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The '''Order of Lightweavers''' was an order of the [[Knights Radiant]] on Roshar.{{tor ref|the-title-for-brandon-sandersons-second-stormlight-archive-book-has-been-revealed|Words of Radiance press release|date=2013-02-28}} Knights of this order have a [[Nahel bond]], with a [[Cryptic]] Spren. Often abbreviated to just Lightweaver they are [[Surgebinder]]s who had access to the [[Surge]]s of Illumination and Transformation commonly called [[Lightweaving]] and [[Soulcasting]].
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The '''Order of Lightweavers''' is an order of the [[Knights Radiant]] on Roshar.{{tor ref|the-title-for-brandon-sandersons-second-stormlight-archive-book-has-been-revealed|Words of Radiance press release|date=2013-02-28}} Knights of this order have a [[Nahel bond]], with a [[Cryptic]]. Often abbreviated to just Lightweaver they are [[Surgebinder]]s who had access to the [[Surge]]s of Illumination and Transformation commonly called [[Surgebinding#Illumination|Lightweaving]] and [[Soulcasting]].
   
 
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=== Lightweaving ===
[[Lightweaving]] deals in illusions. It involves the manipulation of sound and lightwaves and has a strong spiritual component requiring a full mental picture of the illusion.
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[[Surgebinding#Illumination|Lightweaving]] deals in illusions. It involves the manipulation of sound and lightwaves and has a strong spiritual component requiring a full mental picture of the illusion.
   
 
== Quotes ==
 
== Quotes ==

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Order of Lightweavers
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Illumination
Transformation
Herald Shalash
Spren Cryptic
Surges Illumination & Transformation
Plate spren Unknown
World of Origin Roshar
Universe Cosmere

The Order of Lightweavers is an order of the Knights Radiant on Roshar.[1] Knights of this order have a Nahel bond, with a Cryptic. Often abbreviated to just Lightweaver they are Surgebinders who had access to the Surges of Illumination and Transformation commonly called Lightweaving and Soulcasting.

Historical

Many members of this order before the Recreance were interested in the arts so there were many writers, artists, musicians, painters, sculptors among their numbers.

The Lightweavers provided spiritual sustenance even for the other orders.

Known Lightweavers

Ideals of the Lightweavers

The Ideals of the Knights Radiant, also known as the Immortal Words, are a set of rules by which the Radiants lived. The First Ideal, identical for all orders of the Radiants, is used as their motto. Each of the Radiant Orders then had an additional four ideals that were unique to each order.

Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.

—The First Ideal of the Knights Radiant[2]

Additional Ideals

Unlike the other Orders, the Lightweavers only had the First Ideal. After that speaking truths was required and these truths were unique to each Surgebinder.[3]

Powers

The Lightweavers use the Surges of Illumination and Transformation.

The Lightweavers also had the ability to enter Shadesmar

It was also noted by the author of the in-universe book "Words of Radiance" that the members of this order had strange and varied mnemonic abilities. Shallan also seems to posses these abilities.

Soulcasting

Transforms any material into anything of Lightweaver's choice.

Lightweaving

Lightweaving deals in illusions. It involves the manipulation of sound and lightwaves and has a strong spiritual component requiring a full mental picture of the illusion.

Quotes

Yet, were the orders not disheartened by so great a defeat, for the Lightweavers provided spiritual sustenance; they were enticed by those glorious creations to venture on a second assault.

These Lightweavers, by no coincidence, included many who pursude the arts; namly: writers, artists, musicians, painters, sculptors. Considering the order's general temperament, the tales of their strange and varied mnemonic abilities may have been embellished.

As to the other orders that were inferior in this visiting of the far realm of spren, the Elsecallers were prodigiously benevolent, allowing others as auxiliary to their visits and interactions; though they did never relinquish their place as prime liaisons with the great ones of the spren; and the Lightweavers and Willshapers both also had an affinity to the same, though neither were true masters of that realm.

Malchin was stymied, for though he was inferior to none in the arts of war, he was not suitable for the Lightweavers; he wished for his oaths to be elementary and straightforward, and yet their spren were liberal, as to our comprehension, in definitions pertaining to this matter; the process included speaking truths as an approach to a threshold of self-awareness that Malchin could never attain.

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