Quickpoll for 23rd December 2010
submitted by TaskmasterJack
Does balefire affect the time stream when it encounters inanimate objects or just when it destroys living things?
Only living things. (40.85% - 58 votes)
Both living things and objects. (55.63% - 79 votes)
Balefire? (3.52% - 5 votes)
Both? Also, first. *NM*
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... yeah
Remember Nyns boat sinking? Both. *NM*
It can *destroy* everything....
...but it doesn't necessarily "burn the thread back in time" of everything it touches. It burns the threads of pattern, i.e. human lives. The reason Nyn's boat changed positions was because the rowers were balefired, and thus their actions of rowing the boat forward were burned back in time.
When Liandrin and co. balefired a hole in the side of their boat on their way to Tanchico, it didn't send the boat backwards. The boat retained exactly its same position in time and location. Why? Because no lives were lost. Had they killed the sailors, the balefire would have burned the sailors' work away as well and the vessel would have jumped backward.
Anyways, long story short, balefire only "burns back in time" threads of the pattern, which are only human lives. Objects do not have a thread, and are not burned back.
When Liandrin and co. balefired a hole in the side of their boat on their way to Tanchico, it didn't send the boat backwards. The boat retained exactly its same position in time and location. Why? Because no lives were lost. Had they killed the sailors, the balefire would have burned the sailors' work away as well and the vessel would have jumped backward.
Anyways, long story short, balefire only "burns back in time" threads of the pattern, which are only human lives. Objects do not have a thread, and are not burned back.
Avas got it right *NM*