Difference between revisions of "Order of Windrunners"

The glow of the Windrunners' [[Shardplate]] was blue.

 

In the time before the Recreance the Windrunners were a Order with over a hundred members,{{book ref|sa1|52}} and a considerable number of of squires.{{book ref|sa2|54}} They also reportedly had some issues with the [[order of Skybreakers|order of the Skybreakers]]{{book ref|sa2|54}} At the beginning of the Recreance a large number of Windrunners along with many [[Stonewards]] abandoned their [[Shardblade|Shardblades]] and [[Shardplate|Shardplates]] before the fortress know as "Feverstone Keep".{{book ref|sa1|52}}

 

* [[Kaladin]]

 

The Ideals of the Knights Radiant, also known as the [[Immortal Words]], are a set of rules by which the Radiant lived. The First Ideal, identical for all orders of the Radiants, is used as their motto. The following four were unique to each order.

 

{{quote|Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.|The First Ideal of the Knights Radiant{{book ref|wok|59}}}}

 

{{quote|I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.|The Second Ideal of the Windrunners{{book ref|wok|67}}}}

 

{{quote|I will protect even those I hate, so long as it is right.| The Third Ideal of the Windrunners{{book ref|sa2|84}}}}

 

[[File:Order of Windrunners.jpg|thumb|250px|Windrunners and the Surges of Adhesion and Gravitation]]

The Windrunners use the Surges of '''Adhesion''' and '''Gravitation'''. The combination of these two Surges resulted in the three Lashings.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}}{{book ref|sa1|part=ars}}

 

;Full Lashing:

Using the Full Lashing, a Surgebinder can pool Stormlight into an area. All objects that subsequently touch this area will be bonded to the object, sticking them there and hindering their movement. The bond ends when the Stormlight runs out.

 

;Basic Lashing:

The Basic Lashing allows a Surgebinder to bind people or objects to different surfaces or in different directions, effectively changing the direction that gravity pulls them.

By using the Reverse Lashing, a Surgebinder can increase the gravitational pull of an object, allowing them to subtly pull nearby objects toward it. The Surgebinder must maintain contact with the object to Reverse Lash it.

 

;Stormriding:

[[Kaladin]] displayed the ability to ride the [[Highstorm]]s, though it is unknown if this was an ability of all of the Knights Radiant, just the Windrunners, or if this was an unrelated ability specific to Kaladin.

At the end of Words of Radiance, many of the bridgemen who worked under Kaladin were suddenly able to breath stormlight and heal (WOR pgs 1047 & 1051). Teft commented on this saying that the visions that Dalinar published seem to indicate "that the orders of the Knights Radiant were made up of more than just the knights themselves." This occurred after Kaladin made the third oath.

 

{{quote|Now, as the Windrunners were thus engaged, arose the event which has hitherto been referenced: namely, that discovery of some wicked thing of eminence, though whether it be some rogueries among the Radiants' adherents or of some external origin, Avena would not suggest.|[[Words of Radiance (in-world)|Words of Radiance, chapter 38, page 6]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|38}}}}

 

 

== Notes ==

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