Amazing Yet Stupid Things to Do With Breath

[Karger he/him]

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?

[king of nowhere]

now i'm picturing a rich idiot giving those breaths to his pet dog.

the sapient pet dog then kills the guy for having him neutered, and take over the financial empire.

Edited May 6, 2020 by king of nowhere

[Honorless he/him]

Imagine giving that much power to a particularly temperamental cat

[Emi she/her]

Or imagine that you have really big emotional relationship with your garden

and your innocent looking plant had almoust died and you're giving it breath to survive

(that would be kind cute though)

Edited May 6, 2020 by Emi

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

Try to give breath to an Amian and see what happens.

[ShadowLord_Lith he/him]

Give a few thousand breaths to Kelsior. Teach him how they work. Watch him somehow possess an incredibly absurd set of creatures that grant him increasingly wacky abilities and presence in the physical realm...

[Karger he/him]

6 minutes ago, ShadowLord_Lith said:

Give a few thousand breaths to Kelsior. Teach him how they work. Watch him somehow possess an incredibly absurd set of creatures that grant him increasingly wacky abilities and presence in the physical realm...

I personally think we are going to get some kind of steampunk robo Kelseir in the future.

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

Try to awaken the cognitive aspect of something.

[Karger he/him]

3 hours ago, The Young Pyromancer said:

Try to awaken the cognitive aspect of something.

You can give breath to spren...

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

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

[Karger he/him]

18 minutes ago, The Young Pyromancer said:

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

I don't think the result is any different from putting breath into an object.

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Hoiditthroughthegrapevine (paraphrased)

If Nightblood were in the cognitive realm and was used to stab a bead that was the cognitive representation of a castle, would the castle be destroyed in the Physical Realm?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

If you could get Nightblood into the Cognitive Realm, then yes. 

Hoiditthroughthegrapevine (paraphrased)

What would happen to people who were in the castle at the time? 

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

They wouldn't be affected (other than possibly plummeting to their death).

Hoiditthroughthegrapevine (paraphrased)

How about a carpet that had been in the castle for 50 years? 

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

No, 50 years most likely wouldn't be enough time. 

Hoiditthroughthegrapevine (paraphrased)

Is this like the "Ship of Theseus?" 

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Yes

Oathbringer Portland signing (Nov. 16, 2017)

 

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

13 minutes ago, Karger said:

I don't think the result is any different from putting breath into an object.

...Nightblood stabbing something and putting breath into objects are completely different.

[Karger he/him]

1 hour ago, The Young Pyromancer said:

...Nightblood stabbing something and putting breath into objects are completely different.

The breath and Nightblood both effect your spiritual aspect.  Since you can also give breath to spren I see no reason why you can't give beads breath but the effect should be no different from giving it to their bodies as what you are really doing is expanding their souls.

[Ghanderflaffle she/her]

Only on the Shard: a mini forum game turns into a debate on if you can but magical Breath into magical beads.

[Honorless he/him]

18 hours ago, Karger said:

You can give breath to spren...

 

15 hours ago, Karger said:

The breath and Nightblood both effect your spiritual aspect.  Since you can also give breath to spren I see no reason why you can't give beads breath but the effect should be no different from giving it to their bodies as what you are really doing is expanding their souls.

Source? 

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

18 hours ago, Karger said:

The breath and Nightblood both effect your spiritual aspect.  Since you can also give breath to spren I see no reason why you can't give beads breath but the effect should be no different from giving it to their bodies as what you are really doing is expanding their souls.

But nightblood affects sentients and objects (mostly) the same, whereas breath doesn’t. Also, technically everything affects the spiritweb.

[Karger he/him]

3 hours ago, R J said:

Source? 

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Questioner

So, is it possible for a spren to get more Investiture? And if it does, will it kinda level up into a higher form of spren?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, it's possible. That is totally possible.

Oathbringer release party (Nov. 13, 2017)

It appears I misremembered I thought the Wob was more explicit.

1 hour ago, The Young Pyromancer said:

But nightblood affects sentients and objects (mostly) the same, whereas breath doesn’t. Also, technically everything affects the spiritweb.

As a regular watcher of shardcast.  Sigh.

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

Okay, this is two arguments between us in as many days, both times about breath. You’ve been polite and reasonable both times, but I think we should just agree to disagree when it comes to Biochroma.

[The Awakened Salad they/them]

Awaken a salad and let them create an account on this site. 

Edited May 8, 2020 by The Awakened Salad

[Honorless he/him]

5 hours ago, The Awakened Salad said:

Awaken a salad and let them create an account on this site. 

 

[Karger he/him]

17 hours ago, The Awakened Salad said:

Awaken a salad and let them create an account on this site. 

What command was used...?

[The Awakened Salad they/them]

3 hours ago, Karger said:

What command was used...?

It’s a secret 

[Karger he/him]

On 5/5/2020 at 10:17 PM, king of nowhere said:

the sapient pet dog then kills the guy for having him neutered, and take over the financial empire.

Several dogs exist that are millionaires. 

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According to BBC News, Gunther III, a German shepherd, inherited $65 million when his owner, the late German countess Karlotta Liebenstein died in 1992. The humans who managed his doggy estate eventually invested Gunther's money and turned it into $375 million which was passed onto Gunther’s son, Gunther IV. 

Gunther IV and his team of handlers have used that money to snatch up mansions and villas all over the world (including Madonna's) and now Gunther IV is actually considered the world’s richest dog.

 

[SirWolfe]

Awaken the vegetable garden fence to keep non-human animals from entering the garden. You'll never have to worry about losing your tomato plants again. Or we might end up with a Nightblood-fence-thing that constantly wants to "destroy vermin", and eats the soul of whatever touches it. 

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

On 5/27/2020 at 10:18 AM, SirWolfe said:

Awaken the vegetable garden fence to keep non-human animals from entering the garden. You'll never have to worry about losing your tomato plants again. Or we might end up with a Nightblood-fence-thing that constantly wants to "destroy vermin", and eats the soul of whatever touches it. 

That would make for some seriously good tomatoes.