The 17 Shards Shattered Aidenalciem

Aidenalciem is not the shards. The shards behave as they do because they are pieces of power, not an integrated whole. In quote, I feel like there could be some similarities with what happened to honor at the end of like, they weren't being honor anymore. They may have had something that fundamentally broke their intent or their bond and had begun unraveling in a certain way. But when you think of it as an integrated whole, only because of our current perspective, but Hoyt is saying, "It wasn't an integrated whole"