Anti-Dawnshard?

[Epicdaf]

As we've seen in Stormlight, anti-investiture does exist, so that got me thinking. Could someone or something create an Anti-Dawnshard?
What effects would it have with the world around it? What would be the implications to the Cosmere? 

 

Edited January 28 by Epicdaf

[Treamayne]

30 minutes ago, Epicdaf said:

As we've seen in Stormlight, anti-investiture does exist, so that got me thinking. Could someone or something create an Anti-Dawnshard?
What effects would it have with the world around it? What would be the implications to the Cosmere? 

 

This section is for discrete questions seeking answers, not theorizing (which belong in the Discussion forums). I'm not certain which your goal is, but the closest WoB we have on this is:

Spoiler

AAKS

Would anti-Stormlight be harmful to any of the Dawnshards?

Brandon Sanderson

Dawnshards would be more dangerous to the anti-Stormlight than the anti-Stormlight would be to the Dawnshards.

Dragonsteel Nexus 2024 (Dec. 5, 2024)

Considering we do not really know what a Dawnshard is, I do not think any meaningful conclusions can be reached regarding your question. We cannot even say for certain if a Dawnshard is composed of Investiture itself. We do not have that information; for all we know the heightening-like effect could be because it coalesces SR investiture to itself rather than being it's own large source of investiture. 

Hope that helps

[Immortal Platypus]

On 1/28/2026 at 5:12 AM, Epicdaf said:

As we've seen in Stormlight, anti-investiture does exist, so that got me thinking. Could someone or something create an Anti-Dawnshard?
What effects would it have with the world around it? What would be the implications to the Cosmere? 

 

My guess (which is unsubstantiated, but makes sense to me) is that an Anti-Dawnshard couldn't exist. Dawnshards are Commands (IIRC), and it doesn't make sense to me that an anti-Command could exist.