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===Before the Shattering===
 
{{quote|Even now, I can barely grasp the scope of all this. The events surrounding the end of the world seem even larger than the [[Final Empire]] and the people within it. 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.|[[Harmony]] in the [[Words of Founding]]{{epigraph ref|mb3|39}}}}
 
Little is known of the extremely distant past of the cosmere: the time before the Shattering of [[Adonalsium]] and the Shards[[Shard]]s. It is not even clear who or what Adonalsium exactly is. Is it a god, the God? Is it a force, or person? Regardless, it is sometimes described as the power of creation,{{qa ref|727|45|The powers of Ruin and Preservation are Shards of Adonalsium, pieces of the power of creation itself.|date=Oct 16, 2008}} possibly a thing with incredible amounts of Investiture, and a power which does not vanish.{{qa ref|977|196|Why does Preservation fueling Allomancy not weaken Preservation compared to Ruin?|date=Sep 2012}}{{qa ref|1116|3|Investiture can not be created or destroyed|date=Mar 25th, 2015}}
 
Humans existed on worlds before this time,{{qa ref|1115|5|Were any of the central cosmere worlds inhabited by humans?|date=Jan 17th, 2015}} though how many is unknown. At the very least, the first humans were on [[Yolen]].{{qa ref|977|198|Where did humanity originate in the cosmere?|date=Sep 2012}} Hoid in particular is from Yolen.{{qa ref|622|135|He is a primary viewpoint protagonist of '''Dragonsteel'', but that happens before all of the other books|date=Aug 31st, 2011|interview=Reddit AMA 2011|asker=Eric}}{{qa ref|1086|11|Would that be Hoid?|date=Mar 4th, 2014}} Magic ([[Investiture]]) also existed prior to the Shattering, though its form was different.{{qa ref|977|51|Before Adonalsium was shattered, was there magic in the Cosmere and what form did it take?|date=Sept 2012}} The technology level of this society prior to the Shattering was less than present day Earth's.{{qa ref|988|20|What is the technology level of the singular society that existed when Adonalsium Shattered?|date=Dec 6th, 2012}}
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