Compiling All Of Our Dawnshard Speculation

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I’ve been going through Dawnshard speculation threads to try to get a better idea of what people are thinking and which theories are popular. There isn’t really a strong consensus when it comes to sorting the Shards into four categories, but there are a few general trends in terms of naming the two unknown Dawnshards.

The most common approach is to have one Dawnshard that relates to the ‘feelings’ Shards (usually including Odium and Devotion), and another Dawnshard that’s a bit harder to pin down but relates to exercising power in some way (usually associated with Dominion and Honor).

Some theorisers take a radically different approach, so I’ve included a third category in the poll (with multiple choice enabled) to represent those ideas.

I can’t include every synonym that has been suggested on the forums, but let me know in the comments if you think there’s a serious contender for a Dawnshard name I have overlooked. Also, feel free to sound off about which Shards should be grouped with which Dawnshards.

Credit to the posters whose topics and comments were helpful in creating this synthesis post (in no particular order): @Roscoe  @Ripheus23 @Dofurion @CMac716 @TheoreticalMagic  @adouloumis  @the_archduke  @i’m in the details  @Quantus @LordOfStorms