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\|world=Roshar \|universe=[[Cosmere]] \|books=[[~~Oathbringer~~The Stormlight Archive]] }} ~~{{update\|sa4}}~~ {{uncanonical}} {{~~theory~~update\|sa4}} {{merge\|[[Raysium#Weapons]]}} '''Vyre's knife''' is a bright golden ~~or yellowish-white~~[[raysium]] blade with a sapphire set into the pommel, used to kill the [[Herald]] [[Jezrien]] and trap his soul so that he couldn't be reborn.{{book ref\|sa3\|121}} ~~The metal of the knife is described as unusually bright.~~{{book ref\|~~sa3~~sa4\|~~121~~84}} ~~The knife is made out of [[Odium]]'s [[God Metal]], [[raysium]].{{book ref\|sa4\|84}}~~ == History == == Mechanics == The knife can kill a Herald by trapping the soul, preventing the Herald from returning to [[Braize]] as a "conventional" Herald death would.{{wob ref\|12261}} Jezrien, while initially in a drunken stupor, quickly realizes that something about this death is different and claims to feel the knife drawing something from him into itself. [[Shalash]] and [[Kalak]] likewise instantly distinguishes it from previous deaths, as ~~she~~they could no longer sense Jezrien's soul.{{book ref\|sa3\|121}} ~~The knife "traps" the soul so it can't be reborn.~~{{~~wob~~epigraph ref\|12261}} This process operates under similar principles to the [[Scadrian]] manifestation of [[Investiture]] known as [[Hemalurgy]],{{wob ref\|8774}} where practitioners are able to steal part of an individual's [[spiritweb]] using metal spikes.{{book ref\|mb4\|part=ars}} It would cause debate among [[cosmere]] philosophers whether the knife's magical properties are in fact Hemalurgy or rather a related, but distinct, phenomenon.{{wob refsa4\|~~8665~~79}} The knife "traps" the soul so it can't be reborn.{{wob ref\|12261}} It functions by absorbing all of the Investiture that makes up the Cognitive Shadow of a Herald, running it down the length of the blade and into the gemstone set into the pommel.{{book ref\|sa3\|121}}{{book ref\|sa4\|84}} This process operates under similar principles to the [[Scadrian]] manifestation of [[Investiture]] known as [[Hemalurgy]],{{wob ref\|8774}} where practitioners are able to steal part of an individual's [[spiritweb]] using metal spikes.{{book ref\|mb4\|part=ars}} It would cause debate among [[cosmere]] philosophers whether the knife's magical properties are in fact Hemalurgy or rather a related, but distinct, phenomenon.{{wob ref\|8665}} Following Jezrien's death, the sapphire set into the knife takes on a "subdued glow". The sapphire in the knife's hilt is specifically for Jezrien.{{wob ref\|8798}} Whether the use of that specific [[polestone]] is mechanically relevant or only symbolic is unknown.