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and just wanted to update this since Peter was AMAZING and actually gave me a response (ON LAUNCH DAY no less!). Apparently they had some QC issues that went up to the last minute, so production for the physical media was delayed Still a bummer, but I'm floored that yesterday peter was hunting on all of the sanderson communities and helping people out.

FYI the Audio CDs are not out today, just the audible download My Audio CD pre order (quality is far superior to audible) isn't coming out until November 28th...

That kilt was wicked!! Didn't get to say hi, but I'm pretty sure EVERYONE noticed it

Thought I'd chime into this old discussion, because Sanderson revealed a little more today. from tor blog today: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/06/brandon-sanderson-answers-your-questions-about-the-way-of-kings

It makes me wonder, what is Adonalsium, that it could splinter into 16 "idea" fragments? Ruin, Preservation, Cultivation, Honor, Hate, all of them. What would they make if you added them together? I suspect in some form the 16 shards perhaps combined to form omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence. Everything. Adonalsium plainly put, just is. But if that were the case, then each of the 16 shards by association could also split, perhaps. And eventually we could break adonalsium into 200 million tiny fragments that represent every concept of being, finitely and specifically, also perhaps. Something of a stretch, I think, but it sounded plausible in my head when it occurred to me. I will start looking for a WoB and e-mail him if I can't find anything. Part of me is hoping there is no answer, because I am immensely fond of the mystery of not knowing yet, but my curiosity won't allow me to just let it lie and not at least look around first.

This might be a cosmere newb question, but have the shards on the wiki been confirmed to be original shards from Adonalsium? I ask for this question: is it possible one of the 16 shards is actually Harmony, and then it later split further into Ruin and Preservation? And in kind, could/would it be possible to splinter further? Someone stop me if I'm following flawed logic or canon please, but this realization dawned on me while driving to work this morning, and I can't stop wondering if I have been thinking about the shards all wrong.