Difference between revisions of "Shard"

| The Shards are not God, but they are ''pieces'' of God. Ruin, Preservation, Autonomy, Cultivation, Devotion...There are sixteen of them.

| [[Khriss]]{{msh ref|3|2}}

| Ruin and Preservation inhabited power and energy in the same way a person inhabits flesh and blood.

| [[Sazed]]{{epigraph ref|mb3|14}}

Each Shard is a piece of the power of creation with a specific motivation, such as to destroy or to preserve. Those fragments each began their existence with equal level of power; however, over time many have diminished, whether through conflict or by the act of Investing a world -- imbuing it with [[Investiture]]. Each Shard has its own Investiture; while a Shard can co-opt the Investiture of another Shard, that Investiture willcan become noticeably red.{{wob ref|8340}}

Investing in a world will produce numerous effects, most notably the creation of a magic system tied to the Shard. While a Shard doesn't have complete control over how the magic system functions or what it does, it can manipulate its mechanics to an extent.{{wob ref|6072}}{{wob ref|4242}} Moreover, the presence of a Shard leads to the formation of a [[Perpendicularity]], a well of the Shard's Investiture that pierces all three [[Realmatic Theory|Realm]]s, allowing for the existence of [[worldhopping]].{{book ref|sa3|119}} The Shard 's investiture can also influencemanifest directly in the world in other ways; examples of such influencemanifestations are [[atium]] and [[lerasium]] on [[Scadrial]], the [[Tears of Edgli]] on [[Nalthis]], or the many [[spren]] of [[Roshar]].

| 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}}

| Some men, as they age, grow wiser. I am not one of those, for wisdom and I have always been at cross-purposes, and I have yet to learn the tongue in which she speaks.

| [[Hoid]] implying the existence of another Shard{{book ref|sa3|68}}

| The power of ancient Adonalsium permeates him. And controls him. [[Odium]] is a force like pressure, gravitation, or the movement of time. These things cannot break their own rules. Nor can he.

| [[Stormfather]]{{book ref|sa3|16}}

| It's as if the future is a shattering window. The further you look, the more pieces that window breaks into. The near future can be anticipated, but the distant future… I can only guess.

| [[Honor]]{{book ref|sa1|75}}

| I'm still a [[spren]]. I’m a little piece of God.

| [[Syl]]{{book ref|sa3|91}}