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    I'm pretty sure it's still 'no longer blind".
    "“I was blind but now I see."
    "They were blind to their children's faults."
    "He was blind to all arguments."
    "The pilot flew blind through the fog."
    "The mud is washed from your eyes, you are no longer blind."
    "If your vision is obscured you are blind"


    A similar grammatical issue comes from being effected by 'Bind'. I think it currently says "No longer binded" but it should be "No longer bound". Blind is the past tense of Blind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ophannus View Post
    I'm pretty sure it's still 'no longer blind".
    "“I was blind but now I see."
    "They were blind to their children's faults."
    "He was blind to all arguments."
    "The pilot flew blind through the fog."
    "The mud is washed from your eyes, you are no longer blind."
    "If your vision is obscured you are blind"


    A similar grammatical issue comes from being effected by 'Bind'. I think it currently says "No longer binded" but it should be "No longer bound". Blind is the past tense of Blind.
    "Blind" refers to a condition of complete and permanent loss of vision, whereas "Blinded" refers to the effect being temporary and gradient. This is why temporary blindness or partial blindness is called "temporary" or "partial" to reduce that gradient.

    Though the spell is called "Blind", it "blinds" the target (effect), not "makes the target blind (condition)."

    In your examples:
    "I was blind but now I see" is a dramatic effort to enhance the imagery of "no longer being oblivious to something."
    "Blind to faults/arguments" is dramatic effort to magnify the ignorance of the subject.
    "Flying blind, or doing anything blind/blindly" is an expression and not all human expressions follow set rules for language. Especially for a living language.

    "If your vision is obscured, you are blinded." "You are blind" is incorrect in this context.

    For bound, it has always said "Target is no longer bound."
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