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Jofwu
It seems that deadeyes can wander Shadesmar freely, but when summoned as a Shardblade and subsequently dismissed, they end up at the location in Shadesmar corresponding to the location of the Shardbearer. How does this work for deadeyes who are cared for by a loved one, like Captain Ico?
Brandon Sanderson
They would vanish if their Shardblade were summoned.
Adam Horne
But it's been a while since that's happened, so it's not as much of a concern?
Brandon Sanderson
You can assume that there are more deadeyes wandering Shadesmar whose Shardblades have been lost, than there are ones that the Shardblades are kept. Probably about an equal number, I would say, 50/50. Though I would have to really crunch those numbers. I'd say that across 5000 years-ish... not quite, but you know. That a lot of those weapons, even though they are powerful and things like that, are gonna get lost. Ships are gonna get sunk; things get covered over with crem on Roshar; people go up to cross mountain passes to go attack, and they end up freezing and dying. And I think that over the years, there's been a ton of those that have been lost.
James Smallwood
Can the Voidspren bonded by the Regals be killed and become deadeyes?
Brandon Sanderson
Voidspren bonded by the Regals, right, okay. I'll RAFO that for now. I haven't gotten into the mechanics of the Regals nearly as much as I want to eventually get into it.
Let's just say something weird is happening to make deadeyes. They didn't exist before the Recreance. There should be a relationship here that reminds you of something else you've seen in the Cosmere.
Questioner:
(paraphrased)
In RoW was see Kaladin telling Syl that he believes that the Recreance took place not as one event such as fever stone keep, but on an individual basis. This has created many discussions in the fandom about how the spren could have been unaware that they would become deadeye's. Is this because it took people years later to discover how to summon and dismiss shards through an ornementation mishap, and deadeye's weren't seen by the other spren in shadesmar until there was no stopping anyone.
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
The recreance wasn't something that happened over months, more like days. And the decision was made in the heat of the moment by the spren and their knights.
Questioner
What do Shardblade Cryptics look like? They can't really have crossed out eyes. Would their pattern-
Brandon Sanderson
You mean like a deadeye?
Questioner
Yeah.
Brandon Sanderson
It will be noticeable, but it won't be the same as the eyes. Let's just say their algorithm is messed up.
Jack Kimbell
Could Sja-anat heal a deadeye by changing them?
Brandon Sanderson
Heal? That's going to depend on your definition of heal. But, there are definitely some that would call what would occur healing. They would be different from the way they had been before.
Greg Andrew
Did Radiants who broke their oaths prior to the Recreance also result in deadeye spren?
Brandon Sanderson
No.
TomereK
So Shardblades. When they cut off the victims, the eyes burn up. And deadeyes have their eyes scratched out in Shadesmar. Is there any relation between them?
Brandon Sanderson
There is indeed a connection there.
TomereK
Is it RAFO?
Brandon Sanderson
It's a RAFO, but there is a connection. You got something out of me there.
Questioner
Shardblades are essentially spren that have died--
Brandon Sanderson
Not all of them have died but yeah.
Questioner
Oh, my question was if they could be revived?
Brandon Sanderson
Um this… According to the understanding of those in-world it would require the same person who broke their oath. So it would be possible if any of them were still alive. I'm not ruling out other ways, but that's how it's understood by--
Questioner
It would be the traditional way.
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, mmhmm.
Questioner
It sounds like Adolin's sword Maya might be able to be resurrected?
Brandon Sanderson
*presumably nods yes*
Questioner
Is it possible that other swords could be resurrected as well?
Brandon Sanderson
Hmmmm, the coveted RAFO card.
Questioner
With Syl being able to be revived, is Adolin ever going to be able to revive his own blade, or--
Brandon Sanderson
Ah, that would be very difficult, because the original-- in most cases, the original person who broke the oath would have to be the one.
Questioner
And I also have a question about the nature of spren being dead. Specifically about whether or not they can be resurrected. Because ideas can never really die...
Brandon Sanderson
Ideas can never really die--
Questioner
... Cognitive creatures--
Brandon Sanderson
They are Cognitive creatures. This is theoretically possible but very difficult without the people who originally betrayed their oaths.
Questioner
The dead Shardblades, could you possibly get Stormlight into them to reawaken them?
Brandon Sanderson
Dead Shardblade, could you pump enough Stormlight into them? That alone would not be enough.
Questioner
So you would have to find someone to re-swear with oaths?
Brandon Sanderson
There is something broken on the Spiritual Realm because of the broken oath and simple Stormlight will not fix that.
Questioner
So say--
Brandon Sanderson
If the person were still alive and could re-swear the oath then yes.
Questioner
But someone like [...] could go [...] the Spiritual Realm?
Brandon Sanderson
It is not outside of reason but it would be very, very, very difficult.
LewsTherinTelescope
In Rhythm of War, Notum tells Adolin that:
“Deadeyes can’t make choices,” Notum said. “They don’t have the presence of mind for it. I know this personally. My own father is a deadeye, cared for in the fortress now.”
Is this a mistake, conflating Captain Notum with Captain Ico? Notum's father would've been born centuries or millennia after the Recreance, going off what Notum says in Oathbringer:
“The Stormfather created only a handful of children. All of these, save Sylphrena, were destroyed in the Recreance, becoming deadeyes. This loss stung the Stormfather, who didn’t create again for centuries. When he was finally moved to remake the honorspren, he created only ten more. My great-grandmother was among them; she created my grandfather, who created my father, who eventually created me.”
So if he's become a deadeye relatively recently, it's surprising they didn't use him as an example instead of Testament.
On the other hand, Ico's father is definitely a deadeye:
Ico locked the door and hung the keys on his belt. “My father.”
“Your father?” Adolin said. “You keep your father locked up?”
“Can’t stand the thought of him wandering around somewhere,” Ico said, eyes forward. “Have to keep him locked away though. He’ll go searching for the human carrying his corpse, otherwise. Walk right off the deck.”
Peter Ahlstrom
Notum did not get conflated with Ico. Ico's father is not cared for in Lasting Integrity.
But the quote from Oathbringer apparently was forgotten. We'll have to address this sometime in the future.
u/khazroar
"Deadeyes can't make choices," Notum said. "They don't have the presence of mind for it. I know this personally; my own father is a dead eye, cared for in the fortress now."
Third listen of the book, and I only just clocked that. I was under the impression that every single honorspren at the time of the Recreance became a deadeye, and that all currently conscious one's were descended from those the Stormfather made later (aside from the Ancient Daughter). How in the world can Notum's father be a deadeye without him being one too?
Peter Ahlstrom
We became aware of this error sometime in the past year. Turns out Brandon momentarily confused Notum with the Reacher ship captain, who does have a deadeye father. The line will be changed eventually.
Schaaschaa
If Dalinar were to deadeye the Stormfather, would highstorms stop or change? Related, were there highstorms on Roshar before the Splintering of Honor?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO, I'll have to think about that.
Rexozord
Was Glys a deadeye before being Enlightened by Sja-anat?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO, good question. You may have to wait for a while to get answers to some of those questions, sorry. And I'm not even promising that I'll answer them.
Argent
Do deadeyes disappear in Shadesmar when they are summoned as blades to the Physical Realm?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, mostly.
Questioner
Is there any effect on a Shardblade if the deadeye is really far away from where the Blade is?
Brandon Sanderson
Define really.
Questioner
The one that's trapped on the ship. Let's say they're taking him to the far side of Shadesmar, but the dude that owns that Blade lives in...
Brandon Sanderson
We will deal with that in the books. There is an effect, but that's not enough of an effect.
Overlord Jebus
Considering no one says that their Shardblade is acting weird in two and a half thousand years.
Brandon Sanderson
That happens all the time in Shadesmar. If you were able to get it off the planet, it would have an effect.
Questioner
If you as the owner of the Shardblade were offworld and you tried to summon it, that would be the effect?
Brandon Sanderson
Either way. But you can't take spren off-world. I mean, you can, but you can't really. Really all that I have in the notes for it to do right now, is to add slightly more time. So you're like, "That's weird that felt like not ten heartbeats, it felt like twelve." But it's like, you're on another planet, then it's suddenly speed of light type stuff. So suddenly it's like, "This is taking three years instead. That's a pretty big deal!"
...So I've got a few weird speed of light things mixed into the cosmere, and that's one of them.
Nouf
Was the reason Radiants could safely break oaths before the Recreance, without resulting in deadeyes, because the Bondsmith broke the bond for them?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO! Good question!
Marlon Pastor Barrantes Del Castillo
How did Shallan open the Oathgate with a deadeye spren in the second book?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO! That's all on that same sort of thing. Be asking yourself these questions.
Argent
Shardblades burn out the eyes of the victims, and deadeyes have their eyes scratched out in Shadesmar. Is the connection here purely thematic? Or are there actual Realmatic mechanics behind it?
Brandon Sanderson
There are, but they're pretty slight. I would lean more on the idea of the thematic, this more being a Roshar thing, with the eye color, the eyes being scratched out, Shardblades burning out the eyes. There are some Realmatic things behind this, but mostly it's me trying to connect a theme in this magic system.
As you might know (maybe, maybe not), Shardblades originally did cut flesh. I wrote the entire prologue with Szeth and them cutting flesh and... ooh, boy, was that bloody! These are books about war, but man, it was just so gory that I'm like, "I'm gonna back off on this. Let's have it burn out the eyes instead." And I liked it way better that way.
Drew Berg
Is Tien's spren still around, or are they recovering like Syl did after her prior Radiant's death?
Brandon Sanderson
We'll RAFO that for now. Tien's spren is not going to be a deadeye. Tien didn't break his oaths, Tien was killed. So we'll RAFO what's up with his spren for now. But you can rest assured that it's not any of that.
Aquilan_Pen
Were Glys and Tumi deadeyes before being touched by Sja-anat?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO! Good question.
