Shadesmar13 Posted June 3, 2021 Report Share Posted June 3, 2021 Was Nightblood an Awakened sword? Because nobody really knows how he/she was made. If Nightblood IS awakened, that raises some interesting questions, since that means you could really make any inanimate object able to talk to you, and that's kind of fun to speculate about. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honorless Posted June 3, 2021 Report Share Posted June 3, 2021 4 minutes ago, Shadesmar13 said: Was Nightblood an Awakened sword? Because nobody really knows how he/she was made. If Nightblood IS awakened, that raises some interesting questions, since that means you could really make any inanimate object able to talk to you, and that's kind of fun to speculate about. Yup, we did get solid confirmation within the book itself but if you're looking for direct confirmation from Brandon, there are many WoBs Quote Questioner If Vasher and Shashara had Awakened a non-weapon in exactly the same way as Nightblood (say a shield), would the object exhibit the same properties as Nightblood? Brandon Sanderson So, if you said "destroy evil" to a shield... no, it wouldn't be exactly the same. The Command is the most important part of all of this, but the shape, how the weapon perceives itself, how you perceive it, is all gonna play into this. They're playing with some real dangerous stuff when they made Nightblood. And it didn't go as intended. San Diego Comic-Con@Home 2020 (July 23, 2020) like this one. Nightblood is an Awakened steel sword, what Vasher called a Type IV object, sentient Awakened object. His Command is to "Destroy Evil". Awakening inanimate objects is pretty difficult. The Five Scholars didn't disseminate the information on how to create them, the one who wanted to, Shashara, was killed by Vasher for it. You need to be of at least the Ninth Heightening to Awaken steel or stone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadesmar13 Posted June 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2021 So maybe if you Awakened, say, a flashlight, telling it to make light, it would be as obsessed with that as Nighblood was with destroying evil? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honorless Posted June 3, 2021 Report Share Posted June 3, 2021 10 minutes ago, Shadesmar13 said: So maybe if you Awakened, say, a flashlight, telling it to make light, it would be as obsessed with that as Nighblood was with destroying evil? Yup, that Command would be its purpose for existence 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne's Unlucky Hat Posted March 9, 2022 Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 I am pretty sure Nightblood is also sword Nimi wielded by Szeth son son of vallorna which share many of the same things such as: They both want to destroy evil and they both feed of of investiture, Nale may be a inter solar system kind of guy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Invocation Posted March 9, 2022 Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 3 hours ago, SandersonFan123 said: I am pretty sure Nightblood is also sword Nimi wielded by Szeth son son of vallorna which share many of the same things such as: They both want to destroy evil and they both feed of of investiture, Nale may be a inter solar system kind of guy. They are the same thing, but Nale is not a worldhopper. Another character from Warbreaker is, though, and that's the connective tissue for how Nightblood got there. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binkery Posted March 12, 2022 Report Share Posted March 12, 2022 On 6/3/2021 at 8:30 AM, Shadesmar13 said: Was Nightblood an Awakened sword? Because nobody really knows how he/she was made. If Nightblood IS awakened, I'm quite certain Nightblood is awakened and the question isn't really can it talk but what does a sword know what evil is? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cometaryorbit Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 On 3/12/2022 at 4:13 PM, Binkery said: I'm quite certain Nightblood is awakened and the question isn't really can it talk but what does a sword know what evil is? He doesn't, very well. Which is part of what makes Nightblood so dangerous. (Besides being a supercharged Shardblade able to eat Investiture from anything...) Nightblood tries to 'test' people by their desire to misuse him, and gets guidance from his wielder, but still doesn't really know. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binkery Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 6 hours ago, cometaryorbit said: He doesn't, very well. Which is part of what makes Nightblood so dangerous. (Besides being a supercharged Shardblade able to eat Investiture from anything...) Nightblood tries to 'test' people by their desire to misuse him, and gets guidance from his wielder, but still doesn't really know. best part is Nightblood doesn't really know it's testing people! It just really wants to destroy evil and will make any will holder decided right then and there what evil is. It just needs a steady hand that understands past moral ambiguity... very rare 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clowncarcrash Posted March 17, 2022 Report Share Posted March 17, 2022 On 3/15/2022 at 1:26 PM, Binkery said: best part is Nightblood doesn't really know it's testing people! It just really wants to destroy evil and will make any will holder decided right then and there what evil is. It just needs a steady hand that understands past moral ambiguity... very rare And thats what makes it's relationship with Szeth and maybe Nale so interesting; these characters don't know what evil is. I'm hoping we see some Nightblood character development, but certainly it is going to serve as a useful foil. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kandrafish Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 Honestly, I cannot help but think of Nightblood like a computer... You program "Destroy Evil" and Nightblood is like define variable "Evil" and it allows every wielder to define the variable. With a simpler intent, I wonder if some Breath might just be wasted. On a third unrelated note... I wonder what would happen if someone pointed out to Nightblood that the only way to guarantee that all "Evil" is destroyed would be to destroy everything. If you consider the fact that an object doesn't necessarily have any moral compass, it seems like a really elegant solution, with no reasons for Nightblood not to try it... (In a morbid computer logic way) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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