Soulcasting and Surges

[CosmereMaths]

Do you think it’s possible for a skilled enough Elsecaller or Lightweaver to use transformation to essentially mimic Division, and maybe even tension, cohesion, and progression.

The surge of division turns stuff into nothing. If a soulcaster or radiant with transformation can convince the spren of an object to become nothing then it seems to be mimicking division. Similarly if it can convince said spren to become harder or softer versions of the same element then that would be like tension and cohesion. Progression would be the hardest and not quite a great comparison but we do see Jasnah try (and fail) to soulcast strawberry jam, but it is implied to be possible. Could we see Jasnah soulcast air into a persons cut off arm the connects perfectly if she was skilled enough?

It seems like the surge of transformation is quite powerful and can cover some of the other surges, though I’m inclined to believe all that I suggested is impossible though I don’t know why. What are your thoughts?

Edited July 29, 2022 by CosmereMaths

[CosmicSieve]

Possibly.

I remember Malata burning a design into a wooden table, and being unimpressed because Jasnah could burn words onto paper with incredible precision using soulcasting. 

Edited July 28, 2022 by CosmicSieve

[cometaryorbit]

I don't think Transformation could turn things into "nothing", but transformation into air or smoke is probably pretty similar in effect. So there's probably some overlap. But healing by Transformation would probably be so incredibly complex as to be in practice impossible - I think Soulcast food lacks a lot of the complexity of real biological products.

[Rabbit Unmade she/her]

Division essentially turns things into dust, (Not nothing. Where would the matter go?) so I don’t a Lightweaver/Elsecaller could mimic the surge. They only change what the object is made of, right? Maybe if they turned pockets of the object into a gas, but that just seems like a lot of extra work and not exactly the same thing. I think Division kind of seems like it’s decaying the thing, but I’m probably wrong.