Steeldancer he/him Posted February 9, 2017 Posted February 9, 2017 I finally fleshed out a theory of mine. Essentially, shardplate (of a radiant) is directly related to the essence of the order. This is based on a couple of observations: wyndle is closely related to crystal, syl to wind, ivory to oil as an inkspren, although I don't know how pattern relates to blood or water. Based on this, I would predict that glys is very plant like, a dustbringer spren (I'm guessing a couragespren) would be fairly fire like. A highspren would be fairly smoky. Similarly, the spren of bondsmiths is the most human like, or "fleshy." This wouldnt be exact but I assume it would follow this pattern. Now, syl seems to have a strong analog with the windspren. And windspren are attracted when kaladain does his thing. So i propose that each orders' shardplate is made from a spren that directly analogs to the essence that relates to the order. Furthermore, I believe the gemstones were added to the shardplate after the recreance. Finally, if the radiants were able to turn related spren into shardplate, then I hypothesize that they were able to build with other spren too. Thus, the shardblade lock, the shardblade guard... although why did they even need shardblade guards? Unless the spiritual aspect of the shardblade made it cut through things no matter what shape the spren sword made... which would explain how that would work.
stonedshaman Posted February 9, 2017 Posted February 9, 2017 This sounds a fair bit like the "cousin spren" theory. Although I do like the idea of the gemstones being added to the plate later idea as it runs in line with the fact that the gemstones on shardblades were added later
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