Sythrin Posted 12 hours ago Report Share Posted 12 hours ago We know that soulcasted humans can awakened and it is easier than a statue. If you habe the right command and you are of the 9th heightening. Do you think you could awaken the corpse and give it similar abilities to nightblood or Vivienna‘s shardblade. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantus he/him Posted 12 hours ago Report Share Posted 12 hours ago Unless there's something realmically significant about doing that sort of Awakening on Metal, specifically, then Id say yes it's possible in the same way the right Commands will let you expand specific parts of your spiritweb rather than just gaining standard heightenings. The Awakener would likely need to view the target very specifically as an Object rather than a living thing (current or otherwise). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alder24 Posted 11 hours ago Report Share Posted 11 hours ago 1 hour ago, Sythrin said: If you habe the right command and you are of the 9th heightening. Do you think you could awaken the corpse and give it similar abilities to nightblood or Vivienna‘s shardblade. The reason Nightblood works so terrifyingly good is because he's a sword. It wouldn't work the same if you Awaken a shield or a corpse in the exact same way as Nightblood was Awakened. However, you can Awaken a Soulcasted corpse into sentience, that's a regular type 4 BioChromatic entity - like Vivenna's blade. You most likely won't bring back that person, it would assume its own identity and personality. Additionally a human body won't work like a Shardblade, for the same reasons a shield won't be like Nightblood. WoBs: Spoiler Questioner If Vasher and Shashara had Awakened a non-weapon in exactly the same way as Nightblood (say a shield), would the object exhibit the same properties as Nightblood? Brandon Sanderson So, if you said "destroy evil" to a shield... no, it wouldn't be exactly the same. The Command is the most important part of all of this, but the shape, how the weapon perceives itself, how you perceive it, is all gonna play into this. They're playing with some real dangerous stuff when they made Nightblood. And it didn't go as intended. San Diego Comic-Con@Home 2020 (July 23, 2020) Spoiler LeFlshe At Dragonsteel this year, you confirmed that Nightblood is not a Dawnshard. However, its abilities seem to be far greater than that of Vivenna’s blade, presumably made with the same method. This disparity may be due to the person who originally Awakened the swords and leads one to believe that Nightblood, despite not being the Dawnshard, had a Dawnshard involved in its creation. Therefore, is Shashara, the person who Awakened Nightblood, a Dawnshard? Brandon Sanderson Excellent questions. You’ve got one faulty premise: Vivenna’s sword was intentionally designed differently to not get another Nightblood. So let’s keep that in mind. That said, I don’t know that they could make another Nightblood if they wanted to. But she definitely did not want to, and there’s a different process that they use nowadays for safer swords. Questioner 2 Is Vivenna’s sword better or worse than Nightblood? Brandon Sanderson Depends on what you want from the sword. Vivenna’s sword does not automatically suck the soul and Investiture out of anything it touches, disintegrating that which it touches, which is both a plus and a minus. YouTube Spoiler Stream 6 (Dec. 19, 2023) Spoiler Questioner Say you have a Feruchemist who pours Identity into a metalmind. Then subsequently loses that mind, and then is later Awakened? Would that mind retain the personality of-- *Everyone laughs, Scottish man says "it's 11 o'clock at night, give the man a break!"* Brandon Sanderson Okay, so they store Identity—which I haven't told you what it does-- Questioner Yep. We don't know. Brandon Sanderson And then you Awaken it, and then you want to know if it has the personality of the person? Questioner Yeah, or if it's able to communicate in any way. Brandon Sanderson Um, if-- how much Awakened is it? Is it Nightblood-level Awakened? Or is it just regular Awakened? Questioner Sure let's say Nightblood-level. Brandon Sanderson Nightblood-level. So it's-- so the Investiture has been granted sapience. And it's got Investiture from somebody else stuffed in it. I can foresee a scenario where that has an influence, but it's not going to be the personality of the person who stuffed it in. I can see some circumstances where they can-- where the Investiture of the object can make use of that in some way, but... Oh boy, that was a weird one. Shadows of Self Lansing signing (Oct. 13, 2015) This one below is about Lifeless, but it should more or less work the same with a type 4: Spoiler Oudeis16 If Bob the Awakener Awakened fifty straw men to dance around, then died, then Returned as FormerBob the Appropriately Named, would FormerBob be able to reclaim the Breath from the straw men in the normal fashion (once he learned the "Your Breath to Mine" Command)? Brandon Sanderson Yes. He has enough of his original Identity, and the spiritual connection would remain. sonofstannis What if he instead were reincarnated as a lifeless? Is there a way he could reclaim it then? Brandon Sanderson Lifeless have someone else's investiture replacing their own. (As opposed to Returned, who are augmented.) Depends on how much of them is left, and if they can achieve sapience again, but I'd say this is unlikely. WeiryWriter What if the Lifeless is Awakened with their own Breath? (i.e. they gave it away right before they died and the person they gave it to then used it in the Awakening) Brandon Sanderson This has happened already in the world, and it does help. -Nayrb Did this happen "on screen"? Brandon Sanderson RAFO. /r/books AMA 2015 (July 30, 2015) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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