Breaking a vow

[Ripheus23]

So let's suppose that Rosharans would think of Adonalsium as a spren and that spren can become Shardweapons: maybe Tanavast got the idea from Adonalsium in the first place?

Let's suppose there was some prior threat, on/involving Yolen, that Adonalsium thought could only be defeated by the use of a sort of Shardweapon that he turned himself into/assumed from himself/w/e. And that to use this weapon, the 16 had to swear a vow, so to bond with Adonalsium. Then, the way they could have killed him, would have been by breaking the vow, no?

The Shards in themselves, then, might be fragments of the spren-weapon form of Adonalsium.

Now, while I'm on this track, I would like to explore Shard categorization, relative to the idea that Adonalsium "is" the powers of creation, so to speak.

Rather than just various "elemental" concepts being those the 16 correspond to, I think each has to be matched to some different notion of how creation occurs/its context/motivation/reason-for-happening/etc. Ruin is the concept of creation by the negation of destruction (so involves using the concept of destruction in a fundamental/axiomatic/primary/w/e way, a super double-negative as it goes). Preservation is the collapsed equivalence between the concepts of initial divine creation and continuing divine conservation (creation-as-conservation and vice versa). Ambition is initial creation, over nothingness per se or by-fiat, or something along those lines (the most independent, and thus most "ambitious" notion of creation, one might say). (Sazed could combine Preservation and Ruin, but he would not have been able to unite Ambition and Ruin, let us suppose: the first two are contradictories but not contraries (a distinction in abstract logic). [To wit(!), "All X are Y," is more opposite to, "No X are Y," than it is to, "Some X are not Y," even though, "All X are Y," is false if either of the other sentences is true. Using, "All X are Y," for Ruin, then Preservation is, "Some X are not Y," and Ambition is, "No X are Y/All X are not Y." QED ])

Honor is creation-by-binding, Cultivation is creation-by-"pruning" (I feel like that's a way to put it...) or gardening or something like that, Odium represents a motive of creation (to create people in order to predestine them to Hell [this is, roughly, the actual position of classical Calvinism, concerning the "reprobate"]), and so on.

So, the "trick" is to come up with a reason for 16 people to be wielding the corresponding spren-weapon, etc. That is, each had a different belief about the nature of the form of creation, so each used a different form of the spren-weapon (let's suppose Adonalsium existed as 16 different proto-Shardweapons at once, so to speak), and the Shattering went 16 ways thereby (if a different number of people, with a different number of concepts of creation, had held the Adonalsium-weapon, the Shattering would have been into that number of Shards).