Your left hand and the surges

[Jenet]

I am sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, but I could not find it. I have read several places in the SA books that Radiants use their safe hands, or left hands (I think I remember a man doing it) for extra powerful or difficult. surgebinder tasks. Do you know if this is significant?

[Honorless he/him]

The only instance I can think of a Radiant specifically using their left hand is Shallan touching Re-Shephir

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When Shallan reached out to the Midnight Mother, would it have mattered if she used the right hand?

Brandon Sanderson

It would not have mattered. Good question!

Oathbringer release party (Nov. 13, 2017)

 

Edited December 31, 2019 by Honorless

[Karger he/him]

22 minutes ago, Jenet said:

I am sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, but I could not find it. I have read several places in the SA books that Radiants use their safe hands, or left hands (I think I remember a man doing it) for extra powerful or difficult. surgebinder tasks. Do you know if this is significant?

I think it might just seem significant for someone like Shallan to undergo what is to her indecent exposure out of battlefield necessity.

[rjl]

Using shardblades effectively requires 2 hands.

[Jenet]

Thanks! Then I can put this out of my mind.