TheEmperor95

Hello all I'm new here. Read most of the cosmere works and had a theory about an arms race between shards for lack of better words. Not sure if this has already been made but below is my theory In rhythm of war we see navani essentially strip investiture of it's intent to make anti light. Now my theory is that shards either will (or definitely should) use this same method to absorb shards in the future to avoid the issue with dual intents. For example while rayse was still odium after he splintered ambition he could've taken those splinters and unkeyed them and then absorbed them into odium. After which they would just become odium. This would add more power to the shard and not dilute it's intent. As anti light becomes more well known/used in the coming eras i feel like a single shard (such as autonomy) will use this method to get more power to compete with retribution and harmony/discord Anyone got any thoughts on this?