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I'm rereading the Stormlight archive, or rather relistening to prepare for the release of Stormlight 5. I thought I had an ok grasp of how the surges worked, but surge of transformation seems to be throwing me off. Specifically, the interactions between the mental and physical realms is throwing me off, as the surge of transformation seems to interact with it more than other surges, except maybe transportation. Why does using transformation require the user to partially enter shadesmar, where other surges seem to have a more direct effect on the physical realm? Additionally, why was Jasnah able to transform those two robbers simultaneously from a distance if requires arguing with their mental component? These last two questions are kind of tangential, but I'm also confused why the smoke stone Jasnah pulled Stormlight from cracked after it was used, and why traveling to shadesmar is considered an elsecaller attribute if lightweavers are also capable of it. As I learn more about the cosmere, the more I realize that Roshar is just really weird. I'm hoping that eventually I'll be able to fit the surges with the rest of my understanding of investiture and the cosmere, as right now it is confusing me the most.