Fezzik Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 2 hours ago, Deathwielded said: I imagine if you moved into the cognitive realm and had Silver it would be able to hurt beings like Kelsier back in Secret history Man, I just wish we had seen Kelsier, in SH, holding a silver knife given to him by Nazh... 1
Andromedus Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 Is it possible that silver absorbs and stores investiture, kind of like a battery. For example, with the cognitive shadows on Threnody, the silver begins absorbing and destroying the shadow, so they run away. However, the investiture is stored in the silver. Then, Nightblood's sheath can be silver that is full of investiture. Maybe later there will be a method of removing investiture from silver, akin to how a feruchemist stores investiture in nicrosil. 1
Deathwielded Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 (edited) 4 hours ago, Andromedus said: Is it possible that silver absorbs and stores investiture, kind of like a battery. For example, with the cognitive shadows on Threnody, the silver begins absorbing and destroying the shadow, so they run away. However, the investiture is stored in the silver. Then, Nightblood's sheath can be silver that is full of investiture. Maybe later there will be a method of removing investiture from silver, akin to how a feruchemist stores investiture in nicrosil. Silver storing investiture is a cool idea! However when we see it doing anything it blackens and destroys the metal. It could be due to the Investiture being corrupted that damages the metal instead of storing it? I think Nightbloods Sheath is Aluminium to contain it. it can look pretty silvery. 14 hours ago, John203 said: Man, I just wish we had seen Kelsier, in SH, holding a silver knife given to him by Nazh... Oh yeah he was given a knife! I don't remember it being mentioned as Silver, but who knows? Brandon is very good at being coy and dropping early hints that we would have figured it out much earlier if given slightly more info. Edited March 20, 2019 by Deathwielded
Calderis he/him Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 Nightblood's sheath is confirmed to be aluminum. Quote Questioner [PENDING REVIEW] What metal is Nightblood's sheath made out of? Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] Nightblood's sheath is aluminum. Oathbringer release party (Nov. 13, 2017) 1
Karger he/him Posted March 20, 2019 Posted March 20, 2019 Perhaps if an alomancer burns silver they gain the ability to touch things in the cognitive realm.
+Oltux72 he/him Posted March 21, 2019 Posted March 21, 2019 17 hours ago, Karger said: Perhaps if an alomancer burns silver they gain the ability to touch things in the cognitive realm. No. Silver is a commonly used metal in jewelery and stuff. They for sure tested this on Scadrial. And they have Seekers. Even if the metal did nothing observable, they'd know that it burns. 1
Deathwielded Posted March 21, 2019 Posted March 21, 2019 7 hours ago, Oltux72 said: No. Silver is a commonly used metal in jewelery and stuff. They for sure tested this on Scadrial. And they have Seekers. Even if the metal did nothing observable, they'd know that it burns. that's what I was thinking. It is far to common a Metal to have not tried it out especially after Era 1 when they were told to look for two more metals and I highly doubt they tried Cadmium and Chromium before trying all types and percentages of Silver. Electrum works in the Metallic Arts and its an alloy of Gold and Silver. So I guess it is sort of used, but isn't a main metal. Curiously the effect of Electrum being poor mans Atium seems to grant a more powerful effect which might show that Silver has some added effect to it. I always thought Malatium and Electrum got their powers confused as they seem better paired power wise in reverse. (Electrum currently counters Atium and Malatium sees other peoples potential past like gold does top ones self)
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