Editing Shroud

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|related=[[Father machine]]
|type=[[Investiture|Invested]] miasma of consumed souls
|world=Komashi
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[Yumi and the Nightmare Painter]]
}}

The '''shroud''' is a black miasma of unbound [[Investiture]] that covers the planet of [[Komashi]]{{book ref|yumi|21}} and is the source of the [[nightmare]]s there. It consists of the waste created from the souls of the people of [[Torio]] after they were consumed by the [[father machine]];{{book ref|yumi|39}} these souls have lost most of their [[Identity]], but not all of it.{{wob ref|16397}}

== Characteristics and Attributes ==
The shroud is described as a seemingly endless, inky black darkness.{{book ref|yumi|1}} The surface has an appearance somewhat like black ink or tar, though it doesn't reflect any light. The surface appears to churn slowly. When a nightmare exits the shroud, the surface at the point of transition ripples for a time afterwards, showing it was disrupted.{{book ref|yumi|3}} The movement of the shroud's surface is more something that one senses rather than something they can see.{{book ref|yumi|32}} The shroud is not perfectly uniform--a spaceship launch from Nagadan was once postponed because the shroud was too thick at the time.{{book ref|yumi|21}}

Despite this usual appearance, the shroud can be made to take other forms. The machine is able to force the shroud to take the appearance of Torish villages, along with the surrounding countryside, which is what it uses to imprison the [[yoki-hijo]].{{book ref|yumi|39}} It is also able to make the shroud create a solid wall around the boundary of these prisons.{{book ref|yumi|33}} On one occasion, [[Yumi]] sees the form of a fellow yoki-hijo in the shroud, though the precise cause is unclear.{{book ref|yumi|32}} In a sense, the nightmares themselves are a fragment of the shroud given form.{{book ref|yumi|39}}

Some other forms of Investiture repel the shroud. Most notably [[hion]] lines keep the shroud at bay. Cities built around networks of hion are able to exist within a bubble--the shroud itself forming a dome around the settlement.{{book ref|yumi|1}}{{book ref|yumi|5}} Yumi is also able to push the shroud back by stacking stones, though the shroud is able to resist this to some extent.{{book ref|yumi|32}} [[Nikaro]] is unable to accomplish this because he is not a yoki-hijo.{{book ref|yumi|35}} [[Nightblood]] would feed on the shroud.{{wob ref|15547}}

The shroud generally blocks all light from passing through, obscuring a view of celestial bodies from the surface of the planet. The only exception to this is the light of [[UTol]], which shines through the shroud for unknown reasons.{{book ref|yumi|25}} The domes that imprisoned the yoki-hijo were also able to allow sunlight through without allowing light back out the other way.{{book ref|yumi|40}} Yumi is also able to see her [[Connection]] to the other yoki-hijo through it.{{book ref|yumi|40}} An [[Allomancer]] burning [[tin]] would be able to see through it clearly.{{wob ref|15546}}{{book ref|yumi|40}}

== History ==
When the father machine was activated, it initially utilized the souls of the people of Torio as an energy source. The "waste" of this process--the unused portions of the peoples' souls--was expelled into the air, and it rained down to blanket the entire planet.{{book ref|yumi|21}}{{book ref|yumi|39}} This blocked out light to the planet's surface, forcing plant and animal life to adapt to a reliance on hion for energy.{{book ref|yumi|39}} Limited fragments remain to document what happened at this point in the history of Komashi.{{book ref|yumi|5}} In these early days, nightmares were not as common, though developed hion lines were also not to be found.{{book ref|yumi|24}}

The machine was, to some extent, maintaining the presence of the shroud. When Yumi destroyed the machine, this caused the shroud to permanently evaporate.{{book ref|yumi|39}}{{book ref|yumi|40}}

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