Shards of Adonalsium

The Shards of Adonalsium are sixteen beings born from the Shattering of Adonalsium, each the manifestation of certain aspects of its being. Each taken in by one of the participants in its Shattering, and were brought to various Shardworlds, which they Invested.

Each Shard holds a specific Intent that acts as an inexorable driving force behind all of their actions. doing things not out of virtue or malice, but simply acting in accordance with their nature.

Known Shards
Devotion | Sel

Dominion | Sel

Preservation | Scadrial

Ruin | Scadrial

Honor | Roshar

Cultivation | Roshar

Odium | Braize

Endowment | Nalthias

Autonomy | Taldian

Ambition | Threnody

Invention | Unknown

Mercy | Unknown

Valour | Unknown

Power
Each Shard posesses great power beyond any other being in the Cosmere. Capable of Investing themselves in planets and holding authority over its phenomena and inhabitants.

They are capable of controlling the way that magic systems develop on their own Shardworlds, but multiple systems can exist on one planet, such as how Preservation made Allomancy, and Ruin made Hemalurgy. Each powered by their respective Shard's own Investiture.

They are capable of creating complex constructs that can continue even long after the death of its creator. Even capable of creating sapient constructs..

History.
The Shards used to all exist within a singular being, All being unified within Adonalsium. Untill the Shattering, where Adonalsium was slain and broken into Sixteen Shards, each taken in my a member of the group that slew him.

Thus they were taken to planets around the Cosmere, investing within these Shardworlds.