Would a sphere in a chasm charge during a highstorm?

[Immortal Platypus]

Exactly what the title says: Would a sphere in a chasm charge during a highstorm?

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Edited October 21, 2022 by ImportantQuestions

[Returned]

Almost certainly. Even at the bottom of a chasm the spheres are still outdoors, and so it's not so different from the spheres placed into lanterns on leeward sides of structures (which is the normal way the spheres are infused).

There are some examples of spheres glowing on the chasm floors, but we don't know if those were dun or not before falling there. We have one clear example I can think of offhand which suggests this specific scenario from Words of Radiance, the gemheart taken from the chasmfiend Kaladin and Shallan fight before being caught in the highstorm:

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Dalinar stared mutely at the gemheart as it rolled and tapped against the front of his boot, its light almost blinding. (Words of Radiance, page 885)

Of course, it's possible that a gemheart can be infused even while inside of a creature, but I don't recall any examples of a gemheart being harvested which mentions the brightness an infused gem of that size gives off. If gemhearts are dun upon harvest, then this one must have been infused during that storm.

Edited October 21, 2022 by Returned

[CosmicSieve]

The dun sphere that Kaladin and Shallan had in their cubby when they were stuck in the chasms did become infused. They were way up on the chasm wall, but still under the part of the chasm wall where it narrowed near the top, and in a cubby. So I think yes.

[Windrunner2319]

I think that it is mentioned in several scenes that the spheres they find in the chasms as bridgemen are infused, even though it takes several storms for the bodies to get pushed back, and would be long enough for at least some of them to go dun.