Editing List of Shards (section)

===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-->