GNB cartridge infusions

[Jandor]

We know that these abilities must come from the Gunblade itself as thancred can use them despite not being able to manipulate Aether, implying they must come from either cartridges or an innate property of the gunblade itself. The only hole in this is that thancred can use them without someone present in the party to make the cartridge for him, although that could be explained by him carrying around that ammo and not the fire aether ammo as he clearly has cartridges on him even when the other person isn't present in the party from reading his dialogue.

Bit of a tangent, but:

This is obviously why the gunblade is the realms most superior weapon!

It's a sword, which is already rather useful on its own, but it seems to come with a built-in pseudo-vancian spell casting system. So long as you have the right cartridges to load in you can theoretically "cast" pretty much whatever you want.

Thancred, with no innate aether manipulation abilities, can produce explosions, shields, heals, and ranged lightning attacks. Obviously for gameplay reasons we're limited to the abilities we've got, but I don't recall seeing any lore reason that the cartridges couldn't be loaded with pretty much whatever spell you fancy, so long as the aether packed within can fuel it.

[Kabooa]

Bit of a tangent, but:

This is obviously why the gunblade is the realms most superior weapon!

It's a sword, which is already rather useful on its own, but it seems to come with a built-in pseudo-vancian spell casting system. So long as you have the right cartridges to load in you can theoretically "cast" pretty much whatever you want.

Thancred, with no innate aether manipulation abilities, can produce explosions, shields, heals, and ranged lightning attacks. Obviously for gameplay reasons we're limited to the abilities we've got, but I don't recall seeing any lore reason that the cartridges couldn't be loaded with pretty much whatever spell you fancy, so long as the aether packed within can fuel it.

Now I'm just imagining a 3 minute cooldown where the Gunbreaker creates a target, and a spell can be cast upon it. The Gunbreaker then gets X uses of a special action that repeats the spell, where X is based upon a potency cap.