MrFunEGUY

I love this, so very true. I don't know that I agree that all other Shardic Intents have an air of neutrality about them. Ruin, for example. But even Preservation wasn't neutral, per se. Over time their Intent overrode their actual personalities. If Rayse was already a hateful person who enjoyed stuff of that nature, I just seem him embracing his intent as natural. He may be deluding himself though, and I think that's what we're seeing. In fact, I kind of love the way he talks about Cultivation and that's a good example. He says "A man cannot serve two gods at once, Dalinar." If feels like that's the excuse he tells himself to justify why he wants to murder Cultivation. But that's a lie anyway, as we see that he doesn't care about humans serving him, as he tells Taravangian he'll kill anyone not from Kharbranth. He knows he's hatred incarnate, and will say whatever he wants to see his goal accomplished. I don't see that as too different from any other Shards.

So I keep seeing people say that Venli is/will be a Willshaper. From what I can find, we know nothing of the spren that Willshapers bond or anything about them really. Why is everyone saying she's a Willshaper? I don't know what I missed.

This Epigraph was almost certainly written by Harmony: