berylliosis

I had a semi-silly idea for an implementation of copyright in the cosmere. Essentially, you hold the copyright of a work until people other than you have more Connection to that work (well, probably some more specific threshold that depends on the actual frequency of Connection). Then, it enters the public domain, to be used for anything the fans want. The natural issue with this is Bondsmithing and other connection manipulation powers, which... doesn't really have a solution, unless there's some way to detect it. But were it not for those (say, on a planet without access to any such powers in the pre-space Cosmere), I think that would actually be a rather good way to measure whether an idea should belong to someone. Better than what we have now, anyways. Interested in what you guys think of this as a metric

Well well well! I finally decide to make an account to post a theory, and there's already a forum thread discussing the same kind of ideas My categorization includes both internal/external and push/pull relationships; not sure if that makes it more valid or less valid. Mind, all the dawnshard names are applied and come up with after grouping by internal/external push/pull. I'm not very confident on which shard would be push and which shard would be pull; I do have them sorted in a way that makes sense to me here, but they could fairly easily be swapped. Also - I retroactively realized that internal/external are much more like abstract and concrete - the shards I categorized as internal represent an abstract idea, and the shards that I have as external represent some concretion of that idea. Without further ado, here they are (abstract on top, pull on the left): Odium <-> Wisdom Ambition <-> Invention Dawnshard: "Experience"? "Understand"? Mercy? <-> Honor Unknown <-> Valor Dawnshard: "Moralize"? Similar to "Virtue" as above Autonomy <-> Cultivation Whimsy? <-> Endowment Dawnshard: Change Preservation <-> Ruin Devotion <-> Dominion Dawnshard: "Control"? Things I really like there: Odium <-> Wisdom mirrors Taravangian Cultivation/Endowment being abstraction/concretion or internal/external Honor/Valor in the same relationship More generally, the Intent of all shards that are in abstract-concrete happens to really line up well - if you wanted to hold two shards without changing your Intent too much, those vertical connections are pretty good bets. Also, while the four dawnshards I propose aren't integral to the cosmere like Survive and Unify, they are reasonable commands for existence and deity that creates life - I especially like "Experience/Understand", because it reminds me of the One. Things I dislike: Ruin and Dominion don't line up Intent-wise despite their relationship on the chart Whimsy and Mercy's placements are weird, there might be some swapping worth doing with those, autonomy, and the unknown shard Whimsy doesn't fit Change that much (although I think Autonomy does, as it essentially means allowing things to change on their own) Thoughts on this?