Difference between revisions of "Old Magic"

The precise wording of her request is unknown, but [[Lift]] believes that "she was supposed to stay the same, and the world was supposed to change around her."{{book ref|edgedancer|1}} Lift interprets this to mean that she shouldn't age, which does not appear to be the case. Cultivation intervened and made it so that Lift's Surgebinding would be powered by Lifelight, rather than Stormlight, though the specifics of Lift's curse and boon are not known.{{book ref|sa4|i|5}}{{book ref|sa4|60}} Lift's abilities to physically touch [[Wyndle]] and to digest food into [[Investiture]] are apparently related to one or both of these.{{book ref|worsa2|i|9}} Lift's Spiritweb has something changed about it to allow her to convert her mass to Investiture directly.{{wob ref|2739}} She can only convert what she is able to metabolize for nutrients to Investiture.{{wob ref|2506}} Because of this, Lift is unable to get [[Stormlight]] from [[spheres]].{{wob ref|8073}} Wyndle supposes that she is partially stuck in the [[Cognitive Realm]].{{book ref|edgedancer|4}} Lift's boon also allows her control over the [[Dalinar's visions|visions]] entrusted to the [[Stormfather]] by [[Honor]]. She is able to enter the visions without the Stormfather's help, leaving on her own and taking [[Yanagawn]] with her.{{book ref|sa3|42}}

[[Taravangian]] claims to have asked the Nightwatcher for, "Capacity. Capacity to stop what was coming. The capacity to save humankind."{{book ref|worsa2|i|14}} Cultivation personally intervened when he asked for his boon.{{wob ref|13097}}{{book ref|sa4|i|12}} As a result, Taravangian's level of intelligence varies from day to day. This enabled him to write the [[Diagram (literature)|Diagram]] on a day of particularly notable intelligence. He believes that his curse is a level of compassion inversely proportional to his intelligence; he feels little to no compassion on days of high intelligence, contrasted with days of low intelligence and great compassion "to feel pain for what he had done."{{book ref|worsa2|i|14}} Some days he is as dull-minded as a [[Parshman]] and brought easily to tears as he realizes decisions he makes may bring death to innocents, while on others he is more intelligent and able-minded than the greatest scholar but regards everything he is ordering done with cold logic and an eye for the bigger picture of Roshar.{{book ref|sa2|i|14}} The change in intelligence and compassion will still happen even if Taravangian is awake and conscious in the middle of the night.{{wob ref|11390}}