Old Magic

The Old Magic is a magic system. Little is known about the Old Magic, other than by those who seek it by traveling west to the Nightwatcher.

The Nightwatcher grants what they desire and gives them a curse, not necessarily related to the gift. It is said that every man gets only one chance to ask a boon of the Nightwatcher. She always grants one curse and one desire. Most consider the Nightwatcher to be some kind of powerful spren. Those who seek the Old Magic have to go to the west in a valley. Soliciting the Old Magic is offensive to the devotaries because it defies their control within Vorin culture as a religious influence.

Wyndle, a spren that has bonded with Lift and granted her the powers of an Edgedancer, has referred to the Nightwatcher as "Mother." This has lead to speculation as to the Nightwatcher's possible link to Cultivation, one of the sixteen Shards of Adonalsium and one of the three on Roshar.