Oversleep Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 (edited) We know that the gem determines what kind of thing you can Soulcast. It's obviously true in Soulcaster fabrials but I have seen either in text or in WoBs things that suggest it's also the case with Radiant Soulcasting. The question is: why? Once the Stormlight is breathed in it's indistinguishable from Stormlight breathed in from another type of gem. And of course if a Radiant walks into a highstorm, they would be able to replenish their Stormlight directly from the storm itself. So there are no gems involved but the situation is not fundamentally different as it's the same Stormlight anyway. It's very confusing and I can't wrap my head around it. If somebody knows any qoutes or WoBs explaining this, please post. My searches have been unhelpful in that regard. EDIT: elevant WoB(s): (I swear I've seen more) Spoiler Quote StormAtlas I finally got to ask a question about the Stormlight Archive that Windrunner17 and Chaos helped me with which was: "Why Can Kaladin Surgebind with any gem type but Jasnah and Shallan need specific types?" Brandon Sanderson A lot of that will be explained as the series comes along. It is really the difference between Soulcasting and the other forms of Surgebinding. It's more a quirk of Soulcasting than it is something that is different about about Kaladin. So you've kind of got it reversed a little bit though; Soulcasting has this additional restriction that the other ones don't. source Edited October 25, 2016 by Oversleep
thegatorgirl00 she/her Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 8 minutes ago, Oversleep said: We know that the gem determines what kind of thing you can Soulcast. It's obviously true in Soulcaster fabrials but I have seen either in text or in WoBs things that suggest it's also the case with Radiant Soulcasting. What WoBs are you talking about? If what you are basing this on is Jasnah's Soulcasting, I would argue that she she simply could have been careful enough to only Soulcast things based on the gems she had to keep her cover, even if she didn't have to. I can't remember anything from when Shallan Soulcasts to necessarily support this, but I could be wrong.
Djarskublar he/him Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 It might have to do with how directly she is Soulcasting. If she is pushing the Light straight from the gems, as she appears to do with fair regularity in WoK, then it may apply. Like when she Soulcasts the mugger at range. She seemed to push the Light from the gem into the guy. Once she breathes it in, then she can do whatever she wills with it. 1
Eki Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 In the Jasnah PoV except, Spoiler is anything about types of gems mentioned, when she soulcasts the ropes into smoke from the cognitive realm? Anyway, I think (non-sentient) spren are involved somehow. Fabrials work by trapping specific types of spren in specific gems, so there may be some connection there.
CalaCrisp88 Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 (edited) Since the ten Polestones correspond with the ten Essences, I've always thought that using certain gems to Soulcast certain Essences was because they had more affinity with the Essence, not because it was restricted to that Essence. Could, of course, be entirely wrong. I'm not basing this off of any WoB, this has just been my personal thought. Edit: For Radiant Soulcasting, anyway. Edited October 25, 2016 by 8giraffe8
Krandacth Posted October 25, 2016 Posted October 25, 2016 4 hours ago, 8giraffe8 said: Since the ten Polestones correspond with the ten Essences, I've always thought that using certain gems to Soulcast certain Essences was because they had more affinity with the Essence, not because it was restricted to that Essence. Could, of course, be entirely wrong. I'm not basing this off of any WoB, this has just been my personal thought. Edit: For Radiant Soulcasting, anyway. This, but for some fabrial Soulcasters too. It says in the WoK (Shallans pov, but on mobile so can't say exactly where) that Jasnahs is one of the more powerful kind of Soulcaster (implying others are known of) that can Soulcast any of the 10 essences, but that those aligned with the stones would be easiest. It might be that a bunch of the ardents are also proto-KRs, but that seems unlikely. PS: I think it is just after Jasnah Soulcasts the boulder to smoke, and Shallan notices the cracked smokestone, drawing the link as exposition about Soulcasters.
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