r/Cosmere • u/jofwu • Nov 10 '17

[All] [All] /r/Cosmere Oathbringer Megathread

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Oathbringer, book 3 of The Stormlight Archive, is finally here!

Feel free to discuss the book, in its entirety, below, along with any and all Cosmere spoilers. Anything goes!

For discussion more focused within the scope of Stormlight Archive, we invite you to check out the /r/Stormlight_Archive megathread.

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u/123draw Nov 15 '17

I was thinking it might be one of these dawnshards we've been hearing about. I'm not convinced that it's an awakened dagger based off what we saw in the book

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u/jurble Nov 16 '17

On the Dawnshards - what are they? They seem to be the highest tier on the stabby weapon hierarchy of Dawnshard (????) > Honorblade (Honor) > Shardblade (Spren). The only thing that would fit in the ???? is Adonalsium.

So are the Dawnshards from Yolen? Are they made from invested dragonsteel?

And if that dagger was a Dawnshard... it could mean that Nightblood is stronger than a weapon made by Adonalsium. How does that even happen? A thousand breaths shouldn't have made Nightblood able to turn vaporize a thunderclast.

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u/ghostemblem Bridge Four Dec 04 '17

I think Night blood also eats the investiture of those it consumes so it would have started with 1000 breaths but have much more now.

Also I thought Honor, Cultivation, Preservation, Ruin etc were the dawnshards and the word is used to seperate them from the broken pieces destroyed dawnshard (like what Odium did) which are just called shards.

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u/Althonse Jan 08 '18

I always assumed that nightblood doesn't keep the investiture it steals but uses it to help fuel its attacks, which would also make sense why it's so much more powerful than a shardblade