Radiant soulcasting...?

[Xabben]

According to early books in the series, it is clear that one of the limitations for soulcasting fabrials is that they often break gems due to the fast extraction of stormlight needed by the transformation process. However, radiant soulcaster don't really need gems for soulcasting, so... Isn't this basically a infinite food glitch? As long as they have access to stormlight, they should be able to create food (and other materials) without any real drawback or physical degradation...

[Frustration]

Yes, they actually do that in RoW with the various Lightweavers making food on their journey.

 

I honestly don't know why Brandon made such a big deal about using the oathgates as farmland. They can just make all the food they want. I suppose spices and other things would be nice to have, but not strictly speaking neccesary.

[Xabben]

For me, this is a BIG problem. It means that Radiants have infinite resources when they are in Urithiru, as the Sibling automatically recharges their stormlight and, therefore, there is no limitation for what they can create...

[Ascended Grubberfly He/Him]

36 minutes ago, Frustration said:

Yes, they actually do that in RoW with the various Lightweavers making food on their journey.

 

I honestly don't know why Brandon made such a big deal about using the oathgates as farmland. They can just make all the food they want. I suppose spices and other things would be nice to have, but not strictly speaking neccesary.

31 minutes ago, Xabben said:

For me, this is a BIG problem. It means that Radiants have infinite resources when they are in Urithiru, as the Sibling automatically recharges their stormlight and, therefore, there is no limitation for what they can create...

But is food their best use? Why waste your soldiers and important individuals getting rid of human waste and feeding an entire city.

Plus, Radiants can become Soulcasting Savants, they are just slightly more protected because of the bond. But that does not mean they are immune to it.

[Xabben]

Moreover, in WaT, they say multiple times that "they cannot lose the Shattered Plains because they need to harvest gems for growing food". This makes no sense if soulcasting does not require gems...