Short Introduction and WoR Ending Theory for Nightblood

[M'Hael]

Hello, I am a new 17th Sharder. So getting to the topic, after finishing Words of Radiance, I came up with a theory as to what Vasher has to do with Roshar and Nightblood's origins. So what we know of Nightblood is that he absorbs investitures while being used, can destroy material in similar a manner to a shardblade,and is possibly a result of the fourth type of awakening that Vivenna speaks of. This is suspicious because spren are living ideas, given sentience with the Nahel Bond while Awakeners give objects sentience by implanting Breaths (similar to how Windrunners implant Stormlight into objects when using the 3rd Lashing). With the black smoke Nightblood emits, it is possible that he is both a spren and an object with Breaths, which means that during the Manywar, a Shardpool must have been involoved. Another possibility is that Nightblood was originally Voidspren brought to Warbreaker's world as a weapon and then was killed so it stayed in it's shardblade form (when a spren is "killed" it stays a shardblade, at least that is what I thought Syl meant). This could be supported by the possiblity that absorbs two Investitures (which could also mean that it is a chosen object of two Shards, like how Preservation chose Vin at Hero of Ages and was able to have an almost infinite amount of energy form it's the Mist.) What do you think? Is some flaw in the theory.

[Claincy he/him]

Welcome M'Hael!

 

I think it is fairly certain that Nightblood was created using breaths (1000 off the top of my head but I could be wrong there). He is definitely a type IV awakened object. He is very similar to a shardblade true, Brandon has stated that some aspects of his different magic systems are essentially the same though are created or accessed in different ways. Such as stormlight healing and feruchemical gold. They are essentially the same power, but one is accessed through a nahel bond and drawing in stormlight and the other through storing in gold.

 

It was a cool idea though.

Nightblood is pretty awesome regardless.