Ripheus23 Posted August 2, 2018 Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 Just sayin'. (Having an object whose sole purpose is destroying evil, become the ultimate destructive evil, would be Sandersonian irony par exellence, no?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goody153 Posted August 3, 2018 Report Share Posted August 3, 2018 Splinter of a shard, not a shard just a splinter(can't even ascend) becomes the ultimate enemy ? Yeah no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyRioter she/her Posted August 3, 2018 Report Share Posted August 3, 2018 Nightblood can't do much on his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmnsquirtle Posted August 3, 2018 Report Share Posted August 3, 2018 13 hours ago, CrazyRioter said: Nightblood can't do much on his own. Maybe the whole plot is that they lose his aluminum sheath, or something, and they can't find it to make him stop killing anyone that comes near. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wandering Investor Posted August 3, 2018 Report Share Posted August 3, 2018 Nightblood is a tool and has very little agency on his own. He wouldn't make much of an enemy. However, he could be stolen and used by an enemy, that would be really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripheus23 Posted August 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2018 I'm just wondering if Nightblood could... evolve, as it were. Think: Adonalsium was like a spren (or, "Rosharans would think He was a spren," or however the WoB goes), spren are the source of Shardblades, Shardblades were the prototypes of Nightblood (or was it Honorblades at least?), so... if Nightblood is sprenish, he might be able to become Adonalsiumish, except... evil...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calderis he/him Posted August 3, 2018 Report Share Posted August 3, 2018 5 minutes ago, Ripheus23 said: I'm just wondering if Nightblood could... evolve, as it were. Think: Adonalsium was like a spren (or, "Rosharans would think He was a spren," or however the WoB goes), spren are the source of Shardblades, Shardblades were the prototypes of Nightblood (or was it Honorblades at least?), so... if Nightblood is sprenish, he might be able to become Adonalsiumish, except... evil...? The issue is that Nightblood is bound to a physical object. Unlike the Spren which he is based on, he isn't a physical manifestation of something that can change its form. He's a mind bound to a limiting metal object. This may be somehow changeable... But for the time being at least, he is a sword, and as such requires a wielder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishar Posted August 4, 2018 Report Share Posted August 4, 2018 So, I highly doubt this. Personally, I think Hoid will end up being the ultimate antagonist, and I do think there is a difference between being the antagonist and being evil. Also, has anybody noticed that Nightblood was instructed to destory evil, and he destroys ALL investiture, possible hinting investiture is evil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmnsquirtle Posted August 6, 2018 Report Share Posted August 6, 2018 On 8/3/2018 at 9:07 PM, Ishar said: So, I highly doubt this. Personally, I think Hoid will end up being the ultimate antagonist, and I do think there is a difference between being the antagonist and being evil. Also, has anybody noticed that Nightblood was instructed to destory evil, and he destroys ALL investiture, possible hinting investiture is evil. Interesting. I suppose that would imply that the meaning of the cosmere, so to speak, is essentially that magic is evil. To be honest, I highly doubt that Sanderson would go that direction with nightblood - it seems much more likely that he's just an extremely destructive tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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