Intent and Direction in 3D

[+Oltux72 he/him]

Suppose you are a Windrunner hovering in the air. Then suppose you lash yourself towards the horizon in a direction you want to go. Technically you are moving approximately tangentally to the planet if you aim for the horizon.

Will that course eventually take you into space or does your Intent of going into a cardinal direction automatically adjust your lashing?

[Truthwatcher Artifabrian he/him]

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Balyne

In WoR, when Kaladin is chasing Szeth through the storm, could he have just Lashed himself to Szeth and followed automatically? I realize he was new to his abilities and may not have thought of it, but is it possible?

Brandon Sanderson

One thing about Lashing that is counter-intuative to people who know physics is that Lashings are usually in a direction, not toward an object. It means that physics wise, it's not actually increasing the gravitational pull of an object--but sending you a direction. I did this because of just this type of question; it made the magic too powerful.

This seems to imply that you would eventually fly off into space.

 

Interesting question!

[Some Random Spren he/him]

I think it depends on whether you know the planet is round or not

if you did then you'd probably go straight, but if you thought it was just a straight direction then it would probably adjust

we know that spanreeds at least adjust for that so why wouldn't other stormlight-based magic?

thats just my interpretation though, and it's likely to be wrong