Father Tanner Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 If a sandmaster were to wield nightblood, would he be able to fuel it with water? Would white sand have to be around in order for this to work? Or would nightblood simply consume the sandmaster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Weltall Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 Water is not the source of Investiture in Sand Mastery; it establishes the necessary Connection, kind of like how metal in allomancy is what tells Preservation's Investiture what to do but it's not Invested itself. It's the Investiture from Taldain's star (which the lichen on the sand absorbs) that you'd need to use as fuel for Nightblood. If you can figure out how to get Nightblood to feed on that rather than your lifeforce, you could probably keep going for a good while. Cross-magic hacks aside you'd likely have to be Mastering the sand to make it work, in the same way that you need to draw an Aon if you're Elantrian or be able to inhale Stormlight on Roshar, meaning that you'd still need a supply of water to avoid dehydration but the Investiture itself is plentiful. Taldain might be the safest place in the Cosmere to use Nightblood if you can get it to work since it's so easy to get at Investiture there, at least on Dayside. Brandon mentioned that it would have been a good alternative to Roshar for Vasher to go to, if it were possible for him to have traveled there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 RShara Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 Nightblood might be able to just draw in the investiture from the sunlight, actually. OB Spoilers Spoiler He drained the spheres that were in Szeth's pouch, before Szeth became a Squire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SwordNimiForPresident Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 If you leave him out in the sun until he gets drunk you might be able to use him safely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Karger Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 7 hours ago, SwordNimiForPresident said: If you leave him out in the sun until he gets drunk you might be able to use him safely. Hmm Ive never realy considered this but does nightblood have an upper limit to how much evil he can destroy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SwordNimiForPresident Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 12 minutes ago, Karger said: Hmm Ive never realy considered this but does nightblood have an upper limit to how much evil he can destroy? Yes. The best example is Oathbringer Spoils Spoiler at the end of Oathbringer when Szeth almost gets eaten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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If a sandmaster were to wield nightblood, would he be able to fuel it with water? Would white sand have to be around in order for this to work? Or would nightblood simply consume the sandmaster?
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