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The First Ideal of the Knights Radiant is shared among all of the orders. Because of this, it serves as the motto for the entire order.{{book ref|sa1|59}} While saying the other Ideals appear to be essential to their corresponding increases in
The First Ideal is not merely a statement of obvious truths. For example, even though people are always born before they die, that is not the knowledge that the First Ideal seeks to impart. As explained by [[Teft]]:{{book ref|sa1|59}}
:There are always several ways to achieve a goal. Failure is preferable to winning through unjust means. Protecting ten innocents is not worth killing one. In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
It should be noted that the Oaths are about each individual Radiant and his or her spren's perception of them and,{{book ref|sa3|121}} since Teft was not a Radiant, he may not have realized the extent of the room for variation in interpreting the First Ideal. Furthermore, as he eventually becomes a [[Order of Windrunners|Windrunner]], his explanation of the First Ideal likely hews closer to how that Order would interpret it. Notably, the [[Order of Skybreakers]] and the [[Order of Elsecallers]] would accept a more Machiavellian interpretation of the First Ideal and the Elsecallers in particular view the "journey" as that of the entire species.{{wob ref|2525}}{{wob ref|4163}}
== Subsequent Ideals of Individual Orders ==
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