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The Bondsmiths use the Surges of '''Tension''' and '''Adhesion'''.
Adhesion is what
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'''Speculation on the powers of Bondsmiths'''
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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'' → The text suggests that this applies to oaths and the bonds between people (presumably with 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 its 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=wot.wikia.com/wiki/Binding_rod|text=Oath Rod}}.
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:
'''Adhesion:''' the property of different molecules (or surfaces) that causes them to cling to one another. So, adhesion "binds" two unlike things together.
'''Tension:''' Tension is the force that is transmitted through a string, rope, cable or wire when it is pulled tight by forces acting from opposite ends. The tension force is directed along the length of the wire and pulls equally on the objects attached to opposite ends of the wire. So, tension is the force (applied along a connection) that holds two objects together.
Tension grants the ability to connect objects and adhesion grants the ability to attach one object to another; any physical application of these two abilities could conceivably be in the Bondsmiths' toolbox.''
''Adhesive Abilities'' → For example, it is noted above that Bondsmiths share the surge of adhesion with Windrunners, so Bondsmiths are probably capable of using full lashings.
''Tensional Abilities'' → These are the abilities that allow Bondsmiths to unite others; tension grants the ability to connect people/things through a common bond or oath.
''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).
The Bondsmiths are unique in they have a maximum of three members, and all three are bonded to one particular 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.
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