The story is set in modern times, and as such could possibly be affected by events happening in the real world.
What makes this world different: Shards.
The world has countless numbers of objects called Shards. These items are remnants of an ancient, powerful, and colossal object the likes of which man cannot even fathom. What is was, why it was broken, or HOW it was broken remain a mystery. All that is known is that these Shards are drawn to each other and that together they are immensely more powerful then they are apart.
Ninety-nine out of a hundred of these objects are shaped like regular polyhedrons. Think of them as dice, the least powerful being the 4-sided tetrahedron, increasing in power to the 6-sided cube, the 8-sided octahedron, the 12-sided dodecahedron, and finally, the 20-sided icosahedron. The more sides a Shard has, the rarer and more powerful it is. Shards are roughly the size of common playing dice.
In addition to the more common ones, there are extremely rare Shards. Some Shards were warped in the process of being made and have shapes that are convoluted and eerie, such as spirals, stars, or loops. The rarest Shards, however, are know as Perfect Shards. These perfectly round spheres don't seem to be broken at all. In addition to the great power they already hold, Perfect Shards are known to draw out the most potent abilities of other Shards.
To gain the power a Shard holds, the Shard must be absorbed. Most Shard-users don't know what exactly they did to absorb the power. Many descriptions exist of what absorbing is, including pulling the power out of the shard, letting it's power sink into you, or 'activating' the Shard, among others. No one can be taught how to absorb a Shard, he or she simply 'knows' how to do it.
Little is known about what power a shard holds until it is absorbed. The color of a Shard tends to correspond to the elemental composition of the powers. For example, a Shard with a Plant-focused power would be more green and brown, while a Shard with a Heat-based power would be yellowish-orange.
~Vladimir Murek of Kep
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