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{{shard info
|image=
|vessel=[[Koravellium Avast]]
|status=Alive and whole{{wob ref|2785}}{{wob ref|1555}}▼
|splinters=[[Spren]]
▲|status=Alive and whole{{wob ref|2785}}{{wob ref|1555}}
|perpendicularity=[[Cultivation's Perpendicularity]]
|magic=[[Surgebinding]]{{wob ref|1640}}, [[Old Magic]]
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
}}
{{update|sa4}}
{{quote
|1=<span style='font-variant: small-caps'>
That includes the thorns.
|2=Cultivation to [[Dalinar]]{{book ref|sa3|114}}
}}
'''Cultivation''' is one of the sixteen [[Shard|Shards of Adonalsium]].{{book ref|sa1|75}}
== Intent ==
{{quote▼
|[[Dalinar]]{{book ref|sa3|114}}▼
}}▼
▲Her intent as a Shard appears to be related to transformation. According to Odium, all she wishes to see is change, regardless of where it leads.{{book ref|sa3|57}} In her own view, on the other hand, she wishes to grow things and people, and prune them if need be, to shape them in a desired form, even if she accepts that there will always be a degree of uncertainty.{{book ref|sa3|114}}
== Associated Magics ==
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=== Surgebinding ===
{{for|Surgebinding}}
=== Lifelight ===
Cultivation has her own form of gaseous Investiture, Lifelight, that is comparable to the Scadrian [[
Lifelight takes up the middle note on the Rosharan [[wikipedia:Tritonic scale|tritonic scale]].{{book ref|sa4|69}}
=== Other ===
Cultivation is capable of seeing the future, with [[Honor]] mentioning that she is much better at it than he ever was.{{book ref|sa1|75}} While certainly one of the better users of
She is capable of creating [[spren]] of herself, the chief example of this being the [[Nightwatcher]].{{wob ref|9207}} This being said, the Nightwatcher is not very humanlike, and so Cultivation keeps her in the [[Valley]] to hold court, and grants her the use of the Old Magic.{{book ref|sa3|114}} [[Cultivationspren]] are also likely tied to Cultivation herself, as they refer to her as "Mother".{{book ref|sa2|i|9}}{{book ref|sa3|118}}
Something about her presence on Roshar, whether intentional or otherwise, makes it easier for animal life there to attain a degree of sentience, with both [[Ryshadium]] and [[santhid]]yn being far more intelligent than their peers for this reason.{{wob ref|2792}}
[[Cultivation's Perpendicularity]] is located in the [[Horneater Peaks]], and forms either one or all of the [[Horneater Oceans]], the giant lakes at the top of the mountains. Until the [[True Desolation]], where it was overtaken by the [[Fused]], it was the main way for [[worldhopper]]s to travel to and from Roshar.{{book ref|sa3|93}}{{book ref|sa3|102}}
Cultivation appears to have the ability to kill or at least seriously wound [[Odium]], as he refrained from killing the [[Stormfather]] out of fear of
== History ==
{{image|The Roshards by jurassicpencil.jpg|side=left|width=200px|Cultivation, [[Honor]] and [[Odium]]}}
{{for|Koravellium Avast#History|the history of the original Vessel}}
=== Shattering and ancient Roshar ===
▲{{quote
It's unknown who Cultivation's Vessel is, only that she dates back to the [[Shattering of Adonalsium]] and that she greatly dislikes [[Hoid]].{{book ref|sa2|55}} The Shard itself was created during the Shattering, and was subsequently taken up by the Vessel. She and [[Honor]], with whom she was romantically involved, departed the site of the Shattering, [[Yolen]], and ended up on Roshar.{{wob ref|2786}} There, they became the gods of a local sentient species known as the [[singer]]s. However, following [[Odium]]'s arrival in the [[Rosharan system]], the two Shards ended up siding with human newcomers instead.{{book ref|sa3|111}}▼
|I think there's only one [woman of my age] around these parts, and she and I never did get along.
▲}}
▲
Although Cultivation assisted Honor in fighting Odium, Honor still perished.{{wob ref|2729}} Following his death, Cultivation withdrew in grief, and appeared to have lost all interest in aiding mankind any longer.{{book ref|sa2|i|9}} This was not entirely correct, however -- rather than hiding, she was planning.{{wob ref|8669}}
=== Era of Solitude ===
In the late [[Era of Solitude]], Cultivation used the [[Old Magic]] at least
Unlike with all other boons and banes, Dalinar's memories gradually returned after the arrival of the [[Everstorm]].{{book ref|sa3|24}} This was deliberately engineered by Cultivation to give him time to come to terms with his past before [[Odium]] would try to use it to turn Dalinar into his champion.{{book ref|sa3|121}}
== Influence ==
{{image|Cultivation by
{{quote
|Storming Mother of the World and Father of Storms above!
== Trivia ==
* Cultivation always speaks in <span style='font-variant: small-caps'>small-caps</span>, similarly to the [[Stormfather]]. [[Honor]], by contrast, spoke in normal font in the [[Dalinar's visions|the visions he left for Bondsmiths]].
* In ''[[wikipedia:Magic: The Gathering|Magic:The Gathering]]'' colors, Cultivation would be green.{{wob ref|11057}}
* Cultivation has never really gotten along with Hoid.{{book ref|sa2|55}}
== Notes ==
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