Could you use a Soul Stamp to discount the Breath cost of Awakening?
It's possible but hard and very expensive to awaken a regular stone statue.
"Stone is presumed to be similarly difficult [to metal] to Awaken. However, Lifeless can be made by enclosing bones in stone, making near indestructible warriors. Talaxin used this technique to create the legendary Kalad's Phantoms.^([13]) Dead bodies Soulcast into stone are also easier to Awaken due to them once being alive.^([58])" - quote from coppermind.
Hence a soulcast body can be Awakened efficently (possibly even cheaper than bones encased in stone).
If you use a soul stamp to change the history of a very realistic statue of a to that of a person who has been soulcast to stone. Could you then awaken the body, using minimal breaths, to make a lifeless and would the Lifeless remain awakened after the stamp wears off?
Would this require an essence stamp?
Would it be more likely to work if the statue was of a rosharian and/or a statue that is stored beside dead rosharians who have been soulcast to stone when they died? because of - "The effectiveness of a Forgery soulstamp is dependent in part on the plausibility of a stamp. This includes both how the object views itself (the object's history) and how others view it." *coppermind
Does Awakening's own Investiture permanently alter the statue's spiritual identity enough that it no longer needs the Stamp to maintain the change?
Does Awakening feed the product of a soul stamp (something that has been stamped) making the stamp last longer?
If the soul stamp wore off and the statue returns to having the history of a statue but is still awakened, does it become a type 4 invested entity and become as powerful as nightblood?
edit: spoilers were done wrong