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I'm unsure of where we officially learned this, but I learned in Tress that the material dragonsteel comes from the scales of dragons. I didn't think much of it at the time, but then I started thinking about how there are essentially zero mythical metals besides the god metals. So considering that this elusive material is meant to be at the core of the plot to the Dragonsteel book, it is either regular metal that's been specifically invested, or it's god metal. Considering that God metal can manifest in a multitude of ways, I wouldn't consider it impossible if dragonsteel was secretly Adonalsium's metal. We've already seen spren manifest as metal and we know that nonhuman creatures in the physical can interact with the cognitive realm to a degree. Although interacting with splinters and the cognitive is typically exclusively Rosharan, I wouldn't be surprised if some really weird stuff was going on with the dragons considering we don't know a whole lot about, or at least I don't. That concludes my brief theory. If you see any holes in my logic or whatever feel free to say... I never know how to end these...

I have a question/theory. Is Hoid the end product of the destruction of Adonalsuim? When Adonalsuim shattered and the shards were scattered, was there something left? Perhaps a conscience, even one who, like syl in the first part of the way of kings, knew some things and not others? Or more likely, the same way the powers or ruin and preservation we're parallel(ly?) Connected to the mind/conscience. How preservations conscience was killed buy ruin, but the power still had a form of mind. Could hoid possibly be this subconcience of a dead God without the power and without knowing exactly what he is, but knowing some things like when he said he had to leave in WoR, or giving the coin to Wax?

Forgive me if this rambles a bit. I wrote it between classes and figured I'd throw it out and let people comment on it before threshing it out. So I've been gone from this place for a few months, and upon my return I discovered that the Map of Roshar Question has been solved. That it is a rendering of a 3-dimentional projection of a 4-dimentional object. I also noted that Brandon had specifically requested this shape, and I had to ask myself, " what was the reason for that? Did he just like the shape or was there a deeper meaning?" This being the 17th shard, there is always a deeper meaning. So I betook myself to linking fancy unto fancy thinking what Brandon could have intended by this? It is most likely a clue, but a clue about what? Fractals? or 4-dimensional shapes? And this connected to an idea I had had some time ago. Let's say you had a 4-dimensional entity. Let's call this entity, oh, Figgledygrak, or something. Lets say it is a hypersphere, nicely balanced in all directions. Now you split it in half, you have two hemihyperspheres(!). These two pieces represent opposite halves of the space-- left-right, top-bottom etc. In 4-dimensions, if you split it accross all orthogonal axes you get 16 such pieces. If this space represents intent, you now have 16 pieces with varying degrees of opposing intent. You may see where this is going. [short version] Adonalsium was a being of 4-dimensional intent before it was shattered. The 16 shards each represent some combination of polarities of these dimensions. [/short version] If you accept this hypothesis, and I recognize its tenuity, then one question that springs to mind is, what might the axes be? We have some description and names for I think 8 of the 16 shards. We have some information. Odium seems opposed to all the shards we've seen so far. Honour and Cultivation seem less opposed. I'm not sure where Dominion and Devotion would fit. Preservation and ruin were obviously opposed. At the same time, they were enough alike to create a world together. One could hardly imagine Odium creating a world. To me, Odium represents the "negative" side of all the dimentions, Ruin is more negative than Preservation, Dominion is more negative than Devotion. If there's a pure opposite to Odium I'm not sure we've seen it. Devotion maybe?