Indestructible Shardplate.

[Radiant-Twinborn he/him]

Hey everyone. This is Radiant-Twinborn with another dumb what if question. 

Shardblades are practically unbreakable, unless you have Nightblood. So if a lot of Radiants get together and each make a piece of armor with their spen, and they moved together, would that be the most power armor there is? Are there any holes in the idea of that? 

 

Radiant-Twinborn. 

[Dunkum he/him]

It mostly seems like it should work.  the biggest issue I see is that you would leave a bunch of knights without their blades and/or have a suit of armor that could disappear at a moment's notice if the spren felt their knight was in particular trouble.  I also doubt it would provide the strength benefits of shardplate, though you could probably wear it as a layer over top of regular shardplate for that

[Radiant-Twinborn he/him]

Yeah, I think that makes sense. Then once the normal shardplate shatters, the person would likely collapse. I also agree with your point about the spen disappearing. 

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

I think radiant shardplate behaves the same as regular shardplate, except that with stormlight, you can refresh it's power after getting beat up with a shardblade

[Duxredux he/him]

I think this could work theoretically, but I'm not so sure in practice. A major difference between living Shardblades and Radiant Plate beyond durability is the intelligence of the spren. I have a hard time seeing Highspren or Honorspren agreeing to be your boots. Okay, maybe you could convince Rua, but good luck with the other boot. If you need a sapient spren for each individual piece of armor, that's a lot of egos that you have to talk into basically hugging you to keep you protected, especially since you aren't even the one they bonded with in the first place. Maybe other spren species would be more amenable, but it seems like it could go wrong really easily and would be a lot of hassle.

I agree with @Dunkum, that you would probably need to put this over standard Shardplate. Without strength enhancements, this shardbladeplate would probably be too heavy to be practical.

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

11 hours ago, Duxredux said:

I think this could work theoretically, but I'm not so sure in practice. A major difference between living Shardblades and Radiant Plate beyond durability is the intelligence of the spren. I have a hard time seeing Highspren or Honorspren agreeing to be your boots. Okay, maybe you could convince Rua, but good luck with the other boot. If you need a sapient spren for each individual piece of armor, that's a lot of egos that you have to talk into basically hugging you to keep you protected, especially since you aren't even the one they bonded with in the first place. Maybe other spren species would be more amenable, but it seems like it could go wrong really easily and would be a lot of hassle.

I agree with @Dunkum, that you would probably need to put this over standard Shardplate. Without strength enhancements, this shardbladeplate would probably be too heavy to be practical.

The shardplate is made of cousin spren, so for a windrunner, windspren, not honor spren.

[Duxredux he/him]

41 minutes ago, Ta'veren Kaladin said:

The shardplate is made of cousin spren, so for a windrunner, windspren, not honor spren.

Unless I'm reading the question wrong, the idea was to use Shardblades as armor, precisely because Shardblades are nearly indestructible. You're right that normal Windrunner Plate is windspren and I think Elsecaller Plate is logicspren, but we're talking about cobbling armor together out of Blades which would be the Radiant spren itself. At least that's the concept that I'm responding to, which could be off.

Edited April 27, 2022 by Duxredux

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

Hehe, I came back to this discussion and forgot the context of it. OOOPS