Bendalloy Savant

His soul belongs to Navani y'all! The Stormfather was their officiant, and as Retribution took up the power of Honor, Taravangium had to honor that bond! I kind of convinced myself.

Hopping onto this revived thread with my thoughts. Meta-wise, I really don't think B$ would pull another similar shard moment with our SA shards. As I'm thinking towards the end of the cosmere, it would be really great to have a meeting of all the Shards (either virtually calling in to communicate with each other) or as a final showdown. It would be interesting to me if it's still a group of 16. Since we know one person can hold two shards, it got me thinking as my brain wanted to fill in the gap of a shard, what if we split a shard into two shards? What if Odium loses the challenge: His backup is to do whatever is necessary to break out of his bonds keeping him on Roshar. By committing self-splitting ("split-puku"? "Sui-split"? Name pending) he gets out of the technicalities limiting him by becoming Passion and Scorn. Now free of Roshar, but split apart, one of these semi-shards seek to reabsorb the other's Investiture, while the other attempts to flee. I seem to recall Brandon saying a splitting of a shard into two with different intents is possible but as of now it is unclear how it could happen. It would be a wild ending to Stormlight though. Either SA5 or 10.

Auxiliary had me tearing up at the end. Brandon always manages those emotion beats with me. I definitely like Sig a lot more than before but I also felt like we should have gotten more informationnon the past. It felt very deliberate that Brandon was tiptoeing around topics. I understand due to the setting he didn't want to spoil much for SA5 but it took me out of the book sometimes to think about the word choice and writing. I agree I think we were owed at least the command of the Dawnshard. As I was reading, I was thinking the planet would be revealed to be so small because the sun was like a laser burning layers of the crust away, making it smaller and smaller until there was no planet left. The mentions of lava and stuff made me think they were living close to the core of the original planet. I figured Nomad needed to figure out the magic and get them all offworld before that happened. But I liked what we ended up with anyways. I'm wondering if this planet will become more relevant in the space age future of the cosmere when the people can put a satellite around the planet to exist safely above the dangers of the Sun, and still harvest batteries. I think it's possible that the existing Canticlites may be preyed upon by other advanced Cosmerians to continue to be a source for energy if they are not able to get ahead of things. I wonder if other Threnodites could be expedited to Canticle and if killed, still produce a sun battery, I just think this could be another opportunity for nefarious breeding/harvesting/stockpiling like on Scadrial/Nalthis.