Well, we don’t know just how close they were, but if it were all that slow people wouldn’t even bother using it in combat. I tend to assume that fired spells are somewhere in the ballpark of fastball speed.
A spell that can be dodged with difficulty when fired by an opponent you’re dueling should be more than a little more difficult to dodge if it comes without warning out of a wall behind you though.
Could be that the bolt just doesn’t move that fast. If it’s possible to dodge at close range (like Bahry?) then it would have to move fairly slow.
Well, we don’t know just how close they were, but if it were all that slow people wouldn’t even bother using it in combat. I tend to assume that fired spells are somewhere in the ballpark of fastball speed.
A spell that can be dodged with difficulty when fired by an opponent you’re dueling should be more than a little more difficult to dodge if it comes without warning out of a wall behind you though.