strmblsd he/him Posted April 22 Report Share Posted April 22 ok so ive been thinking why is night blood unlike other awakened objects in that particular way. my personal thought is that night blood is essentially a spren in investiture levels. he has so much investiture that in the same way as spren he can think. what do you guys think about this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alder24 Posted April 22 Report Share Posted April 22 20 minutes ago, strmblsd said: ok so ive been thinking why is night blood unlike other awakened objects in that particular way. my personal thought is that night blood is essentially a spren in investiture levels. he has so much investiture that in the same way as spren he can think. what do you guys think about this? Yes, Nightblood is basically a robot-spren. Nightblood is even more invested than the most invested spren on Roshar, except for the Stormfather (and maybe other 2 Bondsmith spren). He was Awaken specifically to mimic Spren from Roshar, as Vasher and Shashara visited Roshar and wanted to do that with Awakening. But they've made him sentient on purpose, it wasn't an accident, it's not just raw investiture, he had to be Awaken in a specific way to give him that sentience. In Awakening a Command and a proper visualization with right intent are the most important things, they wanted to do that. Warbreaker ch 51: Quote That was the great crux of the problem, the issue that had dominated most of Vasher’s life. A thousand Breaths. That was what it took to Awaken an object of steel and give it sentience. Even Shashara hadn’t fully understood the pro cess, though she had first devised it. It took a person who had reached the Ninth Heightening to Awaken stone or steel. Even then, this pro cess shouldn’t have worked. It should have created an Awakened object with no more of a mind than the tassels on his cloak. Nightblood should not be alive. And yet he was. Shashara had always been the most talented of them, far more capable than Vasher himself, who had used tricks—like encasing bones in steel or stone—to make his creations. Shashara had been spurred on by the knowledge that she’d been shown up by Yesteel and the development of ichor-alcohol. She had studied, experimented, practiced. And she’d done it. She’d learned to forge the Breath of a thousand people into a piece of steel, Awaken it to sentience, and give it a Command. That single Command took on im mense power, providing a foundation for the personality of the object Awakened. Spoiler Boogalyhu34 Can Nightblood be considered a Splinter and does it function like a spren realmatically, are there distinct differences is what I'm asking. Brandon Sanderson Nightblood is kind of his own strange thing. He's an attempt to use one magic to replicate something in another. He's closest to a spren, but kind of like a...robot spren, for lack of better words to use. Argent When you say that Nightblood is "an attempt to use one magic to replicate something in another," do you mean life in general, or are you referring to a specific effect in a specific magic system? Brandon Sanderson There are those involved who knew that Shardblades existed before they tried the Nightblood experiment. uchoo786 So does this mean Vasher had knowledge of Shardblades before creating Nightblood? Brandon Sanderson It means what I wrote, and nothing more at this point. wickedmath Dude. That's the most tantalizing RAFO I've seen in awhile. Have other Shards made Shardblades besides Honor? Brandon Sanderson RAFO Phantine Is that why Vasher uses the word 'Investiture' instead of some personal term for it? Brandon Sanderson I could be wrong, but I think Vasher was the first one in any book I allowed to use cosmere-aware terms for speaking of things like the magics. (Investiture is one of these.) /r/books AMA 2015 (July 25, 2015) Spoiler Questioner Is Nightblood a spren? Brandon Sanderson There are some who would define Nightblood as a spren. I would not. I would define Nightblood as something else. Skyward release party (Nov. 6, 2018) Spoiler Questioner With Warbreaker and Stormlight Archive, Vasher and Zahel. How does that transition occur? Brandon Sanderson He went to Roshar because he knew ahead of time, that you could get Stormlight, and how easy it was. So he made his way there because he was tired of sucking people's souls to stay alive. Questioner How did he know? Brandon Sanderson He, as part of a group of scholars, stumbled upon the nature of worldhopping long ago. Questioner Could he be the same group of scholars as Jasnah? Brandon Sanderson No, it's a group of scholars on Nalthis who were studying magic, Investiture, and stumbled upon the means by which you transition into the Cognitive Realm. So, he actually had experience with Shardblades before, and that was part of how he built... well, he was part of it, but really... Questioner So, is Nightblood kind of like a Shardblade? Is a Shardblade? Brandon Sanderson Nightblood is an attempt to make a Shardblade using a different magic. And it turned out poorly. Questioner Speaking of Nightblood, how did that transition from Nalthis? Brandon Sanderson I have not answered that yet. Eventually, you will find out how they ended up on Roshar. Arcanum Unbounded release party (Nov. 22, 2016) Spoiler Cognizantastic As I understand it, Nightblood is most comparable to a Shardblade. However, unlike a Shardblade, Nightblood requires constant input of Investiture in order to realize his full destructive potential. Why is this? Brandon Sanderson Vasher kind of hacked in order to imitate another magic system. Shardblades are organic parts of the world they are on, but Nightblood is a bunch of souls stuffed into something. Nightblood is like a Frankenstein. San Diego Comic-Con 2015 (July 9, 2015) Spoiler Questioner One question I've been thinking about a lot, and that is the black bladed sword. Is there just one sword, or is there one for each world, that [works with?] different...like Shard powers, or is it just one sword that can work with all? Brandon Sanderson [Nightblood] is something special. A long time ago, some people from the Warbreaker world came to Roshar, saw Shardblades, thought, "We can do this," went home and tried to make one. And that is Nightblood. And it went horribly horribly wrong. And so they didn't make any more, except now, Azure's sword is somewhat related. But that is the origin of Nightblood. Trying to make a Shardblade out of a different magic system. Idaho Falls signing (July 21, 2018) Spoiler Questioner You've previously said that Nightblood is the most powerful non-Shardic being in the Cosmere. Is he more powerful than the Unmade or Stormfather in terms of raw Investiture? Brandon Sanderson Raw Investiture? Here's the thing, when you say powerful, it can mean lots of different things. More raw Investiture than the Stormfather... probably not. Than the Unmade, probably. I would have to look, I don't have the numbers on this. But the Stormfather is very restricted in what he can do. Orem Signing (March 16, 2019) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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