The Bands of- DESTROY EVIL

[Qianweilian He/him]

So Nightblood has apparently "learned" from the honorblades and can grant Szeth lashings. My question was, could he learn to grant other powers? What if Nightblood went over to Scadrial and "learned" from a lump of lerasium. Could Nightblood grant Allomancy or Feruchemy? If so, then Szeth basically has a sword that (could) basically turn him into a Lord Ruler with bondsmith powers and the ability to kill vessels. How terrifying would the Lord Ruler be with Nightblood and all the surges? And if Nightblood is learning self control... could he do it to himself? Could he lash himself and basically be a flying sword with powers? All hail the Lord Ruler Nightblood. DESTROY EVIL!!!!

[alder24]

18 minutes ago, Qianweilian said:

What if Nightblood went over to Scadrial and "learned" from a lump of lerasium. Could Nightblood grant Allomancy or Feruchemy?

Those aren't self-aware so I doubt it. 

But the Band of Mourning are somewhat self-aware, they and all other Malwish medallions are comparable to Honorblades. This means that Nightblood can learn from them Feruchemy and Allomancy.

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Questioner

Do Honorblades bestow their abilities similar to an Identity-free nicrosilmind with other Metalborn abilities?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, these are working on similar principles. Same principle, divergent applications by the magic system, but yeah, I would say, they come back to the same principles.

Orem signing (March 10, 2018)

 

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Raddatatta

In Era 1, Sazed says the only thing you can Feruchemically store while sleeping is wakefulness, but in Era 2 they have the sky ships that require everyone to be storing weight to fly and they don't land while people sleep. Was Sazed just wrong, or is that a difference between normal Feruchemy and using the unsealed metalminds?

Brandon Sanderson

Unsealed metalminds, I am moving toward complete—you probably already guessed this—mechanical uses of Investiture, and this indeed is a step toward that. And so we are stepping toward having a little machine that gives you powers. That's what the world wants to try to find. And this is—this being mechanical—we'll just say that the medallions and the things that they're building have more of a life-force, more of an Identity of their own than a traditional metalmind does, even though they're unkeyed and all of this stuff.

YouTube Spoiler Stream 5 (Dec. 2, 2022)