Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-36874080-20190811004720

The splitting may actually be beneficial to Simon. This way, he can change the smaller shards one by one, and absorb them incrementally.

If he changes 50% of a large shard, there's no increase in power since he still can't absorb it. But if he changes multiple small shards 100%, then he can use their power. For the same amount of time.