Another quick post to clarify the situation with shards. We noticed that
they were mounting up, so a decision was made to lower the decay time on
them to try and de-clutter the realms. While it did succeed, it did make
shard collection painful if you were unlucky to have a heap when the
item decay routine was run. We've brought the decay time back up a
little, so this problem should be alleviated. Keep in mind that while it
is higher than it was for the past few days, they will still decay about
half a month faster than they did before we ran the cleanup!

Penned by My hand on the 19th of Lupar, in the year 539 AF.