Nightblood as a Fuel Source Post WaT

[Trusk'our he/him]

Investiture is much more valuable during Retribution's reign over Roshar, even with the possibility of Warlight existing since he can revoke your access to it anytime he feels like it. Radiant powers would be far scarcer, even if you can separate Towerlight into Stormlight and Lifelight to carry out elsewhere.

Nightblood might hold a solution, at least for itself and a few allied Surgebinders.

The sword leaks Investiture whenever unsheathed (and quite possibly even when sheathed, since it came out of its food coma without needing to be drawn and Gemstones apparently can leak back into the SR even when coated by aluminum), which I think you could capture in a gemstone with the right tools, such as a tuning fork.

That Investiture might be usable by Radiants or possibly Nightblood itself in a twisted form of self-cannibalization. True, you'd eventually begin to reduce your stores, but if Nightblood truly converts whatever Investiture it eats to be of itself and not whatever else it originally was of, then you just snatch some Warlight, feed Nightblood, then convert it to a form that Retribution cannot automatically stop since he's no longer Connected to it.

[Shatter He/Him]

3 hours ago, Trusk'our said:

Investiture is much more valuable during Retribution's reign over Roshar, even with the possibility of Warlight existing since he can revoke your access to it anytime he feels like it. Radiant powers would be far scarcer, even if you can separate Towerlight into Stormlight and Lifelight to carry out elsewhere.

Nightblood might hold a solution, at least for itself and a few allied Surgebinders.

The sword leaks Investiture whenever unsheathed (and quite possibly even when sheathed, since it came out of its food coma without needing to be drawn and Gemstones apparently can leak back into the SR even when coated by aluminum), which I think you could capture in a gemstone with the right tools, such as a tuning fork.

That Investiture might be usable by Radiants or possibly Nightblood itself in a twisted form of self-cannibalization. True, you'd eventually begin to reduce your stores, but if Nightblood truly converts whatever Investiture it eats to be of itself and not whatever else it originally was of, then you just snatch some Warlight, feed Nightblood, then convert it to a form that Retribution cannot automatically stop since he's no longer Connected to it.

Not sure Nightblood would consent to this. 

[Trusk'our he/him]

4 hours ago, Shatter said:

Not sure Nightblood would consent to this. 

Why not? They love helping out with stuff, and it's not like they were gonna use that excess Investiture anyway. . .

Or this is a joke and I'm masking poorly again, lol.

[alder24]

The investiture leaking from Nightblood is corrupted and it's a mixture of many different types of investiture he consumed in his lifetime - Breaths, Stormlight, souls etc. We don't know exactly what happens to investiture that Nightblood consumes, how it changes its identity and connections, so it's really hard to say what kind of investiture is leaking out of Nightblood. The only thing we know is that it's unusable in its current form. You might be able to trap some of it in a gemstone, but it's still corrupted, you need to uncorrupt it and convert it to a type of investiture that a Radiant can use. Not to mention that it's probably keyed to Nightblood, so you would need to unkey it as well. It's a hell of a work when you have Towerlight and Warlight at your disposal, Warlight probably can be used by Radiants without any problems, those in Urithiru can just split Towerlight into Stormlight and carry it out.