hoidhunter he/him Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Following the posts about Nazi nightblood I can't help but go all black panther and say "kill Whitey". (I'm just joking I hope no one finds that offensive) Hunt Hoid! 1
Haradion Drogon Posted January 16, 2015 Posted January 16, 2015 "Split Atoms" might be interesting.... 1
Blaze1616 he/him Posted January 16, 2015 Posted January 16, 2015 "Split Atoms" might be interesting.... For the split second you'd have to think about the implications... 2
Kobold King he/him Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 "Necro threads." Wait, I can do that all on my own. One command I'd be interested in is "Think." Could you actually Command an Awakened object to do nothing but think? What would it do? Would it become a philosopher sword, constantly discovering new truths about morality and human nature? Would it become so intelligent that it could deduce the meaning of all the Cosmere's secrets solely through what it observes on Nalthis? If "Think" is a valid Command, could we Awaken a pen to do so? That way our new Type IV BioChromatic Entity can write whatever he thinks of down on paper. 4
natc Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 "Devour Everything." And See what happens. He kind of already does that, in a way.
skaa he/him Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 So many possibilities! "Fetch keys." "Become fire." "Bind things." "Square circles." "Disobey." "Seek coherent extrapolated volition." 1
Flywinged he/him Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 "Be yourself" or "Live" I'd be very interested what Nightblood would've done with a command that gave it freedom to essentially choose how it wanted to be. Would this imply that all things in the cognitive realm already have some sort of personality? The interactions of Shallan with the boat and the stick in WoR seem to indicate this. 1
Araris Valerian he/him Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 What if Nightblood had been a hemalurgic spike when he was awakened? Say for the blessing of presence or something like that. If we awakened a blessing of presence and told it to "Think" we would probably get a much better philosopher than a regular piece of metal.
AerionBFII he/him Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 (edited) "Be my friend" Edited March 10, 2015 by WEZ313 3
Kobold King he/him Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 What if Nightblood had been a hemalurgic spike when he was awakened? Say for the blessing of presence or something like that. If we awakened a blessing of presence and told it to "Think" we would probably get a much better philosopher than a regular piece of metal. Could you Awaken a Hemalurgic spike? I would think that a spike is already too "full" of Investiture to absorb the necessary quantity of Breaths to be Awakened. 2
Arook he/him Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 Draw Blood or Make Kabobs or Destroy Life or Shave Things Really just depends on what day it is.
ChullRider he/him Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 Lemme think...Provide answers. That's great! A sword that knows a load of answers! Get ready for the SIX scholars!
Nicroburst he/him Posted March 28, 2015 Posted March 28, 2015 "Prevent death"Given this command, the sword would only be able to kill where it prevented others from being killed. It allows the wielder to defend their own life, but not take those of others where it would not save another life. No issues with the nature of innocence or evil, just straight out a life can only be taken to prevent the loss of another -- or many other -- lives.
Kobold King he/him Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 "Compel your wielder to sing." Because it amuses me to imagine a grizzled anti-hero like Vasher periodically bursting into song during emotional moments like the heat of battle. With this sword we could conceivably create Warbreaker: The Musical. 14
Nicroburst he/him Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Actually, you can kill to prevent death, Nightblood's "Destroy Evil" command compels him to destroy whatever evil his wielder sees, because evil is a perception. If you kill a man who would otherwise kill another, you are preventing death. The death of the person that man would have killed. Of course there is the risk of misinterpretation which could make the sword believe that the only way to truly prevent any death is to kill everyone...., 1
natc Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Actually, you can kill to prevent death, Nightblood's "Destroy Evil" command compels him to destroy whatever evil his wielder sees, because evil is a perception. If you kill a man who would otherwise kill another, you are preventing death. The death of the person that man would have killed. Of course there is the risk of misinterpretation which could make the sword believe that the only way to truly prevent any death is to kill everyone...., Yeah, but while you can destroy evil subjectively, you can't prevent death by killing someone. That makes no sense. You need a more detailed command. 1
happyman he/him Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 YES. Warbreaker: The Musical would be hillarious. Just... Except, not compel wielder. Compel everyone to sing. This sounds perfectly normal to me. But then I just got back from "Into the Woods," where people sing at each other for no apparent reason. (Yes, I've seen the play. It just felt a bit weird, some of the audience-facing musical numbers turning into an in-world performance.)
High prince of geeks he/him Posted April 4, 2015 Author Posted April 4, 2015 Actually you could kill to prevent death, as long as the weirder of nightblood thinks you can. Nightblood has to depend on his weirder to help him carry out his comand 1
natc Posted April 4, 2015 Posted April 4, 2015 If Nightblood can at least understand the "destroy" part of DESTROY EVIL I'd like to think he knows how dying works and figure out the inherent problem there. I can't imagine anyone able to honestly have a good mental image of killing people to stop things from dying either.
Kestrel she/her Posted April 6, 2015 Posted April 6, 2015 "Do my homework" "Clean my room" "Destory all the flute players in a higher chair than I" Sounds about right.
ecohansen Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 "promote the thriving of sapient entities." "Protect the innocent" would turn Nightblood into an anti-abortion fanatic, or would cause it to follw the orders of innocent children, until that resulted in a great horror, which would destroy the child's innocence, and case nightblood to turn on the child. 1
natc Posted June 11, 2015 Posted June 11, 2015 "Find the Truths of the cosmere" Does he understand truth O_O
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