Connection and Bonds in the Cosmere 

Brother, how the hell are you in whole ass different biomes every video, and you even have a well written, well spoken script. Easily my favorite bit of cosmere content, maybe my favorite piece of content period.

Wake up babe, there’s a new Jasonioan post

As someone who's only read The Reckoners series by Sanderson this was confusing but fun. I see so much love for whatever the cosmere is I should probably just start reading them.

What a stellar video as usual dude! Staying in that shady motel to get those early morning dune shots was worth it! Interested to see what place you’ll film next 😂 be sure to hit me up when you decide 🔥

Just comenting to please the RU-vid algorithm. You deserve every few!

I've seen two cosmere videos come out of your channel with ACTUAL quality.. haven't opened your page and started looking to binge but seems I have to now

As a fellow Bondsmith I have to say I love this video. it has a very good Intention. Speaking of which, will you do others about Intention, fortune? It would be very interesting

your videos are straight up the best I've seen on cosmere lore. Well written, well performed, well edited, changing locations... you deserve so many more views!

I think because of the nature of the Dor and all magic systems on Sel depending on geography, it could MAYBE change the nature of that bond with the Seons based on geography, i don’t think it would but there is a possibility

Thanks for making a distinction between Nahel and Luhel bonds. I wasn’t sure what made them different before

Great video as usual, well done 👏 Really beautiful location. Also my kudos on how clean that audio came out despite it clearly being fairly windy out there.

I like the idea of the ability to use sand mastery being atributed to the luehel bond. The sand masters are always at risk of dehydration and grow in power as they over master being able to strengthen their bond.

Great video! I wonder if the bond between the Aviar and the worms they eat would be an example of the physical symbiotic bond that you speculated. They injest the worms from Patji's fingers, who then live symbiotically inside of the birds, granting them powers (and potentially some extra intelligence, like Ryshadium). The Aviars powers can then be shared with a human owner through a bond that's sort of similar to a Nahel bond, but is also between two physical entities... idk, just some thoughts.

I appreciated the bit about seons! It makes sense that bonds can form throughout the Cosmere, similar to how metals behave similarly across the Cosmere. So like Nahel bonds are a Rosharan word to describe bonds observed on Roshar, but similar bonds still occur elsewhere.

What a perfect way to kick off the weekend!

YES thank you for the Rosharan linguistics vid shout out, it's an underappreciated gem!

I could see a third bond being one between people and physical objects manifesting as a form of technomancy. I could see this being an invested art present on a Shatdworld of Invention. The initiation would be inventing the object with which one forms an Artihel bone.

I would think “El” is the part about divinity, as it’s used that way in our real world history.

I just discovered this channel! great production quality and very entertaining!

Excellent as always!

Hey man, I just wanted to say your content is awesome. Keep up the great work!

There are more connection types we haven’t seen then physical-physical. There is no theoretical reason for not having a cognitive-spiritual bond, or cognitive-cognitive/ spiritual-spiritual. No clue what those would look like but it’s interesting to consider

You make such amazing content about the cosmere and I love that you travel to “in world” locations

i think if there would be a third type of bond, it would be the same sort of bond that allomancy/feruchemy uses, where you form a bond to a form of investiture and channel it through you buy providing a physical "fuel" source to channel/power that ability. it was said that lerasium rewrote your spirit web to be an allomancer and was meantioned that some alloy of atium and lerasium could make feruchemists (making them in the same boat). so some sort of direct connection that links your soul to a source of power and needs a physical fuel as a trade to channeling that power would be a third form of connect perhaps?

You said that the only time connection has been forced by mechanical means was the Ire. Does Nomad's torment not count? He can literally just straight spend investiture to be connected to the world and alter his entire history. Kinda wild the more I think about it. Kinda like a less permanent and less difficult soulstamp.

Just found your page through TikTok! Love the content, it’s fun getting to hear the connections I was curious about. Plus I avoided WoB for awhile as I went through the cosmere out of fear of getting spoiled. But now that I am caught up it’s good to find these!! But huge shout out for the spoiler heads up for those who maybe didn’t get to certain books yet

I’m very interested if the spiritual damage done to Roshar by the locking away of Ba Ado Mishram would effect a Seon bond or even make forging weirder. And yes, I am so ready for the White Sand prose edition. It’s the last Cosmere entry that I haven’t gotten around to yet.

Oh yeah. It’s 2 am, but idc I’m not missing this

Rusts and Ruins man, how did you travel to Taldain??? I am at their Subastral but I cannot locate their Perpendicularity. Please teach me your ways

It appears Aether requires the physical "bud" to be in the person's body. Though it's currently semi ambiguous at this point. I would think this to be more physical than cognitive.

I wonder if the aon that a seon has changes the bond in a way. We know Shallan's seon, Ala, means beauty. Perhaps there is a resonance between lightweavers and the beauty aon in some way. It might be close enough to not be diluted. That may be why brandon chose his words carefully because he knew an exception would be coming up soon in stormlight.

Seon bonds might be location dependent because Selish investiture is more geographically sensitive than most investiture

8:20 I personally think you have the two root words mixed around. “El” is a common biblical reference to God (divinity), hence the names Michael, Gabriel, Samuel, etc. having it within the name and each meaning referring to God either doing or receiving something. We also need to remember that both Spren and Aethers are seen as divine actors in both of their societies. The difference comes in how they interact with their societies. Spren and rosharans form voluntary partnerships and work together. In Hebrew the sound “nah” is used in tandem with most root words to say “we will”. Meanwhile, Aethers reportedly bond others forcefully and require offerings such as water. I don’t count Stormlight as an offering since rosharans can generally use their abilities even when Spren don’t want them to on occasion, so it seems to act as more of a power source than an offering.

Great video! Loved it! Is there a way to tag a comment for Lost Metal spoilers? The video made me think of someone REALLY wanting to do her own thing, and I'd love to get your thoughts... But I don't want to be a spoiler-sport.

Giving power can make a bond. Like Shallon using Stormlight to Manifest in the Cognitive realm. Reverse of Nahel bond, Physical entity giving power to a Cognitive entity and recieving Physical matter.

13:58 Wait, isn't that what the magic system on Ashyn is ? Physical bond between an invested physical entity (bacteria/viruses inside a host) and a non-invested physical entity (human) that trades in physical resources (the host's nutrients) for power.

I would be surprised if Sanderson ended up canonizing a Seon bond acting differently on Roshar. I am more interested to see if a Radiants powers are diminished and potentially a sprens (for lack of a better term) tangibility are lessened if they leave Roshar

Aviar might be the third bond. A variety of powers for seeds and pets.

I have no doubt that White Sand lichen is an aether, specifically the one mentioned as being lost in Tress

Could the third type of bond be something similar to the bond of a person with an Aviar? They're both physical entities, one Invested and one not.

One physical being giving physical matter to another physical being to spring forth a physical miracle. Is this just Brandons plan to have the birds and the bees talk with his audience?

This needs more eyes on it

Is Nightblood bond with its user some kind of physical bond like the one you are talking about? In this case, investiture for power.

2:09 Southern Scadrian translating Medalions are forging Connection to the Land. Also why no mention Connector Ferrings? 14:10 this sounds basicly as Aviar bond 😉

Could you create a device, like the Father Machine in Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, that could cut the Connection between a Vessel and a Shard, or transfer that Connection to someone else, or in other words to force the Shard onto a new Vessel?

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My man, you in Arrakis this time?

How in the HECK did you get on Taldain!?

Next decade or so, he is writting it now 😂

You need to listen to graphic audio white Sands its wayyy more in-depth than tbe graphic novel and like no one else has listened to it.

Lessss goo!!

Dude are you in Idaho!?!? Looks like a certain sand dune I know.

I don't really see where you are getting the idea that Luhel bonds are more cognitive than Nahel bonds. The Nahel ones are the ones we frequently see cognitive ability being part of the trade for. Not just with spren gaining cognition in radient bonds, but it's also heavily hinted that greatshells gain intelligence from their bonds with luckspren/mandra. Your logic seems to be that Spiritual Bonds are stronger than Cognitive bonds, and I just don't think that's true. Both Luhel and Nahel bonds likely have both a spiritual and cognitive component, and dividing them the way you have IMO isn't a good classification at all. You don't really provide any justification for this distinction either, you just present it as a fact and then say you are basing a theory on that fact, but said theory doesn't even require the fact to begin with, and the fact is entirely unsupported. In fact, sand mastery is a good counter example to the idea that a Luhel bond is less spiritual and doesn't have an affect on your spirit web. In Sand Mastery you can grow more powerful by overmastering. Overmastering is a process in which you push yourself beyond your limits and temporarily burn out your powers. After recovering for a few days your powers are stronger. Now one could make an argument that this was a physical process like building muscle, but that doesn't really follow with how the cosmere works. Instead it's mostly likely a spiritual process very similar to how muscle is built. By overusing your power you stretch and warp your spirit web, widening the cracks and allowing more power through. This is similar to how snapping is needed to create allomaners and how overusing your allomancy turns you into a savant by the same stretching and warping process. By this we can see that powers of sand mastery clearly have a strong spiritual component and thus could not be explained by a cognitive bond as you suggest.

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All this effort... Just for it all to be explained in 6 months anyway..