Idk about you guys but after reading “War Breaker” and understanding night bloods origin Iv been a little perplexed as to how an awakened object could nearly instantly destroy the mind of a shard. As I understand it the only other time a shard has been eather kiled or shadered is by another shard. This has lead me to try and figure out what makes night blood so powerful. What Iv concluded is that it’s a vacume. This is somewhat obvious, but I theiriezed on the specifics and I think I got something that works. When Shashara made the sword she pushed thousands of breaths into something that had at no point ever contained a sole. In my mind a breath is the spark of the sole, like how Preservation gave a spark to humanity to make them sentient. Anyway the sole is part of the spiritual realm. In consintrating so many breaths (parts of the sole) into this object the spiritual realm tryed to fill it (with a sole) thinking it was a living thing, this wasn’t really possible, their was no space for a sole in a thing that had never had life for a sole to attach too. But with so much breath the force of the spiritual realm broke this impossibility, it snaped in trying to fill the sword and created a whole. In trying to fill nothing it formed the vary gap it was trying to fix. Now instead of a sole being added it acts as the negative space for a sole. It can’t fill that gap bc it is the gap. The sole is essentially a complex form of investiture. In this way when night blood touches investiture it try’s to fill its gap, problem is the gap is part of the spiritual realm, beyond space, so impossible to fill. When it dosnt have investiture it feeds on the sole using that to try and fill that gap. It killed Odiums mind which was a spatially limited amount of investiture, but couldn’t take all of the power, as it was also part of the spiritual realm, and essentially infinite. So when Shashara made night blood she forced a one way brake between the realms. Not a perpendicularity but a direct connection. Not evil but consuming. This feels a little more balanced to me. No power, no mater how invested a person is should be able to compete with that of a shard, however breaking a law the gods can’t and snapping some of the realms is definitely something humans could do.