Disfunctional shard combination

[Nitpicking]

17 hours ago, Treamayne said:

Scary, yes. Compatible, Partially. WoB:

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That said, Ruin would have been one of the 'safer' of the sixteen for Rayse to take, if he'd been about that. Odium is by its nature selfish, however, and the combination of it and Rayse makes for an entity that fears an additional power would destroy it and make it into something else.

I think Odium|Rayse are correct, for that matter. Absorbing Ruin would make them into something else, as we saw with both Harmony and Retribution. I think it would be Vengeance, for what that's worth (basically, nothing). Vengeance can be thought of as "destroying that which you hate."

Edited September 13, 2025 by Nitpicking

[+Oltux72 he/him]

On 8/28/2025 at 9:37 AM, JustQuestin2004 said:

Virtuosity is about art, virtuoso's, not about virtues.

What you really get is the Cosmere's biggest art critic.

Or sadistic torturer, turning suffering into a form of art.

On 8/24/2025 at 8:38 PM, NoToTheAm said:

Or (hear me out), Passion, but for real?

Devotion and Odium would form the Shard of Jealousy.

 

[Qianweilian He/him]

1 hour ago, Oltux72 said:

Or sadistic torturer, turning suffering into a form of art.

So if you add Whimsy, it's the Joker shard

[Xanpheon]

I think something that might be slightly dysfunctional  could be Valour and Odium. Not necessarily in the sense of "They wouldn't work together", but in the sense that blind hatred can give something similar to hatred. The result (possibly Zealotry?) would likely be near impossible to control. 

Invention and Preservation are also two that are quite inherently opposed. Invention is progress, and Preservation wants stasis.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

On 11/8/2025 at 5:12 AM, Qianweilian said:

So if you add Whimsy, it's the Joker shard

YESSSSSSS

I LOVE THAT

[ThroughTheLivingIlliterate He/Him]

On 8/19/2025 at 6:14 PM, king of nowhere said:

- odium + devotion: the shard of being really confused about one's feelings

Dang, I guess the girl that said she liked me must've taken up this shard at some point in our relationship.

Edited November 10, 2025 by IlliterateDragon