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Invention watched the explosion, feeling helpless. The power, though, was… interested. Not in the destruction, but in the audacity, the creativity, such an action represented. Alph was terrifyingly unpredictable and alarmingly clever, but Virtuosity was less a problem. There were other reasons too - considering many options and many factors, Invention left Bit open to the ravages of the Invested supernova. It was barren, after all, and would be unharmed. 
The “barren” planet of Bit spun slowly (though for a planet it was fast, its day the same as that of Yolen’s), dust of blue-green metal (for that is the color of Laykium) beginning to form a line at the terminator. As the day went on, the dust followed the sunset and sunrise, brushing across the arid surface of the planet. The line grew thicker, any Laykium it passed joining the rotation. And Invention marveled at what their creation had done, beginning to fill with great excitement. 

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On 7/30/2025 at 3:52 AM, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

 

Someone drag valor in here.

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Thus it ended.

The star exploded in a rush of Investiture, piercing the three realms. Light burst forth from the blast, and Light followed. The brilliance of the supernova nearly blinded even His godly eyes. 

Would that they had been blinded, so that he would not have to witness the desolation.

The blast ripped through anything in its path, destroying the star system almost instantly. The blast through the Spiritual Realm traveled maddening fast. At that rate, it would reach the nearest planets within minutes.

And everyone would die.

Ikaretekeketeraki'nantaríãī knew that if he stayed, he would be destroyed. Still the power resisted. It wanted to stay. To fight. To be Valorous. 

Ikaretekeketeraki'nantaríãī did not agree with the power's primal urgings. He knew that Valor had to flee. And so he tried to reason with the power, as much as anyone could reason with the raw essence of bravery. This is not Valor! Valor is not dying on a needless battlefield, simply because you can. Valor is being unafraid to do so if it is necessary! 

This is not necessary. I can see that the other Shards have a plan!  My death will not help this battle. My death will weaken the forces of good! Valor is not self-sacrifice. Valor is willingness to die to further a just cause. 

Valor is not death.

Valor is nobility in death. 

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1 hour ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

Thus it ended.

The star exploded in a rush of Investiture, piercing the three realms. Light burst forth from the blast, and Light followed. The brilliance of the supernova nearly blinded even His godly eyes. 

Would that they had been blinded, so that he would not have to witness the desolation.

The blast ripped through anything in its path, destroying the star system almost instantly. The blast through the Spiritual Realm traveled maddening fast. At that rate, it would reach the nearest planets within minutes.

And everyone would die.

Ikaretekeketeraki'nantaríãī knew that if he stayed, he would be destroyed. Still the power resisted. It wanted to stay. To fight. To be Valorous. 

Ikaretekeketeraki'nantaríãī did not agree with the power's primal urgings. He knew that Valor had to flee. And so he tried to reason with the power, as much as anyone could reason with the raw essence of bravery. This is not Valor! Valor is not dying on a needless battlefield, simply because you can. Valor is being unafraid to do so if it is necessary! 

This is not necessary. I can see that the other Shards have a plan!  My death will not help this battle. My death will weaken the forces of good! Valor is not self-sacrifice. Valor is willingness to die to further a just cause. 

Valor is not death.

Valor is nobility in death. 

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Absolutely peak

 

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2 hours ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

Thus it ended.

The star exploded in a rush of Investiture, piercing the three realms. Light burst forth from the blast, and Light followed. The brilliance of the supernova nearly blinded even His godly eyes. 

Would that they had been blinded, so that he would not have to witness the desolation.

The blast ripped through anything in its path, destroying the star system almost instantly. The blast through the Spiritual Realm traveled maddening fast. At that rate, it would reach the nearest planets within minutes.

And everyone would die.

Ikaretekeketeraki'nantaríãī knew that if he stayed, he would be destroyed. Still the power resisted. It wanted to stay. To fight. To be Valorous. 

Ikaretekeketeraki'nantaríãī did not agree with the power's primal urgings. He knew that Valor had to flee. And so he tried to reason with the power, as much as anyone could reason with the raw essence of bravery. This is not Valor! Valor is not dying on a needless battlefield, simply because you can. Valor is being unafraid to do so if it is necessary! 

This is not necessary. I can see that the other Shards have a plan!  My death will not help this battle. My death will weaken the forces of good! Valor is not self-sacrifice. Valor is willingness to die to further a just cause. 

Valor is not death.

Valor is nobility in death. 

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Good!

But, the power doesn't travel the Spiritual very well and it's going through the cognitive. It will take a 2 days for Roshar, the nearest planet, to get hit.

 

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4 hours ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

Thus it ended.

The star exploded in a rush of Investiture, piercing the three realms. Light burst forth from the blast, and Light followed. The brilliance of the supernova nearly blinded even His godly eyes. 

Would that they had been blinded, so that he would not have to witness the desolation.

The blast ripped through anything in its path, destroying the star system almost instantly. The blast through the Spiritual Realm traveled maddening fast. At that rate, it would reach the nearest planets within minutes.

And everyone would die.

Ikaretekeketeraki'nantaríãī knew that if he stayed, he would be destroyed. Still the power resisted. It wanted to stay. To fight. To be Valorous. 

Ikaretekeketeraki'nantaríãī did not agree with the power's primal urgings. He knew that Valor had to flee. And so he tried to reason with the power, as much as anyone could reason with the raw essence of bravery. This is not Valor! Valor is not dying on a needless battlefield, simply because you can. Valor is being unafraid to do so if it is necessary! 

This is not necessary. I can see that the other Shards have a plan!  My death will not help this battle. My death will weaken the forces of good! Valor is not self-sacrifice. Valor is willingness to die to further a just cause. 

Valor is not death.

Valor is nobility in death. 

Nice. That was almost worth waiting for.

Spoiler

JK

 

Posted
7 hours ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

Thus it ended.

The star exploded in a rush of Investiture, piercing the three realms. Light burst forth from the blast, and Light followed. The brilliance of the supernova nearly blinded even His godly eyes. 

Would that they had been blinded, so that he would not have to witness the desolation.

The blast ripped through anything in its path, destroying the star system almost instantly. The blast through the Spiritual Realm traveled maddening fast. At that rate, it would reach the nearest planets within minutes.

And everyone would die.

Ikaretekeketeraki'nantaríãī knew that if he stayed, he would be destroyed. Still the power resisted. It wanted to stay. To fight. To be Valorous. 

Ikaretekeketeraki'nantaríãī did not agree with the power's primal urgings. He knew that Valor had to flee. And so he tried to reason with the power, as much as anyone could reason with the raw essence of bravery. This is not Valor! Valor is not dying on a needless battlefield, simply because you can. Valor is being unafraid to do so if it is necessary! 

This is not necessary. I can see that the other Shards have a plan!  My death will not help this battle. My death will weaken the forces of good! Valor is not self-sacrifice. Valor is willingness to die to further a just cause. 

Valor is not death.

Valor is nobility in death. 

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I Love how you put your full name, both times.

 

Posted
8 hours ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

 

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Roshar is the nearest shardic planet. There's probably life elsewhere in the cosmere.

Well there was.

 

Posted
3 hours ago, Argenti said:

Roshar is the nearest shardic planet. There's probably life elsewhere in the cosmere.

Well there was.

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tbh, i find this to be quite the waste of potential. Perhaps Valor could find it in his capabilities to lessen the damaging effects of the blast, such that some modicum of life survives on other planets, and can recover.

 

Posted
14 minutes ago, ChickenBonanza said:

 

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Dw, Virtuosity is re seeding the universe. In his image.

It also makes it easier on us, we don't need to guess as much.

 

Posted
8 minutes ago, Argenti said:

Dw, Virtuosity is re seeding the universe. In his image.

It also makes it easier on us, we don't need to guess as much.

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But making little backwater untainted planets is fun! No guessing needed! Alas, no longer.

 

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59 minutes ago, ChickenBonanza said:

 

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You have my permission to make weird little backwater planets seeded by virtuosity's investiture. They'll just be very low power.

 

Posted
2 hours ago, ChickenBonanza said:

 

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Tbh your defense auto happens. Mraize sucks it up without Dominion needing to do anything.

 

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Virtuosity detonated a star. Irritating, really. They could’ve all worked their own wonders, and never had to see each other again. Now they were looking for the Dawnshards. ‘Seek.’ Someone should kill them. Only reasonable thing, when faced with a god that cared so little for peace.

Alas, it could not be him. Mascarose had decided to be benevolent, to the small slice of creation allotted to him.

Adonalsium had left behind gods, on Roshar. Little ones, whose purposes fit quite well with what they now faced. Eager, they were, to protect the system Adonalsium left to them. With prepared Mantles of his Investiture, they could be of some use, at least until their reserves ran out.

Physical force was a simple enough thing to stop. He exerted his own, reduced energy, nullified what was there. Adonalsium’s Wind found themselves especially suited to this.

Investiture was more troublesome to handle. It wished to imbed itself into the system. Mascarose adamantly refused to let it. Holding it, guiding it away and towards a different target.

He had no name for the third planet, yet its core held the property to draw in Investiture. He saw this, and encouraged it. Foreign Investiture found itself trapped within the orbit of this planet, not to do its damage elsewhere. Small parasites existed in the roiling storm, whose purpose it was to embed themselves into the soul of another. Without a planet as host, they withered and died.

Adonalsium’s Night found purpose in this. A Shard’s mind would feel the trapping of even one of its many limbs. Unless she hid such attention. ‘To shroud,’ had been Adonalsium’s purpose for her. She had not yet seen opportunity to fulfill that purpose, until know.

A well of power, contained, controlled, hidden from sight. Dominion knew intrinsically what to do next. This Investiture could not be allowed to remain within the influence of the Shard Virtuosity. Or, even, the diluted compaction of lost life it carried. A product of ‘Virtuosity’.

Slowly, the power fell towards the planet, and Dominion linked itself to it, steadily changed its tone until much was red and some a sharpened spear.

Edited by ChickenBonanza

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