This category enumerates the realms known as Shards.

Shards (Enchiridian) are the name of a collection of realms of the Integrum. Their name comes from their origin during The Shattering, when the original, singular realm of the Integrum was fractured into a multiplicity, collectively called the Shards.

Lore about the Shards is plentiful and accurate, being the subject of much study by Template:Category Gods and Template:Category Mortal scholars alike, especially how the function in the Integrum and how to travel between them.

The Shards were formed during the cataclysm known as The Shattering, at the beginning of the Template:Category Shattered Age, all of which share an etymological meaning. When the Template:Category Grand Design of Destiny was destroyed, time and space within the Integrum were forever damaged. The singular realm of the Integrum was split into an unknown number of pieces.

Travel between the Shards first became possible when the Template:Category Fey of Pelithos invented Patternsails which allowed them to fly into the Astral Sky, which adjoins all of the Shards. By flying their patternsails into the Astral Sky, they could descend into any Shard they could navigate to. This is the first time that the inhabitants of the Shards met each other.

Later in the Shattered Age, the Template:Category Ruk of Tonwei Unchained were able to create another form of travel between shards: Shard Gates. Unfortunately, this invention was first used to perpetrate wars among Mortals and Gods across the Shards. Eventually, however, peace came to the Shards and a multi-Shard society prospered until the end of the age.

After The Fall, the