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I never said he thinks it's cursed in a literal sense.  We know he hates the thing but we don't know how many reasons could be behind that.

or, scary thought, was Odium, I would be screwed.

Oh, that is a scary thought!

If spren are in the blades, how come every Shardblade wielder doesn't have superpowers?

Because the spren isn't theirs, it was bonded to the Knight that originally wielded it.

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The Blade Szeth already carried was curse enough.

I feel that the wording of this sentence, taking into account the context of the chapter and Szeth's view on shardblades is that all shardblades are a curse, and that his (while being special) is cursed for the reason that it is so easy to kill with it, not that he may of made it out of his trusted friend and companion [insert name] the honourspren.

It could mean both.

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Why would the Parshendi Shardbearer have Gavilar's Blade/Plate? The book mentions that the Parshendi had their own Shardbearers, so when we finally meet one, why do we assume it's not just a "regular" Shardbearer?

Because the Parshendi had Gavilar killed and we don't know where his Plate or Blade are, hence this whole thread.

But they didn't have him killed for his Plate and Blade! They didn't give Szeth any special instructions, never told him to make sure and take the Blade or to leave the Plate as intact as possible. They weren't interested in his Blade and Plate, they had their own sets.

It never actually says if they took it or not or if they even needed Szeth to do anything.  Whatever their motives for killing Gavilar, getting a Shardblade at the same time seems like a good deal.
Sure, the Blade/Plate probably wasn't their main goal, but we can't say it wasn't one of their goals.

Oh, great... desolation AND zombies...

Mistborn zombies at that!

I'm not sure.  It really depends on if I have something I desperately need, like if my life or family's lives are in danger.

That's the twist, the spren they're bonded to are in the Shardblades.  If you think about it, we know that Szeth should be bonded to a spren but haven't seen it.  We also know he has a Shardblade.  How'd he get it?  Someone made it using his honorspren!  I can see two possibilities.  1) This is all part of being Truthless, the Shin can make the Blades, but they keep it very much a secret.  2) Szeth made it himself, which is why he's Truthless in the first place.  The Shin weren't able to take it from him, though, or don't want it because of how it came to be.

Secondary theory, this sort of stems from #1 above.  In one of the part 3 epigraphs (Jasnah's notes) it says they wanted to have Urithiru, the Radiants' HQ, in Alethela, but decided to move it farther west, "closer to Honor", I think it said.  This could maybe put it in Shinovar, and that's how the Shin know how to make Shards.  This could also support #2 above by having Szeth discover Urithiru and the knowledge hidden there to make a Blade.  This is based on the assumption that the Knights knew how to make their own Shardblades.  But it makes sense that Urithiru would be in Shinovar when you look at the Prologue and see how much he knows about Lashings and Stormlight and how it's connected to his religion.

Long, spur of the moment theories are my specialty.

   Stop it, Peter!  I don't want to want another Kaladin book!  I want lots of people to get books!  And you're there, trying to sway my allegiances and kind of succeeding, so stop it!

There was a Dawn Shard in Final Fantasy XII... Anyways 

Oh, good, I wasn't the only one to think of that when it mentioned Dawnshards!  Hahaha!

It's possible that they're the same Shard, even probable.  That could lend more evidence of the Almighty being Unity.  But I'm still leaning towards Transformation.  (cuz then we'd have a Transformer in the Cosmere! )