wind and truth [Spoiler] Short Honor Speculation

[Shadow of Electrum he/him]

Something I've considered since wind and truth released. I don't follow the community that closely, so I didn't know what to call the part of honor that started becoming sentient at the end of WaT. In my head I've been calling them Honor Kid but that isn't exactly a standardized term. This topic is mainly about them.

So it's obvious that Honor Kid is going to have some sort of conflict with Taravangian. I don't know what the community's take on this is, but my original take was that Honor was going to eventually become so unaligned with Taravangian that it splits off and then starts living on its own. However, I started considering the sentient part of Honor as a vessel. What if this awakened shard could then begin to collect other shards? What if the awakened shard of Honor, having watched the mistakes of the shards and gods pasts, became a new Adonalsium? I think it's a very exciting prospect. Taravangian was already "reared" to godhood unlike the other vessels, but what if the best way to prepare a vessel is to create one from the power itself?

We don't have a lot on how splinters handle being shards. Ruin implied that splinters, or at least cognitive shadows, don't have as much connection to all 3 realms, making them poor picks. This seems somewhat supported by Kelsier's struggle to control preservation, but I think that could also be attributed to the connection trick he used to pick it up in the first place. He was inherently misaligned with preservation so his control over it would be weaker like we've seen on Roshar with both Honor and Odium. In any case, I'm not sure if Honor Kid counts more as a splinter or as something entirely different, but it seems like important things to keep in mind.

I think this conflict between Honor and Taravangian could be why people off planet have a habit of referring to Retribution as Odium. I would bring up the WoB but I can never remember how to do that. In any case, if Retribution is actively trying to split, with Honor being the cause, it makes sense to me that most people would ascribe Taravangian's actions to Odium more than Retribution or Honor.

That's all I have left to say for now.