Adolin’s blade in row cover

[Aon Tia she/her]

Adolin in the back cover is holding a blade. What blade is it? It is definitely not his shardblade because they would not manifest as a blade at all in the CR. So it appears that he took another non shardic blade with him this time to CR. But is that an ordinary blade or something special? Why is it bleeding rainbow shade thing? A very Nalthian thing to do. Could it be azure’s blade? Is it nightblood? 
Imagine the most powerful blade in the hands of the best duelist on Roshar! 
Any ideas? 
 

Also, kind of related to the topic, as it is about adolin’s blade, 

where do you think is Maya? She is not shown in the cover, is she there? Did they manage to leave her behind? After all having a deadeye follow Adolin around when he goes as an emissary to the honorspren city is not very smart! But how? 

Edited August 22, 2020 by The Traveller

[Friendshipspren he/him]

 

 Let me list the possibilities :

1). It's Nightblood. Brandon said szeth would be in prison at the beginning of RoW. So it's possible dalinar took it away from him and Adolin eventually realised he could wield it without commiting hara Kiri. We haven't seen it in the CR and it could very well be that it bleeds rainbows there . 

Oh boi , if true then I can't wait to read the dialogue bw adolin and nightboi. ♥️

Although Idk how smart it is to bring a weapon of such destructive ability on a diplomatic mission. Not unless they are expecting a major assault by enemy forces. 

And let's hope adolin never unsheathes it. 

2). It's azures sword . Or perhaps one that Zahel created and has gifted to adolin . A safer and weaker version of Nightblood which unlike shardblades can be used in the CR. We didn't see azures sword hemorrhaging rainbows like that in OB but perhaps it's cause it wasn't exposed to the spiritual realm there since they used oath gates. 

Now I'm pretty sure it's dalinar creating a traversible perpendicularity with investiture from the SR leaking in. So that's y it's bleeding so beautifully perhaps.

As for it's wierd shape , perhaps zahel created it as some hybrid between a sword and a spear so that either kal or adolin could use it maybe. 

3). It's a normal sword but with a aluminium sheath. Aluminum can probably cut Spren too I think and it might be useful to cut down dangerous cognitive beasts like anger Spren for example. If there's a battle occuring in the PR at that moment and in that spot hoping to stop the mission ,then I'm guessing u will have a lot of angerspren gathering on the cognitive side. 

This does not explain the bleeding colours however. 

4). It's a parshendi leecher sword he stole, it  seems to have a gem in the crossguard , one which steals stormlight maybe , but again no explanation for the colours. Unless it's like overflowing with stormlight and like a sponge has gotten full and is vomiting it out as colour. Yeah tinfoil. 

 

As for Maya, I think it would be an extremely stupid faux pas to bring a deadeye on a diplomatic mission to convince Spren whose greatest fear of allying with  humans is that they might end up as deadeyes besides they being honorspren won't be so forgiving of a walking representation of broken oaths and the Recreance. 

Edited August 22, 2020 by PrinceGenocide
A little polishing

[theTruthshaper]

The bleeding colors are artistic license and do not mean anything. Whelan confirmed this.

[Honorless he/him]

14 minutes ago, The_Truthwatcher said:

The bleeding colors are artistic license and do not mean anything. Whelan confirmed this.

Could you link the source?

Also, I'm getting really tired of official but non-canon art already.

[theTruthshaper]

 

9 minutes ago, Honorless said:

Also, I'm getting really tired of official but non-canon art already.

Ikr

[Aon Tia she/her]

23 minutes ago, The_Truthwatcher said:

Ikr

Agreed

[Friendshipspren he/him]

1 hour ago, The_Truthwatcher said:

The bleeding colors are artistic license and do not mean anything. Whelan confirmed this.

damnation I spent so much time on those theories

[RShara she/her]

3 hours ago, Honorless said:

Could you link the source?

Also, I'm getting really tired of official but non-canon art already.

Sadly pretty much all artwork is going to be semi-canon, due to artistic interpretation.

[Aon Tia she/her]

43 minutes ago, RShara said:

Sadly pretty much all artwork is going to be semi-canon, due to artistic interpretation.

So true

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

Black sword? With a hooked crossguard? And a silvery sheath? WITH a rainbow coming out of it at this one specific spot on the cover? Call me crazy, but I’m calling chull dung on this one. Maybe Brandon asked Whelan to keep quiet about it until the book comes out for spoiler reasons.

[EggArdent she/her]

Im pretty certain that its not nightblood, In warbreaker nightbloods sheath is described as silver and also it looks a bit too short to me to be nightblood who is around 5 feet long it could also be artistic representation of nightblood though but from that quote i dont think its nightblood.

as another note I think if they dont want to offend the spren they probably shouldn't bring the sword that seems to be a failed try at making a shardblade and constantly tries to persuade people to destroy everything around them.