Stormblessed0421 Posted May 28, 2022 Report Share Posted May 28, 2022 If someone with the intent of Hemalurgy went to Roshar and stabbed a Windrunner in the right place with an Atium spike, would the Hemalurgist be able to steal a spren bond in a similar way to an unchained Bondsmith? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 Weltall Posted May 28, 2022 Report Share Posted May 28, 2022 Yes, with a caveat: Quote Questioner So, the fan page wanted to know. Would it be possible for Hemalurgy to steal a living Shardblade? That was the top voted question. Brandon Sanderson Ok, so you're bonded to a Shardblade. You get spiked, then they spike off the bond so that the Shardblade is bonded to someone else. Questioner I assume so... Brandon Sanderson But can they do it with a living Shardblade? You can definitely do it with a dead Shardblade because its just stealing the Connection. With a living Shardblade, yes you could do that 'though the spren could break the bond at will. Questioner So the spren would survive? That was the second-- the corollary-- Brandon Sanderson Ehhh. Would the spren survive? The spren would survive as long as the oaths were-- Questioner Intact? Brandon Sanderson --the person didn't break the oaths. But you could theoretically steal the bond, break the oaths, and kill the spren. If you wanted to. Its a very convoluted to kill a spren, they are easier to kill than that, but yes. You could do that. That is a viable but twisted route that you can do. You would end up with a dead spren and a Shardblade, so there is that. But there are easier ways to accomplish that... White Sand vol.1 Orem signing (June 29, 2016) We have some other related WoBs that confirm that trying to steal a Nahel Bond is tricky because the spren is sapient, that the process requires some non-standard methods and by way of comparison to stealing an Aviar bond it sounds like you'd need multiple spikes, one for the Radiant and one for the spren.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Frustration Posted May 28, 2022 Report Share Posted May 28, 2022 Yes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +ShardlessVessel Posted May 28, 2022 Report Share Posted May 28, 2022 8 hours ago, Stormblessed0421 said: If someone with the intent of Hemalurgy went to Roshar and stabbed a Windrunner in the right place with an Atium spike, would the Hemalurgist be able to steal a spren bond in a similar way to an unchained Bondsmith? No. That would require a duralumin spike. But yes, that should work. I wonder if it would be possible to steal the ability directly, though. Every WOB that I've seen regarding stealing surgebinding talks about stealing the bond; is it really impossible to steal, say, Gravitation instead of an honorspren? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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If someone with the intent of Hemalurgy went to Roshar and stabbed a Windrunner in the right place with an Atium spike, would the Hemalurgist be able to steal a spren bond in a similar way to an unchained Bondsmith?
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