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Yo, been reading the forums for a while now and am new to posting. Had a few crackpot ideas I wanted to shoot out there about the Aethers and Adonalsium. Could they and their planet have been Adonalsium's first experiment creating planets and magic that he left for Yolen? If the mythology about them is right and they predate Adonalsium, could they have created him or something? Could Adonalsium be an Aether? Idk, this is all in the dark wild speculation, what do y'all think?

I have come to believe that Adonalism was somehow convinced to kill himself. We know that the Dawnshards we used to unto/kill Adonalism and we also know that the use of the Dawnshards in such a way would require "the breath of understanding of a diety" Certain things are strongly implied: The larger in scope the deed you try to do with a Dawnshard the greater the breath of understanding needed the bring the proper intent. The undoing of Adonalism required all four Dawnshards. I also believe that while the Dawnshards were held by Adonalism there were together as a part of him. He would have been the only one powerful even to use it. While he held it, it was one thing which we can call the Dawn Adonalism was put in a situation where he had to use the Dawn (combined dawnshards) to pull the dawnshards apart Doing so killed Adonalism splitting his power and expending the power of the dawn

So I was looking through the most recent Ars Arcanum and I started to think on the Essence, Focus and Soulcasting. Something stood out to me that I had been thinking for a long while but this chart provides a better base to work from. I theorize that each Shard has their own focus to which they manifest powers. Some have similar traits to the others but one distinct Focus. For example it is plain to see that Preservation prefers metal you burn metal to activate, you store in metal to hold and each power is stolen through a Metal Spikes. But where does that put Ruin. Ruin has Blood as his focus. It is stated that a blood is needed in Hemalurgy as well as most of the spike need to touch the heart. More than that Ruin and preservation work together provides a reason why all of Preservations powers are past down hereditarily. Next is Sel I believe Skai/ Dominions Focus is Bone that is why the Dakhor monks have their symbols pressed directly on their bones. Also the only power that seems to have nothing to do with the Dor is Bloodsealing. They hunt the adversary down with skeletal warriors/beast. Why not shadow, spirits, or even creatures made of blood? Also Dominion seems to restrict people gain power based on the geological position which match with the Rock/Tallus aspect of the focus Aona/ Devotion is a little hard to place I am thinking maybe soul/ spark/ fire as their power is to draw symbols in light and they seemed to gain their great power from Elantris which is in the shape of Roa which means Spirit/ Essence. I believe that Cultivation and Endowment are inverses of the other. At this time I think Endowment is exhalation to breathe out and grant power. Cultivation then is Inhalation breathing in Stormlight to grant the user power. I think Honor would have Luentia(light)/ eyes/ Quartz as his focus. Light being Storm light Eyes being how one is recognized as his chosen and Quartz in the way the Shardblades look. Not real sure on that but It seems to fit Last and most important is Odium. I believe Odium’s focus is the body and flesh for a multitude of reasons. First the Parshendi are the close thing we have to people of Odium and they have the ability to change their form, mostly their flesh. We have seen that the change can be forced on the parshmen which also shows odium and his ability to control the flesh. I believe he has influences else were such as in the bestial look in the Dakhor after he managed to shatter dominion and devotion. So that is me theory I guess I didn't really have any spoilers in there but I wanted to put that just in case. So someone please comment tell me if you think it is interesting, I missed something, I’m way off, if you have something to add to, or change about what I said.