Flywinged Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 (edited) 3. Is there any ramifications to the holder of a shard blade for using a blade in a manner that it wasn't intended? Depends on the type of Shardblade. (You have seen three different kinds in TWoK.) For most, no. For some, most certainly. This is from Brandon answering our questions a couple years ago -I'm curious, what are the three types of shardblades we see in TWoK? I figure the ones that are traded (The dead spren) are one. And we see A lot of those. -Honor blades, which Szeth has, and I assume Taln has at the end are another type. -And the third type would have to be a live spren boned with a person... And if I'm not mistaken, we do not see that type in TWoK. Am I missing something? Or do we have to look for the radiant in TWoK? Edited March 10, 2015 by Flywinged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Pifferdoo Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Nightblood counts as a Shardblade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flywinged Posted March 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 (edited) Yes, but Nightblood was not in TWoK. This question was before WoR was released. Edited March 10, 2015 by Flywinged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moogle Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 -And the third type would have to be a live spren boned with a person... And if I'm not mistaken, we do not see that type in TWoK. Am I missing something? Or do we have to look for the radiant in TWoK? Dalinar sees Radiants with live Shardblades during his vision with the Midnight Essence and at Feverstone Keep. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flywinged Posted March 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Oh, you are so right. I was completely ignoring visions. If there was a facepalm face, I would be using it right now. Instead, I'll just have to settle with for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moogle Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Ooh, I just realized that Brandon was probably being coy about Shardblades being spren in the WoB in the OP. The 'ramifications' of using a live Shardblade in a way it was not intended are that it dies/you lose the bond. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flywinged Posted March 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Wow. Good catch. I also wonder about his wording. "For most, no." Does that mean that there are going to be very few live shardblades in this series? And a majority of them will just come from the old radiants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze1616 Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Well, when you consider that the series features relatively few time skips (and the ones it does feature are rather short), it makes sense that the majority of blades we see will be deadblades rather than sprenblades. When the Radiants killed their spren, their numbers were massive. Our current list of Radiants-to-be totals around 7 to 10, depending on whether I'm forgetting some or not. Though there are sure to be others like Lift who are not (currently) central to the story yet are developing a bond, the reluctance of the spren species to rekindle the bonds with humans implies very few Radiants are coming until humans prove themselves trustworthy again. As such, the number of deadblade users on Roshar should be quite greater than the number of sprenblade users for a fairly long time to come. Given the amount of Radiants central to this story, though, we will likely be seeing a larger number of sprenblades due the concentration of them. I doubt the ratio within the novels is accurate beyond the central conflict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 I can get behind that. While in practical terms deadblade shardbearers are practically heavy artillery in a world of footsoldiers, they are just cannon fodder before the potential WMDs that Radiants can become. From a narrative perspective Radiants are central to the plot, so shardbearers are stuck relegated to supporting cast and extras, so the number of sprenblades we see will definitely be disproportionate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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