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So Dusk realizes that no one can really "go it alone" at the end of the book. He not only needs a purpose, but admits, "I should like... I think... to not travel alone any longer." This growth in him seems quite the opposite to the mindset that Autonomy relishes in her avatars and followers in the works previous to this. Add the weird comment about Drominad being an old dominion of hers, I can't help but think that she's also joined with other shards. Wouldn't Autonomy be the very thing that would balance Discord back into Harmony and keep it there?

Sorry if this has been asked before, the search function doesn't seem to like me. But is it possible that 3 of the sentient Unmade are actually corrupter splinters of the shards that Odium killed? Here's my thinking with little time to research of type (I'm a teacher, it's lunch) Maybe Oduim underestimated the power of the Shards to grow and regain control. Mishram - Corrupted piece of Devotion. Really THINK about her actions healing humans and Singer alike in the past, and the way she paused when she saw the boys holding hands. She's absolutely be the first splinter to regain some intent. Sja-Anat - Dominion. I mean, it fit for what she's doing. Re-Shephir - Ambition. Since Ambition was damaged and a "chunk" was ripped away before she finally died (I believe the Mercy killing) did Odium get a piece, corrupt it and make the less cognizant Unmade with this?

BS hints that Ambition's shard may be picked up https://wob.coppermind.net/events/361/#e10989 ... and states that the Evil wasn't evil before The Clash (terrible band, BTW) and the Clash severly corrupted it ( I didn't know this until just now) So The Evil "being" what's left of Ambition is still kinda on the table. Ambition, knowing that she needed a vessel chose what it could, and chose a vessel that doesn't have the cognitive power to "control" a shard, but rather to just keep going. What if this thing that is currently The Evil did something weird when people died, like created spren-like beings or seo-like beings and the corruption now turns them into shades? We're gonna find out in SP5, but BS has been pretty coy about Ambition and has in a very BS was avoided actually saying that she's splintered in the same way that D&D are.

So when a vessel has a shard, they are merged. If Odium broke a large portion of Ambition off, is it possible that both physical and spiritual broke together? Cognitive shadow? Sure, but with the added piece of Uli Da's heavily invested physical vessel also being a part of the equation. And we don't know what the rules of consciousness are for shard investiture that's unwillingly broken off. A literal piece of a god left behind to fend for itself is a spren. A big piece of a god that's sole thought is ambition may behave differently. I also bring up the Shades acting weird because they're automatic. They have this ambition to just keep living, but are stuck in this loop and are super aggressive toward violence. I just don't think she's fully splintered like Devotion/Dominion. I can't help but think that the part of Ambition left on Threnody is still "kinda" Ambition. Never fully splintered, so normal rules really don't apply. Like a person being on life support, but that person is a god so they're self aware to an extent and pissed AF

I was thinking about this again last night and the counter argument. Since Ambition was the 1st Odium went after (I actually think she may have initiated the fight) that he didn't know exactly what he was doing. Maybe he learned from his mistake with Ambition and that's what lead him to trap the Dor in the Cognitive realm. Since a large chuck of her investiture was ripped off on Threnody and is now linked there, that that chunk maintains some conscious semblance of Ambition, or who she was. The emotion could have imprinted on the investiture and that may be the thing that has so badly marked the spirit realm and affected Threnody so. I mean, large amounts of investiture DO show a form of consciousness in other areas of the Cosmere, and this is a LARGE chunk. Plus, the Shades there have this weird consciousness that's unexplained. Maybe Uli Da isn't all the way dead, or her essence is in the planet and ambitiously hanging on. Maybe the problem with Threnody is that Odium didn't fully splinter her, Mercey thought she was doing a Mercy on the part of Ambition that ran, but no one ever went back to splinter the remaining "chuck" and that large part of Ambition maintained consciousness, is still linked to the rest of the splintered investiture (where ever the storm it is) and it's NOT happy! That's what The Evil is. It's Uli Da (or part of her both physically/spiritually) in this semi-aware, and SUPER angry form taking that anger out on Threnody because she can't leave...yet. I also sell high quality tinfoil hats on my website. So ...

Where did I miss Nightblood bearing Ruin's investiture?

I'm not so sure. The intent needed may line up directly with a goal. Often with humanity, intent can reproduce a result that was not ... intended. Or, maybe the Night Brigade does want to reform Ambition. Maybe they're working for another faction.

I've been obsessed with this feeling that splintered shards will be "reformed" at some point. I was always totally unsure which, Honor being the most obvious, but I'm thinking that Ambition may as well. The Night Brigade is searching for a specific Dawnshard to combat The Evil of Threnody, right. The very same one that disallowed Hoid to ever kill or even eat meat. What if that one and the one Rysn has (change) are somehow combined and the result isn't just the eradication of The Evil, but it actually pulls the splintered pieces of Ambition back together in a new vessel. The results could be that Ambition would go after Odium (who wins in book 5, lets be real) and Mercy for the whole, you know, killing it once way back when. Just sayin, BS has something up his sleeve in terms of Threnody. ... also, I think that Autonomy is somehow tapping Ambitions unused investiture (which is most likely like a gas cloud in space) which is why she's able to spread herself so far. If Ambition is reformed, I don't feel that they'd have a huge problem with that (I mean, it's ambitious of Autonomy to do so) but Autonomy would be kinda stormed.

I see a lot of people accepting the shard War comin into being. I've seen some guess that maybe Odium and Honor will create Justice instead. The more I think on it, the more I think that since Autonomy represents fascism, the "allied forces" would need a check for War to make sure that he doesn't just keep ... um ... war'ing. Would Harmony merging with War create Justice? I mean, wouldn't Wax be the perfect vessel for that?