(good stuff)
Thanks a bunch! Now I feel a bit silly for not posting my questions in that "I'm new" thread. But now that I have my own... more questions!
Ruin and Preservation apparently created humanity on Scadriel. How can that be? Those shards are held by humans, which creates a paradox. Furthermore, the other planets have humans.
On a related note, the other (known) planets have a normal cycle of life and death, a la Earth-as-we-know-it. How can this be, when Ruin/Preservation are responsible for the circle of life?
My only possible explanation would be that Adonalsium created all the other worlds we've seen before the shattering, while Ruin and Preservation were still simply 2 aspects of a greater whole. That would make Scadriel a "second generation planet". Another feasible explanation: all the planets have or had 2 opposite but paired shards, representing multiple ways of reaching the same conclusion. e.g. Endowment plus something like Acquisition work together to describe the process by which nutrients of dead life forms feed and become part of what is living.
Anyway, can anyone clear up this confusion?