DreamEternal Posted April 1, 2016 Posted April 1, 2016 But would Szeth be able to lash Kaladin while Kal is full of stormlight as well? No, but he would be able to lash everything around both of them. Like, what he already did to kill shardbearers.
Pathfinder Posted April 1, 2016 Posted April 1, 2016 No, but he would be able to lash everything around both of them. Like, what he already did to kill shardbearers. But couldn't Kaladin just draw the stormlight out of the items that Szeth lashed, depleting Szeth, and increasing his own stores as result?
DreamEternal Posted April 1, 2016 Posted April 1, 2016 But couldn't Kaladin just draw the stormlight out of the items that Szeth lashed, depleting Szeth, and increasing his own stores as result? We have no idea how lashings from different surgebinders interact. I personally think he couldn't, but could try to lash them back if he was fast enough, something that wouldn't be nearly as effective as trying to dodge however.
Pathfinder Posted April 1, 2016 Posted April 1, 2016 We have no idea how lashings from different surgebinders interact. I personally think he couldn't, but could try to lash them back if he was fast enough, something that wouldn't be nearly as effective as trying to dodge however. Yes we do. Words of Radiance page 1027 kindle edition "Kaladin let the Stormlight evaporate before him. He was running low - his frantic flight across the Plains had drained him. how shocked he had been when the flare of light rising into the darkening sky above a lit plateau had turned out to be Dalinar himself. lashed to the sky by Szeth. Kaladin had caught him quickly and sent him back to the ground with a careful lashing of his own." So it wasn't that Szeth's lashing had ran out by the time Kaladin reached him. Dalinar was still rising. If it was Kaladin used a lashing to counter act Szeth's lashing, then when Szeth's ran out, Dalinar would have accelerated to the ground due to the lack of resistance pulling up. Instead Dalinar drifts gently to the ground due to Kaladin's own lashing.
DreamEternal Posted April 1, 2016 Posted April 1, 2016 Yes we do. Words of Radiance page 1027 kindle edition "Kaladin let the Stormlight evaporate before him. He was running low - his frantic flight across the Plains had drained him. how shocked he had been when the flare of light rising into the darkening sky above a lit plateau had turned out to be Dalinar himself. lashed to the sky by Szeth. Kaladin had caught him quickly and sent him back to the ground with a careful lashing of his own." So it wasn't that Szeth's lashing had ran out by the time Kaladin reached him. Dalinar was still rising. If it was Kaladin used a lashing to counter act Szeth's lashing, then when Szeth's ran out, Dalinar would have accelerated to the ground due to the lack of resistance pulling up. Instead Dalinar drifts gently to the ground due to Kaladin's own lashing. Even then, taking the stormlight away to stop an object lashed towards him would only work for very short distances, because of acceleration.
Pathfinder Posted April 1, 2016 Posted April 1, 2016 (edited) Even then, taking the stormlight away to stop an object lashed towards him would only work for very short distances, because of acceleration. Wouldn't have to stop it. All he would have to do is brush the object as he dodged running past it to inhale the stormlight. Just as Szeth did to reclaim stormlight he lashed into objects of his own edit: also as you pointed out due to acceleration, the closer Kal got to Szeth (the origin of the lashings), the easier the objects would be to dodge, and reabsorb the stormlight from as they would not have enough space in which to accelerate sufficiently. Edited April 1, 2016 by Pathfinder
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