Right, I meant o say Sliver not Splinter XD, thanks. Good to know that I'm not completely off base at least, since other people thought of his already. Well kinda the second one, most of the shards that exist now (Ruin for example) wouldn't be called Human anymore (at least from what I've seen), but after releasing their power whoever held it went back to being human or whatever race they belonged to (this is also kinda my theory as to why Brandon says Hoid is human). As for the "idea" part I don't really have a good answer for you, my best guess would be that maybe Adonalsium also represented an idea, kinda like the shards do, but of a complete/perfect being (though there probably some lore out there I haven't read that disproves this).Anyway, thanks for the replies everyone.