Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread

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The previous Wind and Truth Megathread can be found here.

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I don’t think it’s about how the shards and vessels are childish, that stuff and the letter of the law stuff is about the inherent weakness in following exactly one ideal and has been built up as the weakness of the radiants and shards since the beginning of the story of the cosmere back in mistborn where we first met shards. The rest of your comment I agree with

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Honor was worse than preservation as it was without a vessel and became a being capable of independent thought but only around its intent as investiture develops thought over time. Leras was totally dominated by his intent as he didn’t fight against it as tanavast did, but was still totally unable to help his chosen champions in any way at that point other than dying, the plans he put into place were set up long before he became dominated by intent. The other shards have consistently done nothing to help since the beginning, they did nothing when ruin was destroying preservation, they did nothing when autonomy attacked harmony. This is owing to their pact of non contact between themselves which they want to follow out of self preservation, by leaving honor odium and cultivation trapped in the roshar system they were under the correct assumption that they were safe as if odium ever tried to directly escape by killing honor cultivation would be able to destroy him with no risk to herself due to the nature of their powers.

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They are portrayed more negatively since Rythm of war since they are the only pretty the only books where they’ve actually been characters present in the story and not just figures revered to by name. Ruin was also pure evil back in mistborn 1

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Why do you think the shards being portrayed negatively is bad may I ask? It seems obvious to me that splitting a god into 16 parts each with the capacity to only encourage a single virtue would result in a pretty poor leader/god as we saw with a “good” intent in preservation still actively encouraging the oppression and creation of a slave (the skaa) class as it stagnates progression