Jensen

I like this theory, as the Shards are meant to symbolize some kind of divine (or unifying) attribute as well as mundane human types. Searching around I found this mandala painted by Jung that seems kind of familiar? (source: Carl Jung - Mandala) This lines up with a picture I made four years ago when it was revealed that the Cosmere logo and the Dawnshard mural follows the same fundamental principles. This division sort of reminds me of your archetype chart, with four more central Shards surrounded by 12 external Shards, three for each central one.

In the middle of reading the book! But, finally we have a name for the last shard and for some bragging rights I guessed it two years back in this thread: https://www.17thshard.com/forums/topic/106737-do-we-finaly-have-an-answer/#comment-1330969

He's saying there is a Shard with a similar intent as Wisdom (we can call it XX) and that XX has realized that survival might not be the most desirable. So unless XX is one of the already named Shards, XX is the survival Shard. I know you have proposed that Invention is the survival Shard, but I fail to see how matches its intent. Though maybe in its "inventivness" in its method of hiding to survive.

I agree, I've been mulling over this and one I kinda like is "Reason" as it pertains to both logic and existential questions, as wells as functions as sort of pair with Whimsy (or something akin to intuitive knowledge or randomness). Reason also fits with the "survival" focus of the shard; it has formerly drawn the conclusion (reasoned) that the best course of action is to hide, but realised that it now may not be the wisest thing.

Adding a comment, Was it not said earlier that the discovery would be cool, but isolated as well as telling us something about Roshar's past. Well I'm thinking that the animation at Wikipedia shows us how the continent has been built up by crem deposits throughout the millenia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Julia_set_3d_slice_animation.ogg

Ok, first time poster, long time lurker. Going to wikipedia searching for the Julia set and using the same animation that Veil used I was able to produce this. Mystery solved right?