Origin of The Cosmere & Adonalsium LORE DEEP DIVE | Cosmere Classified

[Music] [Applause] welcome World Hopper to cosmere classified where I'll be briefing you on the lore investigating investure and delving into the secret workings of the cosmere if you're to be fit to travel the Realms this is information you're going to need to know but much of the cosmere is shrouded in the mystery of the unknown so in these briefings we'll also be discussing theories and speculation now today we're going over a pivotal event in cosmere history the shattering of adonalsium this cataclysmic event is a moment so profound that its Echoes reverberate across worlds shaping the fate of planets the nature of magic and the destiny of countless lives understand in the shattering is something that all World Hoppers should seek as it lays the foundation for the complex interplay of forces that govern the [Music] cosmi the 16 shards that resulted from the shattering are the most powerful beings in the cosmere their influence has shaped the worlds we visit and the magic systems that make these so unique join me on a deep dive on the shattering of [Music] adonal now before getting into it no matter where you are in the cosmere your personal information is being sold online all the time without you even knowing whenever you fill out a form online or sign up for a new account data Brokers are collecting your information and then selling it to advertisers and that's why you get things like junk mail and the likelihood of your own data being breached is constantly increasing as well putting at risk your info like your full name your social security number your login credentials your home address and even your relatives information and you deserve to keep your information classified the good news is that you have the right to request data Brokers to delete the information they have about you but unfortunately the bad news is that this takes a long time if you're going to do it manually but that's where incog comes in the sponsor of today's video incog does all that 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cosmere if you are spoiler sensitive you've been warned phase one of the investigation is to brief you on what adonalsium was adonalsium in the simplest terms was the singularity from which all investure the magical Essence permeating every corner of the cosmere originated imagine it as the Primal Source a Wellspring of boundless power and infinite potential embodying not just energy but Consciousness will and purpose before the cosmere as we know it came into being there was adonalsium a Unity that encompassed all aspects of creation destruction and everything in between all of the motivations and the personalities we know the shards now contain in one being at least that's what we gather from The Limited information out there studied by cosmere Scholars there's always more to discover now the true nature of this entity or Force remains shrouded in mystery whether adonalsium should be regarded as a conscious being capable of design and intent or more of an elemental force is a matter of ongoing debate Chris a scholar and fellow World Hopper author of ours Arcanum interprets it to be more of a being rather than a force anyway there was a god a adalum I don't know if it was a force or a being though I suspect the latter 16 people together killed adonalsium ripping it apart and dividing its Essence between them becoming the first who ascended and the evidence does suggest a Consciousness given accounts of adonalsium ability to be slain or to design the very fabric of reality yet it very well could be something entirely beyond our current understanding of divinity and existence Hoy is likely the One World Hopper that knows more about this matter considering he was present at the shattering but unfortunately he's as elusive to us as ever now the word adonalsium is one you're going to find all across the cosmere likely hearing the name somewhere is what brought you to this briefing now the origin of the actual word is lost to time but an interesting detail is that adonalsium is actually an anagram of a soul a mind whether this holds any significance is hard to say though design does have this to say about souls investure is what souls are made out of well everything is investure because matter energy and investure are the same but Souls as you'd call them are parts of our beings that are pure investure like fire is energy this table is matter Souls investure this could suggest that adonalsium was a being of pure concentrated investure more potent than any mortal Soul we can confirm all living creatures on some level have investiture this is called the spark of Life all sentient creatures have a slightly greater amount of investure than non-intelligent ones and I believe it's safe to assume that adonalsium was the Wellspring of investure the highest potent form of this energy now the scope of adonalsium power whether confined to the cosmere or extending Beyond is another mystery unlike the shards that followed it's theorized that adonalsium W its power without constraint a singular entity unbounded by the facets that later defined its splinters in fact as you can already assume adonalsium is widely credited to be the creator of the cosmere and all life therein a primordial architect from whose remnants the shards derived their powers now before getting into a deep dive on the shattering of adonalsium who was involved the motivation behind this group The shards that came of it and how it all shaped the magic and worlds of the cosmere let's first go over the little we know of the time before the shattering it's very likely that adonalsium existed before any other intelligent life form in the cosmere considering it's credited at creating all things the question of adonalsium Consciousness whether it was an inherent attribute of its investure from inception or a complexity that evolved over eons is like many other things a mystery however we do know that adonalsium had access to four Primal commands known as the dawnshards which were the tools used to create all things now each dawnshard grants separate abil abilities their commands of immense power and as all applications of investure they require a command and intent which likely needed a heavily invested person with the understanding of a deity in order to use now the true nature of Don shards is studied by many cosmere scholars it's a very esoteric subject and they're considered unspecified mythological objects I'll speak again on the Don shards soon now while the shards later went on to create their own worlds there are some worlds that predate the shattering that were created by adonalsium the planet rosar is one of these as well as its Celestial neighbors now the continent of roshar was specifically grown by adonalsium he even created much of the diverse Ecology of the time including the high storms and spren long before honor and cultivation ever settled there the Sprint of this time were slightly different they were splinters of ad alium itself that it left behind intentionally and that have attained sentience on their own since then so you can think of spren as little fragments of a god loose investure gaining sentience is actually a cosmere wide phenomenon of investure attaining sentience when left on its own this is something we're still currently studying spren come into being in the realm of thought the cognitive realm and are shaped by the influence the ideas and concepts of the Sapient life on the planet and there was even Sapient life on roshar pre- shattering the singers being the primary inhabitants during this time and are likely the dawn singers spoken of in modern times looking at another planet Talan has a very specific odd orbit it's a planet locked between two stars and it's believe that this hints at the direct design of the god of the cosmere now Adon aliums interaction with sentient beings at this time remains obscured but we do know that apparently people were aware of its existence and power some even worshiped it as a deity despite or perhaps because of its Divine stature some individuals grew to oppose adonalsium the shattering was not a moment born of chaos but of precision and intent 16 individuals whose names and Origins span the expanse of the cosmere come together in a PCT to disassemble the very Foundation of existence the Wellspring of investure it is said it was a diverse group who grew to oppose their God their number included humans dragons and shodell Chris says their motives were equally diverse now the records even show that some of these people were romantically involved others were related to each other but what could compel beings presumably of significant power and insight to fragment the very source of their existence or power to make the Monumental decision to murder their God was it a quest for power or a philosophical disagreement I'm sure that each of the 16 had their reasons ranging from the desire for power to the belief in a necessity for change but it's hard to not think of them all as extremely arrogant after all it takes a ego as big as a great shell to believe yourself smarter than a God or to be able to do a better job now this very thought has led many scholars to speculate was this an attempt to prevent a catastrophe did some believe this deity to constitute a cosmic threat was adonalsium abusing its power or losing the ability to make the right decisions in some way there is some evidence to possibly suggest that before the shattering there were certain limitations in place restrictions that some may have wanted to overcome it's been said that on roshar Adon elium intentionally prevented the sprin from accessing surges through fabrial in fact it didn't want fabrial to exist and so they didn't it also appears that spren were not as intelligent or self-aware during this time possibly a restriction that was set upon them surge binding did not exist in its current form either so perhaps it was removing such restrictions that motivated the opposition now the act of the shattering itself happened on a planet called yolan one of the oldest inhabited worlds in the cosmere included in this group was Hy though at this time he was going by spendius we also know Frost was present now Frost is a dragon from yolan and we'll have to discuss him more in a future video but in addition to them there were the 16 who would become the original vessel of the shards this group forged a weapon of unfathomable power and intent aiming to confront adonalsium itself however the historical record actually hints at the failure of an initial plan though the details are a mystery whether this failure was due to the weapons malfunction or an alternate strategy that didn't work out is a topic for speculation and it is a possibility that the shattering didn't unfold as the conspirators envisioned some speculate that the very Act of shattering adonalsium which reshaped the cosmere was an unintended consequence rather than the deliberate aim but that is just speculation what we do know is that the weapon used to carry out this act was the dawnshards the four Primal commands that created all things eventually were used to undo adonalsium itself many cosmere scholars assume the dawn shards have a strong spiritual realm present given how powerful these objects are now over time some of these Dawn shards have been secreted away in order to prevent unknown groups from ending the lives of billions and we know these da shards still exist in fact we know a handful of people who have been in possession of these but curious World Hopper this is a topic for a whole another briefing we can make a full video on Don shards in the future in the wake of the shattering the power of adonalsium was fragmented into six 16 shards each embodying a specific aspect or ideal of adonalsium called intent devotion Dominion preservation ruin odium cultivation honor endowment autonomy ambition invention Mercy Valor Whimsy virtuosity and one that remains unknown to us as of yet though theories suggest that this shards intent is similar to wisdom or Prudence been said that there's a Shard that just wants to hide and survive which is likely why the nature of this Shard has remained a mystery for so long now to function properly A Shard requires a vessel it needs a mind to control it and so the 16 Killers each picked up a Shard and ascended to Godlike status and were faced with a universe open to their influence they scattered across the cosmere either creating or finding a world that would become deeply imbued with the shards power shaping the very essence of these planets fundamentally altering the cosmological landscape the worlds these shards came to reside upon became known as Shard worlds and the shards brought massive amounts of investure to these worlds leading to the emergence of unique Magic systems influenced by The Shard holders this is why the magic of our universe differs so greatly in form in nature on each planet whether it's the metal-based alamy of scadrial The Stormlight powered surge binding of roshar or the biochroma breath of nalus investure is the one thing connecting these seemingly unrelated forms of magic now some of these shards even splintered their investure resulting in things like the spren the storm father or the night watcher on rosar or the seans and SK on cell or even the Divine breaths on nalus the shards presence on a world also leads to the formation of a perpendicularity a concentrated well of the shards investure that pierces all three Realms the physical the cognitive and the spiritual realm and it's these perpendicular ities that allow us to World hop from planet to planet I'm sure you're well aware and generally if a Shard leaves a planet this would lead the perpendicularity to disappear so we've come to discover that if a planet has a perpendicularity that means there's the presence of a Shard however autonomy is capable of creating perpendicular ities unexpectedly across multiple planets in a way that goes against our current laws of real Matic Theory this is something we're still studying we've also discovered that these perpendicular ities can be closed by someone using the massive amount of investure coming from it or even powerful objects like night blood are capable of collapsing a perpendicularity you may have also experienced that these Wells of investure also allow us to see into the spiritual realm and next time you're on roshar try Soul casting near proximity to one of these Wells because it actually makes Soul casting much easier each world became focal points in the cosm's tapestry each thread colored by the nature of The Shard that settled there now the nature of each Shard eventually bleeds through to each Shard holder twisting their personalities to fit the shards ideal ATI who was the vessel of The Shard ruin was described as once being a nice and caring man but The Shard ruin corrupted him distorting his personality and making him only want to destroy things could this be why Hy refused A Shard Hy said that he wisely turned down the power the others all took and in doing so gained freedoms they can never have again this sounds like Hoy somehow knew that these shards would influence the vessel and take away their individuality and freedom he didn't want the responsibility of divinity now this is interesting because I've heard some speculate that Hy was the original vessel of adonalsium before it was splintered and now he's trying to collect pieces of his former glory however this wild Theory doesn't quite seem to fit with hyd who prefers his freedom of course unless he was at some point Bound by Adon asium and now values Freedom above everything else but I think it's much more likely he was just one of the people who set out to shatter The Entity now we know that Hy is worried about odium and this is where I need to stop and explain splintering originally the shards made an agreement not to interfere with each other but many have broken that agreement odium is a Shard that went on a killing spree splintering ambition devotion dominion and honor before eventually being trapped in the rosaran system by the remnants of honor the act of splintering A Shard or killing it is not a permanent thing like I said earlier A Shard can Splinter a piece of its power without dying but splintering is When A Shard is broken into dozens or hundreds of small pieces so that no vessel can take up the shards power however investure cannot be created or destroyed so theoretically someone could gather all the fragments and pieces and put The Shard back together odium held by Rays destroyed the two shards on Cell combined ing their polarizing powers and moving them into the cognitive realm this became known as the door this plasma likee substance is what makes World hopping dangerous on cells I can go on and on about the shards and do a deep dive on each and every one of them and I'll make a full video on that in the future but now I want to talk about the letters that we've intercepted between Hy and several other prominent figures in the cosmere including Frost endowment autonomy and Harmony from this correspondence we see that Hy is worried about the rising threat of odium his attacks against the other shards and the potential for future Devastation throughout the cosmere and is calling for assistance from these recipiant from these letters we learn that Frost being a member of the secret organization known as the 17th Shard has taken an oath of non intervention and frost dismisses hoy's concerns and urges Hoy to not intervene now as previously mentioned the dragon Frost was also present at the shattering though it seems he too did not take up a Shard we know very little of frost as of yet now hoy's letters to Harmony at least have been met with less dismissal to combined Powers would change and distort who odium is so instead of absorbing others he destroys them since we are all essentially infinite he needs no more power destroying and splintering the other shards would leave odium as the sole God unchanged and uncorrupted by other influences the power of odium Shard is more dangerous than the Mind behind it particularly since any investure seems to gain a will of its own when not controlled my instincts say that the power of odium is not being controlled well the vessel will be adapted to the power's will and after this long if odium is still seeking to destroy then it is because of the power in truth it would be a combination of a vessel's craftiness and the power's intent that we should fear most now again this is a topic for a full cosmere classified video if you want a full Deep dive on hoy's letters and the responses let me know now we know that at some point Hoy held a dawn Shard the dawn Shard he held had an intent opposed to the concepts of harm and violence and his time holding it altered his Spirit web making it so that long term he found that he could no longer inflict harm on himself or any others as well as unable to eat meat now this dawnshard is in some way connected to the first gem the first gem seems to be a topaz with magical properties we don't really know too much about it but in the second oathbringer letter Hy is addressed as spendius bearer of the first Gem and in the reply letter from frost he mentions a gemstone being dead so whatever magical properties this topaz once had it seems to no longer hold it holding a dawn Shard for so long has had some other side effects on Hy as well he appears ageless and it's pretty much impossible for him to die he can even regenerate any body part even his own head now while other people who have held this Dawn Shard have gained the ability to skip and teleport from planet to planet it seems that Hy may not have gained this ability though some theories of claimed he's developed some way to make his own perpendicularity using Stormlight or at least found some easier way to worldtop now we don't know 100% if Hy held a dawnshard during the shattering but I think it's likely now with this next phase I want to go over some theories now there are some rumors and theories about an opposing Force to adonalsium something that was different than the 16 but perhaps encouraged them a cosmic adversary out there somewhere in the cosmere now I'm just mentioning this briefly because there is no evidence to back this up so it should be taken as a wild Theory and not as fact one Theory I do want to mention that has a reliable source is in regards to the motivation behind the shattering in fact this Theory stems from the very words spoken by Hy in his account of Tres of the emerald SE I can't for your own good you see ah those words I've heard heard those words I've said those words the words that Proclaim in bald-faced arrogance I don't trust you to make your own decisions the words we pretend will soften the blow yet instead layer condescension on top of already existing pain like dirt on a corpse oh yes I've said those words I said them with 16 other people in fact now this could be interpreted that he and the 16 took up this cause to shatter adonalsium cuz they could no longer trust it to make the right decisions like it had become unstable in some way almost like they're taking the keys away from their grandparents or forcing Adon alium to retire and this passage really does seem like Hoy has come to regret the shattering or maybe his role in it another theory is that possibly the shattering was adonalsium plan all along maybe it wanted to be shattered and this Theory stems from the IR Al religion on roshar the IR Al worship a god they call the one according to their belief the one knew everything but had experienced nothing and so the one became many in order to experience all things as each experience was different each brought completeness to the one and eventually all will be gathered back in when the sum of land is attained and they will once again become one the IR Al believe every person is a different mind of a single being experiencing different lives and basically the philosophy behind the one is that the spiritual realm and the Beyond are the same thing when a person dies their soul rejoins the investure of the spiritual realm however most cosmere philosophers disagree with this belief now there are many interesting religions out there in the cosmere so it's hard to say if this directly relates to adonalsium but the philosophy of one becoming many is shared in the shattering perhaps adonalsium wanted to be shattered in order to experience life now this brings into question the idea of reforming adonalsium there's some wild speculation out there and again this is purely speculation that hoy's Quest involves reuniting the shards and forming adonalsium back together again now while Hy refuses Divinity he still appears to be attempting to gain forms of investure from as many different shards as possible through other Mees like breaths and surge binding for example possibly a mission he has on roshar is to find a safe way to be invested by odium however I personally don't believe there will be a Reformation Hy helped shatter adonalsium for a reason we don't know what that is but it was likely very important in the shadow of such a Monumental event as the shattering of adonalsium we're all World Hoppers seeking to understand the forces that shape our worlds and ourselves the shattering invites us to question to explore and ultimately to Marvel at the intricate dance of creation and destruction that underpins the cosmere I hope this video helped answer some of your questions now World Hoppers this is just the beginning we have a lot to discuss so be prepared and stay tuned for another cosmere [Music] classifi [Music]

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 30 2024