Saark

I know I’m late to the party but I just found the shard and I have what I think is an interesting idea. I’m at the point where Shallan just used the cube to talk to Mraaz the first time and I’ve noticed that Sanderson has been dropping a lot of comments about what each of her alters can’t do. This is different than discussing what they are good at as usual and I believe it is intentional. We know Radiant, Veil, and Shallan have distinct rolls but now we have been learning that Veil can’t use stormlight as well as the others, can’t draw like Shallan, and other things. He has spent a lot of time on the barge dropping in comments like that. Now Pattern says he sees someone else behind Shallan’s eyes sometimes. I think Formless is the undeveloped true Shallan slowly gaining strength as she deals with her issues and as one of the alters is forced by the others to do something one of the others has been made for like Veil forcing Shallan to find the spy while she talks her through it. So I thought it could be interesting if maybe as they begin to grow closer and share skills formless starts stealing skills and getting stronger. Like one day veil just has a moment where she can’t remember the name of a con she’s teaching Shallan so she moves on to something else or Radiant forgets a Kata she is walking veil through but really formless is stealing pieces of them as they overlap and is combining them back in to the real Shallan whole again. Shallan and the others would think they were losing their minds and live in fear of coming unraveled right up until the moment they become whole. Anyway just a random idea.