Was Galad, while wearing the medallion, unaffected by a fireball? I thought the medallion couldn't stop external attacks like that?
The medallion stops direct weaves like this.
What it wouldn't stop are side effects, eg: the weave affecting a storm creates conditions for lightning to appear. Those lightnings aren't affected by the medallion. If a weave of Air throws objects at you, the objects aren't affected by the medallion (even though the weave of Air if it still pushes the object rather than just project it would break touching Mat, likely diminishing the strength of the impact a bit).
Fireballs are just weaves. Mat, Cadsuane are immune to those, like they are to bonds of air, shields in Cadsuane's case etc. All direct weaves.
I guess this is down to how you understand the way the Power works. Is a fireball literally just Fire, or is it a highly localized atmospheric/physical condition created by a particular weave of the Power? There's the weave of Fire, and then there's the resulting fireball. Two distinct things. That's the way I've always read it.
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Did I read that right?
- 25/01/2013 05:42:29 PM
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A fireball is just a weave of Fire
- 25/01/2013 05:56:15 PM
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Re: A fireball is just a weave of Fire
- 25/01/2013 05:57:52 PM
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That's how I read it too *NM*
- 25/01/2013 06:06:59 PM
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Nope. A fireball is a direct weave. Lanfear describes it as such in WH.
- 25/01/2013 06:43:11 PM
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I thought once fire was created, it became real and ceased being a weave
- 25/01/2013 06:03:31 PM
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