shinigamisid Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 Do all kinds of Investitures follow the Balance? The Breath Investiture from Warbreaker is a little sketchy. If someone dies, their Breath dies with them. So, when someone is born, where does their Breath come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 Most likely Endowment. (Nalthis Shard if you somehow didnt knew that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 Also, I'm fairly sure that if you die your breath is actually returned to the planet/Endowment. I doubt it's lost forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landis963 Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 Breaths are essentially a piece of someone's Innate Investiture that Nalthian SDNA allows them to take off like a coat. Innate Investiture returns to the cosmere when a person dies, and coalesces around a soul when a person is born. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 Do all kinds of Investitures follow the Balance? The Breath Investiture from Warbreaker is a little sketchy. If someone dies, their Breath dies with them. So, when someone is born, where does their Breath come from? What happen also to the other part of his Soul (that is also made by Investiture), it's return to the source....In this case Endowment. I don't know if you read other Cosmere books but this is the "standard cycle of Investiture" (if i can call it in that way) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oversleep Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 StroniaxIs there a way to harvest BioChromatic Breath from a planet, if it holds any? (If a person dies, and their body turns to dusty he dust of the earth, then doesn't the earth--or sharever planet they have--therefore hold thousands, if not millions, of BioChromatic Breaths?) Brandon SandersonPossible. It would be the same thing as harvesting the nature of Preservation or Ruin, which--on Scadrial--took the form of nuggets of metal. source (#3) Anyway, if Investiture in the human soul (Preservation and Ruin on Scadrial, Endowments on Nalthis in the form of Breaths) comes from the Shard it means that the Shard would be ultimately drained of Investiture (even if Breaths of the dead are somehow recycled and I see no reason they are) because growing population means that there are more and more of humans to supply with Investiture. It would mean that with every new human born Preservation got weaker but this is not the case - Preservation did expend Investiture once to create humans but after that humans gained pieces of Ruin and Preservation from somewhere else (my theory is that from background Investiture converted by Shard's influence on the planet). Odium wouldn't have to fight directly with Shards, he would just have to wait peacefully as human population grows bigger the Shards would starve themselves to death. That is not the case. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinigamisid Posted February 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 Anyway, if Investiture in the human soul (Preservation and Ruin on Scadrial, Endowments on Nalthis in the form of Breaths) comes from the Shard it means that the Shard would be ultimately drained of Investiture (even if Breaths of the dead are somehow recycled and I see no reason they are) because growing population means that there are more and more of humans to supply with Investiture. It would mean that with every new human born Preservation got weaker but this is not the case - Preservation did expend Investiture once to create humans but after that humans gained pieces of Ruin and Preservation from somewhere else (my theory is that from background Investiture converted by Shard's influence on the planet). Odium wouldn't have to fight directly with Shards, he would just have to wait peacefully as human population grows bigger the Shards would starve themselves to death. That is not the case. Oh, that makes sense. Thanks, Kinght Theoretic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 Or maybe Preservation and Ruin put some amount of Investiture and the living population is limited to that amout avaliable for soul. Something like the Pits of Hatsin that keep an amount of Investiture away and use for the soul's cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndigoAjah Posted March 1, 2016 Report Share Posted March 1, 2016 Anyway, if Investiture in the human soul (Preservation and Ruin on Scadrial, Endowments on Nalthis in the form of Breaths) comes from the Shard it means that the Shard would be ultimately drained of Investiture (even if Breaths of the dead are somehow recycled and I see no reason they are) because growing population means that there are more and more of humans to supply with Investiture. It would mean that with every new human born Preservation got weaker but this is not the case - Preservation did expend Investiture once to create humans but after that humans gained pieces of Ruin and Preservation from somewhere else (my theory is that from background Investiture converted by Shard's influence on the planet). Odium wouldn't have to fight directly with Shards, he would just have to wait peacefully as human population grows bigger the Shards would starve themselves to death. That is not the case. I agree with you, but would like to add that just because Odium doesn't have to fight Shards wouldn't necessarily stop him from wanting to and from being driven to by his Intent. Watching people die from something else can be hate-filled but it seems less so than attacking them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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