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While Bondsmiths' exact powers are unknown, clues from the text make it obvious that the Bondsmiths' powers involve binding things. Additionally, some ideas about their powers can be inferred from their Surges.
 
=== Binding people ===
''Binding people'' → The text suggests that this applies to oaths and the bonds between people (presumably with oaths). This would make the Bondsmiths an integral part in the efforts to unify all the different surgebinders under the banner of the Knights Radiant; indeed, Ishar, the Heraldic patron of the Bondsmiths, is said to have been the one who originally forced organization on the early surgebinders.{{epigraph ref|sa2|42}} Some theories suggest that the Bondsmiths' power to bind others may compel them to obey their oaths in a manner similar to the Oath Rod from the Wheel of Time series (see reference for a description of an Oath Rod and its abilities){{url ref|url=http://wot.wikia.com/wiki/Binding_rod|text=Oath Rod|site=Wheel of Time wikia}}.
 
''Other Abilities'' → Bondsmiths probably have other powers in addition to their ability to bind people with oaths. Hints at what these powers might include are given by the Surges available to Bondsmiths:
 
=== Surges ===
'''Adhesion:''' the property of different molecules (or surfaces) that causes them to cling to one another. So, adhesion "binds" two unlike things together.
 
''Combined Abilities'' → It is also possible that Bondsmiths will have powers similar to those of [[Lurcher]]s from [[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn]]. Since lurchers essentially use investiture to connect themselves to metallic objects and then pull - or affix - that object to themselves, it makes sense for Bondsmiths to be able to do something similar. These "lurcher" powers would not be limited to metal, but their applicability would presumably be limited to objects of different kinds (since tension is paired with adhesion - the ability to affix unlike objects to one another - for Bondsmiths).
 
=== Shards and Spren ===
''Shards & Spren'' → The Bondsmiths are unique in that they have a maximum of three members, and all three are bonded to a single spren (presumably the Stormfather given Dalinar's experience). The Stormfather told Dalinar that he would be a knight without shards which would make sense in an order where multiple knights were bonded to a single spren; such an order would either have no shard or would have to share the same set of shards.{{cite|Stormlight guidebook}}
The Bondsmiths are unique in that they usually had no more than three members. The Stormfather told Dalinar that he would be a knight without shards. It is currently unknown if this is true of all Bondsmiths, or just Dalinar.
 
== Quotes ==
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