A dumb little thing that’s been sitting in my sketchbook for MONTHS, partially because I like to think of QA as the little chaos gremlin in Taylor’s head pushing buttons cause it’ll be funny
Shard Roller Disco: Threnody
Ambition doing an ambitious pose.
Uli Da hasn't been a character so far, thanks to Rayse. The hint on Coppermind that Brandon compared Ambition to Mono Black in Magic The Gathering turned out to be very helpful in to getting a better idea about this obscure character. She would have been an interesting force to encounter…
Music? Yello again... (because this video is a bit of a weird gem by itself)
More Shard Roller Disco AU:
Roshar
Nalthis
Sel and Scadrial
Scadrial 2
First of the Sun and Taldain
Roshar 2 (row spoilers)
Roshar 3 Bonus Dawnshard (spoilers)
i used to really dislike the concept of "shards" in worm. at first i read them as being a kind of midichlorians for trauma. however i now isee them as something almost mystical. it represents that perfect middle space between medieval mysticism and enlightment rationalism that finds its apotheosis in hegel. i think of the way it mirrors the idea in lurianic kabbalah that at the time of the Fall adam's soul fractured into 6000 "shards" (one for each member of israel at sinai for the revelation), and that for israel to inaugurate olam haBa, the world to come, it is first necessary to "elevate" said soul-shards through mitzvot to their prelapsarian proximity to the godhead. this notion, obliquely, finds its christian (and therefore proto-hegelian) counterpart in the work of meister eckhart, who was the first to preach the doctrine that the center of humanity was in God Himself, not the individual soul. the rationalist version of this idea--that is to say, Hegelianism--would see God, or the Absolute, as the center of humanity. scion is therefore a kind of physical manifestation of the Absolute Spirit: parahumans are not separate individuals but modes of one rational entity, finding self knowledge through rational dialogue between elements of himself--through conflict. parahumans are all parts of one thing, headed inevitably for the End of History, total self-knowledge. shards represent a primordial oneness, a movement toward what french mystic rolland (who incidentally was the one to introduce to idea of "oceanic feeling" to freud), speaking of spinoza (himself another influence on hegel), might call "le soleil blanc de la substance," the white sun of substance, that is to say, a sense of the primordial oneness of all things, a sense of being part of a univocal God or Nature.
Brandon Sanderson: Like, a Shard of Adonalisum? This is just not gonna work really well. It's a little like saying, "can I give a piercing to a whale?"
Like... okay, but it's not gonna do anything, it's gonna fall off. And the moment they notice it, it becomes irrelevant. It's the most technical of yeses, but it's just basically worthless to try it.
Because, again, you're gonna have to find a physical form of a Shard to do that, so what are you doing. Is it some avatar that they've made that'll just evaporate when they're done with it? What does it even mean to spike a Shard?
Are you talking about somehow getting access to their Vessel, which has been completely transformed into Investiture at this point, so how do you spike that? There's all sorts of asterisks to this answer, but a technical yes; I'm sure you could find a way to do it.
Cymophane does get broken really often. This doesn't bother her much, as she's the only one of the gems that can assemble herself almost instantly. Her inclusions attract the shards to each other, never preventing her from ever finally shattering.
Some villain OC designs! Kerian Mist, a fashion designer for villains with hypnotist glitter, and Dr. Joy, the mad doctor who is trying to crack the key to true happiness!!