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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 they could no longer sense Jezrien's soul.{{book ref|sa3|121}}{{epigraph ref|sa4|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.
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