CrypticSplicer

I think the honorblades are "dead" the same way the shardblades are dead. The heralds had to forge oaths to gain them, same as the knights radiant make oaths to their Spren. When the heralds broke their oaths the Honorblades died and became significantly weaker. Doesn't it take Shen ten heartbeats to summon his honorblade, just like the dead shardblades? I don't have the book in front of me, so I can't give citations.