thats not true - Edit 2
Before modification by Apsalar Shadowdancer at 26/10/2010 01:27:45 AM
It burns their thread backward, undoing whatever that person has recently done. Probably only Jordan could have answered (and he may have, but I've never read of it) what level of intelligence the living things must possess to have their actions undone. Rand undoes the actions of Darkhounds, so there's some evidence it works beyond just for people. I would assume you could also balefire a dog who shit on your carpet to suddenly have a clean carpet as well. But could you balefire a mosquito to keep from getting an itchy bump?
My little tangent aside... I re-iterate: non-living things, including inanimate objects and one-power weaves, can not affect time by being balefired.
My little tangent aside... I re-iterate: non-living things, including inanimate objects and one-power weaves, can not affect time by being balefired.
look at the balefireing of the boat that nynaeve was in, if it only affected the people rowing the boat it would have moved back in the river, but only started to fill with water after the balefire hit. Instead if reverts back in the water, and becomes filled with water as if the boat had a hole in if for the few minutes the balefire removed from the wood making up the boat.
However, I'm not dure how it affects the metaphysical aspects. I mean if it could do that people could remove wards, such as those around Callandor, by useing balefire on them and then grab the sword. I do not think that balfire can affect OP weaves as I am not sure that they have "threads" the same way as physical things. Have we ever seen someone balefire a OP weave. I think Mordins balefire was affected because the balefire itself is not a weave but an energy produced by a weave.
I think this would be the same concept as using balefire on a fireball. I think you can balefire the fireball because it is a physical thing, but if you were to balefire the weave itself nothing would happen to the fireball flying at your head.