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Stormform Regals are also capable of directly channeling the lightning into another person directly through physical contact, sending constant jolts of power through them,{{book ref|sa4|43}} which creates an immensely painful burning sensation in the victim.{{book ref|sa4|103}} Their opponents are unable to withstand the power of this attack without Stormlight healing to aid them.{{book ref|sa4|43}} Unleashing lightning into a person still generates a great deal of heat, burning through clothes, with the shock causing the victim's hair to stand on end.{{book ref|sa4|103}} Even when they are not intending to do harm, touching a stormform may cause the feeling of a little jolt of power.{{book ref|sa4|41}} Stormforms have also experimented with their powers in less directly martial ways. They have discovered that they can rewrite the polarity of a magnet with their lightning{{book ref|sa4|89}} and use it to ignite the contents of pressurized vessels.{{book ref|sa4|97}}
 
This lightning power is not limitless though, subsequent blasts of lightning are often weaker{{book ref|sa4|103}} than the first and after their Voidlight has been expended, it is slow to renew and its absence may leave the stormform feeling limp.{{book ref|sa4|95}} Another weakness of stormform is ironically water, which makes their ability to throw bolts of lightning even less reliable.{{book ref|sa4|42}} If a stormform is sufficiently drenched in water their power will be ruined and unable to renew properly until they are dry, slipping away from the stormform every time it starts to return.{{book ref|sa4|117}} Their lightning may also be counteracted by intentionally placing lightning rods to draw the bolts of power themselves to protect soldiers fighting stormform Regals.{{book ref|sa4|41}} Their powers may also be fully dampened by a suppression [[suppression fabrial]], which causes their lightning to vanish.{{book ref|sa4|111}}
 
Another ability granted by stormform is some immunity to the effects of the the storms,{{book ref|sa2|i|11}} allowing them to move through the winds and darknesss of a storm with relative ease,{{book ref|sa2|81}} although they are not immune to the dangers the storms present.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} According to legend they were able to control and summon the storms themselves,{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} it is uncertain if this refers to the power to summon the Everstorm from Shadesmar. Prior to its arrival in the Physical Realm, a stormform Regal was capable of summoning a small portion of the Everstorm themselves.{{book ref|sa2|i|11}} They could cause a small tempest of wind, lightning and dark mist to appear briefly between their hands, although it is unknown if they maintain this power following the arrival of the Everstorm. It is uncertain whether summoning the Everstorm was a task only the stormforms could complete or whether they were simply chosen as the form best suited for the task.