User:Zoey The Edgedancer/Leras

"The infinity of a note held perfectly, never wavering. The majesty of a painting, frozen and still, capturing a slice of life from a time gone by. It was the power of many, many moments compressed somehow into one."

- Kelsier on Preservation

Summary
Leras is the first Vessel of the Shard Preservation, he and Ati originated upon the planet of Yolen and were majour members in the conspiracy to shatter Adonalsium. After the Shattering he took up the Shard Preservation. He and Ati traveled to a rather empty solar system and constructed the planet of Scadrial out of their own Investiture. And created a deal, wherein Preservation would create the planet, and Ruin would eventually be allowed to destroy it. Though Preservation exploited a loophole and sealed Ruin's mind away in Preservation's own perpendicularity, the Well of Ascension. But at the cost of his own mind and body.

For millennia afterward he would slowly decay in mind and body, falling apart and unraveling due to the effects of his sealing away of Ruin. Though before he completely lost his mind and memory, he formed many prophecies to help orchestrate Ruin's downfall, knowing he would eventually be released.

Eventually, after the release of Ruin, Leras faded away completely and perished.

Powers and Stats
Name: Leras | Terr, Frue, Preservation

Age: Unknown | At least 11,000

Gender: Male

Classification: Human | Shard of Adonalsium, Vessel of Preservation

Powers and Stats Base = Unknown Vessel of Preservartion = Immortality, Precognition, Bilocation, Biological Manipulation, Limited Omnipresence, and many more

Base = Unknown Vessel of Preservartion = As the Vessel of Preservation, Leras is an extraordinarily powerful being.

Immortality
He is ageless and immortal, living for thousands of years even when slowly unraveling from the effects of sealing Ruin away in the Well, and by his attack.

Future Sight
Shards are capable of seeing far into the future, well enough to make The Diagram look meagre in comparison.

The future is hard to see for Shards, or for any version of future sight, when faced with another being capable of seeing the future, and that the further one looks the harder it is to make out the future.

Preservation is amongst the Shards that can see into the future, as when held by Leras he made various plans and prophecies for the future.

Pacifism
Preservation seeks to provide stability and preserve the world and its inhabitants in their current state. It values the status quo, regardless of whether or not the people living underneath it are happy, and supports those who seek to keep it. Therefore, it and its holder are incapable of acting in a destructive way, and even if they were to, the act would inevitably serve to preserve more than it would destroy.

Omnipresence
He has Limited Omnipresence throughout all of the Cosmere, with particular focus upon Scadrial, where Preservation is deeply Invested into every single piece of it. Despite the Power itself permeating all things, his body and mind itself can only be in a limited amount of places at one time.

However, Preservation is capable of manifesting his body in multiple places simultaneously and act separately in each manifestation.

Snapping
Preservation is capable of making people undergo "Snapping", which is causing changes to their Spiritweb in order to grant them the ability to use Allomancy.

Investiture
He has access to a effectively infinite supply of Investiture. As with all Investiture, whenever it is used it would be filtered back to the Spiritual Realm for him to use once again. However, it is finite

Biological Manipulation
Using the power of Preservation, Rashek was capable of altering the biology of all life on the planet to deal with the new heat and ash caused by his other interventions into the climate and orbit of the planet. This can safely be assumed to be a basic part of Preservation's abilities.

Mists
Mists are the gaseous form of his Investiture, spreading all across the world. This Mist can be programmed by Preservation to preform certain tasks, such as to out at night and seek out potential Allomancers, then Snap them to awaken their power. They can also use them to empower the Allomancy of certain individuals. He can also manifest in these Mists as a "Mist Spirit", however this only has a very limited ability to effect the Physical Realm.