Koravellium Avast (The Stormlight Archive)

"I control all things that can be grown, nurtured.

That includes the thorns."

Summary
Koravellium Avast, also known as Cultivation, is a Dragon from Yolen, who took up the Shard of Cultivation.

She was one of the main sixteen individuals who acted in the conspiracy to shatter Adonalsium, and she took up the Shard of Cultivation and went to the planet of Roshar alongside her lover, Tanavast. Becoming the Gods of the native Singer peoples. However, after the arrival of Odium and humanity on Roshar, she and her husband sided with humanity and fought against Odium. Though Honor still perished in the conflict.

Over the years, she began to plan for the eventual return of Odium, and appeared to three individuals which went to the Nightwatcher. Dalinar, Taravangian, and Lift; giving them specific boons and banes to better work with her plans and bring about the demise of Odium. The most notable of which being the boon and bane she gave to Taravangian, which made him the prime vessel for Odium, and led to his Ascension after killing Rayse.

After he Ascended, she decided to become a teacher to him, to teach him how to use his new power and state of being.

Powers and Stats
Name: Koravellium Avast | Cultivation, Mother of the World, She Who Brings the Dews at Dawn, Koravari

Age: At least 11,000

Gender: Female

Classification: Dragon | Shard of Adonalsium, Vessel of Cultivation

Powers and Abilities: Dragon = Shapeshifting; Longevity, possibly Immortality Cultivation = Power Bestowal, Curse Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Avatar Creation, Precognition, Limited Omnipresence, Teleportation, Biology Manipulation, Perception Manipulation

Dragon =

Shapeshifting
As a Dragon she is capable of a large degree of shapeshifting. The exact rules or limitations of it are unknown, but she was capable of changing form into a human.

Longevity
Dragons are capable of living for very long periods of time. For instance, Frost, a dragon, is still alive even after thousands of years. They are referred to as "essentially immortal", and as being constantly in good health. . Dragons do not age as humans, or any other race, do. Cultivation =

Old Magic
The Old Magic is a unique form of magic held by Cultivation and the Nightwatcher. It involves giving individuals both a curse and a blessing when they request it. Through it she can grant powers, manipulate peoples memories, the way they perceive the world, or even change ones race or species


 * For Taravangian she blessed him with both great intellect and great compassion, but cursed him to never have both at the same time. Making it so that his intellect and his compassion both fluctuated with a negative relationship.


 * For Dalinar she erased his memories of Evi, so that he could be forgiven for his deeds, furthermore, it alters his perception so that whenever her name is mentioned he would just hear "shshsh"


 * Av's father received a heap of good cloth, which he sold to keep his family from starving during the lurnip famine, as a curse he sees the world upsidedown


 * Lift asked to never change, the exact boon and bane are unknown. But she is known to be granted the ability to use Lifelight, and to metabolize food into Lifelight

Time Manipulation
All Shards are capable of bending and stretching time to their whims, minutes being described as years from the point of view of a god.

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.

This allowed her to make far reaching plans in order to counter Odium.

Splinter Creation
She is capable of breaking off parts of herself and making powerful sentient constructs out of them known as Splinters. Her most notable Splinter is that of the Nightwatcher.

Avatar Creation
All Shards are capable of creating Avatars

These Avatars can be spread throughout the Cosmere, but unlike Splinters lack full autonomy