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Yeah, I'm really curious how this worked out, because prior to Roshar it seems like Rayse's main deal was travelling around and attacking other Shards, which sounds extremely consistent with its intent of being God's Divine Fury. Only after becoming invested in Roshar and developing a whole culture around worshipping himself does it seem like he started rebranding himself as being about Passion and the Void. This seems odd because it's the reverse of the process we've seen elsewhere, with the Vessel (seemingly) straying farther from the Intent of the Shard hundreds if not thousands of years after he took it up, rather than the Intent slowly consuming the Vessel and making their goals one and the same.

Yeah, I totally agree with this, the Sja-Anat interlude where that happens helps confirm it: Rayse cared too much about control and winning and loyalty, and while he talked the talk about passions, he was hypocritical about them and suppressed the passions of his subordinates. I don't know if Moash will still be a champion of Taravangian, but we see in him the totality of the passionless void thing that Rayse was pushing, which (to me) seems to be completely at odds with the "God's Divine Fury" intent of the Shard.

There is one still basically-unknown race of people with weird abilities related to Fortune unaccounted for, though. Though we've only heard about their bad luck so far, it wouldn't surprise me if there was some flipside of that at times. It's just Kaladin never actually sees the shopkeeper to tell us if he has blue skin or other things we'd associate with Siah Aimians.

My hot take is that, to get around the "willing" issue, he could simply do the reverse of the Baby Theory. We know Dalinar plans to stand as his own champion, and so could Taravangian, personally, no tricks, not using his powers as a Shard at all. He could try to force Dalinar to kill an old man who refused to physically fight him, a no-win situation that goes against Dalinar's oaths and all the principles he's been arguing about with Taravangian for multiple books.