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There are currently ten known Shardworldsplanets in the cosmere. Two of these, Threnody and First of the Sun, are minor Shardworlds.{{17s ref|topic|7544|Names of minor shardworlds|date=April 12th, 2014}} Note that the following chart lists Shards currently on the planet, and may have had other Shards there at other points in time.

| [[The Stormlight Archive]]{{17s ref|post|62323|Ashyn and Braize|date=Aug 9th, 2013}}

| [[Warbreaker]], [[Nightblood (book) |Nightblood]]{{qa ref|428|106|One other question, what is the name of the planet that Elantris is on?|date=July 2009}}

| [[Honor]], [[Cultivation]]{{qa ref|985|6|Were Cultivation and Honor romantically involved?|date=May 22nd, 2013}}

| [[The Stormlight Archive]]{{qa ref|428|106}}

| [[Preservation]], [[Ruin]];{{qa ref|727|19|Is Scadrial the name of the Mistborn world?|date=Oct 10th, 2008}} [[Harmony]]*

| [[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn]]{{qa (including [[Mistborn Adventures]])ref|428|106}}

| [[Devotion]], [[Dominion]]{{epigraph ref|sa1|22}}

| [[Elantris]] & sequels,{{qa ref|428|106}} [[The Emperor's Soul]]{{qa ref|749|38|On the second day he read from a new novel set in the Elantris world|date=April 2012}}

| [[Bavadin's Shard|Unnamed ShardAutonomy]] held by [[Bavadin]]{{qa ref|622|78|Will we see Bavadin sometime?|date=Aug 31st, 2011}}

| [[White Sand]]{{qa ref|428|106}}

| [[Dragonsteel]]{{qa ref|428|106}}

| [[Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell]]{{17s ref|topic|7544}}

| [[Sixth of the Dusk]]{{17s ref|topic|7544}}

For {{for|Chronology|a more specific chronology of events and the books in which they occur, see [[Chronology]].}}

Through unknown means, Adonalsium was broken, in an event called the Shattering. Hoid was present,{{qa ref|747|11|Hoid was at the Shattering of Adonalsium|date=Mar 17th, 2012}} and due to Hoid being from Yolen, it is thought that this event occurred on Yolen. This Shattering happened intentionally,{{qa ref|1075|1|Was Adonalsium shattered intentionally?|date=Mar 5th, 2014}} and occurred all at once.{{qa ref|1109|2|Was Adonalsium shattered all at once?|date=Jan 6th, 2015}}

It was not random who took up the Shards,{{citeqa ref|1011|8|It is not random who got which Shard|date=Mar 16th, 2012}}, and there was some sort of design in the way Adonalsium was split.{{citeqa ref|1042|5|Was there a force determining which way it shattered?|date=Nov 16th, 2013}}

It turned out that, though the power of a Shard required a mind to control it, the specific [[intent]] of the Shard would slowly warp the mind of those that hold it.{{epigraph ref|sa1|18}}{{qa ref|944|8|Remember that holding a shard changes you, over time|date=March 2013}} It is not known whether the Shardholdersholders of the Shards knew this would be the case initially. Eventually, the people who took up the Shards would simply be referred to as their Shard's name, and referred to as Shards.

At some point, some Shards traveled to other worlds. The Shards were now the primary source of magic in the Cosmerecosmere,{{qa ref|979|160|Are there any magic systems in the cosmere that aren't shard based?|date=Apr 15th 2013}} and so they Invested some worldsplanets with their power, and in some cases, created humans and other species.{{book on these planets.ref|mb3|76}}

The exact timeline of what the Shards did after the Shattering is not clear. Shards settled on specific worldsplanets, but could have gone to other worldsplaces before residing upon the worlds they now stay.

Preservation attacked Ruin with his mental power--the distinct mind controlling the Shard's power, rather than the power itself. This would trap Ruin's mind, making him mostly impotent.{{epigraph ref|mb3|55}} However, it cost almost all of Preservation's mind. Preservation knew that the moment he did this attack, he would not be able to help life on Scadrial. Preservation saw the future, creating the [[Terris Prophecies]], to give hope to humanity, and to let humanity know that he had a plan in mind.{{wob ref|8056}} He also altered [[Allomancy]] so that there would be [[atium]] (and [[malatium]]) Mistings,{{qa ref|428|82| So he took out the most unlikely (difficult to make and use) metals for his sign to his followers|date=July 2009}}{{17s ref|post|89033|They were designed and created specifically to do what they did|date=Jan 23, 2014}} and set up his power--the mists--to Snap those Allomancers.{{epigraph ref|mb3|81}} And with that, Preservation gave up his mind, imprisoning Ruin in the newly created [[Well of Ascension]], the essence of Preservation's mind.

Odium wanted to become the strongest being in the Cosmerecosmere.{{qa ref|1011|7|Odium wants to be the only Shard|date=Mar 16th, 2012}}{{qa ref|675|12|His goal is to destroy them all and be the only one left at his power level|date=Dec 15th, 2011}} He realized that if he ever took up another Shard, that Shard would change him, and Odium preferred his own.{{qa ref|944|8|Rayse knows this, and prefers to leave behind destroyed rivals as opposed to taking their power and potentially being overwhelmed by it|date=March 2013}} So, in his quest to become god of the Cosmerecosmere, instead of absorbing all the other fifteen Shards, he decided to destroy the other Shards.{{qa ref|1011|7}} He developed a way to Splinter a Shard's power, and in the process, killing its holder.{{epigraph ref|sa1|22}}

Back onOn Scadrial, the [[Well of Ascension]], refilledthat everypower 1024that yearscame from Preservation's mind, could be utilized by humanity. For mostmuch of Classical Scadrian history, a person called the [[Hero of Ages]] underby the [[Terris Prophecies]] would take up the power and become a protector of mankind. They would live the rest of their lives blessing people with the power of Preservation, renewing Ruin's prison, and watch over the world.{{qa ref|727|43|What was Vin supposed to do at the end of Well of Ascension?|date=October, 2008}} The power woulddid thennot vanish, andinstead reappearreturning afterevery 1024 years.{{qa ref|691|3|The well refills every 1024 years|date=May 2010}}

Ruin was keenly interested in the Well of Ascension. If he could get a person to hold the power there, but instead of utilize the power, but release it, then the prison on Ruin's mind would vanish., Ruinand he would then be free to finally destroy the world,.{{epigraph asref|mb3|46}} heTo wasdo promised.this, Ruin manipulated the Terris Prophecies over a long period of time to advance this purpose. He made it so the Hero of Ages would include the "sacred piercings," actually [[Hemalurgy|Hemalurgic]] piercings, so he could influence the Hero.{{qa ref|727|30|Alendi's "Piercings of the Hero"?|date=Oct 16, 2008|asker=VegasDev}} More importantly, Ruin changed the Prophecies extensively so that the Well and the Hero's purpose was obscured.{{qa ref|727|43|What was Vin supposed to do at the end of Well of Ascension?|date=Oct 2008}} Now the Hero was supposed to take the Well's power, and release it.

Then, Ruin needed to drivedrove the world into desperate straits so that people would believe in a hero of ancient prophecy. If he fought Preservation, tothe "save"mists--the themShard of Preservation's direct essence--which still protected the land would oppose him. HeSo, he used Preservation to his advantage: the mists Snapped [[Allomancy|Allomancers]], and people misinterpreted the mists as a negative thing. Instead of fighting against the mists' action, Ruin enhanced them, bringing the death of plants, and causing the threat that became the [[Deepness]].{{epigraph ref|mb3|81}}

This meantThus, when a [[Terris]] [[Worldbringer]], [[Kwaan]], claimed that [[Alendi]] was the Hero of Ages,{{epigraph ref|mb2|13}} Ruin saw an opportunity. He altered the Terris Prophecies to fit Alendi more perfectly.{{epigraph ref|mb2|40}} Alendi came to persuade kings and all the Worldbringers who denied him that he was the Hero, and under the threat of the Deepness, Alendi was their leader.{{epigraph ref|mb2|23}}{{epigraph ref|mb2|24}} So, to defeat the threat of the Deepness, Alendi traveled to the mountains of Terris, where the Well of Ascension lay, to take up the power, and release it to eliminate the Deepness.{{epigraph ref|mb2|50}}

And Rashek did murder Alendi. Rashek took the power of the Well himself, and in those few moments of [[Ascension of the Lord Ruler|Ascension]], he tried to stop the Deepness by moving Scadrial itself closer to the sun, to burn the mists. To counteract the heat, he created the Ashmounts.{{epigraph ref|mb3|4}} He also altered humans on Scadrial, creating [[skaa]] and [[noble]]s. He learned of the [[Metallic Arts]], developing Hemalurgic constructs, and with the discovery of [[Allomancy]], he figured out a way to combine Allomancy and his Feruchemy to become immortal (through Compounding).{{epigraph ref|mb3|9}} Rashek would be the Lord Ruler, the Hero of Ages, and protect the world from Ruin.{{book ref|mb3|48}}

So, Ruin plotted the Lord Ruler's downfall. He subtly put in [[Kelsier]]'s mind the idea of an [[malatium|"eleventh metal"]] to the ten known Allomantic metals of the time.{{epigraph ref|mb3|24}}{{book ref|11m}} This, combined with Kelsier's desire to see his [[Mare|dead wife]] avenged and her dreams of a world without ash be a reality, led Kelsier to seek to kill the Lord Ruler. He formed his [[Kelsier's crew|crew]], consisting of many, but including [[Vin]], a skaa Mistborn who Ruin manipulated; [[Marsh]], his brother; and [[Sazed]], a Terris [[Keeper]], who studied the past before the Lord Ruler. In the process of leading the skaa to revolt against the Final Empire, the Lord Ruler killed Kelsier.{{book ref|mb1|34}} Vin confronted the Lord Ruler, and using the power of the [[malatium|"Eleventh metal"]], discovered that the Lord Ruler was a Feruchemist.{{book ref|mb1|38}} She somehow drew upon the mists and pushed the Lord Ruler's metalminds away, leading to his death a mere two years before the Well was replenished.{{book ref|mb1|38}}

Ruin now needed a person who could hold the Well's power. The servants he could touch most easily through Hemalurgy, the [[Steel Inquisitor]]s, could not hold Preservation's power,{{epigraph ref|mb3|49}} so Ruin hadchose Vin to do it. Ruin, early in Vin's life, had caused her mother to go insane, killing her sister with an earring. The earring turned out to be a Hemalurgic spike, so Ruin could influence Vin. The spike, through increased [[bronze]] Allomancy, allowed Vin to hear the pulses of the Well of Ascension.{{epigraph ref|mb3|74}} Ruin strengthened the mists again to recreate the threat of the Deepness, and influenced events so that Vin seemed like the Hero of Ages.

With all this, Ruin led Vin and Sazed to the Well of Ascension for them to "save" the world once again. However, Preservation had a shadow of his mind left, and in the form of a mist spirit, tried to foil Ruin.{{epigraph ref|mb3|56}} Preservation even wounded Vin's husband, [[Elend]], at the Well so Vin would use the power to heal Elend instead of releasing it. But Vin did what the prophecies supposedly asked, releasing the power.{{book ref|mb2|58}}

Ruin could now directly affect the world, but the power of Preservation--in the form of the mists--still protected the planet.{{epigraph ref|mb3|58}} Ruin had been weakened since the Lord Ruler hid his essence, [[atium]], and so Ruin and Preservation were balanced again. Ruin could not find the atium personally, as he could not see metal, and the [[Steel Inquisitors]], had spikes in their eyes, and so had this same flaw. So, Ruin continued to use his pawn, Vin, along with Elend, to find the atium for him.{{wob ref|8007}}

Ruin did not know that Preservation had actually selected Vin to take up his power,{{epigraph ref|mb3|74}} which enabled Vin to draw upon the mists, which was --Preservation--directly.{{epigraph Thisref|mb3|79}} allowedUnfortunately, Vin to draw upon the mists, but she could not douse sothis power with her earring being a Hemalurgic spike, as Hemalurgy, being of Ruin, pushed away Preservation.{{epigraph ref|mb3|77}}

In those final days, the shadow of Preservation's mind that remained communicated with Elend, and then passed.{{book ref|mb3|55}} This had the potential to be a catastrophic event: when a Shard lacks a mind controlling it, and the power has no "release," it is incredibly baddangerous, as happened on Sel when [[Odium]] destroyed [[Devotion]] and [[Dominion]].{{qa ref|944|7|Does Roshar have a similar problem, with Honor being Splintered?|date=March 2013|asker=Windrunner}} Fortunately, Kelsier, who had not passed on beyond the [[Realmatic Theory|Three Realms]], held onto Preservation's power for just a little longer, until Vin could take it up.{{qa ref|727|50|You may want to note that the moment Preservation dropped out and let the last of his consciousness die, someone was waiting in the Cognitive Realm to seize the power and hold on for a short period until Vin could take it up more fully.|date=Oct 17th, 2008}}

Vin eventually caught onto Ruin's ploys, and would not find the atium for him.{{book ref|mb3|67}} Because of this, Ruin sent his Inquisitors, along with Marsh, his main Inquisitor, to kill Vin.{{book ref|mb3|72}} Marsh, though almost entirely under Ruin's direct control, held a small bit of himself back, and he used that shred of humanity to tear the Hemalurgic earring from her.{{book ref|mb3|72}} Vin could now access the mists--Preservation's power--fully, and upon burning it, she ascended, becoming Preservation.{{book ref|mb3|44}}

HeSazed, tookon upthe bothground Shardsat together.the Itbattle, wassaw notthe likecorpses Vinof hadAti describedand Vin, wherewith the power wouldof burntheir outShards leaking from their bodies, and Sazed took up both Shards together. The power did not vanish inas athe shortWell timeof Ascension's power did; these were the Shards themselves, which, under the control of one mind, could both preserve and destroy, or create. Using the knowledge from his metalminds, he began to remake the world, and undid the damage the Lord Ruler did to Scadrial.{{book ref|mb3|82}} He placed all the survivors in a green field, the [[Field of Rebirth]], andthen created a [[Elendel Basin|paradise]] for them to live in.{{map ref|Elendel Basin}}{{qa ref|637|3|Where did ''Alloy'' come from?|date=Nov 7th, 2011}} The conflict on Scadrial had vanished, for now.

Now under the control of one mind, Ruin and Preservation's power began to intermingle, and Sazed became known as [[Harmony]].{{qa ref|979|174}} It is considered a single Shard, much like a king of two countries is still ajust one king.{{qa ref|642|10}}

Odium became aware of Harmony, and is scared of him,{{qa andref|1094|40|Is theOdium powermad heabout represents.Sazed Odiumhaving two Shards?|date=Sept 4th, 2014}} and is making plans regarding him.{{17s ref|topic|5616|He has "plans" for Harmony, and he is very much aware of Harmony's power|date=Jan 24th, 2014}}

| [[Mistborn (series)#Era 1|Mistborn (Era 1)]]

| [[Mistborn (series)#Era 1|Mistborn (Era 1)]]

| [[Mistborn (series)#Era 1|Mistborn (Era 1)]]

| [[Mistborn Adventures(series)#Era 2|Mistborn (Era 2)]]

| [[Mistborn Adventures(series)#Era 2|Mistborn (Era 2)]]

| [[The Bands of Mourning]]

| [[Mistborn Adventures(series)#Era 2|Mistborn (Era 2)]]

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