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Petition to make this official please and your name as dedication in Brandon's next Wax and Wayne novel

wasn't the mist in mistborn a splintered form of preservation maybe?

Yes, but Adolnasium might be used to mislead. He might be something entirely more human like Ati, Leras, Aona, Tanavast, Rayse and Bavadin while the shard as whole is something similar to Ruin, Cultivation, Honor, etc.

Adonalsium is not every shard combined. Adonalsium was merely the person that held all the shards. When all shards are combined it becomes something else entirely. So maybe Adonalsium was the creator of the shards and maybe Adonalsium is still alive, just not holding his creation anymore.

Yes, because some shards might be opposite while some shards are complementary, like the pairs in metal which complement each other

I think that Brandon really loves creating logical patterns like the way every metal has its opposite and,in the same way, all shards (known and unknown) will complete each other in pairs So then you have (those bolded are the ones we know): Ruin / Preservation Odium / Affection or maybe Honor Honor / Trickery or maybe Odium Cultivation / Famine or maybe a Modern Consumerist Culture God Endowment / the God of DEPT Devotion / Apathy Dominion / Freedom And then we have 2 missing shards. OFF TOPIC THEORY: I think that if Brandon is the ultra writing machine that we think he is, then maybe once two shards are combined, they will also form other opposing or complementary shards (ex: Harmony formed out of Ruin and Preservation - complements Discord possibly being formed out of Honor and Odium) And maybe then they will keep on combining until we have one last conflict between 2 major shards. Let's say these will be The Sentinel and The Outsider (spiritual battle) OK, now what I believe to be one MAJOR in your face detail from Brandon is the fact that all shards have human emotions, traits or titles. If in the final battle, the last 2 major shards combine, I don't believe they will form Adonalsium because Adonalsium was just another human, THE HOLDER of the complete shards. The last 2 shards have to form the most complete human trait, title or emotion: THE ONE. The One is complete, combining all shards into one, in a very subjective and humane manner.... and you know, even The One has its one opposite... THE VOID!

I was wandering, if a character had both Allomancy and Feruchemy powers, could he fly by using an iron ring on one hand to store weight to becoming very light, and to use steel to push on that ring and fly in any direction he is pointing at?... That sound like a very cool method to fly through the Cosmere. And with delirium you can break the sonic barrier!!!!

This is just my second post on this forum but I've recently bought... EVERYTHING Brandon Sanderson has written (not a easy task where I live). Can you pin me on the map as well: Lugoj (hometown), Romania (country). Thank you

OR... what if Adonalsium was an egg and when it hatched, its shell exploded in 16 shards and the organization is led by the "17th shard", which is in fact the hatched dragon