Crvz

While I like the connection you made, my memory was that Vasher killed Shashara because she was going to reveal the method used to create Nightblood. If there could be more than 1 awakened sword with the power of Nightblood, as implied by Vasher’s drastic action, then that undermines your theory.

Double post

This caught my attention. It implies there were a total of 17 co-conspirators. If accurate, that sets up a lot of interesting questions (did they all know they would create only 16 shards, if so what was Hoid’s long game, etc). I suspect there are others players and I should t read too much into that quote, but it seemed oddly specific.