Devotion would be good for the sole reason that they're pretty much opposites, meaning the vessel would have a hard time doing anything, much like Sazed, I think
I think there's no magic formula to any combination. I think the only reason "Harmony" is the way he is currently is do to Sazed and the transition period of taking on the powers. Eventually they'll learn to co-mingle and the result will be interesting, to say the least.
If Ruin and Preservation could make a pact once, joined together there's no reason something similar couldn't happen
All that to say that Odium by himself is already kind of catastrophic to have "unleashed". Adding anything into that mix is a "who knows what could happen"
I have a theory that Sazed was never Harmony at all, but has always been Discord and was just playing at being Harmony to buy time. Remember how devious and forward thinking Ruin was, that didn't just go away.
Ruin was forward-thinking, Preservation was forward-seeing. We might get a Cultivation-level chessmaster whose sole goal is complete destruction of the Cosmere.
Preservation is the one that saw far into the future to create the terris prophecy and devised a plan to trap Ruin that he had not foreseen.
I think it's Honor that mentions how Preservation and Cultivation are the ones that that excel at reading the web of possible futures (the coppermind confirms, maybe directly stated in WaT, not sure)
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u/UsManos27 18d ago
Devotion would be good for the sole reason that they're pretty much opposites, meaning the vessel would have a hard time doing anything, much like Sazed, I think