Confused Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 The epigraph to WoR Chapter 35 says "They also, when they had settled their rulings in the nature of each bond’s placement, called the name of it the Nahel bond, with regard to its effect upon the souls of those caught in its grip..." Since each Order has a "body focus" - hair, nails, bones, etc. - I wonder if the bond's spiritual location in the surgebinder's soul determines which surges the KR gets? Or are the surges only a function of the particular spren that KR bonds with? Or both - the particular spren always choosing to place the bond in the same spiritual location? Just another crackpot theory...
Argent he/him Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 This makes me think of Hemalurgy - physical body parts / locations corresponding to spiritual... things. Properties. Abilities. Traits. Aspects.
WeiryWriter he/him Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 I think the Surges have more to do with the spren bonded. the Ars Arcanum pretty much says the body focuses have little to do with the actual magic, and more to do with vorin philosophy.
Shaggai Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 Perhaps placement within the Double Eye of the Almighty? http://coppermind.net/w/images/TWoK_Front_Endsheet.jpg Presumably, this is dependent on which Essence each is associated with. On the other hand, why they would have to argue about that I don't know.
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