Wyndle88 he/him Posted July 26, 2020 Posted July 26, 2020 As per below Wob: Spoiler If Vasher and Shashara had awakened a non-weapon in exactly the same way as Nightblood—say a shield—would the object exhibit the same properties as Nightblood? If you said “Destroy evil!” to a shield, it wouldn’t be exactly the same, the command is the most important part, but the way the weapon perceives itself, and how you perceive it, is all going to play into this. They were playing with some real dangerous stuff when they made Nightblood, and it didn’t go as intended. So if Endowment is half terror half laughter, and Nightblood turned out to be a failed experiment like this coz of the Intent of Endowment. If the experiment has to be done right and to actually "Destroy Evil", the intent of the shard used to create the sword should be Honor. Maybe that's why Zahel is here? What do you guys think?
Honorless he/him Posted July 26, 2020 Posted July 26, 2020 (edited) Zahel is on Roshar because surviving off of Stormlight is less morally questionable than surviving off of Breaths. Judging by the fact that he killed Shashara over it, I doubt he'd be willing to recreate the Nightblood experiment While I do agree that a Shard's Intent has an effect on what is derived from its Investiture, I do not think Nightblood's strange nature is to be directly blamed upon Endowment's Intent, rather than on the vague nature of the Command used to Awaken him. Maybe Endowment's Intent did help make him able to take in other Investiture and that devolved into making him an Investiture black hole. Maybe Honor's Investiture would've been better & put in more checks & balances. But at the end, I think he was simply the failure of the people who created him and that failure could've been avoided with a little more forethought. They tried to recreate something they had seen, which arose naturally from a different magic system, they should've run some more tests (though it's understandable that they didn't given how many Breaths that would've taken) Edited July 26, 2020 by Honorless 1
NameIess Posted July 26, 2020 Posted July 26, 2020 Another factor to take into consideration is that Nightblood has Ruin's investiture in him too: Quote Walin Does Nightblood contain any of Ruin's Investiture? Like, not atium, but... Brandon Sanderson Yes, technically; and I'm not wiggling around that, because technically, location in the Cosmere and who belongs to what gets really weird, right? Because Ruin's Investiture is everywhere--but I'm not talking that way. I'm talking the way you actually mean it. 1
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