How many Breaths did Vivenna and Vasher have?

[Trusk'our he/him]

This was just a little question that I was wondering about; how many breaths exactly did Vivenna and Vasher have in Warbreaker?

[Honorless he/him]

Vivenna was at the Fourth Heightening after getting the old Idrian spy's Breaths, so a 1000 Breaths. Edit: did not find any exact number in the book, but she does seem to have perfect pitch and colour hue recognition and life sense. All of these abilities do exist before reaching the Heightening, of course, they would just be less perfect. But it's safe to say she's definitely not above the Fourth Heightening.

Vasher is a Returned and as such has a Divine Breath, which would make him of the Fifth Heightening, which is 2000 Breaths. He also had Peacegiver's Treasure, which is 50,000 Breaths, Tenth Heightening. The actual amount of Breaths he carried around varies throughout the novel. Iirc he started at the Third Heightening, 600 Breaths and mostly went down from there.

Edited December 27, 2021 by Honorless

[Trusk'our he/him]

13 hours ago, Honorless said:

Vivenna was at the Fourth Heightening after getting the old Idrian spy's Breaths, so a 1000 Breaths.

Vasher is a Returned and as such has a Divine Breath, which would make him of the Fifth Heightening, which is 2000 Breaths. He also had Peacegiver's Treasure, which is 50,000 Breaths, Tenth Heightening. The actual amount of Breaths he carried around varies throughout the novel. Iirc he started at the Third Heightening, 600 Breaths and mostly went down from there.

Thanks!

[cometaryorbit]

In the prologue Vasher starts with 50 Breaths, before collecting Vahr's.

[Zoey she/her]

Vivenna had around 600 during the events of Warbreaker, (SA Spoiler)

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and maybe raised to 8th Heightening or 20,000 between Warbreaker and Oathbringer, given she had a most likely Awakened blade. 

Vasher had at least 50,000 at the time of the Manywar. During the events of Warbreaker, he fluctuates, but is at a rather low number of Breaths. Although he has the ability to jump up to the Fifth Heightening by stopping his suppression of his Divine Breath. 

 

On 12/18/2021 at 11:09 PM, Honorless said:

Vivenna was at the Fourth Heightening after getting the old Idrian spy's Breaths, so a 1000 Breaths.

Vasher is a Returned and as such has a Divine Breath, which would make him of the Fifth Heightening, which is 2000 Breaths. He also had Peacegiver's Treasure, which is 50,000 Breaths, Tenth Heightening. The actual amount of Breaths he carried around varies throughout the novel. Iirc he started at the Third Heightening, 600 Breaths and mostly went down from there.

Vivenna was at Third I thought, she has really good life sense, but I don't remember her being 4th during the time of Warbreaker. 

 

On 12/19/2021 at 8:03 PM, cometaryorbit said:

In the prologue Vasher starts with 50 Breaths, before collecting Vahr's.

Technically he had 50 and a Divine Breath. Though he was suppressing his Divine Breath.