[There's a soft sound of rustling, like Joshua's making himself comfortable.]
As you probably know by now, activating shards requires some kind of memory or feeling of your home world. Any memory or emotion will do, as long as it's strong. The next level above the activation step requires a more specific memory in order to affect the world around you. The step above this level of shard magic, I don't yet know, but I would imagine it gets more complicated and specific the higher you go.
However, there are some things that I've come to conclude about shards. They have an intimate connection not only to us, but to the world we come from. They're tied to that world so strongly, that no distance can sever it. However, what if you died? What happens to that connection between your shard and your home world? It's a guess on my part, as I have no sufficient proof, but I believe that the world suffers an incredible amount of damage for losing a shard that's connected to it. If that's true, then it's not so far of a stretch to conclude that when all of the shards connected to that world are lost or in some way have their connection severed, then the world dies and ceases to be.
In that case, our shards are far more precious and powerful than anyone can truly conceive. Rather fascinating, isn't it?
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[There's a soft sound of rustling, like Joshua's making himself comfortable.]
As you probably know by now, activating shards requires some kind of memory or feeling of your home world. Any memory or emotion will do, as long as it's strong. The next level above the activation step requires a more specific memory in order to affect the world around you. The step above this level of shard magic, I don't yet know, but I would imagine it gets more complicated and specific the higher you go.
However, there are some things that I've come to conclude about shards. They have an intimate connection not only to us, but to the world we come from. They're tied to that world so strongly, that no distance can sever it. However, what if you died? What happens to that connection between your shard and your home world? It's a guess on my part, as I have no sufficient proof, but I believe that the world suffers an incredible amount of damage for losing a shard that's connected to it. If that's true, then it's not so far of a stretch to conclude that when all of the shards connected to that world are lost or in some way have their connection severed, then the world dies and ceases to be.
In that case, our shards are far more precious and powerful than anyone can truly conceive. Rather fascinating, isn't it?