Amazing Yet Stupid Things to Do With Breath

[SirWolfe]

21 hours ago, Lesser spren said:

 

I love this.

[Shadesmar13]

Well, honestly, it would be nice to make your lil doggo immortal so he wouldn't die and make you sad. 

[Wayne's Unlucky Hat he/him]

Give your breath to a fly

[Emery the Steelrunner he/him]

On 5/6/2020 at 6:36 PM, The Young Pyromancer said:

I mean going to shadesmar and trying to awaken some beads.

If you did this, and it just invested the object in the physical realm, then you could cause some serious damage/spying without being caught.

[SymphonianBookworm she/her]

Give your breath to TWoK. 

Well, actually, the SA has already taken my breath away. 

[Lament on the Wind she/her]

On 5/6/2020 at 11:18 AM, Honorless said:

Imagine giving that much power to a particularly temperamental cat

I would have a real problem...

[Duxredux he/him]

Awaken some Lifeless elephants to turn a turbine that powers my house. There is a serious labor resource that is being underutilized by Awakeners, considering they can make workers that do not need to eat or sleep and can work tirelessly. I'm thinking of the golems in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

Wait, stupid? Awaken hundreds of Lifeless hamsters to run on their little hamster wheels to make a legit hamster-powered deathray that I fire at Hallendren.

[Stormtide_Leviathan]

This is getting pretty theoretical, but I think it might be possible to command your breath directly to manifest in the physical realm, as metal. (Presumably in the form of Edglium). So that'd be cool, and pretty useful. There are lots of things you could presumably do with a shapeshifting blob of metal that you can make appear and disappear at will.

[cometaryorbit]

1 hour ago, Duxredux said:

There is a serious labor resource that is being underutilized by Awakeners, considering they can make workers that do not need to eat or sleep and can work tirelessly.

I think that this is actually used in Hallandren, there's a reference to renting Lifeless from the Hallandren government to clear land for farming (When Vivenna and the mercenaries are making all those contacts...)

So they are sometimes used for non-military purposes. However I think large groups of Lifeless in Hallandren are generally controlled by the government. (I am not sure if there are legal limits, or if it's just that rich individuals prefer to use Breath to prolong their life/boost their health.)

[Lotus Blossom she/her]

On 5/6/2020 at 3:52 AM, Karger said:

I recently had a fantastic yet silly idea of what to do with an extra couple thousand breath.  Give it to a horse and let it become a semisapient immortal horse!  Anyone else have a similarly brilliant idea?

Give it to your goldfish lol

[Karger he/him]

On 8/25/2022 at 1:56 PM, Lotus Blossom said:

Give it to your goldfish lol

Why a goldfish specifically?

[Lotus Blossom she/her]

Well, goldfish have the lifespan of 10 years, but most don't even get to live that long. The average IQ of a goldfish is 30-40, meanwhile a freshwater salmon is about 130. So when I said goldfish, I meant the cliche little goldfish swimming around in its bowl in cartoons. It's a small, insignificant creature that is a short-lived pet, and giving it all your breath (especially if you have a lot of it) seemed like a funny idea to me. What use would a goldfish have with more breath than the God King? Would he become the next God King himself- a goldfish?

[Poi]

Give your breath to your car and have it drive itself,granted this can't be done in Nalthis because cars have not been invented yet but we do know that in the future the people of the cosmere will gain technology far above our own and thus cool creation's combining technology and investiture such as this one will become possible.

 

[Mistchemist16]

Give a doll 1,000 breaths like Nightblood and command it to serve butter.

Give your cat the 10th Heightening just so you can see the pretty colors

Make an entire hive of Lifeless wasps and use them to painfully sting your enemies

[Hatman he/him]

Get to a high heightening and then eat things that would give food poisoning. 

Command gingerbread men to run around and talk. 

Edited August 15, 2023 by Hatman

[ʟɪɢʜʈ]

I the future of the cosmere, command a rocket missile to target a ship and make a heat seeking missile.

Wait that actually might work

Edited August 16, 2023 by ΨιτιsτηεΒέsτ

[Through the Living Elan He/Him]

Command teddy bear to avoid children.

[Ravenclawjedi42]

Command a ball of yarn to destroy evil, leading whoever did it to have a sentient pet ball of yarn with a habit of choking people.

[Weaver of Shadows he/him]

Give breaths to legos and make them reenact the Lego Batman Movie.

[ʟɪɢʜʈ]

Put Breath in a music box to make it play forever.

[All_Mighty_Juice Royal Grand Exalted Highness]

give the breath to a piece of hay, then, drop it into a haystack. Then you can play the game ¨Do I Have The Patience To Crawl In A Haystack And Ask Ranodm Piceces Of HayTo Give Me Back My Breath That Hundreds Of People Have Sacrificed To Make¨? 

 

Honesty, probably not

[..... he/him]

get billions of breaths and awaken the planet to spin faster to throw off the atomic clocks and then when they update the clocks you make it spin slower instead and repeat for ever so that the clocks cant be accurate.

[morcey2]

Awaken an entire museum's worth of armor and weapons to fight off a German invasion of the British Isles while Angela Lansbury sings....

[One of the Ten Fools he/him]

Awakening a already fully functional robot that can follow simple commands

[Voidlit Man he/him]

Sneak into a tomb no one has discovered, awaken a mummy to "attack the next people who say so and so" (color change likely wouldn't be super noticeable on the cloth or flesh of a mummy), and then write some gibberish on the wall. See if the archaeologists are stupid enough to actually say it. This would make a great hoax