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So Soulcasters gradually turn into smoke or rock or whatever they work with; do Elsecallers ever do that? Would the Stormlight-healing undo that...? It might not be considered an "injury", because it's a transformation from one thing into another....

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No, they do get side effects from Soulcasting, but they are different and less unpleasant then what you get from using a fabrial.

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Questioner 1

Do all Soulcasters risk turning into the element or is it only those using the device?

Brandon Sanderson

All Soulcasters have an affinity but the ones using the device are locked down much more than the Soulcasters who are Knights Radiant.

Questioner 1

So they are protected from being turned into--

Brandon Sanderson

Oh no they-- I wouldn't say protected... *clarificaiton* Protected is the wrong term but that event, the savanthood and how it affects them and things like that is much less pronounced if you are a [Knight].

Questioner 1

Or is that counteracted by the healing as well?

Brandon Sanderson

Healing doesn't have to do with it because-- in cosmere terms there's nothing wrong with your body, your spirit is actually drifting, and so it's not hurting you physically by what's happening with the magics. So it's not the healing but if you have an active bond with a spren it takes a little different path. Let's just say, in simple terms--

Questioner 1

You are not losing body parts to smoke.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, you are not using body parts to smoke. 

Questioner 1

What timeframe does it happen for the normal Soulcasters then?

Brandon Sanderson

For normal Soulcasters? It takes-- I mean, you've seen it happening in the books. We are talking [about] a process of years even decades, depending on the person. It happens to some--

Questioner 2

Depending on how often they Soulcast?

Brandon Sanderson

It depends on how often they Soulcast, and it depends on the person. 

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Yeah, surgebinders with access to Transformation (Elsecallers and Lightweavers) have some protection against the bodily transformation due to the Nahel Bond. The effects seen in people who use the fabrial Soulcasters extensively is a phenomenon called Savantism and it causes permanent changes to the soul. Because of this, it's not normally something that healing magics will repair since as far as the magic is concerned there's nothing wrong with you.

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17 minutes ago, Weltall said:

Yeah, surgebinders with access to Transformation (Elsecallers and Lightweavers) have some protection against the bodily transformation due to the Nahel Bond. The effects seen in people who use the fabrial Soulcasters extensively is a phenomenon called Savantism and it causes permanent changes to the soul. Because of this, it's not normally something that healing magics will repair since as far as the magic is concerned there's nothing wrong with you.

as that WoB says, Radiants can still become Savants and that will still have effects, they are just different and less extreme in Radiants then in people using the fabrials.

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