Difference between revisions of "Surgebinding"

* '''Basic Lashing''': This ability alters an object's or being's spiritual gravitational bond to the planet below, instead temporarily linking it to a different object or direction. It allows the Surgebinder to run up walls, send objects or people flying off into the air. Advanced users of Basic Lashing can employ partial Lashings—a half Lashing upward, for example, would make the Surgebinder effectively weightless, while a quarter Lashing would halve the person's weight.{{ref|b|sa1|ars}} It is also possible to use multiple Basic Lashings simultaneously so that the infused object or being will be pulled toward different directions at once or pulled toward a single direction but stronger than gravity normally would.{{ref|b|sa2|c|52}} Basic Lashing always requires skin contact if the Surgebinder is trying to infuse an external object or being.{{ref|b|sa2|c|85}} Basic Lashing continually consumes the Stormlight with which the object is infused until the object runs out of Stormlight or the Surgebinder dismisses his Lashing; so the length of Basic Lashing is dependent on the amount of Stormlight used.{{ref|b|sa2|c|41}}

* '''Reverse Lashing''': This ability creates a bubble around a surface that imitates its spiritual link to the ground beneath it. In effect, this makes the infused object pull other objects towards itself. It is much harder for Reverse Lashing to affect objects touching the ground, where their link to the planet is strongest. Objects falling or in flight are the easiest to influence. Other objects can be affected, but the Stormlight and skill required are much more substantial. This ability is believed to be a specialized version of Basic Lashing.{{ref|b|sa2|ars}} Reverse Lashing requires constant skin contact for it to work, though it consumes comparablycomparatively little Stormlight.{{ref|b|sa1|prologue}}