Kurk- I just decided that you will be the first one rewarded with a High Transcriber award- for your amazing work on the Alethi transliterator. Thanks!
Just so you know- I merged your thread in with the "Szeth spiked thread" that popped up a little before yours, because it was covering pretty much the same thing.
If you want to know more about lashings, you can try the Amazon Look Inside for Way of Kings and go to the very last pages. It includes the Ars Arcanum