Erebus Splinter

The Erebus Splinter is a shard of the veil itself. Right-click to break it and an Erebus Tear opens somewhere in the overworld, no waiting for the timer, no waiting on the server.

The tear it opens is a normal one in every respect: it arrives at whatever tier the level cap currently allows, at one of the ordinary tear sites, and it's open to everyone on the server.

Using one

• Right-click to break it. The tear opens on its own; you don't pick the spot.
• It won't open over a live breach. Only one Erebus Tear can be open at a time, so a Splinter thrown while another is running does nothing.
• It isn't spent unless a tear actually opens. A refused break leaves the Splinter in your inventory, so there's no way to waste one by mistiming it.

That last point makes spares safe to sit on: extras queue up in inventories rather than stacking breaches on top of each other.

Where to get it

Uber bosses: all four drop it, and it's one of the more common lines on their tables.

That closes a loop worth knowing about: Uber keys come out of the Erebus Crates that high-tier tears pay, and ubers pay Splinters that open more tears. Kill an uber, open a tear, seal it for the crates, summon the next uber.