AIAndy

All future sight in the Cosmere seems to get disturbed when more than one uses it and acts on it. That must have been quite a problem for the Truthwatchers, an entire Order of people with future sight. I guess that is why they turned to secrecy. Interact as little as possible and that includes speaking and your visions might stay calm. Maybe some small deliberate actions that cause managable ripples but otherwise leave the pond of the future undisturbed. As long as they agreed on that, they are at least somewhat able to talk to each other.

Possible, I just think that the part of the splintered mind of Adonalsium you are connected to is what gives you powers and when combined then resonance.

I think the Resonance for Surgebinders is between the associated Divine Attributes, not between the surges. That fits better with the Windrunner Resonance of "Protective + Leading -> More Squires" and the Lightweaver Resonance of "Creative + Honest -> Mnemonic Device".

Stormseat, which is the city that was at the center of the Shattered Plains, was the capital of Natanatan, which is a Silver Kingdom. The Silver Kingdoms are associated with the Heraldic Epochs, the time before Aharietiam. Stormseat is also believed to have been destroyed during Aharietiam. So one guess for the time of the shattering is the Last Desolation which was a long time before the Recreance.

I did not properly quote it, but my post was in reply to the post above mine with the speculation that it might have been TLR who created them after all and Kelsier only found them. While you are probably right that some kind of mutation was required, just look at koloss to see what hemalurgy can do to appearance. Spiking humans in the right way with the BoM might well damage their spiritweb enough to turn them into goo monsters.

Could the BoM be the artifacts that TLR used to remove the Feruchemical abilities from the First Generation of Kandra? Rip them out of the spirit web with the BoM spear used as a hemalurgical spike. The complicated way the artifact is built might have been a necessity to take the power with hemalurgy without killing them.

I think it is clear from WoBs that Brandon has nuclear reactions in mind in regards to Shards. Hard to split, hard to merge and the resulting Intent is more than the sum of its parts. My guess is that the Divine Attributes are examples of the parts that make up a Shard's Intent when combined, in this case for Honor and Cultivation.

Thank you. That confirms that his intention is to be the only shard, but the question remains why. I consider it unlikely that he wants to spread the power to the people, but he might want to remove all gods to avoid any such power. So he picked the shard most suited to that plan. Eventually he wants to be the only god, hated by all for interfering whenever someone assembles too much investiture (but staying in the background otherwise).

While this might be the case, that WoB is not the exact words so there might be some misunderstanding. Even if it is exact, it does not say why he wants to be the only shard. Is the motivation maximum splintering for whatever perceived greater good or is the motivation to dominate everything and play games with mortals afterwards (which imo sounds quite cliche).

The WoBs mainly say that he targets shards or vessels that would oppose him. So what is the plan he has that they would oppose? If that plan is maximum splintering to make sure Adonalsium is never reformed, then it is clear that he is evil from Hoid's point of view (who many suspect is working on reforming Adonalsium). But seen from someone who thinks concentrated power is dangerous, he might be considered as working for the greater good. The shards he previously targetted would fit to that at least. Ambition sounds like a shard that might really try to conquer other shards and then two shards who already intermingled on the same planet which both had a kind of Unity as theme (one by conquering/dominating, the other by love/devotion).

I think Moash was the right one to kill Jezrien because he had become similar enough to his current state to form the connection needed to kill him. The Honorblade would have been counterproductive to that. They needed someone who had lost the will to lead and to protect but previously had it (and if the third attribute theory is correct, then the same also for something like rage).

Maybe the large one contained nearly an entire Divine Attribute of a shard, so a tenth of the investiture. Ripping it out of the shard might have caused the cataclysm on Ashyn then. It might have been part of Odium's plan to get rid of his Compassion, becoming Hatred instead of Passion.

That does indeed point at the Stormfather being that old and not only the Highstorms. Merging and resplitting would be a reason for a personality change but I wonder what that would do to the Highstorm. Yes, definitely earlier than that but it might have been considerably earlier as in during the last desolation.

The highstorms are that old, but are we sure that the Stormfather is? It is quite a large spren and I wonder if the investiture levels were high enough at that point. Indeed, at the end of the Last Desolation, that one at least has a definite time. Correct, it must have been in the time of the Desolations. Yes, definitely older than the Recreance. What is that time based on? I thought the Silver Kingdoms were supposed to have been in the Heraldic Epochs which ended with the Last Desolation? There is a WoB that talks about different investiture types interfering with each other and that he considered a certain large merge to be like a nuclear reaction that only works when there are very large investiture levels around. And I'd say that means there is a lot of energy in that that would be freed if you reverse it.

One more thing I want to add to the initial theory. There is a lot of energy in that kind of bonding of different investiture types, so breaking them is likely to cause something like a large explosion. As one Dawnshard is supposed to be different, it might have been considerably larger. When the bond between the Herald (probably Ishar) and that was broken, the explosion might have been big enough to rip the merged investiture apart, raising the explosion to nuclear level. That would explain why the Bondsmith Unmade is missing and why the Shattered Plains are what they are now. It might also have been the birth of the Stormfather, Nightwatcher and the Sibling (I guess they are Siblings then).