Honorblades, do they have sheaths?

[tobar14 he/him]

I was traveling back to MN from WI, and i stopped at a gas station and noticed they were selling audiobooks/graphic audio thingys.  Just for fun I searched to see if they had any Sanderson novels, and they did!

On the front of The Way of Kings graphic audio, it depicted Szeth unsheathing his honorblade. That made me think, do Honorblades have sheaths? Shardblades certainly don't.

Edited October 17, 2016 by tobar14

[Shardbearer he/him]

Nope.

[Samaldin he/him]

1 hour ago, averyp1017 said:

No

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, because they just turn back into spren when you are done using them.

 

Just a small correction. Honorblades don´t

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turn back into Spren,because they aren´t Spren. That´s why Kaladin can touch Szeths blade without it screaming in his head

 

[tobar14 he/him]

Must be another illustrator interpretation

[The Sovereign]

11 minutes ago, tobar14 said:

Shardblades certainly don't.

Well, one special one does...

[tobar14 he/him]

2 minutes ago, Iron Eyes said:

Well, one special one does...

...I know you know that the "one sword" isn't necessarily a shardblade. It's just based on them, right?

EDIT:

or is it based on the honorblades?

Edited October 17, 2016 by tobar14

[Eki]

8 minutes ago, tobar14 said:

...I know you know that the "one sword" isn't necessarily a shardblade. It's just based on them, right?

EDIT:

or is it based on the honorblades?

It is based on a dead shardblade. (They probably sensed the spren within using their lifesense.) Depending on your definition, it certainly is a shardblade - big chunks of a shard's power, crammed into a weapon.

[Spoolofwhool]

2 hours ago, tobar14 said:

...I know you know that the "one sword" isn't necessarily a shardblade. It's just based on them, right?

EDIT:

or is it based on the honorblades?

Nightblood is a shardblade. Brandon has named it as such. Also, a general definition of a shardblade is "a heavily invested magical object", which Nightblood definitely covers.

Towards the actual question. It's definitely artistic interpretation. There's no need for a sheath for an Honorblade since you can just store there in wherever honorblades go when they vanish. The closest sprenblades, and probably honorblades, have to sheaths is the edge coverings they use for practicing. 

[The Sovereign]

4 hours ago, tobar14 said:

...I know you know that the "one sword" isn't necessarily a shardblade. It's just based on them, right?

EDIT:

or is it based on the honorblades?

Relevant WoB:

 

 

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Interview: Aug 13th, 2014

Ask the Author: Brandon Sanderson (Verbatim)

Question

The "God Surges" you mentioned recently, are they a part of the Way of Kings frontsheet?

You've said that there are three types of Blades in the Stormlight Archive. We've seen "dead" Shardblades, Honorblades—is the third type the "living spren" Shardblades, or is there another type we haven't seen?

Do all Surgebinders breathe Stormlight in, or are there other ways? Is Lift one-of-a-kind in this regard?

Brandon Sanderson

All I said regarding this was to tell a fan that it was possible to make an analogy between the god metals on Scadrial and certain powers on Roshar. However, these are not a codified part of the magic system.

Lift is one of a kind.

Nightblood is a very unique kind of Shardblade, but IS a Shardblade.

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scadrial, roshar, cosmere, shardblade, nightblood,

 

 

[Farnsworth]

You guys are overthinking this. You could just buy a sheath and stick your Honorblade in.

[DeTess she/her]

8 minutes ago, Figberts said:

You guys are overthinking this. You could just buy a sheath and stick your Honorblade in.

Te shardblade would cut its way straight out of it unless its made from the special metal that is resistant to shardblades, and that is apparently extremely rare.

[Assassin in Burgundy he/him]

It could kinda hold it via the cross guard. And if it was tight enough it wouldn't cut too much.