Nightblood Wob

[Ashertliden]

I can across a WoB that said this: 

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Questioner: 

Can Nightblood be dismissed like a Rosharan blade?

Brandon Sanderson:

He thinks you could.

 When normal Shardblades are dismissed, I assume that the spren they used to be simply floats around Shadesmar, but what would happen IF Nightblood was dismissed to the cognitive realm, as he isn’t made from a “dead” spren.

 

Edit: my phone recognizes Shadesmar as a viable proper noun suggestion now. 

Edited September 6, 2018 by A stick

[Weltall]

Assuming it could be done the mechanics would probably be the same as the Honorblades which also aren't 'made' of a spren but must go somewhere when they're dismissed.

[Quantus he/him]

Interesting. 

As I understand it not all spren float that easily between the Cognitive and Physical Realm  (Pattern for example who cannot become invisible), so it might not be guaranteed that he'd manifest an oddball CR form the way sprenblades do.  For that matter, when they are "dismissed" the spren at least is still actively kicking around the Physical Realm even if theyre invisible. 

Also, didnt Azures blade stay a sword when they went to the CR?  I think that would indicate that Nightblood thinks of himself as a Sword regardless of his present Realm.

[Ashertliden]

50 minutes ago, Quantus said:

Also, didnt Azures blade stay a sword when they went to the CR?  I think that would indicate that Nightblood thinks of himself as a Sword regardless of his present Realm.

Azure's blade stayed in physical form because she brought the physical object into the cognitive realm.

Do we actually not yet know what happens to honor blades when they are dismissed?

[Calderis he/him]

Eh, the issue with Nightblood, in my opinion, is that he is a personality imprinted on a physical object. 

Unlike a spren he has a Physical Aspect of his own. "Dismissing" him should require a perpendicularity to send him physically into the Cognitive Realm. Once he's there... He's still a sword, so I find it unlikely he'd follow where his wielder travels without aid. 

Nightblood doesn't function like Spren. He can't change his shape. He's always in the physical without the need for oaths. 

I don't think it works like Nightblood wants it to. 

[Scion of the Mists]

It's interesting that the WoB is literally: "He thinks you could."  I'm assuming that that means it's from Nightblood's point of view and that Brandon isn't referring to himself in the third person.  Nightblood is a particularly unreliable narrator.  

[dbulick]

I would tend to interpret along the lines that Nightblood is seeing these other swords appear and disappear, so he assumes he can do it too.  He is essentially a very young naive child who doesn't understand what he can and can't do.  It also wouldn't shock me, with how invested he is, that he could make himself do it if he really wanted to.

Edited September 7, 2018 by dbulick

[RShara she/her]

5 hours ago, Scion of the Mists said:

It's interesting that the WoB is literally: "He thinks you could."  I'm assuming that that means it's from Nightblood's point of view and that Brandon isn't referring to himself in the third person.  Nightblood is a particularly unreliable narrator.  

I agree with this. Nightblood thinks you could. But Nightblood also thinks Shashara and others are still alive, and that he totally doesn't suck people's souls. I wouldn't put too much stock into what he thinks is possible