Order of Lightweavers
| Order of Lightweavers | |||
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| Herald | Shalash | ||
| Spren | Cryptic | ||
| Surges | Illumination & Transformation | ||
| Plate spren | Unknown | ||
| World of Origin | Roshar | ||
| Universe | Cosmere | ||
The Order of Lightweavers was an order of the Knights Radiant on Roshar.[1]
The Lightweavers were Surgebinders who had access to the Surges of Illumination and Transformation. They were practicioners of Lightweaving and Soulcasting. They also used a Nahel bond, specifically with Cryptics as demonstrated by Shallan Davar in Words of Radiance.
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.
The First Ideal
“Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination. ”
—The First Ideal of the Knights Radiant[2]
Truths
Unlike the other Orders, the Lightweavers only had the First Ideal. After that speaking truths was required.[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. ”