Questioner
On the nature of shardblades, to an extent, can a live blade be split without harming it's source, so to speak?
Brandon Sanderson
Can a live blade split? What do you mean, split?
Questioner
Make itself into two weapons.
Brandon Sanderson
Oh, can a blade be forged into two weapons. A shardblade.
Questioner
Does it absolutely need a connection, or can it become two?
Brandon Sanderson
So, shardblades becoming two shardblades would require slicing in half a soul, which would not be very fun for the spren. Okay?
Questioner
So it's possible. *laughter*
Brandon Sanderson
So it's technically possible to take hydrogen and to turn it into plutonium with our current technology. It would cost more money than, like, the budget of NASA to do it for, y'know, one atom. So there are things that are possible, but-- Yes it is possible. This is not something that would be easy or very useful to do.
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