I've always liked to think of realmatic theory as a video game. The physical realm is the game you're playing itself, the cognitive realm is the code and the spiritual realm is like the electricity powering the device.
Am now 10 chapters into the Way of Kings, which I started immediately after finishing the era 1 Mistborn trilogy. This video was not only fantastic for helping me contextualize the unique peculiarities of Roshar, but it also helped me re-contextualize the lore of Scadriel! Like, for example, the fractures in a person's soul allowing for Investiture to seep in and grant the person power explains why in Mistborn, the characters have to experience intense trauma and "snap" before they can use Allomancy. There are so many other little connections like that I was able to make, too. Thanks a ton for this!! So excited to keep falling down the Sanderson rabbit hole :D
I leaned so much from this. My appreciation for the Cosmere is even greater now. So much thought went into crafting this universe, I can’t wait to see how far he takes it. Wow.
Only just now stumbling over this video, but its a MASTERPIECE. Never before have I seen such a detailed, well explained, and well illustrated video. Keep up the amazing work!
The artwork is on point for a visual person, and the author does a very good job explaining abstract concepts. Her voice reminds me of a flat Janis Ian from Mean Girls, or a dry Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, both of which are cool.
Wow, I've read Mistborn and Started reading Stormlight but I had no Idea that the Cosmere was this complex, my mind is absolutely blown away. Fantastic Video excellently presented.
Yo this video is the shit. I just finished Stormlight Archives and I’m about to start consuming the rest of the cosmere content. By the time the fifth Stormlight book comes out I’ll know EVERYTHING.
Thanks for this clever, thoughtful, and fun explainer! I just started The Way of Kings and found this information very helpful without being spoilery. :)
Bravo! Wonderfully explained with a unique voice and style. Hope you keep going and I get to brag about subscribing at the ground floor of a great new channel, haha. Journey before destination.
All I can do is ditto all the last comments. So clear, so listenable, so cohesive. If you taught a college course, I’d sign up regardless of the topic.
i love this video so much and it's way less spoilery than i initially thought, so i'm defs gonna send it to my friends and partners to try and get them into the cosmere
While I gathered most of this over time, it is nice to have it all in one place and you voice some interesting ideas. You have earned yourself one subscriber
This video is honestly fantastic. Even as someone who knew all the individual bits explained in this video, just having a single cohesive explanation for how these different concepts interact with each other is very useful making everything more understandable.
this was very helpful! I think I’ve read all the cosmere books except the rithmatist but didn’t do much further research other than reading the books so I didn’t have a great grasp of worldhopping and investiture. Thank you!
I'm really glad! There's so much stuff that's implied in a lot of books but takes proper research to get confirmation for, and so much more that's been discussed in little bits at signings over the years but has never made it into the books, so I'm really glad to have been able to lay stuff out in one place for folk. :) Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoy RoW!
If Rithmatist feels like it could be a part of the Cosmere that’s because it originally was planned to be. But then Brandon realized the complexity that would come about by throwing Earth into the mix, so he made it it’s own original thing instead.
This was awesome ty! I just recently dove into Stormlight Archive, completely blind, and burned through all the books currently out. LOVED it, but I was confused about some things, and this really helped me make sense of stuff
Great video. I started reading Brandon's books in December with Mistborn era 1 and now I'm caught up with Stormlight as well and this is the most concise and generally easy to understand explanation of the realms and magic system as it applies to the whole cosmere. Spoilers for Oathbringer below: . . . . . . . When you drew the picture of the realms being pulled together I finally grasped how Honor's Perpendicularity worked to charge Stormlight and for travel. It makes sense conceptually in the books but being able to see it drawn like that made so many things click instantly!
It’s amazing how Sanderson created an overarching system of basically supernatural science… to the point where magic in the cosmere isn’t really magic at all but a different set of physical and meta-physical laws that only seem like magic to us because our laws of physics are very different.
INCREDIBLE video! I've been a fan of the Cosmere for a while now, and have been able to intuit a lot of this, but this video has really helped me fully understand the whole thing and I've drawn a couple new connections because of it! All without having to risk being spoiled by the 17th Shard / Coppermind (my curiosity has gotten the better of me once or twice. Wish I could just have all the books now and finish them in one afternoon, though I know I'd just be left hungry for more Cosmere).
Awesome video. Love how articulate and in depth it is while not being overwhelming. Also your visual representations are rad. Appreciate the effort it must of taken you!
Holy moly, I'm on my second read-through of stormlight right now (already back to rhythm of war :)) but its my first and only cosmere books I've read through. This video helped me bend my mind around the cosmere so much more and makes me want to get into other cosmere books. The implications for Stormlight V are INSANE to me now.
It’s the podcast / video “podcast” that the 17th Shard does periodically where they delve into Cosmere lore/theories. After seeing this video and your video about Skybreaker morality, I think you’d be an awesome guest to have on there! Again, good work and keep going!
I really loved this video. Please take time to explain as much as you can. I need this spelled out to me and the corners is amazing to even mis the smallest parts from. Keep.up the good work
Starting to read Way of Kings, 2 years after reading Mistborn 1, it's very interesting how (to me at least) The magic sustem is linked with Plato's philosophies
Just started re-reading s lot of Sanderson's books, and was about to start on Stormlight Archive - my all time favorite series. I tried watching quite a couple of videos to get me back up to speeds, as it's been a while, and I've forgotten a lot of details. This video is, by far, the best and easiest understandable of them all. I had a hard time following others' explanations and summarises, but your style really got it all through in a nice and very enjoyable way. Thank you so much, - now I'm ready to enjoy the first three books for the third time and Rhythm of War for the first 😁 So excited to read it
Fantastic video allison! You really managed to explain many complex concepts in an easy to understand way and the art just made it all light-hearted and fun to learn rather than sound more like an essay :)
this was fascinating, I've read Mistborn and am on the 2nd book in the stormlight archive but I never realised they occupied the same universe that's a really, really clever way to have multiple magic systems concurrently though I will tip my hat to Brandon Sanderson
Very impressed with this video! Very well-made and concise description of the Cosmere's mechanics - and apart from anything else you've got a wonderful art style for the gremlin man that is Hoid. Hoping to see more!
Just re watched this again, this video is superb, and your narration is excellent. You have the cadence of a classic educational video. You should work for SciShow or something.
I loved this explanation! Thank you so much for that. Great info plus your voice sounds like lady (daughter) from the tv show Rosanne who later played Leslie Winkle on The Big bang theory. Lol. I love it! You did a great job in this video and I wonder if you'll be doing more that explain all the cosmere related stuff from each book as they come out? All the deeper cosmere connections and meaning would be a great listen after we all read them then come here to see what we missed. Keep up the good work. And fyi.... the "how the F#$% does that work" had me rolling! One of my fav lines. Almost as good as Hoid's unspoken "nah, I'm good!" Priceless!👏👏👏😁
Hey, I'm really glad you liked it! I'll definitely be doing some more Cosmere video work (though I don't intend it to be the only topic I do videos on, certainly), but probably not book by book breakdowns of the mechanics at play. Things you CAN look forward to are some thematic analysis and a couple more explainers of how certain weird worldbuilding elements fit together--I also might do one that's just a list of artifacts and people from other Cosmere works, but I'd need to figure out how to make that interesting to watch first! I really like aggregating information and pulling out the big picture patterns and shapes of stuff, so that will definitely be my focus, but there are for sure resources out there if you want to get into all the details. I'm not super familiar with Cosmere-tube yet, but for sure the Seventeenth Shard forums and the Coppermind wiki are places where a lot of really good detailed discussion happens.
@@AllisonPaley hello again. I've poked around the copper mind and 17th shard a bit and have gotten great info from them but this video was completely different than theirs and a lot of fun. You helped me understand the specific realms a lot more than I had previously. Your criptic-like way amassing info and finding the pattern (mmmmm) is very helpful and you definitely found a good way to make this video enjoyable. So, again, thank you and I'll be checking back to see the other works you share with us in the future. Thx.
Great video!!! I wish you had talked about Identity, though. I'm not sure if it's just a form of connection to an object (planet) or if it's its own thing.
This was so interesting I got through the whole thing, despite the heavy level of nerd accent in your voice. It was really tough, but I made it through.
Lol nice video, my friend was really interested in wit from way of kings, guessing him to be evil or a herald, i said id give him a hint "Wit is just VERY Fortunate" lol.
Keep up the work! Remonds me of the Stuff ALT-J does on GoT. If SLA Kicks off big, with a tv adaptation you might find your channel exploding, so just continue your stuff :)
11:41 Does that mean every layer is connected in the cosmere so if Wit in Scadrial and wanted to go to Roshar he jump into a perpendicularity of Preservation and so he jump directly to Roshar's Cognitive's realm and from there he go the physical real in the Horneater's peaks. Is that it?
I would argue that in the spiritual realm, space and time exist, they just aren't as rigid or limiting a they are in other places. For example, the Lord Tyrant's spirit knew what age he *should* be; it was aware of the "temporal distance" between the point of "now" and when he was born. It's just far easier to circumvent in the spiritual realm than anywhere else. Like imagine that in the spiritual realm, any object's distance from you is simply represented by a number written on a whiteboard. Something can be 1 mile away or 100 miles. Either way, it takes roughly the same effort to erase that number and put in "5 feet". The difference between something being far and near still exists, it's just a very different process to impact. Sometimes far easier.
The 12 people who've disliked this video as of now regularly manifest shamespren.
Oh wow, so kaladin's scar not healing is actually not just for aesthetic purposes. Amazing video!
I've always liked to think of realmatic theory as a video game. The physical realm is the game you're playing itself, the cognitive realm is the code and the spiritual realm is like the electricity powering the device.
I think the spiritual realm is more like the idea the designer had for the game
Isn't that how RAFO explained it?
Am now 10 chapters into the Way of Kings, which I started immediately after finishing the era 1 Mistborn trilogy.
This video was not only fantastic for helping me contextualize the unique peculiarities of Roshar, but it also helped me re-contextualize the lore of Scadriel! Like, for example, the fractures in a person's soul allowing for Investiture to seep in and grant the person power explains why in Mistborn, the characters have to experience intense trauma and "snap" before they can use Allomancy.
There are so many other little connections like that I was able to make, too. Thanks a ton for this!! So excited to keep falling down the Sanderson rabbit hole :D
I leaned so much from this. My appreciation for the Cosmere is even greater now. So much thought went into crafting this universe, I can’t wait to see how far he takes it. Wow.
Only just now stumbling over this video, but its a MASTERPIECE. Never before have I seen such a detailed, well explained, and well illustrated video. Keep up the amazing work!
The artwork is on point for a visual person, and the author does a very good job explaining abstract concepts. Her voice reminds me of a flat Janis Ian from Mean Girls, or a dry Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, both of which are cool.
Wow, I've read Mistborn and Started reading Stormlight but I had no Idea that the Cosmere was this complex, my mind is absolutely blown away. Fantastic Video excellently presented.
Yo this video is the shit. I just finished Stormlight Archives and I’m about to start consuming the rest of the cosmere content. By the time the fifth Stormlight book comes out I’ll know EVERYTHING.
I have been looking for something like this FOR AGES. I FINALLY UNDERSTAND THANK YOU
wow, this video is really helpfull and well made, i'll likely point to it when needing to explain the cosmere to someone
Thanks for this clever, thoughtful, and fun explainer! I just started The Way of Kings and found this information very helpful without being spoilery. :)
Bravo! Wonderfully explained with a unique voice and style. Hope you keep going and I get to brag about subscribing at the ground floor of a great new channel, haha. Journey before destination.
This is extremely sweet, thank you! I'm really glad you liked it, and I'll certainly try my best! I appreciate your support
This is probably the smoothest introduction to the realmatic theory and the key elements of the cosmere that I've ever seen, kudos to you
10:59 the mistborn metal logos come from this concept, the amount of layers the nail(s) pierce is the realm they affect
All I can do is ditto all the last comments. So clear, so listenable, so cohesive. If you taught a college course, I’d sign up regardless of the topic.
This is my first ever comment on UA-cam. Please make more cosmere videos. This was amazing.
i love this video so much and it's way less spoilery than i initially thought, so i'm defs gonna send it to my friends and partners to try and get them into the cosmere
While I gathered most of this over time, it is nice to have it all in one place and you voice some interesting ideas. You have earned yourself one subscriber
I was not expecting this video to be so well written, communicated and all around awesome. You’ve earned a subscriber.
This video is honestly fantastic. Even as someone who knew all the individual bits explained in this video, just having a single cohesive explanation for how these different concepts interact with each other is very useful making everything more understandable.
this was very helpful! I think I’ve read all the cosmere books except the rithmatist but didn’t do much further research other than reading the books so I didn’t have a great grasp of worldhopping and investiture. Thank you!
I'm really glad! There's so much stuff that's implied in a lot of books but takes proper research to get confirmation for, and so much more that's been discussed in little bits at signings over the years but has never made it into the books, so I'm really glad to have been able to lay stuff out in one place for folk. :) Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoy RoW!
Rithmatist isn't a cosmere book, it is set in an AU of Earth I think.
If Rithmatist feels like it could be a part of the Cosmere that’s because it originally was planned to be. But then Brandon realized the complexity that would come about by throwing Earth into the mix, so he made it it’s own original thing instead.
Honestly the best Realmatics video I’ve seen.
This was awesome ty! I just recently dove into Stormlight Archive, completely blind, and burned through all the books currently out. LOVED it, but I was confused about some things, and this really helped me make sense of stuff
This is the best explanation for how the cosmere functions that I’ve seen so far, great job!
After watching this video I am definitely starting The Stormlight Archive
Great video, especially explaining how the three realms and perpendicularities work. Will definitely use this when I need to explain to it to people
Great video. I started reading Brandon's books in December with Mistborn era 1 and now I'm caught up with Stormlight as well and this is the most concise and generally easy to understand explanation of the realms and magic system as it applies to the whole cosmere.
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When you drew the picture of the realms being pulled together I finally grasped how Honor's Perpendicularity worked to charge Stormlight and for travel. It makes sense conceptually in the books but being able to see it drawn like that made so many things click instantly!
Amazing video really, I think this is the best condensed info in video form of the background info we don't get in the books.
It’s amazing how Sanderson created an overarching system of basically supernatural science… to the point where magic in the cosmere isn’t really magic at all but a different set of physical and meta-physical laws that only seem like magic to us because our laws of physics are very different.
INCREDIBLE video!
I've been a fan of the Cosmere for a while now, and have been able to intuit a lot of this, but this video has really helped me fully understand the whole thing and I've drawn a couple new connections because of it!
All without having to risk being spoiled by the 17th Shard / Coppermind (my curiosity has gotten the better of me once or twice. Wish I could just have all the books now and finish them in one afternoon, though I know I'd just be left hungry for more Cosmere).
This is the best explanation I've seen . 🙏
Awesome video. Love how articulate and in depth it is while not being overwhelming. Also your visual representations are rad. Appreciate the effort it must of taken you!
Holy moly, I'm on my second read-through of stormlight right now (already back to rhythm of war :)) but its my first and only cosmere books I've read through.
This video helped me bend my mind around the cosmere so much more and makes me want to get into other cosmere books. The implications for Stormlight V are INSANE to me now.
The onscreen text is👌
I already understood most of this, but it was all relly well explained. Amazing video.
I just loved the video!! You explained everything incredibly well both in your explanation and graphically. CONGRATS!!
Wow thank you for explaining this deep and complex system with all the simple visual aids
Wow! That was awesome! We need to get a petition going to get you as a guest on Shardcast or something. Good job!
I don't think I'm aware of Shardcast, but that sounds rad and I'm flattered!
It’s the podcast / video “podcast” that the 17th Shard does periodically where they delve into Cosmere lore/theories. After seeing this video and your video about Skybreaker morality, I think you’d be an awesome guest to have on there! Again, good work and keep going!
I really loved this video. Please take time to explain as much as you can. I need this spelled out to me and the corners is amazing to even mis the smallest parts from. Keep.up the good work
Starting to read Way of Kings, 2 years after reading Mistborn 1, it's very interesting how (to me at least) The magic sustem is linked with Plato's philosophies
Hey thank you for this video. I have not seen a video that clearly defined these ideas as well as you did.
These are some real interesting ideas. It's so cool the names the ideas. Man props to the author.
That perpendicularity graph was very nice.
Just started re-reading s lot of Sanderson's books, and was about to start on Stormlight Archive - my all time favorite series. I tried watching quite a couple of videos to get me back up to speeds, as it's been a while, and I've forgotten a lot of details. This video is, by far, the best and easiest understandable of them all. I had a hard time following others' explanations and summarises, but your style really got it all through in a nice and very enjoyable way.
Thank you so much, - now I'm ready to enjoy the first three books for the third time and Rhythm of War for the first 😁 So excited to read it
Fantastic video allison! You really managed to explain many complex concepts in an easy to understand way and the art just made it all light-hearted and fun to learn rather than sound more like an essay :)
this was fascinating, I've read Mistborn and am on the 2nd book in the stormlight archive but I never realised they occupied the same universe
that's a really, really clever way to have multiple magic systems concurrently though I will tip my hat to Brandon Sanderson
This is a really good informative video! I loved the illustrations too, and great editing!
Fantastic editing and narration. Very helpul. And young Sando is a crazy thing to see
Wow I learned so much! Great video!
I’m reading oathbringer right now and this cleared some things up. Thanks!
Very impressed with this video! Very well-made and concise description of the Cosmere's mechanics - and apart from anything else you've got a wonderful art style for the gremlin man that is Hoid. Hoping to see more!
Just re watched this again, this video is superb, and your narration is excellent. You have the cadence of a classic educational video. You should work for SciShow or something.
Really amazing video, gonna recommend this to all my friends who only read stormlight
The animations - wow! Thank you for a great video! Please more!!
I just found your channel. I love what you are doing! Excellent, informative video. Thanks, Keep it up!
Stellar video. Incredibly well explained. I feel enlightened.
I loved this explanation! Thank you so much for that. Great info plus your voice sounds like lady (daughter) from the tv show Rosanne who later played Leslie Winkle on The Big bang theory. Lol. I love it!
You did a great job in this video and I wonder if you'll be doing more that explain all the cosmere related stuff from each book as they come out? All the deeper cosmere connections and meaning would be a great listen after we all read them then come here to see what we missed.
Keep up the good work.
And fyi.... the "how the F#$% does that work" had me rolling! One of my fav lines. Almost as good as Hoid's unspoken "nah, I'm good!"
Priceless!👏👏👏😁
Hey, I'm really glad you liked it! I'll definitely be doing some more Cosmere video work (though I don't intend it to be the only topic I do videos on, certainly), but probably not book by book breakdowns of the mechanics at play. Things you CAN look forward to are some thematic analysis and a couple more explainers of how certain weird worldbuilding elements fit together--I also might do one that's just a list of artifacts and people from other Cosmere works, but I'd need to figure out how to make that interesting to watch first!
I really like aggregating information and pulling out the big picture patterns and shapes of stuff, so that will definitely be my focus, but there are for sure resources out there if you want to get into all the details. I'm not super familiar with Cosmere-tube yet, but for sure the Seventeenth Shard forums and the Coppermind wiki are places where a lot of really good detailed discussion happens.
@@AllisonPaley hello again.
I've poked around the copper mind and 17th shard a bit and have gotten great info from them but this video was completely different than theirs and a lot of fun. You helped me understand the specific realms a lot more than I had previously. Your criptic-like way amassing info and finding the pattern (mmmmm) is very helpful and you definitely found a good way to make this video enjoyable.
So, again, thank you and I'll be checking back to see the other works you share with us in the future.
Thx.
Thaaaat's what voice I'm reminded of.
really nice animation and drawings!
what an amazing video! loved it from beginning to end, and I haven't read TSA yet xD
By the way. Awesome vid. Definitely subscribing.
I absolutely love how you explained it and the animation is just lovely
I watch a lot of cosmere videos and this is one of the best ❤
That was fantastic!!
this is an AMAZING video, explained it the simplest way possible. thank YOU.
Loved this video, thank you so much!
Great explanation also I really love the drawings
Such a awesome video. I love every second of it! Thanks Allison!
Great video!!! I wish you had talked about Identity, though. I'm not sure if it's just a form of connection to an object (planet) or if it's its own thing.
I really enjoyed this video!
Thank you for explaining this so well. I’ve always wanted to understand investiture better and now I do!💕
This was so interesting I got through the whole thing, despite the heavy level of nerd accent in your voice. It was really tough, but I made it through.
Lol nice video, my friend was really interested in wit from way of kings, guessing him to be evil or a herald, i said id give him a hint "Wit is just VERY Fortunate" lol.
Wow, you are really good at explaining things :)
Wow. Really, really good video. Thank you.
Brilliant!!!
Really good job, looking forward to the next video. Very helpful in explaining
Keep up the work! Remonds me of the Stuff ALT-J does on GoT. If SLA Kicks off big, with a tv adaptation you might find your channel exploding, so just continue your stuff :)
I always thought that the spiritual realm was similar to The Wheel Of Time's true source. Brandon Sanderson did finish out that series after all.
This is informative. Well done. Really well done.
This is well made, and you deserve more subs.
This was fantastic, thank you
This video was awesome and super infomtative! Thank you.
actually an incredible video
3:36 - Character development demon :D
What an amazing video !
Fantastic video. Thanks a lot for the effort!
Fantastic 👏🏽🙌🏽
Just bought the set 😊
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Does that mean every layer is connected in the cosmere so if Wit in Scadrial and wanted to go to Roshar he jump into a perpendicularity of Preservation and so he jump directly to Roshar's Cognitive's realm and from there he go the physical real in the Horneater's peaks.
Is that it?
Nothing I can say but great vid. Keep it up
Outstanding video.
cool video! i learned something
This video is amazing!
Great work !
Very cool video!
Fantastic video
Can you do one off these for each of the planets? This was so helpful!!!!
I would argue that in the spiritual realm, space and time exist, they just aren't as rigid or limiting a they are in other places. For example, the Lord Tyrant's spirit knew what age he *should* be; it was aware of the "temporal distance" between the point of "now" and when he was born. It's just far easier to circumvent in the spiritual realm than anywhere else.
Like imagine that in the spiritual realm, any object's distance from you is simply represented by a number written on a whiteboard. Something can be 1 mile away or 100 miles. Either way, it takes roughly the same effort to erase that number and put in "5 feet". The difference between something being far and near still exists, it's just a very different process to impact. Sometimes far easier.
The shallan drawings were cute even though she is act crazy. Very interested to see where her character goes