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|image=Mad Herald by Xabi Gazte.jpg
|world= Roshar▼
|type={{cat tag|Weapons}}
|books= [[Oathbringer]]▼
|owner=Vyre
}}{{uncanonical}}▼
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
}}{{spoiler|sa4}}
{{update|sa4}}
{{theory}}
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'''Vyre's knife''' is a bright golden or yellowish-white 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|121}}
== History ==
{{image|Fallen from Grace by Soph P.jpg|side=left|width=200px|[[Hnanan]] giving the knife to [[Moash]]/Vyre}}
The circumstances of the knife's creation are unknown. It was given by the [[Fused]] [[Hnanan]] to [[Moash]] (later known as Vyre). Hnanan told Moash that [[Odium]] had tasked him with killing a god; Moash noted that the Fused appeared to be afraid of using the knife on Jezrien themselves. Moash then used the knife to kill Jezrien. After the murder, Moash removed the knife from Jezrien's body, but the subsequent fate of the knife is unknown.{{book ref|sa3|121}}
==Mechanics==▼
The knife appears to be a method to permanently kill a Herald, rather than simply returning them to [[Braize]] as a "conventional" death would. 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. Likewise [[Shalash]] instantly distinguishes it from previous deaths as she could no longer sense his soul.{{book ref|sa3|121}} This process operates under similar principles to the [[Scadrian]] manifestation of Investiture known as [[Hemalurgy]], where practitioners are able to steal part of an individual's [[spiritweb]] using metal spikes.{{book ref|mb4|part=ars}} It is a matter of debate among cosmere philosophers whether this is in fact Hemalurgy or rather a related, but distinct, phenomenon.{{wob ref|8665|''Oathbringer'' London signing|date=2017-22-28}}▼
▲== Mechanics ==
▲The knife
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
The knife shares characteristics with [[Shardblade]]s, by leaving blackened wounds,{{book ref|sa1|prologue}} and [[Nightblood]], as they both bleed black smoke.{{wob ref|7374}}{{book ref|sa3|121}}
== Notes ==
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