Difference between revisions of "Lift"

Lift has formed a [[Nahel bond]] with Wyndle, which grants her the ability to Surgebind, although Lift herself is not entirely certain whether she believes this.{{book ref|sa2|i|9}} As with all Surgebinders, Lift gains superhuman strength and speed when she holds [[StormlightLifelight]], as well as the ability to heal quickly from non-mortal wounds. When Lift is invested with StormlightLifelight, she refers to it as her "Awesomeness." She is a member of the order of Radiants known as the Edgedancers. This gives her access to two Surges, Abrasion and Progression. Lift also has a rare and possibly unique ability to convert food to StormlightLifelight through consumption.{{book ref|RoW|60}} While this may seem a great blessing, she lacks the ability to gather Stormlight from gemstones and other sources.{{wob ref|8073}}

The Surge of Progression allows for two different sorts of abilities.{{book ref|sa2|i|9}} The more basic of these two is simply called Growth. Lift can use StormlightLifelight to increase the rate of growth of plants. When Lift uses Growth, plant life that she illuminates grows at an extremely accelerated rate, and she has some measure of control over the way that it grows. She is less practiced at this ability, but she uses it for things such as making vines grow to force a locked window open. It is unknown if this allows Lift to enhance the Growth rate of animals or not.

Lift's other power is even more impressive.{{book ref|sa2|i|9}} Most Surgebinders need to draw Stormlight from an external source in order to manipulate the Surges. Lift, however, can metabolize food directly into Stormlight[[Lifelight]], instead of sugar, and use that Lifelight to fuel her Surges instead of Stormlight.{{wob ref|67}} {{book ref|RoW|60}} Lift can not draw Stormlight from gemstones or other external sources.{{wob ref|8073}} Food that she can metabolize quicker, such as bread, can be metabolized into StormlightLifelight faster than something like sausage, but may provide less StormlightLifelight overall because it has fewer calories. However, this is limited to substances that she can normally digest into nutrients.{{wob ref|2506}} She can also convert the energy reserves in her own body into StormlightLifelight, as well as convert [[Feruchemical]] [[bendalloy]] to StormlightLifelight.{{wob ref|9272}} These abilities are unique to Lift.{{wob ref|940}} However, this power can be dangerous too, as she often risks malnutrition when she burns through all her excess energy.{{book ref|sa2|i|9}} As Lift can only gain StormlightLifelight through metabolisingmetabolizing food,{{wob ref|8073}} she is limited by the amount of food she has eaten. She may be the only person to have ever had one, or all, of these abilities and it may not have been believed possible until she visited Cultivation.{{wob ref|12898}}

When Lift reached the orphanage, she heard a scream that made her believe she had come too late. The Stump confronted her outside the orphanage, believing her to be the source of the scream. Lift asked for the last of her three meals to replenish her stormlightLifelight before going off to confront the Skybreakers{{book ref|sa2.5|17}}