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here is the quote from the sceen, it is not confusing, you were just to lazy to read it. Apsalar Shadowdancer Send a noteboard - 26/10/2010 07:24:19 AM
She raised her hands, but as the balefire launched itself, something flashed around her and she jerked. ...
Because she had jerked, the balefire she meant to slice through the cabin and passenger instead had sliced diagonally through the middle of the boat, about where the oarsmen had stood, and the bodyguards. Because the rowers had been burned out of the Pattern before the balefire struck, the two halves of the craft were now a good hundred paces back up the river. Then again, perhaps it was not a complete disaster. Because the slice from the boat's center had gone at the same time the boatmen had died, the river had had minutes to rush in. The two parts of the boat sank out of sight in a great froth of bubbles even as her eyes shifted to them, carrying their passenger to the depths.



It is stated explicitly that balefire works this way. Also another post has stated Brandon Sanderson has stated that everything has a thread, even inanimate objects.



Here's a test situation: If you shoot someone with an arrow through the head and then balefire the floor beneath their dead body... Did the floor vanish before the arrow hit them and thus allow them to fall below the arrow's path, meaning they are now alive? I personally do not believe this to be so. The person is still dead with the arrow through their head. If you believe it reverses the victim's fate, then we do indeed view the mechanics of balefire completely differently. Because I don't believe that balefiring the floor, arrow or bow after the event occurred will undo the death, but balefiring the archer would do so.



I believe it would reverse the victims fate, as the quote from the books I gave states, the floor would be gone for minutes before you fired the arrow and the person would fall down in the hole and therefore not be in the path of the arrow. this would hold true for the bow arrow and for the archer as well.
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Prologue: A Question on Gateways - 25/10/2010 07:33:23 PM 1532 Views
I was wondering this myself *NM* - 25/10/2010 08:23:57 PM 406 Views
I'm thinking it got overlooked... *NM* - 25/10/2010 08:35:31 PM 369 Views
Balefire's reversal of actions taken only works on living things that can perform said actions. - 25/10/2010 09:36:46 PM 907 Views
Agreed. I think Graendal's weave is only undone if the BF hits her, not the gateway *NM* - 25/10/2010 10:48:07 PM 332 Views
*nods* *NM* - 26/10/2010 05:08:20 PM 341 Views
thats not true - 26/10/2010 01:18:16 AM 837 Views
It is true. Objects do not have threads that can be affected by balefire. - 26/10/2010 01:56:48 AM 809 Views
here is the quote from the sceen, it is not confusing, you were just to lazy to read it. - 26/10/2010 07:24:19 AM 794 Views
I don't agree - 26/10/2010 12:08:41 PM 900 Views
so you think it made the hole in the boat back in time to allow the water into the boat - 26/10/2010 06:25:37 PM 890 Views
Re: Balefire - 27/10/2010 03:02:39 AM 902 Views
we will just have to agree to disagree then. - 27/10/2010 03:51:41 AM 856 Views
A weave should be destroyed - 26/10/2010 10:19:13 AM 737 Views
Re: A weave should be destroyed - 26/10/2010 12:03:16 PM 806 Views
That has more to do with the nature of both weaves - 26/10/2010 05:07:48 PM 699 Views
I agree - 26/10/2010 05:32:57 PM 723 Views
Thank you for reminding us of the scene, but it doesn't sell me completely. - 27/10/2010 02:28:00 AM 899 Views
*nods* - 26/10/2010 05:05:12 PM 779 Views

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