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I don't think he hates change, I think the idea is that he doesn't like being subject to change he doesn't choose, like being shaped by people's perception. I think maybe your confusing the intent of exist and preserve. Existing just refers to being in a state of existing, it doesn't seem to prohibit change in anyway. The only thing we ever see it actually do is stop people from causing others to stop existing. I think it would definitely not prohibit change at all especially if it helps its carrier to keep existing.

Ima be real no clue how that got in there or what it was supposed to say

I think it would come down to whether or not the people knew that the intent was to shape an entity, if it’s like a story someone started 200 years ago for this purpose and now everyone’s knows it, it would work I think but if the people know that it’s a story used for this purpose I don’t think it works. It’s possible but it shaping investiture usually only happens significantly to beings of pure or crazy high investiture, and although we’ve seen hoid has access to loads of magics we don’t know if he keeps that much investiture just on him, we know he has breaths from the end of rhythm of war, and that he sometimes has metals in his stomach from the scene where he shakes the metal in the room in WaT, and we know he has some kind of stormlight/whatever powers his light weaving, but I dunno if these are enough to justify worrying about being shaped. now the other thought I had is that it might be the opposite of what you said, we see hoid act slightly different and have slightly different personality depending on the planet, I wonder if he’s maybe already been being shaped by the people. Of course this assumes my earlier comment is wrong and he does have enough on him to be changed.

Ahhhh yeah I always forget that my bad! I had not even thought about how it could be similar to the spren bonds that’s super interesting, I don’t know for sure if that’s true 100% though cause otherwise there’s a way for you to have a deadeye Nightblood but I don’t think that’s actually possible.

Mmm gotcha that is really interesting yeah it probably would be metal minds that Nightblood would learn from. Dope!

Do you know what specifically it says? I’ve been trying to find any about metal minds and sapient but closes thing I can find is him saying scadrial doesn’t have sentient investiture

Yeah I did I could quite figure out how to get across what I was tying to say clearly Interesting I wonder if medallions would actually work for this purpose, I’d thought about it but figured they weren’t sentient enough. But I guess that depends on how invested of a medallion you use maybe? I dunno

So I went back and reread Szeth’s battle scene and realized in all the chaos I actually missed some huge Nightblood moments. Two things stood out to me: Nightblood learning to grant Surges (or at least redirect Investiture into them) Nightblood choosing to shut herself off — a major break from her usual nature I want to unpack these, share a few thoughts, and see what everyone here thinks. 1. Surges — Nightblood as a “universal adapter”? It didn’t surprise me that Nightblood was Connected enough to give Szeth power — he’s already used Nightblood, so there’s a pathway for it. But the crazy part is that Nightblood didn’t just burn the Investiture she consumed; she redirected it to a specific end. That’s new. Some questions I’ve been thinking about: Can Nightblood grant all Surges? She says she’s “learned from the other swords” (plural). That almost certainly means Shardblades / Honorblades. Later she adds: “I can restore your Lashings; those are easy.” That wording makes me think she can recharge powers someone already had — basically restoring or fueling an existing spiritweb — rather than handing out totally new powers at will, but it seems at least possible that she could maybe grant surges or other magics to someone who has never had them. Could Nightblood grant other magics (like Allomancy)? If Nightblood spent time around Mistborn and got Connection to someone like Kelsier, could she “restore” his ability to burn metals? My guess: maybe . Surgebinding and Allomancy are patterned differently on the Spiritual level. Nightblood doesn’t seem to rewrite the spirit web, though its hard to tell with only one example, but for someone like Kel whos already got Mistborn wrighten in is sDNA it seems at least possible. So what’s really happening? I think Nightblood now can act like a kind of universal Investiture adapter. She burns what she consumes, but instead of annihilating it she can re-channel it through an existing Invested framework. For Szeth, that means fueling Lashings. For others… maybe more or less limited, depending on what their Spiritweb already supports. It’s still insanely powerful, but maybe not “Nightblood can hand out every magic system to anyone.” Yet. 2. Reawakening — Nightblood choosing to stop The other wild moment is when Nightblood just… stops. She doesn’t destroy Szeth or Kaladin, even though that’s her usual mode. That’s never happened before. Even though Nightblood is sentient, she’s always been bound to her original Command: “Destroy Evil.” She never had the flexibility to just not. But now she does — at least in this one scene. Why? Odium overfill. Right before this, Nightblood maxed out on Odium’s raw Investiture — one of the most potent “feeds” she’s ever had. My theory: being stuffed with that much power stretched her Spiritweb / Cognitive Identity enough to create new degrees of freedom. Learning from other swords. She specifically says she learned from “the other swords.” Maybe not just about Surges, but about how things work in the Cosmere — she’s picking up new Cognitive patterns from Shardblades, Honorblades, and even living sprenblades. So I think we’re watching Nightblood evolve. She’s becoming more self-aware, more flexible, and less locked into her destructive function. 3. Big Picture — What This Could Mean If Nightblood can now redirect Investiture and fuel powers instead of only consuming… she’s no longer just a doomsday weapon. She’s a potential tool — or worse, a wild card — for manipulating Investiture itself. That’s terrifying and exciting in equal measure. open questions: Can she eventually grant new Surges or powers, not just restore old ones? Will the Odium infusion have lasting effects beyond what we’ve seen? Could Nightblood ever cross systems and fuel something like Allomancy, Awakening, or Sand Mastery? Or is this just the first step in Nightblood becoming something fundamentally new? Lemme know what y'all think!

Okay so with the reforging of the oath pack we see that Kaladin replaces Jezrien in the heralds line up, but what happened to his honor blade? Does Moash still have it? It says that Retribution pulled all of Honors investiture back into himself, save for any protected by the new Oathpack. So really this depends on a few things, if the old blade is protected by the new oath pack then Moash still has it. the other option is that because Moash was already working for Odium, retribution lets him keep it. Now I think Moash will still be prevalent or at least present in the future of the stormlight archives/cosmear so I imagine he’ll keep some form of his honor blade but I think it will be more like a Retribution blade then the original honor blade. What do yall think?

Yeah that makes sense and something I’ve been thinking about, and I think the idea is that with the UFO representing similar beliefs but disagreeing with some of they’re actions will bring him to join the fray. Don’t know how feasible that is because I’m not sure how top secret the UFO is but hopefully something like that would work.

Gotcha thanks

Yeah I know how to I just didn’t realize and didn’t think it was significant enough to bother

Shhhh I have big fingers and a tiny keyboard to type on

Here’s a character I’ve been working on for a bit let me know what you think.