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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 formerlyat inhabitedone point visited the [[Threnody|Threnodite]] system.

The Shard Ambition was created when [[Adonalsium]] was Shattered by a group of people on [[Yolen]].{{msh ref|3|2}} One of the people that had helped Shatter Adonalsium took up Ambition and Ascended, later making its way to the Threnodite system, where it tookis upuncertain residencewhether or not it Invested itself in the system.{{book ref|arcanum unbounded}} Ambition appears tomay have settled on the planet [[Threnody]] for some time, where asome manifestationmeasure of Investiture camewas intoin existence. Shortly after the Shattering, the Shard [[Odium]] arrived in the system. Ambition and Odium fought one another in the space between the planets, struggling in all three [[Realmatic Theory|Realms]]. Odium gained the upper hand, mortally wounding Ambition and tearing ofoff chunks of its power, which altered the people of Threnody, as well as the planets in the system. Ambition managed to escape the system, but it was killed and [[Splinter|Splintered]] in another location, likely finished off by Odium.

The Shard Ambition likelymay have had a local manifestation of Investiture at one point in its past.{{book ref|arcanum unbounded}} [[Nazh]] gave [[Khriss]] records from the [[Homeland]], which indicate that there used to be some sort of magic systemInvestiture present on the planet. Itsprior abilitiesto Ambition and limitsOdium's arefight. currentlyOn unknown.the Afterother Ambitionhand, leftthis theInvestiture system,may have existed prior to the magicarrival systemof seemsboth toShards. haveIt ceasedis tounknown existif this Investiture is still in existence or not after Ambition fled the system.

There are several other notable sources of Investiture on Threnody that may be associated wholly or in part with Ambition.{{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.

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