Difference between revisions of "Spiritual Realm"

Everything in the cosmere has a Spiritual aspect, a soul, which represents the idealized form or concept upon which their existence is based.{{tes ref|12}} Among sentient creatures, this soul is sometimes described as a [[Spiritwebspiritweb]]. Several manifestations of [[Investiture]] such as [[Gold#Feruchemical_Use|gold Feruchemy]] and [[Regrowth]] can restore a damaged object or person into the ideal form as dictated by the soul.

The Spiritual Realm is not a place.{{wob ref|11708}} The Spiritual Realm is made up entirely of [[Investiture]] in the form of [[Spiritwebspiritweb]]s and the [[Connection]]s between them.{{wob ref|8812}}{{wob ref|9280}} As such, time and space are "irrelevant" or "compounded into one" in the Spiritual Realm.{{wob ref|6129}} This timelessness means that the Spiritual Realm breaks causality, but in a controlled way.{{wob ref|9286}} [[Design]] remarked that time dilation was easier in the Spiritual Realm because time "flows like water into whatever container you provide".{{book ref|yumi|32}}

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A person’s Spiritwebspiritweb, closely related to Spiritual DNA,{{wob ref|115}} makes up their presence in the Spiritual Realm. Measuring and quantifying a Spiritwebspiritweb is possible, if difficult, to do.{{wob ref|13361}} Spiritual DNA can be passed from parent to child like regular DNA.{{wob ref|5514}} Identical twins can have different Spiritual DNA, however.{{wob ref|7761}} A person's Spiritwebspiritweb can be damaged either through physical or emotional trauma. This creates "cracks" in the soul. It is easier for Shards to [[Invest]] in people who are damaged in this way, as Investiture can enter the soul through these "cracks". This is why [[Allomancer]]s need to undergo [[Snapping]] in order to awaken their powers, and is implied to be the reason why [[Surgebinder]]s tend to have psychological problems.{{wob ref|5469}} Spiritwebs can be damaged with weapons like Hemalurgic spikes and Shardblades. Those wounds can then be healed with a graft of Investiture. The healing process does leave a permanent wound on a person’sperson's Spiritwebspiritweb.{{wob ref|126}} Investing an object or person for a long period of time will warp and change their Spiritwebspiritweb.{{wob ref|2690}} In humans, this process leads to [[Savant]]ism.{{wob ref|7267}}

[[Identity]] is a Spiritual attribute related to Spiritwebsspiritwebs.{{wob ref|9431}} Each person’s Identity is as unique as their genetic sequence,{{wob ref|874}} and is tied to the place where someone is born.{{wob ref|4061}} Identity is not altered with general damage to the Spiritwebspiritweb. Instead, someone would have to try and do something with Identity specifically.{{wob ref|9434}} Most magic in the cosmere is keyed to a person’s Identity. Two people both blanking their Identity will almost always allow them to use each other’s Investiture.{{wob ref|1709}} A lack of Identity will make a person more susceptible to many things in the cosmere, including [[soulstamp]]s.{{wob ref|3547}} This does not mean that someone with blank Identity could use any soulstamp, as the soulstamp’s Identity still causes issues.{{wob ref|9435}} Identity can be very useful in things like healing, though it may occur in a roundabout method.{{wob ref|7836}}

[[Malatium]] works similarly to gold, albeit showing visions of other people's possible selves rather than the user's. Flaring it via [[duralumin]] or death seems to give an Allomancer 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.{{msh ref|1|1}}

As a result of a [[GlysMistspren]] being corrupted by [[Sja-anat]], [[RenarinTruthwatchers]] hashave some ability to see visions of the future; these visions seem to appear similar to stained-glass images. This ability is imperfect, as the events it predicts can fail to occur.{{book ref|sa3|118}}{{wob ref|8461}}

Very few beings exist solely in the Spiritual Realm. Originally, the [[shadowblaze]]s from ''[[The Rithmatist]]'' were some of those creatures.{{wob ref|1619}} It is possible for physical beings to travel to the Spiritual Realm, but the results are weird.{{wob ref|13522}} [[Elend Venture]], burning both atium and duralumin, managed to travel mostly to the Spiritual Realm.{{wob ref|6304}} While there, Elend saw “a mind-numbing wealth of information,” including Leras’s plan for Ati’s death.{{book ref|mb3|81}} Flaring one of the temporal metals at the moment of one’s death can also provide a glimpse of the Spiritual Realm.{{msh ref|1|1}} Shards can also give people a glimpse of the Spiritual Realm, generally via eye contact with the Vessel; Leras shows Kelsier the Connection between everything and the possible futures{{msh ref|3|3}} and Odium shows Dalinar the complete nature of his Shard.{{book ref|sa3|57}} Visions, such as the ones Honor left for potential Bondsmiths, almost always involved being pulled partially into the Spiritual Realm, with an additional "Cognitive framework" that allows people to understand them.{{wob ref|9562}} Traveling to the Spiritual Realm can be extremely dangerous for people, as it has the potential to break their brain.{{wob ref|2693}}