The Sovereign Posted November 30, 2017 Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 On 11/28/2017 at 4:33 PM, The One Who Connects said: Just barely ninja'd by Sovereign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echaozh Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 How can you imitate a shardblade with simple breaths? Knights Radiant were referred to as gods by the listeners, and the Heralds were considered gods by the humans. Shardblades must have been divine in the eyes of the Rosharians, and you cannot awaken a divine sword with ordinary breath. They must have used Shashara's divine breath to awaken Nightblood and killed her in the process. The divine breath counts as 1 but is so much more invested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ElephantEarwax Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 @echaozh he has a lot of breaths. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/6-bands-of-mourning-release-party/#e285 Spoiler Viridian's eldest daughter Did it take a life to create Nightblood? Brandon Sanderson Did it take a life to create Nightblood. It did not. It just required a lot of Breath, which you could assume each one is a little piece of a life so maybe. Multiple lives in that way but no one actually had to die. Good question. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sovereign Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 (edited) 8 hours ago, echaozh said: They must have used Shashara's divine breath to awaken Nightblood and killed her in the process. The divine breath counts as 1 but is so much more invested. Shashara was alive after Nightblood's Awakening. She was killed by Vasher with Nightblood, not by giving up her divine breath. Quote Warbreaker Annotations (Nov. 16, 2010)#5Nov. 16, 2010 Share Brandon Sanderson Lightsong Sees the Painting of the Red Battle This is our first major clue (though a subtle one at the same time) that there might be something to the religion of the Iridescent Tones. Lightsong does see something in this painting that an ordinary person wouldn't be able to. A well-crafted piece of art, made by a person channeling the Tones and connected to them via Breath, can speak to a Returned. Now, in this case, it doesn't work quite like Llarimar says it does—Lightsong doesn't actually prophesy about the black sword in the way the priest thinks. In other words, Lightsong isn't prophesying that he'll see the Black Sword (Nightblood) in the day's activities. Instead, Lightsong is seeing an image of a previous war, which is prophetic in that another Manywar is brewing—and in both cases, Nightblood will be important to the outcome of the battle. The person Lightsong sees in the abstract painting is Shashara, Denth's sister, one of the Five Scholars and a Returned also known as Glorysinger by the Cult of the Returned. She is seen here in Lightsong's vision as she's drawing Nightblood at the battle of Twilight Falls. It's the only time the sword was drawn in battle, and Vasher was horrified by the result. It's because of her insistence on using the sword in battle, and on giving away the secret to creating more, that Vasher and she fought. He ended up killing her with Nightblood, which they'd created together during the days they were in love—he married her a short time before their falling out. That marriage ended with him slaying his own wife to keep her from creating more abominations like Nightblood and loosing them upon the world. Nightblood is part of a much larger story in this world. He's dropped casually into this particular book, more as a side note than a real focus of what's going on, but his own role in the world is much, much larger than his supporting part here would indicate. #iridescent tones #nightblood #returned #shashara #vasher Sources: Warbreaker Annotations - Chapter 26 Edited December 8, 2017 by The Sovereign Added the relevant annotation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ElephantEarwax Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 https://wob.coppermind.net/events/250-warbreaker-annotations/#e7395 Here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaladin Posted December 12, 2017 Report Share Posted December 12, 2017 (edited) Oathbringer Spoiler: Spoiler Perhaps Azure's Blade is a bonafide steel blade which was awakened while Nightblood is an awakened Shardblade? Either way, what I want to see is what Nightblood looks like in Shadesmar. I guess this part isn't really a spoiler, except it would reveal that this isn't revealed in Oathbringer. Until further evidence, I shall assume Nightblood takes the appearance of a Larger-Than-Life mink with the tail of an Lifeless Squirrel and Dragon wings. Edited December 12, 2017 by Xaladin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bort Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 Can I just add (although this is a comment on what was discussed on page one, so may have already been mentioned, if so, sorry), that it is not true that dead Blades cannot change their shape. Granted, they don't have the freedom a 'live' Blade has, like Syl or Pattern, but they can adapt, otherwise after the Recreance, men wouldn't have been able to install the gemstones into the Blades that allowed them to be bonded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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