LiquidBlue Posted December 16, 2020 Posted December 16, 2020 Given that the mural shows something be broken into 4 pieces with each piece being further divided into 4. I wonder if that is how the shattering occurred. Adonalsium was first broken into 4 pieces (mesoshards), and then those 4 pieces were further broken into 4 more pieces (shards). This would have the implication that each of the 16 shards can be associated with 2 dawnshards, the dawnshard that broke off the piece of adonalsium to form a mesoshard, and the dawnshard that broke off the piece of the mesoshard to form the shard.. This might be a useful avenue to explore the identity of the shards and the identity of the dawnshards. So what about Unity. There has been some theorizing about who Unity is. What if Unity was one of the 4 mesoshards that was then broken into the existing shards. It could be that the shattering took place in stages. That Unity was taken up, and then killed. There are even some rather obvious shards that might derived from the Unity mesoshard: Dominion, Devotion, and Honor. I'm not sure what the fourth shard would be. I do find it interesting that Odium has shattered these particular shards. For whatever reason Odium would take particular action against the Unity shards, it must be quite a shock to see Dalinar seemingly pulling it back together. 1
mathiau he/him Posted January 3, 2021 Posted January 3, 2021 My interpretation is the Dawnshard used themself to be one, probably "Be" or "Exists", Adonalsium used it to make the equivalent of a Big-Bang and then separated them and used them to shape the universe, a bit like the fundamental forces did in our universe. The 4-4 division would then mean that each shard is an aspect of a dawnshard, and Unity would be one of them. Dominion, Devotion, and Honor would definitely be three of Unity's aspect, the fourth could be the Shard In Hiding Ruin, Cultivation and maybe Endowment would be aspects of Change
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