Could Adonalsium reform?

[+Invocation]

Since Sazed has both Ruin and Preservation, would that make him able to host all the other Shards as well, through the connection between Shards? Would he potentially be able to become Adonalsium?

[Calderis he/him]

Theoretically yes. 

Ruin and Preservation are slowly merging into a single Shard. If you could get sell of the Shards whole and held by a single Vessel, they should merge similarly. 

The main issue in practice here is the Shards are held by others or splintered. 

[Weltall]

Yep. Splintering is a process that can be reversed and in theory all sixteen Shards could be held by a single Vessel since we have Harmony as an example of it happening once and Brandon has mentioned that Rayse could pick up other Shards but has chosen not to because he fears this would change his personality. However, he's also mentioned that whether Adonalsium could be reformed is a subject of debate in-universe with some believing it to be impossible. And even if you could get all sixteen Shards reformed and in a position where one individual could take up all of them, what you got from that would not necesssarily be Adonalsium reborn and it definitely wouldn't be the same entity, as whatever consciousness Adonalsium had before the Shattering is gone.

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harsh20483

Would I be right in thinking that if someone were to be able to collect all the shards, would that person become something similar to whatever Adolansium was?

Brandon Sanderson

Not necessarily. The Dor as an example is illustrative.

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Edited March 4, 2018 by Weltall