Resonances

[Epicdaf]

I was wondering if the extended use of shardplate+shardblade (unoathed included)  grant any form of resonance? 

I know that technically the wielder is just using a sword and armour, but the fact that both are bonded to the wielder and are made of investiture, does this still apply for resonances?

 

 

Edited January 27 by Epicdaf

[Xanpheon]

Maybe, but unlikely.

Shardplate and Shardblade aren't an invested art, they're closer to mechanical uses of investiture - if the wielder is not a Radiant and thus the Shardbearer is just using deadeyes (or unoathed), then the wielder doesn't really use the investiture, per se. Resonances come from the natural interference of two separate Invested Arts/methods of manipulating investiture interacting with each other:

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Questioner

I was wondering, with resonance. Is that a sort of constructive interference?

Brandon Sanderson

Constructed? No. Resonance is more about the way-- It's more of a natural interference.

Questioner

So what I mean like, you have two waves, right? And if their troughs, you know--

Brandon Sanderson

Okay, is that the formal term? For the constructed.-- Oh constructive? I thought you had said-- yeah. So yes, I would say that that is an accurate phrase. I mean obviously it's not exactly the same thing. But yeah, that's what I was looking at when I was building it, was kinda things like this with waveform patterns and whatnot. So yes. At least, it was inspired by this kind of idea.

Salt Lake City signing (Dec. 16, 2017)

Now you might be able to argue that the wielder is "channeling" investiture from the Shardplate, but that isn't the case from the Shardblades. The shardblades don't pass any investiture into the wielder, they fuel themselves with it instead. So even if Shardplates count, there's no countervailing "wave" from the Shardblade to enable the resonance in the first place.

In addition to this, though this is less of an issue with the cosmere and more from a plot standpoint, Sanderson has stated that the second half of the cosmere eras are going to be shifting to more and more mechanical uses of investiture rather than being 90% standard invested arts, as they are now. A great example of this is seen in the way spaceships are shown to work, and the Sunlit man - the only "invested art" (and I hesitate to call it even that) on Canticle is the ability to transfer heat. Anything more than that requires manipulation of the Sunhearts to either supercharge a body with investiture, or to fuel various devices. Given that, I don't know if he necessarily wants to run with mechanical uses of investiture generating Resonances.

Edited January 27 by Xanpheon