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Relacionado con | Realmatic Theory |
Tipo | Spiritual property |
Universo | Cosmere |
Connection is an ability within the cosmere that allows a closer relationship between two parties.
The Nature of Connection
Connection uses spiritwebs, and connects them in the Spiritual Realm. Connection is thought to be part of the spiritual aspect of a being. Additionally, it is possible to alter connection through artificial means,[1] though the particulars of how this is accomplished are unknown. Connection can be inherited.[2] People are generally Connected to certain locations, and can be Connected to more than one place at a time.[3] Cognitive Shadows, and in certain instances Shards, can get tied to an area or Shardworld, due to their Connection to the location.[4]
Uses of Connection
Accessing Investiture
Many methods of accessing Investiture have been observed throughout the cosmere, but all share certain cardinal similarities; an established Connection or ability to create a Connection to a source of power and a way of directing that power.
Communication
Connection can be used in many ways to allow the user to speak the language of another person they are Connecting with. This can be done without the user learning any of the language beforehand. The ability has flaws though, as it will fill in local idioms and phrases on its own, but if the user is careless and focuses on a specific word or phrase the ability may fail and they will say the word verbatim in their own tongue[5] or it may be said in an odd way.[6] This includes slip ups that confuse others,[7] such as saying coin[8] or bunny[9] on Roshar. Blanking Identity and tapping Connection can cause someone to gain an accent for a particular area.[10]
Feruchemical Duralumin: In Feruchemy, Connection is stored in duralumin.[11] Using this, a Feruchemist can communicate with others on foreign lands.[12] Connection can also be used by anyone by wearing unsealed metalminds.[13] These medallions are worn by a person who is in a land that is not their own, and they are then able to speak the language of the place they are in. A person wearing their medallion in their own land will still speak their own language, not the language of the person they are communicating with. Occasionally, words do not translate fully.
Spiritual Adhesion: Using the Surge of Adhesion to manipulate spiritual, rather than purely physical forces, a Bondsmith can touch another person and forge a spiritual connection between them. This allows the Bondsmith to temporarily speak whatever languages this other person can speak.[14]
Regal Forms of Power: By staying out in the Everstorm, singers are capable of bonding with a Voidspren, which has the effect of changing their form, which alters their physical appearance and mental capabilities.[15][16] One Regal form of power is envoyform, which allows the user to have Connection to other cultures and allows the user to speak their languages.[15]
Ones Above: The Ones Above have a handheld device that is a language translator and can even translate written words.[17]
Hoid: Hoid has access to some manifestation of Investiture that allows him to manipulate the Spiritual attribute of Connection. The full extent of this ability is unknown, but its primary known use is to help Hoid speak the various languages of the worlds of the cosmere that he visits. The ability allows him to Connect to whatever land he is in, temporarily altering his Spiritual aspect to believe that he was raised in that place, allowing him to speak as a native.[5]
Bonds
Bonds are Connections between entities in the cosmere that exist outside the Physical Realm. All bonds are basically the same, with the powers and functions depending on the holders of the bond.[18] Bonds are typically formed between entities with greater-than-normal Investiture and other entities, allowing them to gain enhancements. Forming a bond utilizes Connection Identity in some manner. Lessening those attributes, such as by storing them in a metalmind, would affect the bond.[19]
The Nahel Bond: The Nahel Bond is formed between sapient beings and certain types of intelligent Spren. It gives access to Surgebinding, while granting the spren the ability to maintain their cognition in the Physical Realm. There are ten known forms the Nahel Bond can take, each giving access to two different Surges among the ten.
Singer Bond: The singers can bond with a spren. Doing so grants the singer a form with a specific physical and mental change. Not all spren grant a unique form; most spren give the singers dullform. Without a spren, singers exist in what is known as slaveform (Parshmen).
Lesser Spren Bonds: Non-intelligent spren can theoretically form symbiotic bonds with people.[20]
Other Spren Bonds: Certain spren bond with animals native to Roshar, enhancing those animals and granting them abilities. Animals that are confirmed to have these bonds are chasmfiends, chulls, and skyeels.
Yelig-nar: Yelig-nar is able to bond with a human[21] or singer, and grants his host the use of all ten Surges.[22] The people he bonds with appear to remain fully in control of themselves,[23] but they must control Yelig-nar if they do not wish to be consumed by him.[21]
Nergaoul: Nergaoul is able to bond with a humans who embrace the Thrill.[24] This imbues them with bloodlust and the urge to fight above all else.[25] With the help of Odium, he is able to fully control large groups of people through the bond.[26]
Seons: A seon can create bonds with humans, including Elantrians. Little is known of this bond other than that the seon follows and helps the person it is bonded to, functioning as a servant to the owner of the bond. Seons will automatically seek out a new person to bond with following the death of its master; often the new master has been prearranged. During the time of the Reod, while the Shaod was unable to finish transforming a human into an Elantrian, any seon bonded to a Elantrian lost its mind and would float around the city, often near their master.[27] This bond is similar to the Nahel bond[28] and would grant some sort of ability if manifested on Roshar.[29]
Aviar: Aviars create a bond with a person and grant a specific power based of the type of Aviar bonded. Aviar are granted their ability if raised on one of the pantheon islands and consume a worm native to the island.[17]
Other Worm Infected Animals: Other birds besides native island Aviar are able to eat the worms and create a bond with a new effect.[17]
Sentient Awakened Entities in an Inorganic Host: Also known as Type IV BioChromatic Entities. The only known entity of this kind is Nightblood. Nightblood is a sentient sword made using one thousand Breaths and the command to destroy evil. Nightblood will bond with anyone they wish to communicate with, and is able to read and speak with minds directly.[29] Distance appears to be a factor, but this may be a limitation of the mind of Nightblood and not their ability. While idle, Nightblood reaches out to other people, tempting them to draw the blade. "Pure" people who cannot be tempted would feel great nausea, even induce vomiting. Anyone who is able to wield Nightblood and survive, bonds with the blade to a greater degree and is no longer repelled by or abnormally drawn to use it.[30] Those unable to control Nightblood are become controlled themselves, leading to them using Nightblood to kill everyone around them and allowing Nightblood to absorb the Investiture from the victims including the spark of life (i.e. the soul).[31][32] This bond may grant additional powers on Roshar.[33]
Shardblade: Shardblades are able to bond with people through the use of charged gemstones. The gem is placed in the hilt of the Blade and after a week of constant contact, the Blade is bonded and can be dismissed from and recalled to the Physical Realm. Once bonded the blade can be dismissed and recalled by syncing with the user's heart to the blade. Ten heartbeats are required. A person's iris' will lighten during the bonding process.
Honorblades: Honorblades grant Surgebinding abilities to humans who touch them, but requires dangerous levels of Stormlight.[34]
Other Uses
Lightweaving: In order to Lightweave properly, a strong spiritual component requiring a certain measure of Connection and a full mental picture of the desired illusion is necessary.[35]
Allomantic Malatium: Flaring malatium allows an Allomancer to see not just a malatium shadow of a person, but seems to give them a glimpse into the Spiritual Realm, allowing them to see a vision of a past event in another person's life by seeing their Connection and their past.[36]
Allomantic Lerasium: For normal people, burning lerasium forges a permanent Connection between them and Preservation, turning them into a very powerful Mistborn by rewriting their spiritual DNA.[37] For people who are already Mistborn, the same effect increases their power.[38]
Selish Magic: All magic on Sel (including AonDor, Dakhor, ChayShan, Forgery, and Bloodsealing) requires a Connection to certain lands to function properly. The magics will decrease in power the farther from the land the user is,[39] and will not normally work outside of Sel.[40][41]
Ba-Ado-Mishram: Ba-Ado-Mishram is able to Connect with the vast majority of singers on Roshar and is able to grant them forms of power. This made them into Regals. She also provided them with Voidlight.[42]
Singers: Singers are able to speak to rhythms.[43] Rhythms represent a certain state of mind, the feelings of the singer using it. The rhythms Connect the singers,[44] and there is Connection between them and the songs of Roshar.[45]
Realms: Connection can be used to exist in different realms.[46]
Manipulating Connection
Feruchemical Duralumin: In Feruchemy, Connection is stored in duralumin.[11] Storing Connection lessens others' trust in and awareness of the Feruchemist, while tapping Connection allows the Feruchemist to form trusting relationships quickly.[11] Tapping the metalmind will allow the Feruchemist to form stronger Connections, possibly depending on what Connections were stored. It can allow Feruchemists to form trust relationships with others much faster, for example. Duralumin Feruchemy can also change one's Spiritual Connection to a planet, which can help worldhoppers with magic systems. If a Feruchemist were able compound duralumin, they would be able to use duralumin to have a nearly infinite supply of Spiritual Connection.
Hemalurgic Duralumin: In Hemalurgy, Connection can be stolen by a duralumin spike.[47]
Singers: If a singers Connection and Identity is stolen, they will change into slaveform.[48][49]
The Ire's orb: The Ire's orb is an arcane device that can magically grant Connection. The members of the Ire intended to use it to allow one of their members to ascend as a Vessel of a Shard of Adonalsium.[1][50]
Aons: There is an Aon for Connection, but it's use is unknown.[51]
Fabrials: Fabrials can be used to alter Connection, though how is currently unknown.[52]
Connection with Shards
The closer the Connection between a human and a Shard, the more powerful the human becomes. How a person becomes Connected to a Shard varies between Shardworlds. It is assumed that the intent of the respective Shard influences these conditions. On Scadrial Connection to a Shard is determined by genetics. On Sel it will depend on a persons location and their Connection to the land, and on Roshar it has to do with a person's actions and how they live their life.[53]
Since Shards are Connected to their magic, a Shard is able to directly interact with its users and provide the needed Investiture directly when needed.[54]
Ascension
Connection has an influence on who can or cannot Ascend as the holder of a certain Shard,[55] and Connection to a Shard is required to Ascend. Improper Connection decreases the vessel's ability to control the powers and weakens the vessel's power.[55] Connection to an opposing Shard makes it more difficult to maintain Ascension. Proper Ascension can happen either forged artificially or driven by a natural inclination towards the Shard's intent.[1]
Notes
- ↑ a b c Nacidos de la bruma: Historia Secreta parte 5 capítulo 2#
- ↑ Skyward Seattle signing
— Arcanum - 2018-11-10# - ↑ Calamity Denver signing
— Arcanum - 2016-02-19# - ↑ OdysseyCon 2016
— Arcanum - 2016-04-08# - ↑ a b Stormlight Three Update #4
— Arcanum - 2016-09-10# - ↑ /r/books AMA 2015
— Arcanum - 2015-07-20# - ↑ Oathbringer release party
— Arcanum - 2017-11-13# - ↑ Palabras radiantes epílogo#
- ↑ Palabras radiantes capítulo 59#
- ↑ Arcanum Unbounded signing Fort Collins
— Arcanum - 2016-11-29# - ↑ a b c Aleación de ley Ars Arcanum#
- ↑ Brazales de Duelo (libro) capítulo 22#
- ↑ General Signed Books 2016
— Arcanum - 2016-01-26# - ↑ Juramentada capítulo 65#
- ↑ a b Juramentada capítulo I-6#
- ↑ Salt Lake City signing 2012
— Arcanum - 2012-11-06# - ↑ a b c Sexto del Ocaso#
- ↑ /r/books AMA 2015
— Arcanum - 2015-06-19# - ↑ Orem signing
— Arcanum - 2018-03-10# - ↑ Fantasy Faction interview
— Arcanum - 2014-04-24# - ↑ a b Juramentada capítulo 118#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 95 Epígrafe#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 120#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 115#
- ↑ El camino de los reyes capítulo 28#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 116#
- ↑ Elantris capítulo 4#
- ↑ Steelheart Chicago signing
— Arcanum - 2013-10-01# - ↑ a b Words of Radiance Washington, DC signing
— Arcanum - 2014-03-20# - ↑ Warbreaker Annotations
— Arcanum - 2011-06-22# - ↑ Juramentada capítulo 90#
- ↑ Shadows of Self release party
— Arcanum - 2015-10-05# - ↑ Words of Radiance signing San Fansisco
— Arcanum - 2014-03-06# - ↑ Words of Radiance San Diego signing
— Arcanum - 2014-03-04# - ↑ Palabras radiantes Ars Arcanum#
- ↑ Nacidos de la bruma: Historia Secreta parte 1 capítulo 1#
- ↑ 17th Shard Interview
— Arcanum - 2010-10-03# - ↑ Firefight Seattle UBooks signing
— Arcanum - 2015-01-06# - ↑ Oathbringer San Francisco signing
— Arcanum - 2017-11-15# - ↑ Arcanum Unbounded signing Chicago
— Arcanum - 2016-12-06# - ↑ Shadows of Self signing Chicago
— Arcanum - 2015-10-12# - ↑ Juramentada capítulo 80 Epígrafe#
- ↑ Palabras radiantes interludio I-4#
- ↑ Orem signing
— Arcanum - 2012-09-22# - ↑ Starsight Release Party
— Arcanum - 2019-11-26# - ↑ Nacidos de la bruma: Historia Secreta parte 6 capítulo 6#
- ↑ Hemalurgy Table
- ↑ El camino de los reyes capítulo 72#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 17#
- ↑ The Great American Read: Other Worlds with Brandon Sanderson
— Arcanum - 2018-10-25# - ↑ The Great American Read: Other Worlds with Brandon Sanderson
— Arcanum - 2018-10-25# - ↑ Arcanum Unbounded Hoboken signing
— Arcanum - 2016-12-03# - ↑ Amsterdam signing, 2011
— Arcanum - 2011-05-31# - ↑ Hero of Ages Q&A - Time Waster's Guide
— Arcanum - 2008-10-15# - ↑ a b Nacidos de la bruma: Historia Secreta parte 6 capítulo 4#