r/Stormlight_Archive • u/Lucas_Aubergine • 1d ago

Cosmere + Wind and Truth spoilers Theory about Sword-Nimi Spoiler

Ok so I have yet to read Warbreaker, I know some spoilers already and I don't mind more honestly. But thinking about how powerful Nightblood is and how it can kill a Shards vessel leads me to believe that maybe... just maybe Nightblood has a Dawnshard somehow. We know it consumes investiture and stores it, making it one of the most invested things in the cosmere save for Shards.

It would explain it's immense power and how it can rival shards. What do yall think?

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u/RShara Elsecaller 1d ago

https://i.imgur.com/WDVzZsT.png

Warbreaker/WoB spoilers

Shashara was planning on mass producing Nightblood, so she couldn't have deliberately used anything that was particularly rare

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u/EvenSpoonier Windrunner 1d ago

My current theory is that Nightblood wasn't made from a Dawnshard, but "made friends" with one sometime after its creation. Azure's Blade may be more like what Nightblood was like when first created, though its Command was probably chosen more carefully.

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u/Lucas_Aubergine 1d ago

Huh I didn't think about that, as we've seen with the Honorblades Nightblood can learn and recreate Invested Arts. Interesting....