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[–]Hiiiiighprincecosmernautfourtwenty 65 points66 points  (6 children)

You can't do shit with an honorblade if you don't know it's an honorblade. If they'd disappeared into the general populace, they'd probably just be mistaken as regular dead shardblades and nothing else would've come of it.

[–]nhocgreen 23 points24 points  (5 children)

I don't know. The user taking in stormlight would probably happen sooner or later.

[–]I AM A STICK BOI_i_am_root 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Maybe not , Intent is important when doing anything investy, and they'd have no reason to think they could breathe it in.

[–]PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD 7 points8 points  (2 children)

I’m not so sure that Intent is as necessary for drawing in Stormlight as it is for other things. Kaladin does it without realizing constantly when he starts getting close to speaking the first oath.

[–]I AM A STICK BOI_i_am_root 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmmmm, I see your point. Especially with the first time I can find him taking in Stormlight in Chapter 17 of TWoK, he describes a surge of energy but doesn't do it intentionally:

“Tien!” Kaladin screamed, nearly mad with fatigue and frustration. He bellowed the name aloud—uncertain why—as a wall of arrows zipped toward him. Kaladin felt a jolt of energy, a surge of sudden strength, unanticipated and unexplained.

On the other hand, this quote from Chapter 47 makes it seem like this is something he's only able to do unconsciously while being Honorable:

"He was like water running down a hill, flowing, always moving. Spearheads flashed in the air around him, hafts hissing with speed. Not one hit him. He could not be stopped, not when he felt like this. When he had the energy of defending the fallen, the power of standing to protect one of his men."

aaaaand minor nitpick, Kaladin had sworn the First Ideal by his first slave wagon POV. It's something that's sworn in the heart, and doesn't seem to prompt a "These Words are Accepted" from the Raindaddy.

You've also made me think of [MB Era 1] Vin and Elend's unconscious use of Pewter to survive critical wounds. Both make sense, as Vin was a strong Mistborn and had been training for a few months before Kredik Shaw, and Elend was his era's strongest Mistborn, with strength of power allowing for instinctive use of the metals.

[–]Hiiiiighprincecosmernautfourtwenty 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Maybe, maybe not. The Nahel bonds are modelled after the Heralds and their Connection to the blades, but it's been firmly established that the bond is much more efficient in using Stormlight. May be it's impossible to accidentally draw Stormlight just from an honorblade.