Raysium dagger

[lacrossedeamon]

Unless this is somehow one of the daggers we've already seen this seems like a huge loose thread. Where is it post WaT with Nale back on Braize? What further purpose will it have in the narrative? 

[Jult]

5 hours ago, lacrossedeamon said:

Unless this is somehow one of the daggers we've already seen this seems like a huge loose thread. Where is it post WaT with Nale back on Braize? What further purpose will it have in the narrative? 

It may not be too important. Despite Raboniel saying Raysium was "exceptionally difficult to obtain" in RoW, it seems like Fused possessing Raysium weapons is relatively common. It was how Navani even knew to ask about it when working for Raboniel. We saw at least 3 Raysium daggers during the occupation of Urithiru alone.

That being said, I don't think the Heralds are all going to get along in the future. There's a lot to be addressed between them, such as:

• Kalak (as Restares) instructing Amaram to take Kaladin's Shards at the start of TWoK resulting in Kaladin being branded as a slave and all of his men dying.
• Battar working with Taravangian even after he became Odium
• Battar providing some handy crystal spike upgrades to the man who killed Jezrien
• Taln has every right to be mad at all of the Heralds, thought he doesn't seem to be yet
• Nale killing Radiants leading up to the True Desolation and then siding with the Singers against humanity

I doubt they'll all forgive each other immediately. And having a Herald-killing knife in the mix would make any of the arguments just a tiny bit more tense.

[DSCrankshaw]

The Raysium Dagger was fairly obviously supposed to be Nightblood, which was only switched out when Brandon and Dan couldn't get the timing to work out. (I kind of wish they'd modified the adventure to make this Nightblood.)

 

[lacrossedeamon]

16 hours ago, DSCrankshaw said:

The Raysium Dagger was fairly obviously supposed to be Nightblood, which was only switched out when Brandon and Dan couldn't get the timing to work out. (I kind of wish they'd modified the adventure to make this Nightblood.)

 

I would have liked to get some explanation of how Nightblood went from Vasher to Nightwatcher to Nale. Hoped it would be here but guess we will have to wait for Warbreaker sequel.

19 hours ago, Jult said:

It may not be too important. Despite Raboniel saying Raysium was "exceptionally difficult to obtain" in RoW, it seems like Fused possessing Raysium weapons is relatively common. It was how Navani even knew to ask about it when working for Raboniel. We saw at least 3 Raysium daggers during the occupation of Urithiru alone.

That being said, I don't think the Heralds are all going to get along in the future. There's a lot to be addressed between them, such as:

• Kalak (as Restares) instructing Amaram to take Kaladin's Shards at the start of TWoK resulting in Kaladin being branded as a slave and all of his men dying.
• Battar working with Taravangian even after he became Odium
• Battar providing some handy crystal spike upgrades to the man who killed Jezrien
• Taln has every right to be mad at all of the Heralds, thought he doesn't seem to be yet
• Nale killing Radiants leading up to the True Desolation and then siding with the Singers against humanity

I doubt they'll all forgive each other immediately. And having a Herald-killing knife in the mix would make any of the arguments just a tiny bit more tense.

I wonder if this can be retrofitted to be the weapon Kalak gave Taln? Most of the Heralds had dealings with Odium prior to the expulsion so Kalak might have had access to raysium. Taln losing it in the assassination attempt could explain the Nightwatcher now having it. It's furnished with an emerald polestone (although diamond might have been better given the counter intuitiveness of some of the Ten Essences). And it now being present with the Heralds in modern time could lead into the flashback about the assassination attempt.