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The Shattering was a catastrophe beyond measure. None know how many died the day the world broke, but the great tragedy echoes even a millennium later. Countless ghosts wander the æther between the shards, a hazard to sailors and merchants. But these horrors pale in comparison to the Forlorn Shard. Some say an entire race died upon the Forlorn Shard during the chaos after the Shattering, while others say it somehow gathered in all of the anguish, fear, and rage of those days. Others suggest the Forlorn Shard was not created by the Shattering - they claim it was set free. Regardless of the truth, it has become perhaps the most dangerous entity in the Shattered world, for the Forlorn Shard possesses its own will and an incredible intelligence - and is utterly hostile to any form of life. Physically, the Forlorn Shard appears as a medium sized shard, forever cloaked in great thunderclouds, allowing only brief glimpses of the desolate landscape of the shard itself. That landscape seems to shift and change over time, becoming ever more inhospitable. To be marooned upon the Forlorn Shard is a death sentence. The Forlorn Shard's sentience, though, has given it great and unusual powers, including the ability to move according to its own will. When it wanders close enough to an inhabited shard, it moves in close and attacks. What form these attacks take is not fully understood; it has been known to employ great bolts of lightning against ætherships, but none have survived to tell what occurs when it engulfs another shard. Afterwards, all that is left is devastation and death, and the Forlorn Shard moves on, seemingly growing stronger each time it destroys another life. Whether the Forlorn Shard has any goal, besides its apparent desire to destroy all life, remains unclear. Only the fact that it moves through the æther only slightly faster than other shards drift, and began far from the largest and most densely inhabited shards, have prevented it from wiping the Shattered world clean. ==The Witch-Oracle== The Forlorn Shard permits - or is perhaps forced to allow - the inhabitance of only one being upon its surface: [[Telmzu, the Witch-Oracle]]. A mysterious and incredibly powerful wizard and lich, the Witch-Oracle maintains her Shadow Tower near the center of the Forlorn Shard, pursuing goals so inscrutable and enigmatic they seem as madness to beings of lesser age and power. Still, the brave and desperate will brave the Forlorn Shard to speak with her, for no creature, living or otherwise, can provide greater insight than she. [[Category:Skybreak]][[Category:Footprints]][[Category:Shards]]
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