Slaughter and Despair

[ArtemisDarchan]

I know this book is not canon, but we're the Fell Twins suppose to be Shards? Or were they Splinters of the Former?

Edited August 8, 2018 by ArtemisDarchan

[Weltall]

Brandon has said that there were Shards on Vaeria (on Page 2 in his introduction and here's a WoB too) and implies that the Twins were originally conceived as two Shards, but they don't entirely fit either our current understanding or what Brandon would work out later once he started seriously canonizing the Cosmere with Mistborn. Agaris in the prologue sounds like a Shard in terms of his power but he's got the Former and Decay above him in power, which doesn't fit Cosmere reality. Similarly, we know that in writing Mistborn, it was Decay who went on to become Ruin (so by extension the Former kinda inspired Preservation) which would bump the Twins down a level. Yet, the Twins are definitely on a level of power that we've only seen from Ascended individuals,

So in short, the answer is 'Yes, and no' xD