Knight of Iron

Your points are true, just re-looked at the recent WOBs. It’s confirmed that the “Heightening effects” are more due to the amount of Investiture rather than any tie to Endowment. However, this does further confirm that the Dawnshard itself is more than some kind of Command or Intent, and that Investiture itself must be part of its composition. I was only making the correlation because of a WOB where Brandon says that all Investiture is tied to one of the 16 Shards, and there is no Investiture that is not tied to any Shard. Whether or not that tie is relevant is a separate issue, I suppose, as as of yet we don’t see any more support for the theory other than the already-explained Heightening-like effects. In short, I do agree with you lol. Anyone else have any thoughts?

Nice theory! Do we know for 100% there are four though? I thought I saw Brandon say he left the mural intentionally vague. Now... I’ve been thinking more along the lines of their composition. It’s certainly more than just an amount of Investiture, but I do believe there is clearly Investiture as part of its composition, maybe some kind of super powerful Intent or something. I theorize the Investiture for each Dawnshard is associated with the Shards that fall under that category of Dawnshard. I think Endowment, then, must belong to this section of Change because Rysn manifests some of the quirks of Heightenings, which I guess you could say is “signature” of Endowment’s Investiture.

Because of the sacrificial Radiants, the bloodthirsty SanderFans went to the hill and tribal danced to screeching cries of cows being tipped.

OB Spoilers, I think. See if anyone gets it

Spoilers!

There were way too many Ascensions in that book with the whole Second Shattering and all.

*not sure if this is the right place for this* I'm working on a Minecraft language pack where I can edit literally any text in the game to literally anything else. I have just confirmed I am able to do this, and I'm going to set out to change a bunch of the Minecraft text to be cosmere-y. Parrots will be chickens, experience will be Investiture, zombies and/or skeletons could be Lifeless... and that's mostly all I have. I wanted to open this up to you guys on what would be cool to change in a cosmere language pack! I want to change many of the names in the game. I don't want it to feel like regular Minecraft with a few cosmere names thrown in. So I'll need a lot of ideas!

Because of the sacrificial hippos, the bloodthirsty cremlings went outside and tribal danced to screeching cries of being flipped.

I totally understand having to geek over the cosmere with people, I can't get my friends to read anything so that's why I joined. Welcome to the Shard!

Yes, I forgot about that. It was in an interlude, wasn't it? When they stuck him back together and Shattered him into 16 different pieces. But... why did Kaladin have to Ascend to Depression? Like, I thought it would get better in this book. But this seems like a step in the wrong direction...

Hello, and welcome to the 17th Shard! I, personally could not be more excited for Rhythm of War. Do you have any predictions for the book? And, of course, what is your favorite cosmere/non-cosmere character?

I've been swimming through an ocean of Words of Brandon on this and kind of answered my original question. I have found out that Brandon has said that Nightblood cannot Splinter a Shard, but he could damage a Shard. EDIT: *sigh* I found another one EDIT: And I found another one on whether Nightblood can actually weaken a Shard. Way to go, Brandon, for shutting my thread down lol.

YKYASF when you don't do this thing called sleeping on the night Rhythm of War comes out

Probably gonna have to wait until they are open, but then again, it is your book.

Shoot, my phone must have glitched out or something. I had trouble with that. I thought I had put spoilers, sorry !

I will say that I do not think he has bits of power from each Shard he has killed, as the nature of their Investiture combined with him would change his Intent, even slightly, and Odium more than anything does not want that to happen. This is why Odium's plan to be the most powerful Shard is to just splinter all the other Shards. As the only whole and complete Shard left, Odium would be the most powerful being in the cosmere. Brandon has said that he wouldn't attack another Shard unless he believed he had an edge over them, and since we don't know much about the actual Splintering process, we can't really place why Odium had an edge in the battles that he chose and why he always wins.

I love statistics, this is awesome. I wish I would’ve known about this lol.

Because of the hippos, the bloodthirsty cremlings went outside and tribal danced to some cries of being flipped.

Because of the hippos, the bloodthirsty children went outside and tribal danced to some cries of being killed.

Oh, I just thought you were a fish. I haven’t read Alcatraz.

Because of the hippos, the children went outside and danced to some cries of being slapped.

Hi hi, hi hi! Welcome to the 17th Shard!