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Order of Willshapers

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Order of Willshapers
Willshapers glyph.svg
Transportation
Cohesion
Herald Kalak
Spren Lightspren
Surges Transportation & Cohesion
Plate spren Unknown
World of Origin Roshar
Universe Cosmere

The Order of Willshapers is an order of the Knights Radiant on Roshar. They form Nahel bonds with Lightspren, also known as Reachers.[1]

The Willshapers are Surgebinders who use the Surges of Transportation and Cohesion, and they are associated with the amethyst polestone.

Ideals of the Willshapers

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 is shared by all of the orders, and is used as a motto for the Knights Radiant as a whole. Each of the orders then has an additional four Ideals that are unique to that order. The Ideals of the Order of Willshapers all focus on individual freedom, liberty, and free expression.[2]

The theme of the Willshaper ideals are "I will seek freedom".[3]

The First Ideal

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

—The First Ideal of the Knights Radiant[4]

Abilities

The Willshapers use the Surges of Transportation and Cohesion.

Transportation allows Surgebinders to transport themselves into or out of Shadesmar in the flesh. The full extent of this ability is not yet known.

Their exact powers are so far unknown.

History

Little is currently known about the Willshapers. According to Words of Radiance, they are varied in personality, but generally possess a "love of adventure, novelty, or oddity"; the book further says that they are "capricious, frustrating, and unreliable".[5]

The Willshapers would "probably be okay" with Adolin killing Sadeas.[6]

Willshapers are one of the orders, along with the Order of Elsecallers and Order of Lightweavers, who have a particular affinity to the "far realm of spren" (Shadesmar).[7]

Known Willshapers

Quotes

“And now, if there was an uncut gem among the Radiance, it was the Willshapers; for though enterprising, they were erratic, and Invia wrote of them, "capricious, frustrating, unreliable," as taking it for granted that others would agree; this may have been an intolerant view, as Invia often expressed, for this order was said to be most varied, inconsistent in temperament save for a general love of adventure, novelty, or oddity. ”

Trivia

  • The Willshapers were one of the first orders Brandon developed while building magic systems.[8]

Notes

  1. ↑ JordanCon 2018
    — Arcanum - 2018-04-22#
  2. ↑ The Ten Orders of Knights Radiant
    — Arcanum - 2020-06-09#
  3. ↑ The Ten Orders of the Knights Radiant
    — Brandon's website - 2020-06-09#
  4. ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 59#
  5. ↑ a b Words of Radiance chapter 50 epigraph#
  6. ↑ Words of Radiance Philadelphia signing
    — Arcanum - 2014-03-21#
  7. ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 53 epigraph#
  8. ↑ Oathbringer London signing
    — Arcanum - 2017-11-28#
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