nomonthegreat

 firstly I'm definitely a #teampassion member but a bit of a heretic to mainstream team values  

[disclaimer before the rant: I use shard names for convenience but totally agree that single word name or any word at all can encapsulate a divine attribute ]

 I think that  the shard is the shard of passion. and passion is all emotions. not just "negative" emotions like lust and the joy of triumph. however since the vessel is a hate-filled  person he perceives all emotions thru a lens of hate and this is just magnified to an exponential degree by the shard. when the shard was originally picked up by rayse it was a "neutral" mix of emotion. but when rayse's personality and perception of reality started to merge with the shard he started to perceive more and more the emotion hatred as the foundation to all other emotion. that in effect changed how the shard manifested itself leading in to a never ending cycle of hate until he was no longer passion but rather odium.  becoming selfish and cruel turning love into lust joy in sharing into joy in triumph and so on. rayse consciously or not chose to change from passion into odium . but the shard itself is essentially passion. all passions.  

 we see in other cases that the vessels mind and personality change, causing them to be incapable or unwilling to commit certain actions by slowly  getting "stuck in a rut" to the very end where their entirely unable to do things contrary to the intent of the shard. unlike the beginning where we see honor was able to break that oath/agreement and live with cultivation.

so if mother Teresa had picked up passion i think it would have become the shard of love.

also the stormfather is heavily biased and who can say (other than brandon) how much he really knows? after all he is a "new" sentience.

another idea of mine is that odiums hate is possibly the leftover emotion from Adonalsiums final moments 

 also if it is the shard of odium-hate  then is there a counter-shard love? and if so is there a diametric shard of logic and its counter of madness?

p.s the joy of victory-the thrill? 

this is such an awesome piece and it really just gets you thinking like, is hoid trying to restore his dead beloved (perhaps the vessle of adonalisym ) back to life? or a family member or father figure\mentor? and when he says the rules have changed is that in regards to the beyond and how death works and other fundamental laws of the universe (such as investiture and what is now magically possible ) or just the "politics" like what adonalisym would let fly and what oaths  (if any )hoid was bound to with adonalyism and such? and how old is this vendetta they all seemed to know each other on a personal level pre-shattering so who knows what they could have done to each other to reach the position of power there in now and how much of it continued to push events now?