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- Giant magic swords are cool, okay? In this video I go over the magic weapons of the Cosmere like Shardblades and Honnorblades from The Stormlight Archive and Awakened blades like Nightblood from Warbreaker.
Join me as I dive into Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere to figure out how these magic invested weapons work!
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With Nightblood, I have a theory that he could eventually soak up enough investiture to become something akin to a vessel, and at a point, the investiture would start warping his personality based on what shard or shards it's from
Interesting idea, but I am pretty sure Brandon has said in a WOB that Nightblood has a maximum amount of investiture he can hold, and it slowly bleeds out as the black smoke.
@@dylanhalifaux I haven't seen that wob. I do know that Nightblood was satiated at a point in RoW, but I theorize that he can slowly increase his max level of investiture through gorging himself, and any true maximum might be more like a limit on investiture than on Nightblood. IO'd like to ask Brandon about all of this, and have tried in livestreams, but I am not quite fortunate enough to get them read out and answered
All I’m saying is that it is interesting that one Dawnshard is different from the other 3. And Nightblood does, rather interestingly I might say, act as an inverse of a Dawnshard. An investiture vacuum rather than a well of investiture. Interesting, interesting 🤔
Or become a shard of destruction
@@dylanhalifauxI think he said there’s a maximum amount he can absorb at one time. That’s why Rayse died, he had the capacity to kill him but not to absorb the shard of Odium
4:28 Ja-son-son-nioan wore blue on the day he was supposed to explain us the Cosmere
"THIS IS MY CHILD, I birthed him"
Tanavast about the Honorblades, probably
Truth
The ability to modify the shape of Radiant Shards coming from Cultivation blew my mind. You continue explain deep relativity theory in a way that no one else does. No matter how many rereads I’ve done, or other Cosmere content I’ve taken in your content continues to enlighten areas I didn’t even know I didn’t understand.
Next video we need to discuss the potential of weaponized surges. If you had 100 Windrunners lashing tungsten balls toward a central point, or had them launch a projectile miles-high and then spike it to the earth with 10 lashing, you can get some truly heinous acts. There's a reason Ashyn is 99% uninhabitable
They ignited the atmosphere by causing a runaway fusion chain reaction. Ashyn was cooked to ashes.
That was actually a pretty simple but pretty accurate explanation of the “Nightblood Test”. That’s something I’ve always kind of struggled with understanding, but it makes a lot more sense now as a “I think I’m evil therefore that’s the evil I’ll target with Nightblood” sort of deal. Thanks for clearing that up!
I think nightblood's destroy evil motto is foreshadowing his ultimate destiny destroying the Evil of threnody
A worthy opponent. Their battle would be legendary
It would be an odd coincidence that the command “destroy evil” gave Nightblood the ability to absorb investiture, and it not be to destroy the mountain-sized chunks of investiture literally called “the evil”
@@diepie5144 I mean that's the only way I kind of see it going . It's Sanderson yk there's no way that's just a coincidence and not a detail
I think Szeth is also uniquely (mentally) suited to Threnody. He already deals with the dead every moment of his life and doesn't wish to kill anymore.
Maybe that's why nightblood does what he does and Vivenna's blade doesn't. If Vasher and Shashara went to threnody for some reason, they'd know about the evil and it could have affected Shashara's command. Probably not but I'm not ruling it out until I hear otherwise.
The tiny Nightblood reveal killed me 😂😂
That Honorblade turned out great, nice job!
I was hoping that bit would get a chuckle.
Thanks! I’m pretty proud of how the honorblade turned out as well!
My day just got 1000x better
Wake up babe, a new Jasonioan vid dropped
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Oh man.
It’s gotten to the point where I look at a tab I opened earlier… see the scenery, and get excited to realize it’s you.
I commended your extra effort before… I’m completely sold now you’re my top three for sure
Awesome video! We gotta get your popularity up because this was amazing for all Cosmere fans
Wow, thank you!
Killing it like always. Best Cosmere channel on youtube.
Can’t stress enough how much time and effort Jason pours into making these videos for you guys. Getting to watch him work is mind blowing. He’s dedicated to his craft hardcore.
Bummed I had to miss out on the shoot this time around, but this video might be one of your best yet dude!
Thanks Aidan! I wish you could’ve gone too, it would’ve been a lot more fun with ya!
My bro literally goes to shattered plain for taking a video. Nice job 👍
Thank you! You should check out some of the other places I’ve been in my other videos. :)
Found your channel recently and absolutely love how well done all your videos are
Thanks! I’m glad you found me!
Wow, you answered a lot of questions I’ve had and some I’ve never even thought about, really great job with this! Thank you!
I love your videos so much, it feels like content makes specifically for me.
Another great video! Most informative, thank you sir!
19:09 I had a similar thought but my thought process is on of 2 things ether god metals are neutral wen it comes to inventive and anti- inventive or maybe the thing about the blade being ruined is wat it is
Minor correction about Nightblood (is this the very first lore nitpick I've had with this series?): The leatherbound retcons it so that it's unusually light even when sheathed, but seems to become heavier after it's eaten. (Its sheath is also now sharpened rather than the sword magically making it sharp, guess Brandon decided that it shouldn't be able to magically affect aluminum like that after all.)
Otherwise, excellent video as always!
Thank you for the praise and the correction! I re-read Warbreaker for this video, but I didn’t read the leatherbound edition 😅
@@jasonioan Yeah, unfortunately the Warbreaker ebook hasn't been updated with the tenth anniversary text like Era 1 has. I've just had to scour the internet for people posting quotes and keep it in a spreadsheet lol.
@@LewsTherinTelescope Do you have a list of all the changes made to the novel?
@@victordesena9763 Of the quotes I've gathered, this is the only one that seems too relevant, for the most part it's just minor continuity tweaks or using cosmere-aware terminology like "Invest" rather than "infuse". That and apparently Mercystar's color's have changed from yellow and gold to orange and gold, and the palace is now taller (Vasher falls 40 feet instead of 10).
bro ur content should be way more popular but keep doing whatever love
We’re growing slowly but surely!
Has anybody else read the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy? Brandon has cited it as a big inspiration for him and there’s some interesting parallels between Nightblood and 2 of the magic swords in that series
Whoa crazy, I have the first book but haven't broken into it yet!
Why do I have the suspicion that this video was partly to show off your Shardblade collection...
Well ah… you see ah… Nightblood is my brothers soooo I only really had Oathbringer before working on this video. 😅
dude, super underrated channel
Thank you! I’m glad you found me!
*Waking up for a 4am shift*
“New Jasonioan video?? Work can wait.”
Hope you enjoy! 👉😎👉
Thank you sooooo much for including your references
Another amazing video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
May I suggest a video covering what weapons of war are possible using surges? In RoW Wit has a short conversation about it. But I would love to see what the community can come up with and maybe you can cover a few of them.
Chemical weapons, like a transformation bomb which when detonated soulcasts the air in a radius around into poisonous chemicals.
Mini blackhole devices using reverse lashings.
Bondsmith bonding everyone's souls out of them and into the ground
Another jasonioan banger
Weapons! Love it
Great video!
Super high quality video 🙏👌
Thank you 🙌
Need to know more about vivenna’s blade
Don't we all fr hahaha
Borea: “that shard blade sure is something else. How’d you do it”
GEE BOREA YOU DONT SAY. I’M SURE WE’D ALL LOVE TO KNOW THAT
Hmm so you’re saying this blade is made of human souls? Well I guess it’s better than spren
Oh. I hadn't really thought about Raysium channeling anti-voidlight... must be a property of Raysium? That it transfers Investiture without letting it inside? The way copper is a good conductor because electricity passes through it experiencing minimal resistance?
I wonder if like, random axi of it are destroyed in the process and if you use it too often it'll eventually break down.
Yeah, I hadn't considered it either. Wild stuff when my fave fiction makes me mechanically engineer soul-destroying weapons 😂
@@jessehughes5424 Maybe it's a matter of kinetic versus passive Investiture?
I was actually wondering if it had anything to do with the form of the investiture. Like maybe anti light destroys light. So you would need solidified anti investiture to destroy a solid like the dagger?
I wonder how using anti-voidlight affects the dagger long term.
I think you should include the Bands of Mourning from Mistborn Era 2. Even if you consider it a weaponized magic system, the fact that anyone can use it means that it fits in the weapon category, in my opinion
Some bone weapons from Sel might be fascinating.
Agreed! I feel like there’s so much potential there that we just haven’t seen yet!
Loved the Minecraft enchanting, too!
Where are you this time?!
That view is amazing
Roshar! (The San Rafael Swell)
I would love if you made a bunch of lower animation quality videos summarizing each book! It would be awesome to have a playlist of those to listen through or pull up as needed for review
That’s a good idea! I might need to break the Stormlight books into multiple videos, maybe 1 per part. Those books are DENSE.
Spoilers for The Sunlit Man and Rhythm of War
Nomad's description of the Dawnshard pulling on any investiture it can access reminds me heavily of how Nightblood works. According to the novella, Dawnshards are said to be Commands of enormous power, and are great concentrations of investiture due to their ability to give Heightening effects. Both of those characteristics also apply to Nightblood (Destroy Evil, and 1000 breaths + Heightening effects when used). However, the extent and complexity of the commands are different, with the Dawnshards being exceedingly complicated and relating to abstract concepts, while Nightblood's is two ill-defined words. The Dawnshards are also said to enhance Invested Arts to an extreme degree, and Nightblood's command and investiture enhances BioChromatic Breath, one of the more passive Invested Arts in the cosmere, into something that can delete and absorb matter and Investiture. I think Nightblood could be considered a poor attempt or a prototype version of a Dawnshard. The Dawnshards are the weapons that killed Adonalsium, and Nightblood is likely the only weapon that is close to that level, able to kill a Shard's vessel, and destroy almost anything just by touching it. It would be very interesting if Nightblood gains enough investiture and self-awareness to evolve into something like a Dawnshard, able to move vessels and enhance Invested arts in alignment with the Command instilled within it.
Yooo that's great! Brandon has said that Nightblood isn't a Dawnshard, but he *hasn't* said that Nightblood isn't a manufactured proto-Dawnshard.
Good theory
there is another, theoretically, invested weapon we know next to nothing about,
in Yumi and the Nightmare Painter they mention Hion Blades, which if they are not pure fiction would seemingly be invested with Virtuosity's investiture
That sounds super metal (or maybe more lightsaber lol) I’ll need to remember that one for part 2!
Minecraft references on point 😤🤌
I believe that the Raysium dagger is actually composed of nicrosil
Every single person clicking this video: "WHEN IS HE GONNA TALK ABOUT NIGHTBLOOD????!!!!!"
Anti-lights are a form of gaseous investiture, it most likely cant interact with metalic investiture like noghtblood or a shardblade, also spren in the physical are gaseous, so the anti storm light only kills them because it destroys their honor part, in blade form the alloy wouldnt react since its on a diffrent wave length. (See: destructive interference. metals have a single frequency while gasses are all their frequencies at once)
This makes a lot of sense to me!
"1,000 breaths seems low"
Yeah, cuz it has a LOT more than that now.
1,000 breaths seems kind of low to awaken something like nightblood to me,
Especially with in the context of how much power is in a sunheart or readily available on Roshar
@@jasonioan
I was just noting that, with how much it's consumed, its capabilities are likely far higher than just after it was forged.
I agree! He's currently well above that. Bonkers levels of power now
This makes me think of what Edglium, Aonium and Skaium are capable of
Me too. I feel like Whimsy and Invention must have some really cool metals as well
I love how unprepared Brandon Sanderson sounds when someone asks why Szeth's Honorblade takes ten heartbeats to summon in The Way of Kings. The real answer is 100% Brandon had just invented Shardblades in the first book and hadn't fully decided how they worked yet 🤣The 10-heartbeat rule in the first book was a limitation imposed on all shardblades to prevent the classic "Why don't Jedi turn their lightsabers off and back on to bypass a block?" meme from being a complaint in his story, which he later retconned to make different types of shardblades better than regular ones, when he made them distinct from regular shardblades for the first time in Words of Radiance.
14:30 and it takes like 5 sunhearts to make
Loved your video! Where did you get the larger nightblood? Ive been looking for larp shardblades and the one company who previously sold them seems to have closed.
I got the foam nightblood for my brother at Dragonsteel Con 2022. The vendor was Forged Foam and they have a website. It looks like it’s out of stock right now. www.forgedfoam.com/product/nightblood-46-coming-soon/
I hope this helps. Thanks for watching my video!
Re: Raysium v. Anti-Voidlight
Likely the stability of the investiture in its metallic form causing it to be non-reactive.
There is so much more that I want to say regarding other topics.... let's just say December will come with cool information.
Brennan Lee Mulligan: **heavy breathing** 👀👀
Where is bro standing 😂 good job
Near a cliff 😬
@@jasonioan ooh be careful
actually, i believe that anti-stormlight is not exactly anti-investiture, rather it is kinda charged by a force, opposite of honor. another explanation could be soundwaves, as those were used to create it, but i don't understand enough about that to speak confidently
They are described as destructive interference. They seem to be, in practice, a hybrid of that concept and anti-matter
@jasonioan not impossible, but I believe that the anti-stormlight is not anti-investiture, as it has not been said to react to voidlight the same way. Therefore, this is investiture, shaped to destroy honor, not adolnasium
Kaladin will become the shard of Honor callin it now on September 6th
I do wonder whether there even can be such a thing as anti-investiture for Nightblood. He absorbs the investiture of others regardless of type, so I wonder whether that added investiture changes his own initial investiture used to create him, like... a blanket I guess? You'd have to create anti-investiture for every type of investiture to fully kill Nightblood. And maybe that wouldn't even be enough as as soon as you use... let's say anti-voidlight, stormlight would block that anti-voidlight from touching the voidlight within Nightblood. And when trying to use anti-lifelight, Endowment's investiture blocks the anti-lifelight from touching the lifelight within Nightblood. So you'd need to invent some kind of pure anti-investiture that resonates with all investiture... I dunno, I'm just rambling. But I believe it's much more difficult to find an anti-Nightblood investiture than it sounds on metal.
Can you do a video on Sja Anat corruption? Is this anything like Nightblood...?
Not sure how many people have read Malazan, but I've got a running theory that Nightblood may function similarly to Dragnipur, storing entities and investiture rather than "destroying" them. I believe one of Khriss' Laws within the Cosmere claims that energy, matter, and investiture cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another. So assuming she's right, I'll assume Nightblood doesn't break the physics of the Cosmere, but instead is doing something with that investiture, maybe sending it into the spiritual realm. But I don't think the investiture is being destroyed entirely.
17:15 even the cosmere has fake news.
A future question for Brandon i'd like to ask:
If Vasher has reclaimed the breathes from Nightblood immediately after he was full up from Odium, what would happen to the investiture that Nightblood swallowed? Would it stay in the blade or would Vasher get more breaths?
That would be a fun question to ask.
I was talking about something like this the other day. I don’t think Vasher was the one who awakened Nightblood. He was there and helping with the research, but I think it was Shashara who did the actual awakening and command.
If she awakened nightblood then died, no one could take the breaths back from nightblood. That could possibly be one reason Vasher is researching anti-light. To find a way to destroy the sword if need be.
There's a WOB out there that Sel has at least a dozen unique magic systems, and if one of them isn't some sort of rune powered toolsmithing I will be greatly disappointed.
It would be such a waste!
He just wants to destroy evil.😜
Let the lad destroy evil! What’s the worst that could happen?
@@jasonioan You'll have to draw him.
3 things,
1st: Could one make an hemolergic spike out of shard blades or spikes?
2nd: Is the reason radiants hear the screams of deas blades that of the pain a spren goes through going from the cognitive realm to physical realm? Syl mentioned this as traumatic, I believe.
3rd: How likely is it that the shard blade summoned to kill Tin was Testament and not Pattern? Since Pattern was still fresh in the physical world, I wondered when Shallon had time to bond him and say the right truths to get him "shard blade level"?
night blood is basically a Bale fire sword
Beautìul view, where is it?
Where did you get those Shardblades?
My friend 3D printed the honorblade and the others were from Forged Foam. Oathbringer is mine, but nightblood belongs to my brother
Doesn't Sja-Anat only corrupt investiture, hence the red? So Renarin's Blade would be corrupted Honor/Cultivation metal?
Great question! Sja-Anat specifically corrupts Spren with Odium’s investiture. (More info on this can be found in Oathbringer chapter 77 and 116)
Post Wind and Truth addendum time :P
More like “what the heck is going on with Nightblood” time. I think everything else was either confirmed, or right on the money.
@@jasonioan really big changes, so interested to see where it goes.
This video has just pointed out how poor my reading comprehension and memory really are.
So we’re not talking about the properties of Raysium weapons?
I talk about it a little bit with the dagger
@@jasonioan I mean but like, the use of Raysium as a weapon against Radiants instead just a vessel for Anti-Investiture might clue us into WHY it’s not repelled by its opposite
@@jasonioan I propose that Raysium as metal is designed to conduct investiture regardless of its properties with out any loss of efficiency. A perfect conductor.
That is a really cool and significant scientific/magic attribute for Raysium to have.
When’s he gonna talk about the greatest invested weapon of all: the stick?
Stick deserves its own 45 minute special
I know it was a very small mention but I wish you had put a spoiler warning for WaT previews, I’m doing my best to avoid all spoilers before release
I respect that you’re trying to avoid everything about WaT before it comes out. but as you mention what I said was so small and didn’t really say much of anything that I figured it would be fine to include. Thank you for the feedback, and I hope that otherwise you enjoyed the video 😁
Thanks for responding! Love the consistent high quality of your videos!
Do you have a discord? (19:35). Can't find any links.
I do have discord. I will be working on a smaller community discord here soon. I can also be found on the 17th shard discord server.
Sure, Nightblood is powerful, but can it cut through cheese?
Nightblood is a cosmere black hole.
Won't spoil "Wind and Truth", continues to reference pre-released chapters and spoils parts of Wind and Truth 😢
Wait. Aside from my vindication comment, what did I do?
Not finished the video yet but you forgot all about Harmony's sword. How could you forget about the most interesting invested weapon?
I would consider Harmony’s Sword to be under mechanized magic. He’s a machine that turns food, whisky, and metal into destructive power
Cool video - but what's with the purse?
I am a stick