Were The Unmade... Made?

[Axies he/him]

Here's a weird(?) thought.  Suppose the Unmade are Splinters in the sense that Divine Breaths are (it's more or less a special power Invested directly by the Shard's holder).  However, since we're on Roshar, we know these Splinters generally take the form of spren.  In other words, a Listener host completely consumed by an overwhelming force (the spren-Splinter) to the point that the body is all but a vessel for the Splinter which is what is really acting.  So... possession, I guess is what that summarizes into?

 

Alternatively, the ones that "can think" are just sentient forms of Splinters, given thought and "life" by personification from men in the same way the Stormfather is.

Not weird. We are talking about theories after all... It makes sense. A Spren on a Listener's body could do more or could have more influence that just a spren floating around. This all makes me think about the creation of the Kandra.

 

@dvoraen I like your Idea! What you said have a sense to me. But what if the splinters in the Unmade are the diferent aspects of the intents of Odium ? Something like Seons ( the splinters are the Aons inside Seons )

It would make sense that any Unmade has an aspect of his/her own. A different intent:

 

 

Yelig-nar, called Blightwind, was one that could speak like a man, though often his voice was accompanied by the wails of those he consumed.

—Jasnah's notebook, Epigraph 45

 

 

Re-Shephir, the Midnight Mother, giving birth to abominations with her essence so dark, so terrible, so consuming. She is here! She watches me die!

—Death vision, Epigraph 58

 

 

Let me no longer hurt! Let me no longer weep! Dai-gonarthis! The Black Fisher holds my sorrow and consumes it!

—Death vision, Epigraph 67

It's clear (to me) that every Unmade (or possible Unmade, they are not confirmed yet except from Yelig-nar(?)) has a clear intent. Having in common that all of them "consume" something souls? identity? life? (sorrow in the case of Dai-Gonarthis).

[Marns she/her]

Every Unmade has his own intent, true. But the way I see it these intents are aspects of the Odium's intent. Hate can manifest in diferent forms like fear, sorrow, love this is why hate is one of the strongest feelings. Anyway I recognize that this theory is a little weak. 

Edited March 26, 2015 by Marns

[Awesomness]

I´ve always interpreted "unmade" as something like non-created. That would be, in spanish, something like increados. obviously that word does´t exist, but it may work...

[Marns she/her]

Maybe in the line of "increados" could be Inmoldeados, desconstructos? Sounds awful -.- 

[Axies he/him]

Maybe in the line of "increados" could be Inmoldeados, desconstructos? Sounds awful -.- 

Everything sounds awful when you are trying to force a word into the reality. There's this magic in english when you can take two words and make a new one out of the blue and it sounds cool (most of the time), but in spanish... yep, we have to work with what we have.

Increados

Nocreados

Sinhacer

Nohechos

¿Incompletos? (it would mean they are not fully made)

If we work on the line of "Unmakers" instead of "Unmades"

Destructores

Corruptores

[Marns she/her]

I think that Sinhacer or Incompletos are the best options and sounds relatively good. But the problem with incompletos is the meaning which is not completely correct.

Edited March 27, 2015 by Marns

[Emerald101 he/him]

To be clear, the Unmade are confirmed to be splinters of Odium:

 

Source

 

WeiryWriter (Reddit):

 

Are the Unmade Splinters of Odium?

 

Brandon:

 

Yes. Good guess.

 

[Axies he/him]

To be clear, the Unmade are confirmed to be splinters of Odium:

 

Source

Yep, we had that part clear, but thank you for the Source.

What we were talking now was if they, as Splinters of Odium were some kind of raw power (not-made into anything so "Unmade") that could use the Listeners as "vessels" in some kind of "possession"-like thingy (like the red spren form changing) to intrude into the physical world and do Odium's will.