Taurus II

Ooooh, this really frustrates me; I had independently developed a somewhat similar theory, except I felt that the four Dawnshards were enough by themselves to get us to 16 Shards – Adonalsium divided into four, and then each piece divided into four again, as shown in the mural under Aimia. My original scheme was this: With a nice neat theory that the Shards forming the central diagonal (Ruin, Odium, Preservation, and Dominion) tended toward villainy because, to paraphrase what Frost said in his letter to Hoid, they lacked the context of Adonalsium's virtues. Odium was Passion without Honor, Mercy, or Devotion; Ruin wanted change for its own sake rather than caring about the result like Cultivation or Invention, and Preservation was content to let Rashek reign in tyranny for at least a thousand years because he found the predictability of it soothing. However, those WoBs linked in the OP have convinced me, begrudgingly, that Ruin must be in some way related to Passion, even though it spoils the symmetry I thought I had discovered. So my current chart is this: