Breath Empowered Shade?

[Trusk'our he/him]

If you were to give a Threnody Shade a couple hundred Breaths, would it's nature be greatly effected since it would be comprised mostly of Endowment's Investiture rather than Ambition's? If you gave it thousands instead, would it potentially gain greater sapience, maybe even return it to full cognition, similar to a Radiant Spren?

[Ixthos Luke/Luke]

7 hours ago, Trusk'our said:

If you were to give a Threnody Shade a couple hundred Breaths, would it's nature be greatly effected since it would be comprised mostly of Endowment's Investiture rather than Ambition's? If you gave it thousands instead, would it potentially gain greater sapience, maybe even return it to full cognition, similar to a Radiant Spren?

I suppose that depends on whether Shades can receive Breath - they might not be able to, being Cognitive Shadows, with their physical presence being similar to that of a spren pulled partially into the physical realm. If you could, I would say it seems likely it would change them, though they would probably become more like Nightblood mentally than a Radiant spren, as Nightblood is a "robot spren," and so their minds would likely become affected by the nature of the Breaths they received, and possibly the command if it isn't just transferred. Of course, we also know Investiture interferes with Investiture, so their "bodies" might reject an attempt to infuse the Breath into them.

Of course, if Breath could be transferred, and assuming Shades are similar to Mistwraiths in that their is a "blockage" between the Cognitive component and their physical presence, it might be possible to use the Breath like a Hemalurgic Blessing and "restore" the Shades mind to it, if it still retains one. In that case even one Breath might be enough to induce sapience, restoring the lost memories and personality to the Shade.