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That being said, Dawnshards do confer a certain amount of Investiture on the person that holds them.{{wob ref|14328}} The Investiture of each Dawnshard grants Heightening-like abilities,{{wob ref|14339}} allowing a person to see colors and hear sounds more vividly than before.{{book ref|dawnshard|epilogue}} This is an effect granted by large amounts of Investiture, not because of any specific connection to Endowment.{{wob ref|14328}} In the same way Savants are changed by power over time, the person that is a Dawnshard is also increasingly changed by its power,{{wob ref|14346}} although it is not certain if these changes depend on which Dawnshard is possessed.
Dawnshards are able to protect themselves and their users from certain dangers, such as [[Hemalurgy]].{{wob ref|15937}}
== Mythology ==
|And so, the Dawnshards. The four primal Commands that created all things. And then eventually, they were used to undo Adonalsium itself. . . .
|Nikliasorm{{book ref|dawnshard|19}}}}
The Dawnshards seem to have come into existence with the cosmere itself, as they were the Commands that Adonalsium used to start all of creation.{{book ref|dawnshard|19}}{{wob ref|15933}} It is unknown whether they took the same form before the [[Shattering]], but they were used as part of a weapon that split Adonalsium into the sixteen pieces which would become the Shards.{{wob ref|10439}} It is uncertain whether the specific Commands of Dawnshards have any bearing over the Intents of the Shards that they created.{{wob ref|14322}} At some point Hoid became an unknown Dawnshard, which changed him permanently, although he stopped being a Dawnshard eventually.{{wob ref|14300}}
Humans in the [[Rosharan system]] used the Dawnshards to destroy their former homeworld of [[Ashyn]], before fleeing to Roshar for survival.{{book ref|sa3|113}}{{wob ref|8243}} It is uncertain how they managed to obtain the Dawnshards or who is responsible for this action, but they were utilized in conjunction with some type of Surgebinding to use powerful versions of the ordinary Surges.{{wob ref|14434}} It is unknown which Dawnshards were present on Ashyn or what happened to them following the fall of the planet.
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