#nightbloods

[occhiolysm-art]

i RAN to make this when i read WAT chapter 35

[blogfromthehill]

Sword-nimi finds actual chickens suspect. Had a blast drawing this; liking the shape design.

I love that most cultures in Roshar refer to birds as "chickens". Although, I hope Adolin's pre-duel meals are actual chickens and not oversized parrots. When in Roshar I guess.

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

Sometimes a friend group is a 37 year old former assassin who caused a whole bunch of political upheaval by killing a lot of guys, hears the voices of those he killed, and has realized he wants a life of peace, a 800+ year old talking sword who really wants to destroy evil but is beginning to realize he has questions about what that means, a 22 year old former highmarshal who accidentally invented therapy, is learning one song on a flute to try and relax, and trying to find a healthy work- life balance, a 1000+ year old spren who's basically god's daughter and a princess who is also learning how to have a healthy work-life balance with her friend, and a 7000+ year old herald who believes in following the law to the letter, really hates that one song, and does not believe in a healthy work- life balance.

[lamaery]

::: MINOR SPOILERS for Wind and Truth:::: Happy (belated) New Year to all of you here on Tumblr! May Connection and Fortune favor us all! ✨ While reading Wind and Truth I really enjoyed their parts. Somehow with that came a feeling that I wanted to express in an illustration for my New Years post ... something like levity, perhaps hope? It feels like we all need it. So here is the Shinovar roadtrip party not being miserable. 😅

ID: Illustration of Szeth, Kaladin and Syl ascending in front a backdrop of blue sky and giant clouds. Szeth is at the top and closest to the viewer, with Nightblood and a big clothwrapped bundle attached with straps to his back. Further down floating on the currents are Kaladin in his uniform with a big rucksack on his back. The wind is wipping his hair upwards and he smiles. His right hand holds something that looks like a long stick, could be a flute? His left hand is holding onto Syl's who happily flys next to him life-sized and wearing a blue military style jacket and a skirt in a light purple colour. To the right closer in the foreground a highspren hovers – a black rip in the air filled with stars and nebulas. Szeth looks upwards, sunlight making his face and his wide white collar glow. His expression is filled with a levity unusual for him, something almost akin to hope and wonder, the softest hint of a smile pulling in the corners of his mouth.

[novaraptorus]

OMG OMG OMG ADOLIN WAS REASSURING NIGHTBLOOD THEY WERE CHATTING "all the time" AAAAA OMG OMG OMG OMG 🥺🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶

[peachdoxie]

BY THE WAY

SCREAMING ABOUT NIGHTBLOOD CHOOSING NOT TO KILL SZETH AND KALADIN

ITS FRIENDS

[virtualtear00]

Three days until Wind and Truth!!!! Here's Szeth and (my favourite chaotic) Nightblood to celebrate!

It's kinda a complementary piece of this Kaladin one I did

[blindradiant]

Lift: that weird black sword makes me feel sick, but it talks about being really really hungry, so I guess it’s OK actually

Navani: that sword is evil

Dalinar: I can’t tell if the sword or the man carrying it is more insane, but I’ll let the man keep it anyway

Szeth: this is my emotional support talking sword. It is the only one in whom I can confide my fears

[ezhrndle]

This is the painting lightsong saw

[wittyhoid]

stormlight archive characters as memes

previous parts: x x x

[wyndlerunner]

Nightblood having an existential crisis about the nature of morality certainly wasn’t on my bingo card for Wind and Truth

[theskytraveler]

You know who would appreciate that spoon? Lift. She'd cherish it

[kett-draws]

[cosmerelists]

Cosmere Characters Get Asked Their Pronouns

As requested by @dewypeach :)

I'm weirdly anxious about contradicting other people's pronoun headcanons, ha ha. But then...I guess the thing about headcanons is that everyone can have different ones... Anyway, here's how I think Cosmere characters might respond if asked their pronouns!

1. Shallan

Shallan: She/they. Adolin: Just out of curiosity, is the "they" a gender thing or an alters thing? Shallan: Yes.

2. Adolin

Adolin: I like to say that I use whatever pronouns are fashionable! Adolin: I like to say it around Sadeas. Adolin: It makes him shudder. Shallan: You should collect pronouns like swords. Adolin: You say that like I don't already.

3. Kaladin

Kaladin: I use he/him. [Adolin & Shallan look at him] Kaladin: What? I'm just a simple guy!

4. Syl

Syl: I use neopronouns! Kaladin: Y-You do? I thought you went by "she/her"! Syl: Yeah, exactly! Syl: I use the neopronouns that humans invented!

5. Pattern

Pattern: Cryptic pronouns are unpronounceable in the human tongue! Shallan: Are they...a math thing? Pattern: They're a math thing, yeah! Shallan: What do you want us to use in human speech? Pattern: You always use "he" which is mmmm an interesting lie!

6. Harmony

Harmony: As a being that is male, female, both, and neither, I let my followers refer to me however. Harmony: Privately, I think "they/them" fits the most these days.

7. Wayne

Wayne: Like, what I'm using right now? Wayne: It obviously depends on the hat, mate. Wax: I still can't believe you got he/him-ed yesterday. Wayne: I know! In THAT hat?!

8. MeLaan

MeLaan: [currently in the body of a tall, handsome man] MeLaan: She/her. Why?

9. Vin

Vin: I've always used whichever pronouns are safest in the moment. Elend: And if you were safe to use any of them? Vin: ... Vin: I still think I'd put on and off pronouns like a fancy dress, to be honest.

10. Vasher

Vasher: As far as you're concerned, I don't use pronouns. Vasher: How dare you refer to me

11. Dalinar

Dalinar: As a man who reads and writes, it's important to me to use "he/him." Navani: We're having to invent new forms of written pronouns in real time. Dalinar: Doing my part for change.

12. Nightblood

Nightblood: Oooh, what are pronouns?? Szeth: They're how people refer to you, Sword-nimi. Nightblood: My pronouns are Nightblood! Szeth: No, Sword-nimi. Like how they refer to you without using your name. Nightblood: My pronouns are screams! Szeth: ... Szeth: That does seem oddly correct.

13. Lift

Lift: Haven't got a gender. Wyndle: B-But mistress (Mister? Mastress?), how should refer to you? Lift: Sounds like a you problem.

14. Painter

Painter: ... Painter: ... Painter: YOU CAN CHOOSE?!?

[2shards]

have I drawn Szeth? Unclear. Have I drawn a sad, bald white man? Absolutely. drawn at the request of the lovely @stivya

[tanoraqui]

I keep cracking up thinking about Szeth and Nightblood spending these next ten years building a moral code together, both of them for the first time, in an endless series of conversations that a) looks like Szeth talking to nothing, and b) inevitably sounds like something out of a religious parable.

Szeth knelt beside the corpse of a sheep - or what remained of a corpse. Upon his inspection, it was mostly wool and bones, and drying blood. We will kill whoever did this, right? asked the black sword upon his back. Emi was good! Whatever killed her must be evil. "It was only a wolf, sword-nimi," Szeth replied. "But, yes. This is the third sheep this month. We must hunt it down and kill it, lest it destroy our hosts' whole flock one by one." Why does it matter if it was a wolf? Nightblood asked. It killed someone who was good. That is evil! "It was only doing what wolves do," said Szeth. He considered for a moment, to put word to that which most humans know instinctively. "Wolves cannot be evil, nor can sheep, for they are not intelligent enough to know the difference. They only react to their own instincts and desires - in this case, hunger. True evil requires knowledge of one's crime, or the capacity for such knowledge." Szeth, you said you weren't going to kill anyone anymore unless they were evil, Nightblood reminded him. You are not a tool! Again, the soldier-turned-shepherd gave this appropriate consideration. "No," he said at last, "but I am a person, willingly beholden to my hosts and my people. The laws of animals say that the strong and hungry shall consume the weak, as this wolf has done. But the laws of men- of righteous men, and righteous Singers, say that the strong shall protect the weak, and that a person has the right to defend their own livelihood and life. We, too, need mutton to live, and wool and milk. The sheep are, in this way, tools. The wolf is not evil for killing them, but nor is it good - it is only a wolf. And it threatens, in its hunger, those to whom I owe service twice over. So I shall kill it, and hopefully its fur will warm them as well as Emi's wool might have next spring."