What is The Cosmere?: Letters From the Cosmere Part 1
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The next Episode: Adonalsium and the 16 Shards
In this first episode of Letters from the Cosmere, we look at the three fundamental aspects of the Cosmere. This is the foundation to all else that moves in the Cosmere and thus is the best place to start.
The main character and narrator of these letters is Aarik. He is a World Hopper, or in other words, he travels physically through the Cosmere by way of the Cognitive Realm. His history is shrouded in mystery for now but details may come to light over time.
The Cosmere is broken up into three realms. the Physical Realm, which is the realm most familure to us and where people and nations live. The Cognitive Realm where the ideas and minds of the Physical World manifest in their fluid form of self-visualization. And finally the Spiritual Realm, the most mysterious of the three realms, seems to house the souls of living beings, and often is the source of the varous Investitures seen throughout the Cosmere (Allomancy, Aon Dor, Surges, ect)
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