Breath and Shardic Tones

[noobedmaster7]

Can someone use the right Shardic Tone to forcible remove breath from a person? Like stormlight from a gemstone?

[redundant]

Breath would probably be way too connected to the person's spirit web. You might be able to invert the tone of your breath and give them an anti-breath to cause an explosion though.

[Xanpheon]

So, the issue with this is the only real time we've seen tones used to manipulate investiture is in the Stormlight archive, where it was used to draw investiture from one gem to another - and then to create anti-Investiture, to devastating effect.

However, no-one used those same reverberations to draw Stormlight (or Voidlight) from any of the Radiants or Fused in the Final Desolation. They had to use Raysium weapons, which acts as a conductor, and empty gemstones. Considering one of the sides of that conflict is built around the concept of Rhythms and Tones, the Singers, I doubt that if it were possible for them to steal Stormlight just by humming they wouldn't have passed that knowledge to every Singer to give them an edge.

And if they can't take Stormlight, one of the more volatile forms of Investiture (in that it dissipates from a living host quite quickly), I doubt they could forcibly steal a Breath.