The Shard

Comic

* Chapter 2

## **The Shard, Crystaline Alien**

Shard measures about 3 meters, however it's shape and form changes often. It's base form is long creature with sharp edges and cubic head that can open to spit pink acid. Shard's entire body is made of purple crystal that can crystalize all organic matter it touches. The acid that Shard can spill also shares this crystalizing properties. It's unknown how Shard's race feeds and reproduces. This exact creature is, despite being over 10000 years old, a child. What adult specimens are capable of is *currently* unknown.

Shard can only perceive moving objects and their shape. It violently attacks any shape it doesn't recognize, which happens to be almost everything on Greavesoyl.

## **Story**

Since they left caves, humans watched night sky and wondered what really is up there among the stars. In the darkness of outer space countless races lives on countless planets, each one as different from another as possible, but humans were never supposed to encounter them. Age of Death took centuries of research and technology away, successfully making dreams of exploring outside their little planet to stay only dreams forever. So instead humanity explored what they could - mostly ruins of their fallen empire, but also prehistoric cities deep underground. Unfortunate for them however deep below ground they found what ancients tried to hide forever. At first it looked just like crystal wall. Greedy miners didn't hesitated to break, having no clue that their discovery was truly a ship of long forgotten alien race which crashed there eons ago. Accidentally they awakened the last "living" alien, crystal creature of incomprehensible biology and unknown intentions able to crystallize any organic matter by touch. With no way to stop it miners begged local ice demon to freeze The Shard in exchange for old artifacts, but when promise was broken demon removed his ice trap.

Last Shard of unknown race knows that it stuck on unfamiliar planet forever and it has no way of escaping. Terrified by alien surrounding it cannot comprehend.

## **In-game**

To show his true potential The Shard needs good communication with his team. This purple crystal can provide ton of crowd control and immobilize entire enemy team as long as his own teammates can protect him and his pillars.

Abilities
Shard can only have 2 pillars at the same time, and the pillars cannot be more than 20 block from each other.
Pillars can be destroyer by enemy team
 Gateway of Nullification
Gateway lasts 5 seconds.
 Crystal Containment

## **Trivia**

* Shard is one of the lowest health characters in the game despite being almost invulnerable in the comic.
* In fact, Shard is **not** completely indestructible. It can be damaged and killed, but at the time of facing it, neither Pei, Cane or Eleya had any means to inflict damage to it.
* Main theme for Shard's kit and playstyle was to make it more complicated than any other kit until this point. Original design involved different effects of first and second Pillar and teleporting between them.
* Initially the effect of Crystal Containment was called "Petrify", but was changed for Souhhu's release.