Ripheus23 Posted August 29, 2018 Posted August 29, 2018 I believe there's a WoB about Splintering being similar to the Shattering. Given the role (whatever it is) of fractals in the Cosmere, if you Splintered a Shard into 16 equal pieces, could you "reenact" the Shattering, as it were? What I mean is: supposing that the Shattering had side-effects over and above those that accompany regular Splintering (at least by analogy with the difference between a nova and a supernova, or a black hole and a supermassive blackhole?), would those special side-effects take place during the, uh, Splattering? And if so, would there be a significant qualitative difference between self-aware Splinters of regular Splinterings, versus those of the Splattering? (This question involves a quasi-theory of Autonomic Avatars Namely, that they are extremely special Splinters. Of course all manner of Splinters might be supposed unique and special and whatever, but here the assumption is that there is a meta-level difference between a Shard having x = ~16, and a Shard having x = exactly 16, Splinters.)
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