Reforming of the Shards

[Newly Awakened]

Could all the Shards and Splinters be held by a single person to remake the being Adonulsium? Is it theoretically possible? And could you remake a Shard with all its different Splinters?

[alder24]

We don't know, that's a big RAFO from Brandon. But Sazed proved two Shards can be held together, and create a new Shard, so it's almost certain that one person can hold all 16 Shards. Would it bring Adonalsium back? We don't know. It Might create some other entity. 

And you likely don't need to fuse all Splinters (like sprens) to remake a Shard, they are a very small fraction of Shard's power. You need to worry about big chunks of Splintered Shard, like what have happened with Honor - e.g. Stormfather holds the biggest part of Splintered Honor. But we don't know it either. It's possible to bring Honor back, but how and what it would look like, we don't know.

[Treamayne]

9 minutes ago, Newly Awakened said:

Could all the Shards and Splinters be held by a single person to remake the being Adonulsium? Is it theoretically possible? And could you remake a Shard with all its different Splinters?

Here's what I can find on the subject:

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Questioner

I had a question regarding the sixteen Shards... If they are, or when they are reformed to Adonalsium, will it have to be one person holding all sixteen Shards?

Brandon Sanderson

That's a RAFO. I'm gonna RAFO that partially because there's not even-- who knows if it can all be recombined.

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Questioner

So, the first [question] is whether or not a Shard can be healed after it has been [Splintered]?

Brandon Sanderson

That is actually a RAFO. That's been asked before.

Footnote: Brandon has previously answered this, Splintering a Shard is not permanent.

Chaos

Is Splintering a Shard permanent?

Brandon Sanderson

No.

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Lhyonnaes (paraphrased)

So, at the end of Mistborn Era 1, Sazed takes up both [Preservation] and Ruin, Shards which are obviously fairly diametrically opposed. Secret History implies that Sazed is able to hold both of them at once because of (for lack of a better term) who he is, and therefore implies that other people might not be able to do the same. Is that true? What would happen if someone tried to take up multiple shards and didn't have those qualifications?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Sazed was uniquely able, yes. Usually there would be an imbalance favoring one shard, which would override or push out the other.

Lhyonnaes (paraphrased)

Like, physically expulse?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Right. Not necessarily, but yes.

 

So, even if a Splintered Shard could be reformed, it would require a compatible vessel. Likewise, even if all Shards could recombine to reform Adonalsium, it seems like it would require a vessel that is compatible with all 16 Shardic Intents.

[Treamayne]

5 minutes ago, alder24 said:

But Sazed proved two Shards can be held together, and create a new Shard

This is uncertain. . . WoB:

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Mason Wheeler (paraphrased)

And Shardholders [Vessels] tend to take the name of the Shard they hold. So you've got Sazed, who goes by "Harmony" now, after taking up Ruin and Preservation. That makes me wonder, does he hold two Shards... or one?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

You could really answer that either way. The distinction is a really subjective one, and you could say that he's holding both Shards, or that he holds one single Harmony.

I'm increasingly convinced that part of Harmony's problem is that he doesn't consider Preservation and Ruin to have "merged" into a single shard. He's so focused on Balancing the Two he never actually merged them into One.

[alder24]

6 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

I'm increasingly convinced that part of Harmony's problem is that he doesn't consider Preservation and Ruin to have "merged" into a single shard. He's so focused on Balancing the Two he never actually merged them into One.

I agree