Twilight Shard

Twilight Shard is an ancient, indigo-colored prism that is the manifestation of the sudden mixture of the negative aspect of the Chaos Force and the negative emotions of the population. It is an antagonist featured within Dimitri Chronicles, a fan-fiction series created by Chamesthehero.

Following the outcome of its legendary, forgotten battle with the Golden Champion and the Ancient Walkers after attempting to plunge Mobius into an eternal darkness in ancient times, its immeasurable power was thought suppressed and sealed away within a mysterious, dense forest known as Mormon Woods.

Introduced within Reign of Darkness, it is revered as the embodiment of darkness in numerous cults found within the continent of Soumerca such as Nightmare Seekers. Its second coming was prophesied, and said that it would orchestrated by the one that has complete affinity for its stored malice, the Dark One.

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Standard form
In its truest and original form, the Twilight Shard retains the appearance of a massive, indigo-colored pentagonal prism. It has sharp edges and smooth facets. Because of its immeasurable negativity, it constantly emanates purple-colored negative Chaos energy to its surroundings.

Mobian form
While transformed into its Mobian incarnation featured in Twilight Whispers, the Twilight Shard takes the appearance of a slim male black-colored horned bull that has a small, but prominent golden ring on its nose.

Adopting the name Mamon the Bull, it has gleaming green eyes that resemble emeralds. He has a large bang that covers its right eye. Mamon is seen in an outfit that consists of black pants, gloves, shoes, a fedora, suit, and tie; similarly to a businessman. In addition, he holds a silver-colored metallic cane that is formed in a straight line.

History and Appearances
Little is known about the mysterious origins of the Twilight Shard. From what has been discovered through notes of the Book of Shadows from Madam Weiss and passed down through oral traditions, the embodiment of darkness surged around the time the Chaos Emeralds were discovered by the Ancient Walkers.

Through the sudden mixture of raw negative Chaos energy from the Chaos Force with intense negative emotions that emanated from the Mobosaurs that roamed around Mobius, the Twilight Shard materialized into a massive, sentient, indigo-colored pentagonal prism that caused terror across the lands.

Empowered by the population's despair, its original true strength was said to be immeasurable. When it attempted to plunge the world into chaos and eternal darkness, a massive battle with the original gods, the Ancient Walkers, arose and terror spread across the lands. It was able to overpower even them.

However, when all hope seemed lost, an ancient hero that rose form humble beginnings was summoned by the Ancient Walkers and used the power of the seven multicolored relics to battle against the Twilight Shard.

Eventually, the embodiment of darkness was thought to be defeated. Having its ultimate dark power suppressed and being sealed away within Mormon Woods, an airborne poisonous miasma curse was placed inside the forest to prevent mortals from reaching it; the poison decimated an entire civilization that lived there.

Legend has it that it would return through the direct assistance of someone that had would be able to inherit some of its strength and lead its future groups: the Dark One. In the search for such being, the numerous cults formed worship the Twilight Shard attempted to find out more about him throughout many generations.

In modern times, most knowledge about the Twilight Shard is obscure and considered myth. It was only later its location was finally discovered and encountered two hedgehogs that attempted to harness its power...

Powers and traits
Twilight Shard supposedly holds an unlimited amount of negative Chaos energy, a highly powerful form of corrupted energy able to bend reality and the time-space continuum whenever properly utilized. Those that harness its powers are granted with a permanent, nigh-invulnerable transformation that boosts their powers.

In actuality, the embodiment of darkness' ultimate malevolent strengths are all derived from its constant, slow-paced global absorption of quintessential negative emotions of the population; and thus, one can infer that the crystal is empowered through conflict and its terrible emotional aftermaths.

Those who harness its malevolent strengths are all granted many of the Twilight Shard's signature abilities: an endless supply of negative Chaos energy for master usage, the power to reincarnate the recently deceased and use their spirits into Chaos energy-based minions called Vices, and much more.

Alternatively, the Twilight Shard is shown successfully capable of invading one's mind through physical contact, absorb and trap spirits within itself, and shape-shift its appearance inside one's conscious mind. Those that are not able to see through its illusions have their spirits forcefully stolen.

It is mentioned in legend that embodiment of darkness' endless malevolent power once rivaled and overpowered other cosmic entities, considering its attempt to plunge Mobius into darkness with its sentient mind. Its presence alone was powerful enough to automatically summon strong indigo-colored blizzards.

However, due to the sudden outcome of its legendary battle with the Golden Champion, its original endless power was supposedly suppressed and lost throughout the ages, though it still slowly regains its power through Rikai the Hedgehog as the latter absorbed all of its strengths in Reign of Darkness.

Fun Facts

 * Twilight Shard's original names were Omega Crystal and Apocalypse Gem.
 * Its massive, pentagonal appearance is a shout-out to the Master Emerald.
 * The showdown that the Twilight Shard triggers in Dimitri Chronicles: Reign of Darkness within Rikai's mind is based on Jimmy Five's battle against Soranin from the widely-acclaimed Monica Teen #16.
 * The first concept of the Twilight Shard involved it being a malevolent version of the purple Chaos Emerald that held far more power than the other six emeralds. This was scrapped.
 * Instead of defeating it in a psychological battle within one's mind in order to absorb its power, the method for obtaining it originally was by swallowing the small gem whole.