At a recent signing, you answered a question about balefire which, as you can see from Marie’s footnote, contradicts what RJ said. Can you clear that up?
I can only surmise here that I’m wrong. My response didn’t come from specifics in Jim’s notes, but from conversations between myself and Maria trying to interpret things written in the notes that were not specifically clear. We came out of it understanding the following: Balefire burns threads out of the pattern. If you balefire someone after THEY balefire someone, the threads are remain burned away. However, this was OUR interpretation, and Jim’s responses (where he gave them) always trump what we come up with.
Honestly, I thought we were pretty safe on this one, based on the notes and Maria’s understanding of balefire. But it looks like Jim had ideas about it that he didn’t leave in the notes! (This isn’t uncommon, keep in mind. Most of the notes were intended for him, and not outsiders, and so he didn’t often write on things he didn’t need to remember. During the last months, he did give a lot of notes specifically for Team Jordan and myself—but these things dealt with bigger picture plot sequences or the like, and not the minutia of worldbuilding.)
I apologize for the mistake.
Balefire makes my head hurt. I can’t really add anything here, either. I’m sure that Jim and I discussed balefire at some point, but no details really remain. I think that the line “it depends upon the strength of the balefire” is the real answer. Sometimes person 2 comes back to life, and sometimes not, depending upon strength and timing. I got nothing better.
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