Turin Turambar

On 12/19/2017 at 0:19 PM, MonsterMetroid said:

And Lastly the marriage felt really rushed, it felt hasty and we didn't even get to see it! Maybe I'm reading too much into this but my gut tells me there is something there.

 

I think it's just going to be in book 4 (at least, I hope).

so if you fill a shardblade with a massive amount of investiture, might it be easier for the sword to "heal"? Especially if you give it time to adjust to the idea that it's a live, healthy spren. 

Also as a separate idea (maybe this should be a different post) if a radiant found a way to "eat" a spren, since it's basically consentrated investiture, would that fill him or her with stormlight? That might be a way around the Weeping.

I just realized that this post is a bit of a non-sequitur.

Would it be possible for multiple gems to be put on a shardblade, then have multiple people bond the same shardblade?

It sounds like the population of spren is set, as it takes a spren to make a spren. 

It's all investiture - like Nightblood feeds off of stormlight. This only answers one part, though

HI!

I suppose you're right - but what makes the difference between the gems inherent in shardplate and shardblade? I think it's possible to replace the gems of shardplate - somebody correct me if I'm wrong - but wouldn't that mean that the radiants didn't need the gems in the first place? My understanding is that it feeds on stormlight to repair itself. Maybe since it always requires stormlight to heal, there never is enough to bond. Sorry if this is a bit rambling.

In Oathbringer, the Stormfather mentions subspren and true spren. I think that perhaps subspren (assuming that they're the spren with little intellect like gloryspren, anticipation spren, and even windspren) might be able to become True spren (assuming they're things like Honor spren and Cryptics) given the ability. Syl supports this theory, though because she mentions being raised by an aunt - from what? I'd guess that she was raised from a subspren upwards. Also, maybe dead spren revert to their previous form. Though its interesting - that would mean that more than ten types of radiants are possible because even if you subscribe to the theory that there are two types of subspren for each radiant type (for windrunners, general theory states that it is windspren and gravitationspren) and I'd assume that there are more than 30 types of spren, 10 * 3 (2 sub, 1 true), or even triple it (for each magic system)

Is it possible to bond shardplate by attaching gems to it, like a shardblade? Would it let you manifest and dismiss it at will?