Hiring a Lightweaver to make you Popcorn

[Myst He/Him]

Wind and Truth spoilers!!!

So I was talking to @TheFlatScadrianand we talked about how Lightweavers can affect more than visible light.

 The conversation is in this:

What’d yall think? Because I want to see a Lightweaver walk out of a nuclear reactor explosion perfectly fine.

[NerdSandwich she/her]

what about caramel?

[TheFlatScadrian]

I’ve had an idea.

Lightweavers could X-Ray people, right? So if you got a surgeon on a battlefield who needs immediate visual on an injury, you just need a plate and a Lightweaver.

Sure, X-Rays are dangerous, but it’s completely viable short-term.

[Myst He/Him]

3 minutes ago, Ookla the Intelligent said:

what about caramel?

I’ve never made caramel with a microwave, but it probably could work, same with anything you could cook, so… they could probably make pies.

Also, like, just replace MRI’s anything we can do with it, they can do better with a lot more versatility 

Edited December 1, 2025 by Ookla the Broken

[NerdSandwich she/her]

oh good cuz popcorn with caramel

[Clarkmon22 He/Him]

14 minutes ago, Ookla the Broken said:

Wind and Truth spoilers!!!

So I was talking to @TheFlatScadrianand we talked about how Lightweavers can affect more than visible light.

 The conversation is in this:

What’d yall think? Because I want to see a Lightweaver walk out of a nuclear reactor explosion perfectly fine.

if they can simulate touch as well, (Shallan's army in OB) and taste is kind of just a subset of touch, couldn't a lightweaver give you popcorn that you eat, but disappears as it enters your stomach? (INFINITE BINGE SNACKING???)

[TheFlatScadrian]

1 minute ago, Ookla the Nine-Fingered said:

INFINITE BINGE SNACKING???

Rehab centers for fake-food addictions should be canon.

 

And how do they simulate touch? Like… with air waves?

Edited December 1, 2025 by TheFlatScadrian

[Myst He/Him]

Just now, Ookla the Nine-Fingered said:

if they can simulate touch as well, (Shallan's army in OB) and taste is kind of just a subset of touch, couldn't a lightweaver give you popcorn that you eat, but disappears as it enters your stomach? (INFINITE BINGE SNACKING???)

The advertising for that would be hilarious.
“Lightweaver’s popcorn - It’s not really there” 

[Through The Living Ash he/him]

If they were to x-ray someone, would they be able to see it when it bounces back? I don't think they could. 

The microwaving thing should still work though. 

Just now, TheFlatScadrian said:

Rehab centers for fake-food addictions should be canon.

 

And how do they simulate touch? Like… with air vibrations?

Wind and Truth spoilers

Spoiler

Castweaving. They can make illusions physical by soulcasting them into existence sorta. 

 

[TheFlatScadrian]

You could make a killing selling fake snack food to people attempting to lose weight. 
 

or fake alcohol. Or fake cigarettes. Or fake… any addiction, really. 

Fake Firemoss!

[Myst He/Him]

4 minutes ago, Ookla the Incorrigible said:

If they were to x-ray someone, would they be able to see it when it bounces back? I don't think they could. 

You’d still need the sensory equipment for it, but making x-ray goggles is a lot easier than hauling around an mri/x-ray machine 

Edit: Also, sorry @TheFlatScadrian every time I post, you always get there slightly ahead of me, so I’m unable to quote you without double posting.

Taste might be a problem, I’m not sure how to do that without actually soulcasting, which is what we’re trying to avoid.

Edited December 1, 2025 by Ookla the Broken

[Through The Living Ash he/him]

39 minutes ago, Ookla the Broken said:

You’d still need the sensory equipment for it, but making x-ray goggles is a lot easier than hauling around an mri/x-ray machine 

Edit: Also, sorry @TheFlatScadrian every time I post, you always get there slightly ahead of me, so I’m unable to quote you without double posting.

Taste might be a problem, I’m not sure how to do that without actually soulcasting, which is what we’re trying to avoid.

Why are we avoiding soulcasting? It wouldn't be that hard to soulcast a flavor into the air, given that flesh is one of the basic soulcasting substances. 

[NerdSandwich she/her]

well...

[TheFlatScadrian]

42 minutes ago, Ookla the Broken said:

Also, sorry @TheFlatScadrian every time I post, you always get there slightly ahead of me, so I’m unable to quote you without double posting.

No worries, man. 
 

could you perhaps stimulate taste sensory organs with air movements?

[Myst He/Him]

2 minutes ago, Ookla the Incorrigible said:

Why are we avoiding soulcasting? It wouldn't be that hard to soulcast a flavor into the air, given that flesh is one of the basic soulcasting substances. 

I feel like if we did that it’d be basically just perfume.

Edit: there’s nothing wrong with perfume, but eating it? Also, I’m trying to see what crazy things you can do with lightweaving, and while soulcasting is nice, this wouldn’t nearly as cool as using light weaving. We could always just soulcasting air into chips, assuming we understand chips at a molecular level

Edited December 1, 2025 by Ookla the Broken

[TheFlatScadrian]

The cosmetics industry would riot and probably keep it a secret.

[Through The Living Ash he/him]

2 minutes ago, Ookla the Broken said:

I feel like if we did that it’d be basically just perfume. 

Smell is just taste at range. 

[Myst He/Him]

2 minutes ago, Ookla the Incorrigible said:

Smell is just taste at range. 

Actually, yeah, that’s fair

[Through The Living Ash he/him]

6 minutes ago, Ookla the Broken said:

I feel like if we did that it’d be basically just perfume.

Edit: there’s nothing wrong with perfume, but eating it? Also, I’m trying to see what crazy things you can do with lightweaving, and while soulcasting is nice, this wouldn’t nearly as cool as using light weaving. We could always just soulcasting air into chips, assuming we understand chips at a molecular level

...Giant lightwoven space lasers. Gamma radiation. Invisibility? Turning the lights on/off in a weird way. 

[Myst He/Him]

2 minutes ago, Ookla the Incorrigible said:

...Giant lightwoven space lasers. Gamma radiation. Invisibility? Turning the lights on/off in a weird way. 

I didn’t think of Lasers… but that makes a Lightweaver in Shardplate probably one of the most dangerous space fighters. Get a Skybreakers/windrunner to move them around and you have. Two-person manuverable menace to space-ship society

[TheFlatScadrian]

4 minutes ago, Ookla the Broken said:

Get a Skybreakers/windrunner to move them around and you have. Two-person manuverable menace to space-ship society

That would be terrifying. For everyone involved.
You could seriously destroy computers that way, in space. Wreck life support or propulsion systems.
 

What about Aondor? Could lightweaving mess with Aon tech? 

[Myst He/Him]

Just now, TheFlatScadrian said:

That would be terrifying. For everyone involved.
You could seriously destroy computers that way, in space. Wreck life support or propulsion systems.
 

What about Aondor? Could lightweaving mess with Aon tech? 

It could destroy whatever the Aon is carved on, and if it’s on the air, you could either laser the person making the Aon or you could Lightweave it so that their Aon looks 2 inches to the left from where it actually is midway through the drawing, so their Aon either fizzles or has unintended consequences 

[Through The Living Ash he/him]

Converting Investiture to electricity through solar panels. 

Giving people a tan. 

Disrupting radio signals. 

Potentially sending radio signals, if you're adept enough? which could then be converted to sound so basically a microphone/ham radio. 

Radar, though it wouldn't really be all that useful cause you'd still have to have the tech to see it bounce back. 

Powering a light sail...

Holograms (they already do this with the map of Roshar at Urithiru). 

Messing with things that use IR receivers...

Edited December 1, 2025 by Ookla the Incorrigible