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|vessel=[[Uli Da]]
|status=[[Splinter|Splintered]]
|splinters=Potentially the [[Evil]]
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|books=[[Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell|Shadows for Silence]]
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|As for [[Uli Da]], it was obvious from the outset that she was going to be a problem. Good riddance.
|[[Endowment]] on Ambition's Vessel{{epigraph ref|sa3|40}}
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'''Ambition''' is a [[Shard|Shard of Adonalsium]].{{book ref|arcanum unbounded}} Its holder is unknown, but it was killed shortly after the [[Shattering]], but it formerly inhabited the [[Threnody|Threnodite]] system.▼
▲'''Ambition''' is a [[Shard|Shard of Adonalsium]].{{
Ambition is believed to have once had a system of [[Investiture]] associated with it, but this Investiture no longer exists.{{book ref|arcanum unbounded}}▼
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== History ==
The Shard Ambition was created when [[Adonalsium]] was Shattered by a group of people on [[Yolen]] around ten-thousand years before the overthrowing of the [[Cinder King]].{{msh ref|3|2}}{{book ref|tsm|11}} Uli Da took up Ambition and Ascended; she then made her way to the [[Threnodite]] system.{{au ref|threnodite}}
Over seven-thousand years before the True Desolation,{{book ref|sa4|14}}{{book ref|sa4|76}} the Shard [[Odium]] arrived in the system.{{au ref|threnodite}} Odium desired to be the sole remaining Shard in the Cosmere and considered Ambition to be a dangerous rival; as a result, he had them as number one on his list of Shards to eliminate.{{wob ref|1550}} Ambition, Odium, and [[Mercy]] fought one another in the space between the planets, struggling in all three [[Realmatic Theory|Realms]].{{epigraph ref|row|27}}{{au ref|threnodite}} Odium gained the upper hand and mortally wounded Ambition by tearing off chunks of her power, which altered the people of Threnody as well as the planets in the system. Ambition managed to escape the system, but she was killed and [[Splinter|Splintered]] in another location despite fighting back.{{au ref|threnodite}}{{wob ref|1554}} This left a wound on the Spiritual Realm and affected Threnody in "disturbing" ways,{{epigraph ref|sa4|27}} as well as having far reaching effects elsewhere in the [[cosmere]].{{wob ref|8881}}{{wob ref|1662}}
== Influence ==
The Shard Ambition
There are several other notable sources of Investiture on Threnody that may be associated wholly or in part with Ambition.{{
It is unknown what, if any, impact Ambition's power may have had on the planets Monody and Elegy.{{
Endowment believes that they are better off for Ambition being dead.{{epigraph ref|sa3|40}}
▲There are several other notable sources of Investiture on Threnody.{{book ref|arcanum unbounded}} There appears to be excess Investiture in general, which infuses the spirits of some humans. The spirit of these people imprints upon this power, and when the person dies, the power remains behind in the form of a [[shade]], a [[Cognitive shadow]] with a low level of consciousness. In addition to the shades, the Evil is also present on Threnody. This force of darkness destroyed an entire continent, sending people fleeing from the Homeland and other regions of the [[Fallen World]] to the [[Forests of Hell]] for safety. Khriss indicates that she believes that this may be the product of a chunk of Ambition's power, twisting the people and the planet itself. There is no stable [[perpendicularity]] on Threnody, although there are some unpredictable and unstable perpendicularities that are of morbid but unknown origin.
== Trivia ==
▲It is unknown what, if any, impact Ambition's power may have had on the planets Monody and Elegy.{{book ref|arcanum unbounded}}
* Ambition would be mono black in ''Magic: the Gathering''.{{wob ref|11057}}
* While technically fulfilling the requirement of not being on a planet, Ambition is not the Shard Brandon was thinking of when discussing a Shard that did not inhabit a planet.{{wob ref|2550}}
== Notes ==
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