Aspects
I just finished WaT, so this may be old news for many of you, but regarding the aspects of Adonalsium...
Perhaps four would work. The number of Adonalsium’s four aspects.
Are we to interpret the following as saying "Trickster" is one of the four Aspects?
Baon closed the envelope. “It has only his signature. And a crude depiction of male genitalia.”
“From the Trickster Aspect,” Mother said. “He was here too, last year.”
“Of course he was,” Demoux repeated, then sighed. “I’m ready to get off this rusting planet. What about you two?”
“Yes, please,” Galladon said. “One of the eldest beings in the cosmere … and he has the mental age of a thirteen-year-old.”
“If this man ever returns,” Baon said, “keep your distance. He isn’t terribly dangerous, but whenever he’s spotted, innocents get hurt.”
That was only natural. He was the Trickster Aspect, spun out of the One to create chaos. They had hundreds of legends about him, but you couldn’t insult him by not serving him tea.
And of course there are 4 Dawnshards...
Nikli laughed. “Mere words cannot explain. The Dawnshards are Commands, Rysn. The will of a god.”
“I feel what you say is right, but . . . I had always imagined the Dawnshards as weapons, like the mythical Honorblades.” To be honest, she’d rarely heard the term “Dawnshard,” but she was pretty sure she’d always conflated them with Honorblades.
“The most powerful forms of Surgebinding transcend traditional mortal understanding,” Nikli said. His body began to re-form, hordelings crawling back into place. “All their greatest applications require Intent and a Command. Demands on a level no person could ever manage alone. To make such Commands, one must have the reasoning—the breadth of understanding—of a deity. And so, the Dawnshards. The four primal Commands that created all things.” He paused. “And then eventually, they were used to undo Adonalsium itself. . . .”
It was ancient. Wonderful and terrible. It bore a single all-powerful directive, which thrummed through Sigzil.
Exist.
It was then that she grasped, in the smallest way, the nature of the Command inside her. The will of a god to remake things, to demand they be better.
The power to change.
Are we to further interpret that these 4 primal Commands sliced and diced Adonalsium's 4 Aspects to create the 16 shards? I.e. one of the shards would be the Tricker+Exist combination, and one would be the Trickster+Change combination?
| Adonalsium | Exist | Change | ?????? | ?????? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trickster | ||||
| ?????? | ||||
| ?????? | ||||
| ?????? |
Posted Mar 12, 2025, 8:04 PM UTC
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