Original design involved different effects of first and second Pillar and teleporting between them. Main theme for Shard's kit and playstyle was to make it more complicated than any other kit until this point.Shard is one of the lowest health characters in the game despite being completely invulnerable in the comic and lore.Shoot a crystalizing beam which traps enemies in 3x3x4 crystal cubes and blinds them for 4 seconds, and additional 2 seconds per every 6 blocks of distance, up to maximum duration of 10 seconds Shard creates tether between Crystal Pillars which inflicts blind, 100% slow, poison and disarm on enemies Pillars cannot be more than 20 block from each other He later stumbled upon The Crystal Shard with which he hoped to attain power. Shard can only have 2 pillars at the same time Akar Kessell is the mage apprentice that was fooled by his master's companions into murdering his master. Holding shift for 1 second spawns Crystal Pillar and grants The Shard 40% speed for 2 seconds This purple crystal can provide ton of crowd control and immobilize entire enemy team as long as his own teammates can protect him and his pillars. To show his true potential The Shard needs good communication with his team. Terrified by alien surrounding it cannot comprehend. Last Shard of unknown race knows that it stuck on unfamiliar planet forever and it has no way of escaping. With no way to stop it miners begged local ice demon to freeze The Shard in exchange for old artifacts, but when promise was broken demon removed his ice trap. Accidentally they awakened the last "living" alien, crystal creature of incomprehensible biology and unknown intentions able to crystallize any organic matter by touch. Greedy miners didn't hesitated to break, having no clue that their discovery was truly a ship of long forgotten alien race which crashed there eons ago. At first it looked just like crystal wall. Unfortunate for them however deep below ground they found what ancients tried to hide forever. So instead humanity explored what they could - mostly ruins of their fallen empire, but also prehistoric cities deep underground. Age of Death took centuries of research and technology away, successfully making dreams of exploring outside their little planet to stay only dreams forever. In the darkness of outer space countless races lives on countless planets, each one as different from another as possible, but humans were never supposed to encounter them. Since they left caves, humans watched night sky and wondered what really is up there among the stars. It violently attacks any shape it doesn't recognize, which happens to be almost everything on Greavesoyl. Shard can only perceive moving objects and their shape. What adult specimens are capable of is currently unknown. This exact creature is, despite being over 10000 years old, a child. It's unknown how Shard's race feeds and reproduces. The acid that Shard can spill also shares this crystalizing properties. Shard's entire body is made of purple crystal that can crystalize all organic matter it touches. It's base form is long creature with sharp edges and cubic head that can open to spit pink acid. Shard measures about 3 meters, however it's shape and form changes often.