Honorblades in Cognitve Realm

[tobar14 he/him]

Sorry if asked already, but I was re-reading Rhythym of War, and the parts where certain Chars can see into shardesmar made me wonder what would they see if they looked into shadesmar/cognitive realm to see what an Honorblade looks like there.

[+Harrycrapper]

2 hours ago, Mage said:

Counter question: What do spren shardblades look like, when summoned in the physical realm and a lightweaver/elsecaller/willshaper is looking into shadesmar?

It's possible they don't look like anything when summoned. If a human transitions to the Cognitive Realm, they don't seem to exist in the Physical Realm or at least they don't leave any visible remnant. Similarly, I would think if a spren is summoned into the Physical Realm as a Shardblade, they shouldn't be visible in the Cognitive Realm at all. It's been a bit since I read OB, but I think someone in Shadesmar said that when the deadeye blades are summoned, they disappear from the Cognitive Realm. 

[Parzival]

If you're looking in shadesmar while they are in the physical realm then I would assume they are just another bead, unless god metals look differently when viewed in shadesmar. If you were to take a honorblade into the cognitive realm then it would likely still be a sword since that's just what they are, same as nightblood or Azure's sword.

[Mage he/him]

I have no evidence to back this up, but I would postulate that it would probably be glowing since it is highly invested, but it wouldn't be a spren. Rather it might look like a more mechanical grouping of investiture. This is assuming you can see it at all.

Counter question: What do spren shardblades look like, when summoned in the physical realm and a lightweaver/elsecaller/willshaper is looking into shadesmar?

[Quantus he/him]

2 hours ago, Mage said:

I have no evidence to back this up, but I would postulate that it would probably be glowing since it is highly invested, but it wouldn't be a spren. Rather it might look like a more mechanical grouping of investiture. This is assuming you can see it at all.

Agreed.  Honestly I think they will remain looking like their Sword-forms, since the Spren looked at that to mimic the Bond and make radiants.

2 hours ago, Mage said:

Counter question: What do spren shardblades look like, when summoned in the physical realm and a lightweaver/elsecaller/willshaper is looking into shadesmar?

Presumably they would see their humanoid spren forms, the same way Soulcasters look like the spren the make them up when viewed that way.

[Honorless he/him]

Nightblood still looked like a sword in the Cognitive Realm, so I think the Honorblades would as well

[Quantus he/him]

33 minutes ago, Honorless said:

Nightblood still looked like a sword in the Cognitive Realm, so I think the Honorblades would as well

I tend to assume so to, but Nightblood is such a special case, especially with the fact that he's still theoretically just Invested Steel and not pure Manifested Godmetal Investiture.  His native for IS a sword. Which is true for Honorblades too, I would think.