Aegolius.acadicus Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 I was wondering if maybe Shardplate is solid Stormlight? My thinking goes as follows:Magic presents itself in three forms: gas, liquid, and solid. The gaseous forms of magic all look like raw power to me, like Stormlight or Breaths. Then there is liquid, which is weird and I suppose has something to do with Shardpools. And then there is a solid form of magic, which I think could be made into Shardplate.Why?Well, when the Radiants broke their oaths they broke their bond with their spren leaving dead shardblades. So, breaking their bond would also sever their Shardplate's access to Stormlight. In a weird parallel, I see this like what happened to Elantris after it lost access to the Dor. The city was still there but it lost something, it didn't glow. In the same way Shardplate doesn't glow currently, but it did in one of Dalinar's visions. Also, Shardplate has to be equipped with gems containing Stormlight to be usable.So, after this train of thought I'm wondering what you all think?Could Shardplate be made of solid Stormlight? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11thorderknight Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 I like it. It's sort of another way of stating my theory of Plate being the physical manifestation of a surgebinder's ability to internally use stormlight. Would also fit with the Radiants getting kind of zonked out after abandoning their Plate at the Recreance (because they're abandoning a part of their soul). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnhargreaves Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 Hello, and welcome to the forums! This is an interesting theory, but I'm not sure I buy it. The physical forms of magic we have seen so far are crazy special, numinous in one way or another. They are used to power things, rather than being a thing in themselves. Shardplate is amazing stuff, but seems more like an end result of applying powerful magic than directly being made of the magic itself. I guess I just don't buy that raw magic could be engineered directly into such a specialized form. But, you could well turn out to be right! We really don't have a lot of evidence about how Plate was created yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaellok Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 Hello, and welcome to the forums! This is an interesting theory, but I'm not sure I buy it. The physical forms of magic we have seen so far are crazy special, numinous in one way or another. They are used to power things, rather than being a thing in themselves. Shardplate is amazing stuff, but seems more like an end result of applying powerful magic than directly being made of the magic itself. I guess I just don't buy that raw magic could be engineered directly into such a specialized form. But, you could well turn out to be right! We really don't have a lot of evidence about how Plate was created yet. OP has an interesting idea that is certainly possible (btw, welcome to the forums, Aegolius! Have a cookie, I baked them fresh this morning. I'm not sure which batch had the poison and which didn't, but I'm pretty sure this one is safe. Mostly. Probably.) I think that you are more likely to be closer to correct, though, shawnhargreaves, if only because the Plate doesn't disappear when it runs out of Stormlight--it just stops working. Plate seems to work very similarly to hydraulic lifts and systems, able to move with incredible swiftness and speed (despite weighing massive amounts) so long as it has enough pressure; if that pressure depletes, then it's useless or worse. Stormlight seems to be working analogously to hydraulic fluid in this example. Certainly not enough evidence to disprove your theory though, and as I said, it's an interesting one worth exploring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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