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Metal spear tip would be better, it would be easier to implant.

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she may be able to stick an illusion to anyone holding storm light.

I recently reread WoR and I was wrong on when Lopen starts using storm light my theory was based on when Dalinar talked with the storm father. He did not talk with the storm father until about a week after the battle. Lopen started glowing long before that on the next morning following Kaladin saying the third oath.

Fair point.

Well I though you had to break them to get the Bead out but i do not remember. As for Hoid leaving one he has some future sight/access to and may have known that a bead was need to be used by someone for things to go the way he wanted. Hoid is Hoid so he could have done it for the fun of it too

Fabrial traps think want to make sure no one can get in here or if they open this they go BAM. This could be done by using a fabrial that absorbs blood you can have it keeping your other gems safe. Anyone opens the chest and SLURP, one mummy . You could also use this like a dart trap only the whole hall is filled with them. One wrong step and SLURP!!

So Spren are concepts and ideas. What if the process for making Nightblood involved them pulling the concept/Spren of Destroy Evil and using the breath to force it into a sword and bind it in place. That could make Nightblood very very similar to a Shardblade. I for one think all places have spren Roshar is just special. @ cognitivepulsepattern No he cleverly just said honor blades are shard blades not that taln's blade is an honor blade sadly

Unlikely but possible i suppose Investiture seems to stay around the area it was in but who knows if it leaches off into the rest of the universe slowly.

I will look for it when I get home but there is WoB that yesteel knows how to make more swords like night blood and vasher implies at one point that they made other sentient metal objects.

What would you have a lifeless jelly fish do?

See it could be something in the physical too. There is SDNA CDNA and normal DNA, each have different influence. I always discounted cognitive because to much is in flux there. Everyone thought TLR was ageless and immortal and if age was stored there that could affect it.

So my understanding is that in the spiritual realm this contains the base forms for life like human or cat or chupacabara. A part of this contains your ability to use any magics.

Nightblood is straight not curved that changes the sheath in most cases but ya it does not need to be sharp. This is closer to the style of what Nightblood looks like in my mind. http://static-5.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/16991-1-1336926392.jpg Only with an all metal sheath. @natc The thing that throws me is the sheath seems to be able to with stand an abnormal amount of damage.

Only a little see a spirit web must contain information on how old you are but age is not what is stored youth is. Unless you think that each person has a set level of youth at birth and then as they age things get off set. You can not treat them the same in the Cosmere. In the real world where cold is just the absence of heat/ molecular excitation and yes that age and youth are two sides of the same coin. Storing age makes more sense but that would allow you to live forever easily.

So I have this old machete that I use from time to time I dont bother to sharpen it and i can do a lot of damage and is very dull. If i can cut bushes with it I'm sure Nightblood wielding a person can stab through someone, it is all about the force used. more force makes an edge irrelevant to a lightly armored person. I do not think Nightblood's sheath projects an edge along its self. Most sheaths with metal end caps have a ball at the end to prevent stabbing your self with the tip accidentally. As for the sheath being invested this is most likely the case though in what way is hard to say but it is defiantly harder than most metal, steel included.

Poor guy would burn up he would have to be moving so fast. In fact he might just explode from the friction with the air. One thing is clear this is not a thing I would want to have happen to me.

Maybe youth increases at an amount similar to old but old increases faster than youth and then stops at like 25 - 35.

Biological death and physical death are different. Cells can be alive but its just a hunk of flesh. Kill something with a shardblade and you only kill the soul not the body brain is still alive even if its been burned out by a shardblade. So once blood left the body it will die/ is dead and is available cognitively for use. No longer being attached to a soul is the key I believe. Do plants have a soul/SDNA?

Hmmmm I wonder if there is any illusion based magic on Scadrial that can do more than create shadows of peoples possible selves. Enjoy the book by the way.

Agreed Also shard blades and nightblood do not have a significant amount of investiture as a whole but maybe a better way to say it is that the investiture per square inch is higher than in most things. I mean we are talking about water vapor(everything) vs a table spoon of water(spren, Nightblood, shardblades) as compared to an ocean or sea(a Shards collective power). Half drawn nightblood is still sealed and the sheath is metal so if you hit something hard enough it could slash a person. being we do not know what it is made of or why it is able to do what it does.

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Its also possible that the grubs are poison to humans for some mundane reason. Based on the fact that 99% of the stuff on that island will kill you at the drop of a hat.

Edit: Spoilers ahead because on my computer its not working like it should.

Ya but the amount of storm light needed would kill you first.