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ahhh but were they Splinterated or just killed (and left to diffuse...blah)?

And also, the opposite direction, +zinc (or other 'minds) for Vulcan levels of awesomeness

fanatical devotion is like that.

math is AWESOME! <3

you know, its entirely possible that Sazed reworked humanity similar to what the Lord Ruler did when creating Skaa/Nobles.

Yeah its an excellent way of doing it, especially for those who aren't yet as popular as they could/will be. As my dad always says, free is always better. >.> And yeah, I held out until I got the hardcopy, still dont know how well I can cope with e-reading.

It could be that he's just not had much use for it, not been put in a situation where he needed it.

cooool

Any though that the distinction may be across the Realms? or the number of realms that they are connected to? Joe

That's a bug, I'm sure.

Sazed's notes (THoA's Epigraphs) state that the number 16 has significance in 'the structure of the universe' (paraphrased) which could mean his taking of 2 Shards a bad thing?

You forgot The Rithmatist which is sposed to be out this year I think

I looked at the Ars Acanum (sp?) in HoA and the symbols in the wheel include atium/lerasium/somethingelse and dont include a few of the 'normal' metals. ahh well.

I would expect that the Shardpool-filling is a cognitive effort on the part of the Shardholder. And if they wanted to be whole again, they'd have to relieve the humans of their connections/etc.

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An idea! (already implemented >.>) only books should be prepended with the word `The `. This is sensible since wikipedia discourages the use in titles, and most things dont need it. We could actually get rid of many of the ` (book)` pages, and move them back to without it. The only necessary one really is `Elantris (book)` since the city is there. Just a suggestion lol

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I meant, that the two shards he's holding will cause his personality to split into two chunks, each with the necessary 'qualities' befitting the resplit shardparts. Though I suspect it's more likely that the shards 'want' to be together, and might have more power when joined (as in like them needing to work together to create life).

Or maybe, eventually, Sazed will 'split' into two personalities, rinse, repeat. What you say about Odium is good though

http://twitter.com/#!/BrandSanderson/status/24946947630563328

A rather random musing all in all. We all know Hoid was 'at' the Shattering of Adonalsium into 16 Shards. I also assume that Sazed is the only 'person' to have held more than one Shard at a time. What I suggest is this: * Hoid was either a/the protector of Adonalsium * or Hoid was the destroyer/betrayer of Adonalsium, * and Sazed will be the one to bring all the shards back together. This is total speculation, but yeah Hoid is obviously being set up to be a rather important in the macro-story, and that Sazed is 'twice as powerful' as any of his counterparts now. I asked Brandon if Sazed was, say, as important as Hoid, his answer: Maybe I'm just reading too much into this stuff

That's a pretty epic theory, I like it lots