Shardic and Dawnshardic Intent

[NeverTrustAesSedai He/Him]

In the past, it's been theorized that each Shard's Intent is a subset of a Dawnshard's, and that each Shard is associated with a Dawnshard. If that's the case, what do we know about which Shards go with which Dawnshards? Here's what I have.

Shards:

Devotion 

Dominion 

Ruin

Preservation

Odium

Cultivation

Honor

Endowment

Autonomy

Ambition

Invention

Mercy

Valor

Virtuosity

Whimsy 

Reason

Known Dawnshards:

Change

Exist

I'll do Change first, because it seems easier.

Change Shards:

Cultivation: This one is pretty low-hanging fruit. It's stated in the books that Cultivation only cares about growth, not what something grows into. Cultivation is the most obvious Change Shard that I can think of.

Ruin: Also a pretty intuitive one. Ruin's Intent is described as, effectively, entropy: reducing everything into its smallest units. Kind of the opposite of Cultivation, but still Change.

Autonomy: Autonomy drives her followers to be independent of each other and unique. The drive for novelty seems to me to be an indicator of Change. I'm not super certain on this one, though.

Invention: My last guess. Presumably, Invention's Intent is a drive to create new things out of simpler ones. Seems like it would make a good Change Shard.

On to Exist.

Exist Shards:

Preservation: This Shard places such a large emphasis on Preserving everything. That could be interpreted as a desire that those things continue to exist. Makes sense so far.

Reason: Reason is the Shard that - according to Brandon - always wants to hide and survive, preserving its own Existence.

Mercy: It's possible that having Mercy on someone could be construed as allowing them to continue to Exist. This is pretty much just conjecture, though.

I really don't have any clue as to what else might fit, so if you guys have any thoughts, they would be welcome!

On a similar note, what might the Intents of the other two Dawnshards be?

[Treamayne]

12 hours ago, NeverTrustAesSedai said:

If that's the case, what do we know about which Shards go with which Dawnshards?

Known and speculated data can be found in (page 1 search results):

• Dawnshard Theory and how to Categorize Shards
• Theory on the 4th Dawnshard
• Compiling Dawnshard Speculation
• Shard/Dawnshard Chart
• Dawnshard Rubric
• Fourth Dawnshard Name
• Dawnshard Categories
• Another Dawnshard Chart
• Dawnshard Intents
• Shards/Dawnshard Division
• Dawnshard Commands
• Dawnshard Theory

Hope that helps