Larkins and Lift

[Mason Wheeler]

I noticed something interesting in this book.  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Chiri-Chiri has ever been given any form of physical food as sustenance.  But Rysn "fed" him a sphere's worth of Stormlight in here.  And this reminds me of Lift.  Lift eats food and converts it into Stormlight, while Chiri apparently eats Stormlight and converts it into food.

Did the Nightwatcher's gift to her turn out to be the same thing that larkins do, only reversed?

[Rushu42 she/her]

3 hours ago, Mason Wheeler said:

I noticed something interesting in this book.  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Chiri-Chiri has ever been given any form of physical food as sustenance.  But Rysn "fed" him a sphere's worth of Stormlight in here.  And this reminds me of Lift.  Lift eats food and converts it into Stormlight, while Chiri apparently eats Stormlight and converts it into food.

Did the Nightwatcher's gift to her turn out to be the same thing that larkins do, only reversed?

Indeed, that is interesting. It's possible that there's some greater connection here, but I think it's also likely that this is a general pattern of how the magic system works. In some way, both of them are able to convert energy from the Physical Realm to energy from the Spiritual Realm (or vice versa). Clearly this implies that both have a much higher connection to the SR than the normal invested being, but I'm not sure that it necessarily means that there's a connection between the two of them.