alder24 Posted May 31, 2023 Posted May 31, 2023 15 hours ago, IlstrawberrySeed said: Are we sure Hoid didn't have all 4 dawnshards at the time of the shattering? Even if it was just a dump from those picking up shards who didn't want to accidentally use them? Yes, he had one Dawnshard. All the evidence points to it. Is it even possible to hold all 4 Dawnshards at the same time? You became a Dawnshard, can you be all 4 different things at once? Spoiler Brandon Sanderson Hoid was a Dawnshard at some point in the deep past, and the reason he (even still) cannot physically harm people, or even eat meat, is related to the changes this made to his spirit. (Consider this the same fundamental principle as savanthood.) The few of you who have read Dragonsteel know that him being a Dawnshard was also the source of his immortality in that book, though the terms were different back then. (The word Dawnshard was never mentioned, for example--though the primary story of Dragonsteel (which is no longer canon) was about several people who unwittingly become Dawnshards.) And a preemptive RAFO to all questions on this point. Dawnshard Annotations (Nov. 6, 2020) Spoiler /u/ph4mp573r [Hoid] was beheaded in Dragonsteel Prime and the Dawnshard is what regrew his head. He makes a crack about always thinking his head would have grown a new body, not vice versa, as he stares at his own severed head. /u/sambadaemon Slightly related: If the Dawnshard let Hoid regrow his entire head, will it eventually give Rysn back the use of her legs? Peter Ahlstrom The different dawnshards have different powers. Information subject to change when it appears in canon. General Reddit 2022 (Dec. 2, 2022)
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