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So I feel like there has to be something past pumping tons of breath and giving it a special intent that could make an item that can damage shards. If that was the case, then the secret of awakening metal without the ninth heightening would be catastrophic. Nalthis’ magic system would be the most powerful by far, creating mistborn slaughtering machines with just 1000 breaths. I feel like there has to be something much harder to do to make something like nightblood.

It’s confirmed on the wiki that nightblood was not originally a Hemalurgic spike or metalmind. So I think the big mystery on why nightblood is nightblood will go unsolved until we learn about a new magical mechanic.

So it doesn’t quite give super clear stuff, but it is a sort of confirmation.

Well, I’m pretty sure we know that ruin’s investiture is involved. So it isn’t quite just a sword infused with lots of breaths. I think there has to be more to nightblood than just an awakened sword with some of Ruin’s investiture, because I don’t think that would allow a sword to be so strong as to snap perpendicularities and kill vessels.

It is a pretty wild theory, but it does give a very useful analasys. Whether or not the theory is right, thank you!

So Raysium has passive ability of sucking in investiture. Nightblood sucks in investiture. There isn’t many other things that could suck in investiture while being a sword. We know Nightblood was based off of a shardblade because Vasher and Shashara visited Roshar. They could have also discovered Raysium and used that for nightblood’s blade. It seems pretty plausible and makes a lot of sense. I don’t think there is any reason why this wouldn’t be a valid theory, but if there is, I’d love to hear it.

Possibly, but maybe a more niche thing? I dunno if BAM could be that big. It would be interesting, but it might not fit thematically.

Good catch! Yeah, that’s probably it!

Well, I can’t speak for everyone, and I figured out my gender, not sexuality, but I can share how I discovered my gender. basically I had to first figure myself out. Figure out what I liked and dislikes about my gender at birth. I figured that out after some reflection, and I learned about agender. I found that fit what I felt about my gender. Now gender is definitely different than sexuality, but it was a process of figuring out myself, and then figuring out what label best fit. I bet it is something like that for others.

So, the thing with Drehy is that he is an actual person in real life. Brandon Sanderson modeled that character off of a friend of his, who was gay. So saying Drehy’s bad rep is walking a risky line, given that he was fairly realistically modeled off of an actual person. Plus, we don’t get to know too much about em. He’s a very shy and reserved character, so we don’t get to know the personality of him very well. So you can definitely make the argument that there isn’t enough gay or just overall LGBTQ+ rep in Brando’s books, but I think that ya might not want to use Drehy as a part of your argument (in my opinion, obviously). Now it seems like this thread has resurfaced fully, so I will butt in more fully. If ya want inclusivity, which is obviously understandable, it is very important, then you can see a good example in Mistborn era 2. Now I do think that there is a valid point that Brandon does not have enough LGBTQ rep in his books. You can only count a few (pre Rhythm of War and Dawnshard), so he needs to add more. The good news is that he is trying. if you go back in the thread, it will be mentioned that he wants more LGBT characters in his books, but he worries that he will do it wrong, since he doesn’t have much experience with the LGBTQ+ community. So he is trying. OH HOLD ON. THIS HAS BEEN MOVED TO ROW. ok so, Ranarin and Rlain are gay. Two main characters are, in fact, gay. And Thude might possibly also be gay. We have won! Or have we? Brandon has done good with these characters. They are very three dimensional, and definitely well handled with their gayness. I’d say those two are a win. But now we only have 4 gay characters in all of the Sandolord’s books. LGBT-wise, there is more. Shallan is I believe confirmed to be bi, which is fantastic. I’m still betting my spheres that Jasnah is asexual. But that’s just me. trans wise, there is also one more person. (Dawnshard spoils) It’s a very small notion, but my non-binary heart warmed at it. Lift, though not trans, gave off some body dysphoria vibes in RoW, which resonated with me. I even made a thread about it! so does that mean that us, T h e G a y s, have won? I think so. I think Brando Sando is going on the right path and is adding more and more of the LGBTQ community, as well as better mental disorder rep! I really like where this is going. We even got a gay main character, which this thread was made for! That beings me much joy, and yes, I do think we have won.

So mistborn is all about arcs. More so than Brando’s other books. And Elend’s arc was wonderful. He began as a nieve sheltered Noble that was aspiring to be a revelutionary, but really couldn’t. WoA makes him grow from a nieve idealistic king that sees the best in everyone to a Still very optimistic ruler that learns how to be a king and a true leader. HoA broke him. He had one great quality; his optimism and seeing the best in people. In HoA, he had to give up that to be an emporor. He did that to save all of Scadrial, but in doing so, he lost Elend. In his biggest, truest moment, he gave up himself to help others. That signifies that he grew out of that nieve little Noble that read books at balls (though he still did that), he was now a life-hardened ruler that had seen the worst of the world, and that broke him. It is one of the best arcs in the whole of the mistborn series, in my opinion.

That’s an interesting idea, but then you would probably want a just voidlight godspren. Maybe with Todium, that will happen, though.

Ooooh! I like this idea! More bondsmith spren... BAM makes sense to be a bondsmith spren, but who were they a splinter of? Cultivation?

You gotta be careful with that right there. Dabbid has a mental disorder. Some might say that that is not something to be ‘fixed’. Now, if you are talking about stormlight healing, that is based off of spiritual identity. I think it’s safe to say that Dabbid wants what he sees as his stupidity gone.

I came to the same conclusion. Their connection to Ba-Ado-Mishram was likely severed due to their trappedness, which is like the Shaod. Technically, it is like what happens to saons when their human gets the Shaod, but yeah.

You’re thinking along the same lines I am. Connection is what is severed. Their bond to something else. I do think you are right that it might be a better comparison to compare them to elantrian spren, rather than the elantrians themselves. And yeah, I do think there was some vulnerability when they broke off their oaths, so when they bond a human again, it would make sense for the spren to regain their connection and liveliness, reforming the connection they need to be alive. What I’m now wondering is this; why does it only happen to spren that break their oath? There are plenty of radiant spren who are alive and well, but they didn’t break bonds. So what state did they get in when they broke their bonds before the Recreance that no longer works because of the severed connection?

...uhh, hate to break it to ya, but there are autistic gay peeps out there. And yeah, they can also be outcasts. I do think it is fair to think that the situation could go south, but I have confidence in our Brando Sando. He generally gets things right, unless it is Rosharan metaphors in TWoK.

Brandon said in the livestream that the deadeye spren is a relashonship that has been seen in other parts of the cosmere. My mind immediately jumped to elantrians. The elantrians had their investiture and their link to the Dor blocked because the command was incomplete. Because it was incomplete, they had sickly blotches, had no heartbeat, and could not heal. They themselves said that they were dead. That is what is happening to the deadeyes. Their command allowing them to exist or transition to their unbonded state or whatever happens after they break their bond is being interrupted mid-transition. This would explain the dead and clawed out eyes. This would explain why they seem to not access investiture or do anything with bonds. Ba-Ado-mishram Somehow allowed that transition to happen, so trapping her interrupted the command, just like with Elantris.

Yeah. It’s stormlight only questions though.

Yeah, that’s what I realized. Likely, you cannot ask non-Stormlight questions.