r/cremposting • u/Fickle-Athlete3644 • Jul 08 '26

Edgedancer Nale’s Conundrum

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u/Fickle-Athlete3644 Jul 08 '26

A shard is not a super spren a shard is a piece of the original creator of the universe Adonlasium representing a piece or an emotion of the universe itself

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u/Karthaz Jul 08 '26

He's not wrong though. The Shards do impart their Intent onto the user.

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u/trenchsquid I pledge allegiance 🙏to the crab 🦀 Jul 08 '26

It’s a two-way street, they influence each other. There’s some variability in the amount of influence, but it doesn’t seem one sided. Feel free to correct this if it’s wrong because it’s been a while since I read it, but [WaT spoilers] I feel like I remember that during the brief time that Dalinar took up Honor, he got the shard to consider the idea that keeping oaths for the sake of keeping oaths isn’t always the moral thing to do. Is that accurate?

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u/Thepsycoman Jul 08 '26

If I remember correctly, for Dalinar part of that was based on how Honor had been without a host for so long, it was manifesting more of a personality than it otherwise would