuj detlas. Ploikel eid munarek qken The Tower of Babel lorbed mofos hu sa jiph ouen sthaeie wreacc de mmeit jod at pourle jaets of hevin reimbut grashel.

I wish I was able to lock in at will

Granted. You communicate so well with everyone that you run out of things to communicate. Everyone knows exactly what's going on the moment they see you. Thus, you don't have to say anything ever. You fall out of practice of talking and your throat dries up. You eventually choke on your food and pass away.

I wish to never work again in my life

Being on the surface of the sun

Granted. That happens. It's really disgusting and horrible, because the jaw was also made sideways. In order to keep the face symmetrical, I basically split the skull down the middle so that both halves are the jaws. Everyone's faces widen and contract when they speak or chew. I'm such a great bioengineer.

I wish April Fools day was every day

On 3/23/2026 at 4:37 PM, PanLin said:

tl;dr:

Sja-anat enlightens spren by giving them a stronger Connection to the spiritual realm. The Radiant powers they grant are therefore filtered through, and strengthened by, the spiritual realm.

 

What does enlightening itself do?

No list of WoBs this time—most of this thinking comes from in-text evidence and the application of wider realmatics to Rosharan concepts.

That said, the wiki excerpts on Sja-anat and spren are interesting:

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Sja-anat's touch has the ability to corrupt spren that she comes into contact with, injecting them with Voidlight.^[2][13] Sja-anat refers to this process as Enlightening.^[11] Spren affected by Sja-anat begin to carry the taint of Odium,^[14] and in rare cases can even grant abilities associated with Odium's power,^[15][16] though the extent of his influence on the affected spren is unknown.

 

Enlightened true spren have extra affinity and abilities in the Spiritual Realm that normal true spren lack.^[289][25] Enlightened spren are easily able to navigate the Spiritual Realm, as well as find and move other people or things inside of it.^{[265][289][290]} They can also track down visions that are created.^[291] They are able to make other people appear as the person they are taking over in visions, though they can't also choose which person they get.^{[292][293][137]} They can also alter a vision, removing or resetting certain elements.^[294] If noticed by a Shard, Enlightened spren have difficulty using their abilities.^[295]

So there's in-text confirmation that spren who have been enlightened have a greater affinity (or Connection) to the spiritual realm. 

 

Both of Renarin's surges are enlightened

Many people theorise that when a truespren is enlightened, a Nahel bond with them produces one 'normal' Surge and one enlightened, pointing to Renarin's use of Progression as evidence. It's a convenient way to explain what is apparently happening in-text, but:

• It's not a very satisfying explanation
• It leans into this idea that each radiant order has a 'major' and 'minor' Surge (an idea I've never really subscribed to)
• It assumes that we already know everything we need to (absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence)

Besides, we do have evidence of something unusual with Renarin's Progression: the 'perfected version' that Adolin briefly felt of himself when being healed by Renarin. We've seen this sort of thing before with stuff like Shallan's portraits and A-Gold, but not with any other use of Progression; it can, however, easily be explained if we say that enlightened Progression heals according to one's spiritual self instead of their cognitive. From Oathbringer:

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“A pulse of radiance washed through Adolin and for an instant he saw himself perfected. A version of himself that was somehow complete and whole; the man he could be. It was gone in a moment and Renarin pulled his hand free and murmured an apology.”

Progression normally works by changing someone's physical form to match their cognitive form. What if enlightened Progression, filtered through a spren with a stronger Connection to the spiritual realm, changes someone's physical form to match their spiritual form? I'd wager that, for the most part, it wouldn't look any different to onlookers. Hell, most people aren't realmatically aware enough to know how normal Progression works; they just see Stormlight-powered healing and think "magic".

I actually think this might be one of the reasons Truthwatchers are the first enlightened radiants we've been properly exposed to, intentionally using Progression as a sort of red herring to cheekily go "nothing unusual here, no no" before we get some sort of classic Sanderson reveal in the future.

 

I'm still just a rat in a cave

Not to get too distracted (aka my future epitaph), but Plato's Theory of Forms (which has some uncanny overlap with Cosmere realmatics) posits that the physical world is just a shadowy imitation and interpretation of reality, which exists outside of time and space in a realm of pure concepts.

Further, his Allegory of the Cave (it's an interesting read if you're unfamiliar, go read it!) suggests three 'levels' of reality: the shadows on the wall, the people casting those shadows, and the world outside the cave. Most normal people assume the role of someone who has spent their entire life in the cave, viewing the shadows as their entire understanding of reality; seeing beyond those shadows is the first step toward enlightenment (a pure coincidence, I'm sure...).

Applying that to the Cosmere, we can see a very obvious relationship between the three realms:

• Spiritual: actual reality, a realm made purely of Investiture that defines the Identity and Connection of everyone and everything in existence (the real world outside the cave)
• Cognitive: a realm of thought and interpretation that takes the real world of the spiritual realm and gives it context (the people casting the shadows)
• Physical: the world we know, a limited representation of the other realms (the shadows on the wall)

 

Upgrades, people. Upgrades

I bring this all up because I think enlightened spren essentially give access to the same Surges, but literally enlightened in a philosophical sense. The physical and cognitive effects of normal Surges become cognitive and spiritual effects for enlightened Radiants.

Progression, as mentioned above, goes from using a cognitive template to using a spiritual template for healing.

Illumination allows Lightweavers to physically represent cognitive visions; it logically follows that a realmatically 'upgraded' version of that would cognitively represent spiritual visions. This is exactly what we see in Renarin; he glimpses the spiritual realm, which comes hand-in-hand with visions of potential futures. The enlightened version of Illumination isn't simply 'Futuresight', but limited access to the spiritual realm and the cognitive means to understand it, a 2-for-1 combo extremely similar to the atium/electrum alloy from Mistborn era 1.

Below is a table I've put together, extrapolating these concepts to all the Rosharan Surges. I think I'm happy with it, but would love to discuss any parts of it that don't seem right or are just straight up contradicted by the books.

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Surge	Radiant ability	Realmatic effect	Potential enlightened effect	Proposed enlightened ability
Illumination	Lightweaving	Projects cognitive concepts into physical space	Projects spiritual concepts into cognitive space	Futuresight, greater spiritual awareness
Progression	Regrowth	Aligns physical form to cognitive	Aligns physical form to spiritual	Personal manifestation (healing toward an 'ideal' self, as seen by Shallan / A-Gold)
Abrasion	Friction manipulation	Manipulates interactions between nearby objects	Manipulates interactions between nearby expressions of Investiture, matter and energy	Manipulation of spiritweb's susceptibility to interference
Division	Disintegration	Gives control over molecular breakdown; adds energy to systems to ignite them	Gives control over breakdown of Identity and Connection	Spiritual severance / disintegration (similar to effects of anti-Investiture / Evil)
Gravitation	Lashings	Rewrites gravitational Connections to spatial trajectories	Lashes spiritwebs to temporal trajectories	Destiny / Fortune manipulation
Adhesion	Pressure manipulation	Creates bonds easily via direct increases of Connection	Creates bonds across realms (perpendicularities)	Connection manipulation
Tension	Stress manipulation	Manipulates internal structures while maintaining a cohesive self	Manipulates rules around spiritweb configuration without changing Identity	Something similar to Soulstamping, but maintains Identity
Cohesion	Matter manipulation	Reshapes matter	Control over matter / energy / Investiture conversion	Fully unbound transmutation
Transportation	Elsecalling	Physical and cognitive traversal	Full realmatic traversal	Free traversal through and across the three realms
Transformation	Soulcasting	Changes cognitive aspect of something, which is refected in its physical	Changes spiritual aspect of something, which is refected in its cognitive and physical	Identity manipulation (could bypass restrictions on keyed Investiture like metalminds)

I also think this is an important step toward answering questions like 'what is Voidbinding' and how both that and enlightened spren are related to the Unmade in general, but I want to get this part really watertight before I do that.

Thoughts / feedback / fun facts / challenges / insults / praise welcome!

Um... Ignoring all the discourse on whether this theory can be true or not...

Could we argue that the reason Bondsmiths work the way they do is because the Bondsmith spren that we've seen so far are splinters of Shards, which would be closer to the SR? I refuse to believe that their abilities are purely a result of a resonance between surges, and having a lot of investiture.

Following that logic, if you made a "normal" true spren for Bondsmiths, on the same level of investiture and "SR affinity" as an honorspren, would we see a less powerful set of abilities more on-par with the other orders? And an enlightened version of this Bondsmith spren would grant the powers we've seen? (Maybe to a lesser degree since they don't have the same investiture amount as the Stormfather or whatever)

Granted. Bob doesn't wish for you, and leaves you. Please be more considerate of what Bob wants next time.

I wish wisdom teeth weren't a thing

hi guys

I wish people remember to make a wish because thats my favorite part about this game

hi guys

I wish I didn't have to get my wisdom teeth surgery over the break

I was trying to remember the wide variety of aviar talents that we were given, but I'm realizing that we only really see two?? The mind-hiding one might be "useful for navigation" in that it would help while navigating the emberdark, so you don't get eaten by a skullsnake. And then Sak's talent doesn't count because she's unique.

But yeah in my mind it would make a lot of sense for a Navigation aviar. Like the mind-hiding talent would parallel copperclouds, there was probably originally a talent similar to bronze-seeking

2 hours ago, DcD25yhtdA8 said:

Granted, but you know have to eat twice as much food to stay alive, your stomach size stays the same, you just need to eat twice as much.

I wish to be a Radiant

Granted. You're a radiant, no strings attached! A pretty good one too, you manage to stay alive and well. But this also means you're always active, and you can rarely ever catch a break. You're constantly exhausted. No serious health issues, it just sucks.

I wish I have better luck

2 minutes ago, Through the Living Ink said:

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I wish for a motlov cocktail, which I misspelled. 

Granted. Luckily, the Nightwatcher understands that you misspelled it and grants you a molotov cocktail. Unfortunately, when she conjured it into the physical plane, she miscalculated the location, and the molotov appears miles above you. As it falls and accelerates, it starts burning the air around it, lighting the wick. Through some miracle, you catch it safely without blowing up. Yay! You now have a molotov cocktail! It's due to explode any second now, but aren't you glad the Nightwatcher corrected your mistake?

I wish I can have a fancy time traveling car

guys what's Spark CYOA what does this mean I am so out of the loop

1 hour ago, Unintelligenius said:

Granted. Your feet stick to them, so you can walk on them, but your body is still pulled down by gravity.

I wish to have a glass of milk.

Granted. If you spill even a single drop of milk, you immediately burst into tears.
It would be really unfortunate if someone poured a bunch of salt into the glass.

I wish to always be in a comfortable position whenever I sit down

4 hours ago, Kaladist The Ketek Writer said:

Roshar realizes that emeralds are cool and decide to re-inflate the emerald broam's value, making the bounty 2387429836591863487523987159874619873615836982716398571639876 US dollars

Also the US dollars inflates to astronomical values, making the value 835620736509812365091879837510982375290834750924370589650983467098340982640981709847638478987989777777777772539857208342081506581346198450981645089361458136495816498674986134855609817408946708967*e25 British pounds.

I point out your horrid notation. We can just write that out as 8.356 E195 pounds. 

This error fixed, I go back to my sunny beach house and sleep for another few months.

41 minutes ago, noobedmaster7 said:

We know that 3 shards have their own "light" honor-stormlight, Cultivation-lifelight, and odium with void light. Can the other shards make or produce their own light? Do we have any confirmation on anything like this for other shards?

5 minutes ago, Xiahida said:

Light is the gaseous and liquid phases for the Rosharon Shards. Other Shards already have something that fills these roles (Breath, the mists, etc). Mist might be capturable in a gemstone (don't know if it can), but probably won't give off light like Stormlight.

WoB:

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Questioner

I know that there's three sorts of forms that magic presents itself in, the liquid and the solid and air. What would Breath be?

Brandon Sanderson

Breath is definitely like mist, it is in the form of the air.

Questioner

And is Stormlight the same?

Brandon Sanderson

Stormlight is the same.

Also adding that most forms of investiture give off some light. The Dor on Sel is white plasma (so kind of like a gaseous Light?), and the Hion lines on Komashi are neon cyan and magenta.
Technically the sand on Taldain glows when being mastered, but that's from the organisms in the sand and not Autonomy's interaction.

According to Coppermind, when a Shard invests a world, it's mainly the planet that decides how the magic will form. Shardic intent also plays a part.

Supposedly, there was also a version of stormlight on Roshar from before the Shattering and before Honor arrived.

So I'm guessing that the Shards can't really change how their investiture manifests? I think they can only change the rules and mechanics. Honor probably can't change stormlight to be a liquid, since stormlight already existed. Likewise Devotion/Dominion can't make a "forgery-light" or whatever. Probably.
We'll have to wait until we can see the other shards to know if there's any other gaseous glowing invested art.

oh I can use this... let me enlist your services...

Can you draw a guy swinging a baseball bat, specifically the moment after the ball's been hit and they're following through with the swing? Camera angle is level with the head, and the person is facing away, looking kinda upwards at the ball they'd have hit.

idk if any of that makes sense, but I'm having a hard time even visualizing it  it's not too important or urgent tho

On 1/8/2026 at 9:44 AM, KnightSkye Reforged said:

Granted. You are burning now, in the sun of Canticle.

I wish I could feel rested rn without any loss of time in my day.

Granted. You feel perfectly rested. This feeling doesn't lessen throughout the day, and in fact only gets better and better. You get incredibly relaxed as time goes on, and eventually the hours blend together. You don't know how long you've spent sitting there, but it feels like you have all the time in the world.

I wish people are a little more aware of carbon monoxide and its dangers

I'm interested in reading it, but it might take a while for me to get around to it... Idk how much feedback I can provide though, I just wanna read stuff  I do love canon-compatible fan works