Guest Somebody from Scadrial Posted September 14, 2020 Report Share Posted September 14, 2020 (edited) So we know that shardplate can be painted but can shardblades? And also are different colored "alive" Spren shardblades possible? Edited September 14, 2020 by Somebody from Roshar Dumb autocorrect 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunamor Posted September 14, 2020 Report Share Posted September 14, 2020 So as for the paint, I’m pretty sure it’s possible, as adding a gemstone ornamentation to one was how they found out they could summon and dismiss them in the first place. I’m unsure about the differently colored blades, though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Oltux72 Posted September 14, 2020 Report Share Posted September 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Lunamor said: So as for the paint, I’m pretty sure it’s possible, as adding a gemstone ornamentation to one was how they found out they could summon and dismiss them in the first place. Before they added the gem stones, the blades could not be dismissed. Hence the question whether the ornament would stay on the blade when it was dismissed was moot. If it physically stuck to it, decoration was possible. You cannot use what can be done to a permanent blade to decide what can be done to a dismissable blade. Blades will always appear in pristine condition, even if you used it to mess around in the gunky interior of a dead chasmfiend before you dismissed it. So, well, yes you can put paint on a blade, yet when you dismiss the blade, the paint will stay behind. Gem stones are special. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+robardin Posted September 14, 2020 Report Share Posted September 14, 2020 3 hours ago, Oltux72 said: Blades will always appear in pristine condition, even if you used it to mess around in the gunky interior of a dead chasmfiend before you dismissed it. So, well, yes you can put paint on a blade, yet when you dismiss the blade, the paint will stay behind. Gem stones are special. This is what I would have said, as well. It also made me think about the painted Shardplate, which shatters after enough blows, where the missing panels later have to be "regrown" from the largest remaining piece by "feeding it Stormlight". (This was described by Dalinar in TWoK when thinking about pieces of his Plate he left behind at the plateau for the Parshendi to pick up - as long as he got away with "most" of the Plate, his armorers would "win" the entire suit and the Parshendi remnant would fall apart.) So I assume that means painting Shardplate is something that is done each time it is regrown back to a full suit, as what "grows back" would not be painted either. And really, I find the mechanism for "dead Shardplate" even more interesting now that we know what "dead Shardblades" have as their basis since the end of WoR. If a Radiant only gets Plate at the Fourth Ideal, shouldn't the "dead Shardplate" be somehow linked or matched up with a specific dead Shardblade, the one that's the spren for whose bond the Plate extended from? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Somebody from Scadrial Posted September 16, 2020 Report Share Posted September 16, 2020 Thank you for your replies and @Oltux72 saying gemstones are special seems slightly dismissive and as Brandon has given a yes but RAFO on summoning dead shardplate makes me be more on the side of paint is possible and the whole "the blades adapted to the gemstones" makes me think that they would gain the qualities of paint but I appreciate your opinion 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Oltux72 Posted September 16, 2020 Report Share Posted September 16, 2020 19 minutes ago, Somebody from Roshar said: Thank you for your replies and @Oltux72 saying gemstones are special seems slightly dismissive Sorry. Yet gems are special on Roshar enable soulcasting the only material you cannot make by Soulcasting (you can make even aluminium) can hold Stormlight potentially perfectly The idea that you can draw conclusion for other materials from gem stones is daring. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Somebody from Scadrial Posted September 16, 2020 Report Share Posted September 16, 2020 @Oltux72 gemstone powdered paint??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Oltux72 Posted September 16, 2020 Report Share Posted September 16, 2020 12 minutes ago, Somebody from Roshar said: @Oltux72 gemstone powdered paint??? Ingenious. That may work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Somebody from Scadrial Posted September 16, 2020 Report Share Posted September 16, 2020 Just now, Oltux72 said: Ingenious. That may work. I was kidding but ok (I just realized you might be kidding to lol) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtide_Leviathan Posted September 18, 2020 Report Share Posted September 18, 2020 There's been a few WoBs about this actually Quote Liar_of_partinel Are shardblades uniform metal, or do they have different colors on the handle/hilt or whatever? Could you paint a shardblade and have it retain the paint when disappearing/reappearing? Brandon Sanderson A Blade won't retain ornaments when dismissed, I'm afraid, including coloration. HOWEVER, they could be made to change colors when alive, and even their texture. So many Blades in the world have multiple tones, and the grip tends to be of a different texture. They're uniform metal, but don't always feel/look like it. General Reddit 2020 (June 30, 2020) Quote Questioner So, I noticed in the books that they like to paint their Shardplate, most of them do, with one notable exception. The Shardplate isn't dismissed, so I imagine, when it's broken, they have to repaint it after they've regrown it? Brandon Sanderson Yeah. Questioner So, if I painted a Shardblade and then dismissed it, would I have used paint in the shape of a Shard to sell? Brandon Sanderson Uh-- it would come back without the paint. Questioner So, the paint would go away with it, but not come back? Brandon Sanderson I've never been asked this before, let me think about it. I think the paint would get left behind. Questioner So I would have used paint in the shape of a Shard? Brandon Sanderson Yeah, you would, yeah. Questioner So, you could mold a Shard? Brandon Sanderson You could mold a Shard, yeah, you could totally do that. Yeah... I haven't been asked that before but that's my answer right now, because-- yeah. Questioner If the books contradict then the books contradict. Brandon Sanderson Yeah but I don't think they will. So yeah, you can-- I mean, it could come up. Oathbringer release party (Nov. 13, 2017) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Somebody from Scadrial Posted September 18, 2020 Report Share Posted September 18, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Stormtide_Leviathan said: There's been a few WoBs about this actually Thanks that was what I was assuming coming into it some of the points a raised above about the blades adapting to the paint have been some theorizing we've done but thanks for finding and quoting those WoB The reason I created this thread was because I have done a lot of sword drawings and shardblade drawings and different shades of blue isn't that interesting Edited September 18, 2020 by Somebody from Roshar Reason for starting thread 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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