Impact

Fair enough, thanks

Why does everyone call it harmonium instead of "sazedium"? No one calls it "ruinium" or "preservium". They say atium and lerasium

That turns into true love

I viewed it as he showed aptitude for fighting and thus became a soldier, which is a lower caste, generally. I always assumed that he had the blade due to his aptitude, though he was not necessarily respected for it. More like he was a dangerous weapon to be used.

Very possible. I am still a little unsure that it is his current spren, because, like you said, that would be very similar to Shallan, and he may not have impressed the highspren before becoming truthless, otherwise it would make sense for it to have become known to him earlier and proven that he wasn't truthless after all. He could have met the spren before swearing the second ideal, and just had it following him. Or if he did meet it after the second, that just implies that its strange the spren had not made itself known after what they ahd been through.

I think this is highly likely. Why else would he assume the voidbrigners would return? I do think its possible that he did not realize he was bonding a spren and did not understand where the knowledge was coming from. But would this be his current highspren? Or a different one?

I guess I should have explained why. Basically, the blade doesn't cut physically on the first swipe (at something organic). It cuts the *spirit*. To do that, the spirit of the blade or spren is cutting the spirit of the target. Because a split shardblade would be one item with one spren, it would only cut once, even if it was split. I could maybe see it working if it was a double ended sword (think Darth Maul's lightsaber), but that would still be two separate cuts, not one.

Fair enough. In that case, I don't think it would

Would that count as a second cut, though? Seems like because its the same total blade, it would not be two separate attacks. Spiritual mumbo jumbo and all that

The split blade or the double edge? Because I don't see how either would lower the necessary number of hit.

That's why I find it so hard to have a real answer. There is a lot each order can bring to a fight, so its hard to really come up with a reason one beats the other. But I like Windrunners so I'll find reasons to make them win. Like how I think agility is very important in a fight, so they have that

This is definitely the answer I go with. It's like when people say what martial art is the best. It all depends on the practitioner. But If I had to choose, I'd say Windrunners, based on flexibility, mobility, and general (shown) martial prowess. I think the ability to send someone flying off or sticking to a wall with a touch is a pretty awesome ability, and the "danger-sense" from adhesion that was previously mentioned would be tremendously useful in a fight

I had posted something related to this last week. You may find it useful. Shardblades and Gems thread

For a flame-looking one, Nightfire or Baringer Shemesh (very rough Hebrew for Sun Bringer) For a more traditional spike/sword, Hopebinder Cultivationy one, Tsuyoi Ha (Japanese for "Strong Leaf") Windrunner-like one: Unsu (the name of one of my favorite kata that translates to "cloud hands")

The spren would have to be captured first. Its the "splitting" of the spren that cases the conjoined fabrials to move together, at least in my mind. You move one pen, and the spren in the pen moves with it, so the other "half" of the spren would similarly move with the other reed. Now, I have no idea why reversers would work they way they do, but I'm sticking with this theory. I hope this all makes sense, I'm *suuuuupppeeeerrrr* tired right now and my brain is at like 15% capacity, firing on one cylinder.

It seems to me like the fake Nahel bond is kind of a mock fabrial, if that makes sense. It's an artificial connection rather than an organic one. I would guess probably, because the spren is still dead

My bad, that's fair. I honestly never thought of alternatives, or even about this in general, it just popped in my head. I may start scouring the Arcanum and the forums to see if anyone else has another idea to see what others think

Idunno, man, it was just something I thought of and wanted to share. No offense, but what's with all the snark? I'm just sharing my ideas.

What if the reason that dead Shardblades could only be dismissed after having a gemstone attached is that the process mimics capturing a spren in a gemstone, now that we know that shardblades are just spren and fabrials require a spren. Maybe somehow the gem acts like a tether to the person bonded with it, and it is in a way holding the spren within.

Or it could have something to do with singers being partially in the cognitive realm, and the Fused are cognitive shadows and not spren?

That may be possible, but I do want to point out a WoB that says that the surges granted by spren were not modeled after the Heralds, but are natural pairings. So I think the form of being blades/weapons is modeled after the Honorblades, but not the bonding itself.

Oh, I know that. That's why I quoted Doc Brown instead

Which thing? The shard influence thing from my unity post? Or something else?

Already on my third, goncho. Or fourth, I don't remember. The first two were almost back to back. Right at the end now, actually. So that's my present.

"...your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one." -Doc Brown