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I now did delete that sentence because I think the author messed up this (The Hero of Ages chapter 57 epigraph) in that sentence.
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(I now did delete that sentence because I think the author messed up this (The Hero of Ages chapter 57 epigraph) in that sentence.) |
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== Shards of Adonalsium ==
After Adonalsium shattered into its present form, the pieces were given to or taken by individuals that then had the powers of the aspect of the Shard of Adonalsium. These people tend to act like imperfect gods, capable of creating and destroying worlds. Many of these "gods" give specific magical powers to the people on their worlds, and most of Brandon Sanderson's novels take place in one of these planets. The nature of the common people's powers is modeled after the power of the Shard in question.
The existence of a single origin of these shards have been hinted at in Sanderson's novels:
{{quote|I sense shards of something long ago, a fractured presence, something spanning the void.▼
▲|I sense shards of something long ago, a fractured presence, something spanning the void.
I have delved and searched, and have only been able to come up with a single name:
'''Adonalsium'''. Who, or what, it was, I do not yet know.|[[Sazed]]{{epigraph ref|mb3|39}}, emphasis added
}}
Another example is the ''{{b|sa1}}'' epigraphs, which mentions that:
{{quote|Ati was once a kind and generous man, and you saw what became of him.|[[The Letter]]{{epigraph ref|sa1|18}}▼
▲|Ati was once a kind and generous man, and you saw what became of him.
}}
[[Ati]] was the name of the person who held Ruin before being killed by [[Vin]] holding Preservation at the end of ''{{b|THoA}}''.
It is also possible that those who take the power of a Shard may be able to resist this change to their personality by force of will, like when [[Sazed]] gained the powers of both Ruin and Preservation:
{{quote|[Ruin and Preservation] threatened to annihilate each other.▼
▲|[Ruin and Preservation] threatened to annihilate each other.
And yet, because he was of one mind on how to use them, he could keep them separate.
They could touch without destroying each other, if he willed it.|[[Sazed]]'s revelation on the [[Hero of Ages]]{{book ref|mb3|82}}
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How long, or under what conditions, a person can keep their own will is unknown.
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