Editing List of Shards (section)

===True use===
Unknown, though it seems to be an evolutionary leftover of the entity's dimensional transcendentalism; their ability to cross the multiverse.<ref name=""L.1">It began at a planet that rotated around a star that was simultaneously binary and solitary because of a tear in space that cut through it, transforming it into a double image.  The planet traveled a path that, twice per revolution, intersected a hole in space.  When that planet intersected the hole, the writhing species that lived on it could move between.  Those that could travel could access other layers of that same world.  Other possibilities.  Food was abundant, and so was breeding.  Those that could see and interact with the tears when they passed by had the advantage.<br><br>After a thousand thousand such revolutions, a thousand contests, some began to be able to create and work with their own tears, keeping the subatomic particles with them.<br><br>The fall began there and it took him through worlds he couldn’t count.  Every revolution of his awareness was a cycle, a species wiped out, spaced out by study, by experimentation, by evolution, by statements.  Until he stopped on Earth with a suddenness that almost shattered his mind.<br><br> He was both participant and observer when the landing happened.  When the alien matter came to rest, then settled to watch and study humanity.  It began to pull together a golden-skinned body. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/04/11 Excerpt] from [[Last 20.1]]</ref>

Based on its unusual title and Chevalier's power, it's believed by some fans that this shard was the one the Entities used to destroy planets by merging all the energy from every possible version of them.<ref name="I26 e1">Once they are reformed, they leech all of the heat and energy from countless worlds and concentrate it in a single reality.  The energy boils the oceans of silt-choked waters, disintegrates the landmasses.<br><br>[...]<br><br>The energy is released, and the planet shatters.<br><br>The shattering is so extreme that it extends into other worlds, through the same channels that the fragments used to extend into other realities.  Every single one of the remaining habitable worlds is destroyed in the ensuing blast. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> However, it has since been implied that this is the responsibility of [[Damsel of Distress]]' shard.<ref name=":1">A sphere, cracked like an egg and cracking further, all in slow motion, with energy glowing through the cracks.  Her awareness loomed above it all.<br><br>As slow as it had been, the moment she realized it was a planet, time caught up and everything moved in fast motion.  The planet became dust and debris and there was nothing left behind.<br><br>She closed her eyes until they fit inside her eye sockets again.  All went away, except for- for that energy that she’d seen and felt. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/26 Excerpt] from [[Eclipse x.1]]</ref>