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Historical overview

For the history of individual Shards, see their respective pages

It is unknown what precisely Adonalsium was, though it has been referred to numerous times as the power of creation, suggesting it to be the progenitor god of the cosmere. At some point in the distant past, on the planet of Yolen sixteen people conspired to kill it, and succeeded in an event known as the Shattering of Adonalsium. Some of those people were romantically involved; others were related to each other.

Following the Shattering, the power that comprised Adonalsium broke into sixteen pieces, each polarized to one particular aspect of it, such as Ruin or Endowment. Those pieces, each equal in power, became known as the Shards. The sixteen killers of Adonalsium each took up one of the Shards, Ascending and becoming the first Vessels. Following their Ascension, each of the Vessels departed Yolen for different worlds. Some settled on various planets, henceforth dubbed Shardworlds; others set no roots.

Originally, the Shards made a pact not to settle together on a singe world; however, only a few Shards kept to it. The pact was not, it seems, set in stone, though, as even the Shard of oathkeeping, Honor, felt no qualms about travelling with Cultivation.

Over the millennia, several Shards have passed away, one way or another. The most common cause of death for them were actions of one specific Shard, Odium, who went on a killing spree, splintering Ambition, Devotion, Dominion and Honor before eventually being trapped in the Rosharan system by the remnants of the latter. Preservation passed hands several times before being merged with Ruin into Harmony; by contrast, Autonomy spread, creating avatars to inhabit numerous Shardworlds, including Obrodai and First of the Sun.