User:KnightoftheCosmere/Black smoke

Black smoke

• Midnight Essence
  • The nightmares purposefully parallel Midnight Essence and Nightblood
  • Like Hemulurgy, Midnight Essence can be used on a different planets. on "general magic"
• Nightblood creates black smoke, but also contains Ruin's Investiture
• Non-canon Aether of Night creatures
• Ruin's investiture is black smoke in The Well of Ascension

[Sja-anat] "rose up, taking the form of a woman of streaming black smoke with pure white eyes. Shadows and mist, Odium's pure essence"

Is Ruined/Destroyed investiture?

• Investiture can't be created or destroyed
• "This machine immediately began feeding on them, destroying their

bodies and harvesting their Investiture. The result was the shroud, sprayed into the air, left to rain down and blanket the land. A dark miasma literally crafted from the dead, everyone’s Identities evaporated and transformed into this dark force. Imagine it like…the tar that decomposed bodies sometimes turn into over many years of incredible pressure. The shroud is that, except souls, left as refuse from the machine’s initial activation. A soul cannot be destroyed; it can only change forms. The machine, then, didn’t use people up so much as transform them. They lingered as this blackness, a churning soup made of tens of thousands of souls subject to the machine’s domineering will, held in eternal bondage to something they’d created." (Yumi 39)

• the black smoke Nightblood leaks is corrupted Investiture.

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