Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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Both the road to Hell AND mastery of Cosmere magic must begin with Good Intentions. I was going to have this be an intro to my next video, but I had to break it out because there's so much to talk about!

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Stories referenced: Stormlight Archive, Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker

Chaos has a great breakdown of Intent on the 17th Shard: 17thshard.com/forum/topic/369-theory-the-principle-of-intent

And Windrunner has more analysis of the 3 components of Cosmere magics: 17thshard.com/news/features/featured-theories-shardic-sentience-and-the-three-parts-of-magic-r105

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