Editing List of Shards (section)

==The Negotiator==
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He would live, because he’d given himself enough power.  With the criteria he had set, there was no way for the hosts to win, unless he deviated.  With the granted powers, there was no way for them to do any meaningful harm to him.  The entity could see the permutations, the ways they moved and interacted.  He called on a particular fragment, yet to be released in search of a host, and-

''Familiar.  A familiar presence.''


-he could get an understanding of the hosts, filling in blanks that the future-sight and his own mind couldn’t.  See how they moved, how they cooperated, how they didn’t cooperate.  He could see the strategies they could possibly employ, the strategies they couldn’t.-->

===Known Hosts===
*[[Tattletale]]
*[[Witness]] ([[Non-Canon]])

===True Use===
Possibly supplementing the work from other shards when choosing a target.<!--Section where the entities uses a shard to fill in the blanks?-->

===Possible Powers===
The shard might have some other capabilities including:<ref>Tattletale's power would just scale up constantly in power, reach, and intensity of detail. The shard might not have broken 100% clean - Scion might have given it some tools somewhere in there, so I can imagine a Tattletale-sub-entity scaling up to a breaker state or tapping into a tinker ability to network/develop more hardware/brainware to process it all. Scale up to processing multiple dimensions at once, and develop/manifest/obtain a weapon. Going back to the tools Scion gave, a simple blaster power with a clean, possibly invisble terrain-penetrating laser, with Full-bore-tattletale focus at work to discern the best possible weak point? Or even just a Tattletale in the middle of it, holding a gun? Picture her systematically picking off threats one after another, from highest priority to lowest, from the center of the incident sites, maximum range. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15025980 Wildbow of Spacebattles]</ref> 
*Thinker
*Blaster with secondary shaker abilities
*Tinker

However these are only mentioned for the purpose of speculating about what an "Unshackled Tattletale" would look like, and may not truly represent what powers the shard is capable of granting.

===Avatar===
Within the [[Shardspace]], the Negotiator manifests as an extension of the landscape. It is built like a cone poised on another cone, and it is constantly rotating. It had an abstract eyeless head, with wires extending down its body.<ref>I looked over, and I could see that past the tear in the landscape, Tattletale’s agent was an extension of the landscape, built almost like a cone poised on another cone, except it was a person’s body in a toga-cut dress, twisting and rotating in jerks, like every movement snapped its own spine.<br><br>It had an abstract, eyeless, mouthless head bearing a full head of thick cords that could have been wires, that trailed down to the crystal below her.  Each jerky rotation suggested a different number of arms, as she interacted with the forest around her, bringing up images just by facing each crystal.  Each image that was brought up sparked off transmissions for elsewhere. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/21/from-within-16-12/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.12]]</ref>

It is perpetually working, examining and managing crystals, creating false ones.<ref>We were closer to Tattletale’s agent now.  Precarious, teetering, ever-examining.  As we got closer, though, the functionality seemed to change, much as the many-handed ‘Mr. Hugs’ had seemed to multiply the number of hands and the amount of tinkertech it could produce.<br><br>Building false crystals that looked like smoke but held a crystal-like shape, propping them up.  Moving crystals.  All while facing down the other creature, [...] The way it sets up crystals and moves them.  That’s how it builds bridges. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/21/from-within-16-12/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.12]]</ref>

When among the crystals of the Negotiator, one is capable of gleaning some information about the world at large by extension of its power. However, all the usual downsides of this power remain, since this shard attacks via information.<!-- 16.12 huge scene right before questioning, literally assaults them with the worst memories-->