The 43rd Shard, "Nil": Originally taking the form of a Shard of unknown purpose and function, consisting of beautiful, rolling green hills, cyan oceans, wondrous clouds and shining stars, this Shard came to be populated by two races, the Onomu and the Umono, that shared and struggled for the planet and its 6 moons. The Onomu took the form of a race of silver-haired, violet eyed, elf-like humanoids, and had an extremely peaceful civilization that valued the arts and a respect for history and culture, and suffered great angst due to how the archives of their world were incomplete due to some cataclysm of the ancient past. On the other hand, the Umono were a savage race of brutish, pale-skinned, almost reptilian humanoids who hid in the depths of the Shard, away from view. They struggled with each other constantly, and as such could not develop culturally or technologically very well. These two races hated each other, but the Onomu's pacifism and better technology meant they did not attack the Umono, and the Umono's warring with each other and lack of technology meant that they could not attack the Onomu. The introduction of the Shard to the network meant little to change this - if anything it just lead to trade with other races on the Onomu's side and rare attacks from other races on the Umono's side. However, one day a mysterious, hideous woman in black robes came to contact the Umono tribes, communicating with them, convincing them to stop attacking each other, and began teaching them how to create various forms of technology - industry, convenience, robots... and most importantly, advanced weapons. The tribes, now united, and granted heavy amounts of resources, were now able to attack the rival race they hated so much, and the technology the Onomu had created to protect themselves without resorting to violence was rapidly failing - guns breached shields, scanners revealed hidden things, and ships could catch up with even their fastest vessels - and as the Crone continued to teach the Umono, it seemed more and more likely that the Umono would eventually exterminate the Onomu. It was then, at the hour of peril, a woman in golden, beautiful armor appeared, flanked by men in similar appearance. Her mask was like the face of the most beautiful of Onomu sages, and her cape was made of varied, exalted shades of purple. She offered her sponsorship to help the Onomu survive their war, both by teaching them how to use magic to combat the advanced technology of the Umono, but also by helping them rationalize their way out of pacifism into a semi-martial state. Quickly, the tide began to shift, and the war became even, with the invaders' technology fought with advanced magic.

 However, as the Crone and the Warrior continued to advise their patron races, both became more extreme - the Umono were now glassing entire cities, while the Onomu were rapidly abandoning their pacifism in order to rout their enemies - in time, both factions seemed to believe genocide was the only way to stop the ongoing war, as neither desired to surrender due to their hatred and experiences with the other side's weapons. One day, the Crone disappeared, and stopped offering her teachings to the Umono, and soon the war began to shift entirely in the Onomu's favor. The war quickly became a bloodbath of Umono, who could not resist the assault of the Onomu, who by now hated them so dearly they believed extinction was the only way to restore their Shard to normal. Eventually, they devised a magic plague - a weapon of great evil, intended only to exterminate the Umono, and they soon released it, purging the Umono within days. However - a terrible truth was soon uncovered afterwards. The Onomu and Umono were once the same race, before some cataclysm in ancient times split them into two halves, one embodying peace and one embodying war, and they discovered that if one side were to ever be completely destroyed, the other would lose its ability to reproduce and quickly begin to die off, turning into dust. Not long after this revelation, when panic began to sweep the world, the Warrior took off her mask - revealing she and the Crone were in fact one and the same, and this was all part of a plan to cause endless suffering, death, and to force one side to eventually create a weapon that would exterminate the other side, all as part of a ritual she was performing for an unknown reason - one she claimed was to understand the works of "great heretic." She called herself Lucia, the Witch of Eyes, the Witch of the Fallen, the Hunter King and the All Seeing Eye, and declared that the Onomu were nothing more than puppets she had perverted from their roots to enact genocide, and would use their curses to enact the final stage of her ritual. Panic and fear devoured their world, spawning a thousand curses of the Onomu race, just as their final genocide had born a thousand curses from the Umono race, and, in time, the Onomu were undone, only dust and ash remaining. Lucia then started to complete her great ritual, using the tower at the center of the Onomu's capitol city as a focus, gathering all the curses that had been born into the world, and mixing them with the ashes that remained of the Onomu and the rotting corpses that remained of the Umono, creating a fine, black sludge, the curses saturating it, and the world around it, perverting and corrupting the land, turning the sky crimson, the sun black, and leaving an unearthly fog in the air, as a horrific black mud soon formed from the mixed corpses and ashes, and from this mud emerged a new race - taking the form of pale-skinned, bald women with silver eyes, and covered in various black markings. Her ritual complete, Lucia left the world, but not before naming her new race the Nilumbrae, and the world they inhabited she named Nil, telling the children she had sired to always create new curses, so that their influence - and through them - her influence, may always profane the 108 Shards.