voxtruth he/him Posted December 18, 2020 Posted December 18, 2020 Background Preservation & Ruin created the planet Scadrial together from scratch after the Shattering. Trell is a shard/or shard-like entity that is unknown to Harmony Trellium is the metal of a known shard: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/69-shadows-of-self-release-party/#e6261 Possible shard candidates (at time of WoB): Devotion, Dominion, Preservation, Ruin, Odium, Honor, Cultivation, Endowment, or Autonomy But not necessarily a shard: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/377-idaho-falls-signing/#e12232 Devotion and Dominion have spren-like cognitive splinters – seons and skai respectively Seons are ‘devoted’ servants to their masters Skai are described as ‘evil seons’ (https://wob.coppermind.net/events/247-ancient-17s-qa/#e5540) Avatars of Shards can be imbued with an intent and can operate after a shard’s vessel has died The Mist continued to snap people on Scadrial after Ati died Theory Preservation & Ruin pooled their Investiture and used a Dawnshard to create the planet Scadrial Ruin agreed to this use of Investiture on condition that he could destroy the planet eventually The Dawnshard that allowed for the planet’s creation is still on Scadrial and is currently being protected by Harmony A primary of Intent of Dominion shard is ‘to dominate’ The skai are evil counterparts to seons who are described as being helpful and obedient. The opposite of this could be 'dominating'. Trell is an avatar of Dominion Etymologically the word Trell is related to a Norse word meaning ‘slave or thrall’. This aspect fits as an aspect of Dominion that has an Intent to dominate Trellium is Dominion’s metal Trellium as a hemolurgic spike allowed for control over Paalm and the hemalurgic chimeras created by her. This fits with an Intent of domination. Harmony is unaware of what Trellium is and that it comes from Dominion because the Vessel of Dominion is dead. His knowledge of Shards and wider Realmatic Theory comes from self-study and from whatever the other Shard Vessels and people like Hoid tell him Trell's ultimate purpose is to get the Dawnshard on Scardrial Open Questions As an avatar of Dominion, Trell was able to move a large amount of Dominon’s Investiture off planet. Could this be connected to Kelsier (and by extension the Ghostbloods) goal to learn how to move large amounts of Investiture off planet? Could Odium’s decision to destroy Dominion (and Devotion) be influenced by what Dominion’s plans were? What (if any) is the connection to the man named Trell on Taldain? 3
POTUS24 Posted December 21, 2020 Posted December 21, 2020 There's a lot to unpack there. It makes a lot of sense on one hand from what you've laid out above. However there's also the theory of trell being autonomy based off of paalms actions with Wax. Could trell possibly have gathered both the shard of dominion and autonomy? What would that hybrid become? It seems like they're kind of opposite each other. But there's also the fact that worshipping trell on Scadrial is far from new. Sanderson has said that "trell has been many things over the eons" so I wouldn't be surprised if he started out as autonomy and was worshipped on Scadrial as such. Then at some point collected the shard of dominion and is back on Scadrial. The wiki says trell is in direct opposition to harmony so the two powers working against each other to create a new shard like discord would be against harmony I guess. As to the dawnshard question I don't know. There has been speculation about kelsier having it. But I don't really buy it kelsier didn't have the extra supernatural abilities from having a dawnshard I feel he would have but maybe becoming mistborn was enough. Either way he probably still would have it if he does. I wonder if maybe trell does have autonomy and dominion the powers fight enough to throw us all off pretty bad while trying to destroy harmony since he's the newest shard and could possibly be easy to destroy. I kinda doubt trell is connected to the man on taldain though unless that guy has a wild character arc It's an interesting idea maybe get some concise questions down and try to ask on new years...
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