Shards

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Shards
Item Information
hangul	샤드
Romaja	syadeu
Type	Items Weapons
User	Varies

Shards are weapons or items that are created or found with Gifts or EST of their own. These objects are notable for the unique abilities that they grant to their users, including ordinary non-Gift users.

Overview

Appearing throughout history, each kind of Shards has its unique origins, but the exact method of creating them varies. Shards have been part of human history for centuries, possibly since the dawn of Gifts and Gift users.

Abilities of Shards.

They are often extremely powerful as they allow an ordinarily non EST using human to have a Gift through the use of them or grant an extra Gift to a Gift user that may not have combat-based powers.

However, Shards are as rare as they are powerful, thus sparking a lot of greed and conflicts among those seeking them. Because of this, they are typically wielded by users who may be influential in some way or powerful combatants who are famous in their own right.

Shards can be categorized into weapons that have destructive power, which significantly increases the combat ability of a warrior, items that have a special ability that varies in type, and locations that have a specific function.

History

Chaotic Era

During the strife and war-torn era, Shards appeared throughout as they were wielded by prominent individuals like in the instance of a swordsman that was known as The Executioner of the Silver Forest who was famous for his three unique, swords like the demonic blade Ashiyak, a blade of great power but with a great curse and two others.

Another swordsman would make a name for himself as he wielded the One Hundred-Sided Blade, a powerful shard sword known for its incredible cutting power and the ability to change according to the user's imagination, the swordsman became known as The Master of the Glassblade as he went on to create a fighting style known as the Ancient Sword Technique of the Flowing Blade unique to the shard sword.

The Fiend of the Southern Continent would also become known for wielding Shards as she was famous for her immensely powerful collection of them.

Era of Nera

A man whose life was filled with tragedy and despair would have his entire life change dramatically due to finding a mysterious shard after exploring a forgotten ruin. He would use its powers to lay waste to the lands and founded a dominion he named Nera, which meant Torch in the Unknown Language.

Great War

During the war between the remaining Villains of Nera and emerging Hero Clan, a scientific process known as "Grafting" was invented by a group of scientists with ties to the clan. These scientists experimented on numerous test subjects in a horrific research program known as the Shard Transplant Experiment that could artificially graft on to or implant a shard into a test subject.

Known Shards

Ancient Shards

Image		Description
	The Torch	An ancient shard that holds tremendous power and capable of building up infinite amount of EST within its host allowing them to boost their own Gifts or others until it kills them.
	Tower of Milen Kula	A gigantic tower located in the warrior nation of Avaarin. It is rumored that if one climbs to the top of the tower, they can obtain legendary power. The Tower itself contains several floors in order; to challenge most of the Tower, a challenger must possess the needed physical strength, combat prowess, and willpower. However, the top floor pits the challenger against their greatest fear, which requires another quality rather than strength.

Item Shards

Image		Description
	Chain's Ring	A set of rings that allows its wearer to relive specific moments of their lives or others.
	Vault of the Officiator Angirium Vipaas	An extra-dimensional shard that appears to be a vault capable of housing a multitude of objects within its space. Its contents are capable of being selected and summoned by its owner with capacities currently being unknown.

Weapon Shards

Image		Description
	One Hundred-Sided Blade	An invaluable sword that is known to be quite powerful, strong enough to make any swordsman salivate for it . The sword can mold its shape and design based on the wielder's desires, increasing the wielder's range and destructive power significantly to the point of cutting through an entire city block.
	The Answerer	An ancient pair of cherished weapons from Avaarin that consists of a greatsword and shield. The weapons are capable of being telekinetically summoned through a special necklace.
	Ashiyak	A powerful sword of great power but with a great curse that forces its wielder to kill others, or they will suffer the fate of dying from its "curse".
	Sword Purgatory	A sword that contained a void-like world of pure white nothing. The shard was unique as it was filled with the souls of swordsmen and masters who were driven mad by their pursuits of swordsmanship. Time was meaningless as days became a year, a year became a decade, and a decade became centuries. The sword was destroyed in The Executioner of the Silver Forest's final duel with Yushin of Yerim.
	Staff of the Heiress
	Bow of Gravity
	Radiant Lord of the Skies
	Dragonbane Spear
	Great Wall of Yerim, Watcher of the Silver Forest, and Mystical Stone
	Mirage Pouch
	Lion's Roar
	Ijincheon's Knife	A glowing knife with pale white energy that possess the deadly ability of leaving a permanent wound that glows with the same energy on whoever is cut with it.
	Chaser's Axe	An axe.
	Demonic Gust Slash	A sword that's capable of creating a powerful gust of slashing energy.
	Red Sword (붉은 검)	A beautifully crafted and extremely powerful sword that is perfectly fit for someone with much bloodlust. Its special ability and full powers are unknown, but Ijincheon states that in order to activate it, the user needs to put blood on the blade. Even without the full extent of its abilities, the sword is incredibly powerful, having allowed Hero Killer to cut through a mountain in half from a distance upon drawing it for the first time.

Human Shards

The King of Nera

Islotta Rainfall

Nenya

Jintae Yang

Senshu, the Fourth Finger

Trivia

• Chain's Ring was the first Shard to appear in the series. Although it's abilities wouldn't be revealed till the Nostra City Arc.