Stormlight

[Shqueeves]

Is there a limit on how much Stormlight a person is able to hold at a time? 

[Argent he/him]

Probably not. In theory a person could invest themselves with all of a Shard's investiture, at which point they Ascend and become the (Vessel for that) Shard. Stormlight might be a little stranger, however, as there is some strong evidence that it is (or at least was) Adonalsium's investiture, not a Shard's. Still, my money is on "probably not."

[Spoolofwhool]

I'd say there is a limit. Every object seems to have a limit as to how much investiture it can hold, and I doubt stormlight is any exception. In addition, it also appears that stormlight leaves a body more quickly as the amount of stormlight they're holding increases, so I imagine a soft limit would be reached where the stormlight would leave as quickly as it entered.

[Jondesu he/him]

If there is, flying around in the middle of a storming highstorm would have come as close as we can imagine probably, so Kaladin (and Szeth, maybe) should have already experienced that. 

[Sallin Zeras he/him]

I think there is a limit in every investiture, if someone could just take all of the Stormlight in the world, it would be OP. I think of this because of Mistborn. Someone cannot digest unlimited metal, the only kind of investiture that I think doesn't have a limit is breaths

[Jedal he/him]

44 minutes ago, Talanelat'Elin Stonesinew said:

I think there is a limit in every investiture, if someone could just take all of the Stormlight in the world, it would be OP. I think of this because of Mistborn. Someone cannot digest unlimited metal, the only kind of investiture that I think doesn't have a limit is breaths

Not OP, it would be becoming a Shard, bro.

[Dunkum he/him]

4 hours ago, Argent said:

Probably not. In theory a person could invest themselves with all of a Shard's investiture, at which point they Ascend and become the (Vessel for that) Shard. Stormlight might be a little stranger, however, as there is some strong evidence that it is (or at least was) Adonalsium's investiture, not a Shard's. Still, my money is on "probably not."

I mean, unless you count having their body vaporized by the pure power anyway.  we know that the body can't necessarily hold that much power, it just sort of doesn't matter as much whether you still have a physical body once you reach that point. 

[Argent he/him]

21 minutes ago, Dunkum said:

I mean, unless you count having their body vaporized by the pure power anyway.  we know that the body can't necessarily hold that much power, it just sort of doesn't matter as much whether you still have a physical body once you reach that point. 

Yeah, but even if your body goes poof, your other Realmatic aspects are still there, so you've still absorbed the power. Plus, there is some weirdness with the Vessels' bodies, as we see a few of them come back...

[Dunkum he/him]

26 minutes ago, Argent said:

Yeah, but even if your body goes poof, your other Realmatic aspects are still there, so you've still absorbed the power. Plus, there is some weirdness with the Vessels' bodies, as we see a few of them come back...

agreed, but I figured the distinction was worth pointing out.

[Droughtbringer]

5 hours ago, Jondesu said:

If there is, flying around in the middle of a storming highstorm would have come as close as we can imagine probably, so Kaladin (and Szeth, maybe) should have already experienced that. 

But we know that Kaladin wasn't at maximum Stormlight efficiency, he had only sworn 3 of his oaths at that point, and as seen; more oaths = more Stormlight efficiency. So that could make it possible to hole more Stormlight

Edited December 16, 2016 by DroughtBringer
Improve Phrasing

[Spoolofwhool]

1 minute ago, DroughtBringer said:

But we know that Kaladin wasn't at maximum Stormlight efficiency, he had only sworn 3 of his oaths at that point, and as seen; more oaths = more Stormlight efficiency. 

Doesn't stormlight efficiency have to do with using stormlight, such as during surgebinding and healing, versus how much can be held?

[Droughtbringer]

2 minutes ago, Spoolofwhool said:

Doesn't stormlight efficiency have to do with using stormlight, such as during surgebinding and healing, versus how much can be held?

I don't think we have anything certain about that, this wasn't a "This is a true fact" statement, more of a "This is a possibility we should think about" statement.

[Spoolofwhool]

2 minutes ago, DroughtBringer said:

I don't think we have anything certain about that, this wasn't a "This is a true fact" statement, more of a "This is a possibility we should think about" statement.

Ah, okay. In that case the phrasing could be better since it doesn't read like that.

[Thunder_93]

Sorry if I ask that now in here, but Argent said, we have some evidence that stormlight might actually be the Investiture of Adonalsium. What kind of evidences are that? I never heard of that before...

[Yata he/him]

17 hours ago, Spoolofwhool said:

I'd say there is a limit. Every object seems to have a limit as to how much investiture it can hold, and I doubt stormlight is any exception. In addition, it also appears that stormlight leaves a body more quickly as the amount of stormlight they're holding increases, so I imagine a soft limit would be reached where the stormlight would leave as quickly as it entered.

I am with Spoolofwhool here, It seems that more Stormlight is in a system and with more force it try to exit. Probably you can't go beyond a specific point where the Stormlight's leak is equal to your ability to absorb Stormlight.

[Spoolofwhool]

5 hours ago, Thunder_93 said:

Sorry if I ask that now in here, but Argent said, we have some evidence that stormlight might actually be the Investiture of Adonalsium. What kind of evidences are that? I never heard of that before...

Stormlight in some form existed before Cultivation and Honor came to Roshar. The conclusion we're pulling is that it was originally directly Adonalsium's investiture, but Cultivation and Honor might've added to it.

[Argent he/him]

5 hours ago, Thunder_93 said:

Sorry if I ask that now in here, but Argent said, we have some evidence that stormlight might actually be the Investiture of Adonalsium. What kind of evidences are that? I never heard of that before...

We know that the highstorms predate the arrival of Honor and Cultivation on Roshar, and so if they were invested back then as well (which I find likely, as a lot of the ecology of Roshar seems to depend on Stormlight - investiture, in other words), then that investiture must've come from somewhere else. Knowing that there have only been three Shards on Roshar, and all three are accounted for, the only other source of investiture we know of is Adonalsium. Whose investiture we already suspect was a part of Roshar because there were spren there before the Shards showed up too.