Investiture and Liquids

[Rhyter he/him]

I was wondering about the nature of Investiture and liquids. Liquids are solid in Shadesmar, so do they have souls like many of the solid objects? You can soulcast from a liquid, which implies that it does have a soul, but how would things like Lashings work with water. Could a Windrunner lash part of a lake, or would the stormlight just defuse along the whole lake. And how would manifesting liquids work in Shadesmar. We see some of that in Oathbringer, but never the direct manifestation of a liquid. Has Brandon said anything about this?

[RShara she/her]

3 minutes ago, Gear said:

Liquids are solid in Shadesmar, so do they have souls like many of the solid objects?

I don't know that they're so much solid as that people tend to think of lakes, rivers, etc, as a single solid thing--The Ocean. The Purelake, etc. Whereas landmasses, people see things individually, like grass, soil, rocks, buildings, houses, tables...stuff.

For Lashings and liquid, Brandon says

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Questioner

What happens when you Lash water, or a body of water?

Brandon Sanderson

Excellent question, it’s going to have some hard time gripping on--

Questioner

Would it have a gravity well going on?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah it would have a gravity well, it think-- yeah.  You are the first person to ask about that, I don’t think even my assistant has asked about that.  So that’s your tentative answer until I think about it some more, but I think it would.

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[Karger he/him]

1 hour ago, Gear said:

I was wondering about the nature of Investiture and liquids. Liquids are solid in Shadesmar, so do they have souls like many of the solid objects? You can soulcast from a liquid, which implies that it does have a soul, but how would things like Lashings work with water. Could a Windrunner lash part of a lake, or would the stormlight just defuse along the whole lake. And how would manifesting liquids work in Shadesmar. We see some of that in Oathbringer, but never the direct manifestation of a liquid. Has Brandon said anything about this?

Adhesion is probably a smarter way of manipulating a liquid anyway.