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    Adonalsium's Mandate

    in Cosmere Discussion

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    On 1/26/2018 at 7:41 PM, NotBurtReynolds said:

    So Brandon has RAFO'd the number of vessels for Adonalsium. Perhaps if what @hoiditthroughthegrapevine and @Firerust are saying is on the right track, perhaps this Shattering of this Adonalsium is merely the latest in an infinite number of vessels of Adonalsium , paralleling real world cosmology ideas that our universe is in a cycle of "Big Bangs" and "Big Crunches". That each Adonalsium goes and exists, building his Cosmere and striving to be the perfect form of whatever god would consider perfect. Adonalsium goes until something triggers his willful destruction..Say until his creations advance enough to be able to destroy him, or maybe until he cannot improve himself anymore so he must allow the Shattering because it's something like

    and that he gets to a point in godly evolution in which he has to Shatter in order to reform as a better Adonalsium. Perhaps its such that its actually impossible for Adonalsium to not reform. Either because of some inherent part of the power that makes up the Shards will eventually force the powers to manipulate themselves to reform, regardless of the what the individual Shard Vessels want..ie..Adonalsium must always exist, so eventually it will exist again. Or, the omnipotence and omniscience of Adonalsium is such that it would be impossible for the current Shardholders to escape his long term plan for the eventual reformation and Ascension of the next Vessel of Adonalsium.

    Or, even more interesting(to me anyway) would be if the reformation of Adonalsium and the continuation of the the cycle was not guaranteed. There is no inherent force or plan guiding the Shards back together, they have to fight. I remember Perrin Aybara telling me that metal cannot be shaped without blows from the hammer;) Perhaps every cycle is a new contest where the winner is a new, better Adonalsium and consequentially a better cosmere, and yet another tiny, infinite step towards a perfect cosmere.  A contest of whether the best aspects of god can overcome the worst. Or whether this will be the time that the worst of god reigns, after their destruction of the rest.

    The possibility that Adonalsium engineered his own shattering strongly reminds me of the plots of two different Graphic Novels. Both of these have to do with an unchangeable being trying to experience something new.

    Heavy spoilers for the overarching plot of The Sandman (by Neil Gaiman)

    Spoiler

    In The Sandman the main character Dream is the anthropomorphic personification of dreams, who has dominion over sleep and nightmares. At the start of the series he is rather haughty and often cruel. Because of a number of experiences he has, this eventually starts to soften, but the challenge of changing old ways is an enormous one for a eternal being who has been set in his ways for billions of years. Eventually, he engineers his own death, because his eventual rebirth offers the opportunity to more fully alter his own personality.

    Heavy spoilers for the overarching plot of Lucifer (by Mike Carey)

    Spoiler

    In Lucifer, we see Lucifer having an extended conflict with God, which eventually leads to an assault on Heaven. We eventually learn that everything starting from the creation of the Earth up to the rebellion and the eventual assault on Heaven by Lucifer, was all foreseen and engineered by an all-knowing God. The purpose of this was to create a single point in time and space in which even God would not know what Lucifer would say and do. All this so God could experience uncertainty and surprise for the first time.

    Adonalsium's shattering being a variation on this theme would be really cool imho.

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