Essence of theShard of Adonalsium

By drinking this essence you become the vessel of one of adonalsium 's shards. Adonalsium was a person/thing that created the universe of cosmere, but some thousands of years ago he/it was killed in an event known as "shattering" by 16 people. This resulted in adonalsium's power being split into parts known as shards. The 16 people took one shard each and traveled away from their world.

• Each shard represents a part of adonalsium's nature. You can take one of the known shards or become something new.

• The known shards are: devotion, dominion, preservation, ruin, honor, cultivation, odium, endowment, autonomy, ambition, invention, mercy, valor, whimsy.

• Becoming the vessel of a shard gives you a wide variety of benefits, including functionally infinite magical energy (investiture), but a side effect of becoming a vessel vaporizes your body, but leaves your mind (intellect) intact. You can always create avatars to move around in the world. Avatars are quite strong and nearly immortal.

• Becoming a vessel gives you enough power to move around planets and alter species at a genetic level. You have increased processing speed, where seconds feel like years to you.

• You can invest your magical energy in planets to create magical systems unique to the planet. The mechanics of the magical systems are based on the planet, the species living on the planet, your own nature, etc; but you can guide the magical systems to be advantageous to you.

• This act of investment usually diminishes a shard's power and ties them to the planet or the planetary system, but your investiture won't diminish and you can travel to other planetary systems whenever you want.

• You can appear instantaneously in the planets you've invested in and in multiple locations at the same time, you can also speak in the minds of people on those planets or anywhere else. Going to uninvested planets takes some time.

• Investing a planet creates a portal called perpendicularity, that pierces through all the three realms (physical, spiritual and cognitive realms).

• People can travel to other planets you've invested via the perpendicularity.

• You also have access to future sight, but it's known that preservation and cultivation have extremely clear visions when compared to other shards.

• You can speak to people in dreams and also show your future visions to them as visions of things to come (so basically what gods do all the time).

• You can also split off parts of your self to create constructs like spren (which are like spirits of various things and emotions).

• Normally becoming a vessel turns your thinking process to be more in line with the shard, but you don't have that problem.