Order of Windrunners

Order of Windrunners
Herald	Jezrien
Spren	Honorspren
Surges	Adhesion & Gravitation
Plate spren	Unknown
World of Origin	Roshar
Universe	Cosmere

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The Order of Windrunners is an order of the Knights Radiant on Roshar.

The Windrunners were Surgebinders who used the Surges of Adhesion and Gravitation, and they absorbed Stormlight from gems by inhalation. They formed a Nahel Bond with honorspren. The combination of Adhesion and Gravitation resulted in the three Lashings. Szeth was able to use the three Lashings by way of an Honorblade, assumed to have belonged to Jezrien, the order's patron. The glow of the Windrunners' Shardplate was blue.

Historical

In the time before the Recreance the Windrunners were an Order with over a hundred members, and a considerable number of squires. They also reportedly had some issues with the order of the Skybreakers At the beginning of the Recreance a large number of Windrunners along with many Stonewards abandoned their Shardblades and Shardplates before the fortress known as "Feverstone Keep".

The Refound Windrunners

During the events of the battle at the tower, bridge captain Kaladin says his second ideal as a Windrunner, allowing him to use his powers freely and to take up squires. This is the beginning of the Refounding of the Knight Radiant order of the Windrunners. later on, the rest of Bridge Four begin the process of becoming Windrunners, with other bridge crews becoming squires as well. The order is used regularly in Urithiru for transportation of people and goods and are trained in The Shattered Plains. The refound order of Windrunners is well organized and maintains a strong military structure due to the fact that the order came about from bridge crews, originally ran by Sadeas. The sheer number of bridge crews, along with the Windrunner's resonance, allows for so many people to be Windrunner squires.

Known Windrunners

• Kaladin (bonded to Sylphrena)
• Teft
• Lopen (bonded to Rua)
• Drehy
• Skar
• The rest of Bridge Four and Bridge Thirteen (squires)

Ideals of the Windrunners

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. The following four Ideals were unique to the Windrunners. By the end of Oathbringer, three Ideals are known (including the First Ideal).

The First Ideal

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

—The First Ideal of the Knights Radiant

The Second Ideal

“I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.”

—The Second Ideal of the Windrunners (as spoken by Kaladin and Lopen)

The Third Ideal

The wording of the Ideal can be different between each Knight Radiant, as long as the meaning remains the same. Kaladin and Teft spoke this Ideal before they were able to form a weapon out of their honorspren, e.g. Shardblade, Shardspear, etc.

“I will protect even those I hate, so long as it is right.”

— The Third Ideal of the Windrunners (as spoken by Kaladin)

“I will protect those I hate. Even if the one I hate most is myself.”

— The Third Ideal of the Windrunners (as spoken by Teft)

The Fourth Ideal

While this ideal is unknown currently it is probable that, upon achieving this Ideal, a Windrunner gains his Shardplate.

Powers

The Windrunners use the Surges of Adhesion and Gravitation. The combination of these two Surges resulted in the three Lashings. Someone wearing Shardplate is immune to Lashings, but any objects that they are touching can be affected. Using a combination of Adhesion and Gravitation, a Windrunner could theoretically exit orbit.

Adhesion

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.

Gravitation

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.

Reverse Lashing

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.

Resonance

At the end of Words of Radiance, many of the bridgemen who worked under Kaladin were suddenly able to breathe Stormlight and heal. This occurred after Kaladin swore the third oath. This is also similar to what is seen in Dalinar's vision, when a Knight Radiant and his squad are hunting the Purelake for an Unmade before a voidspren protector forms a thunderclast from the bedrock of the lake. Later, Kaladin trains the bridgemen in sucking in Stormlight and using Lashings. However, their abilities are only present when Kaladin is nearby. Sigzil noted that they could use Stormlight effectively within 30 miles of Kaladin, and their maximum distance was 50 miles. The Windrunners' resonance was strength of squires, indicating that had Kaladin been of another order, he would not have been able to make all of Bridge Four his squires.

Quotes

“ 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, chapter 38, page 6

“ There came also sixteen of the order of Windrunners, and with them a considerable number of squires, and finding in that place the Skybreakers dividing the innocent from the guilty, there ensued a great debate. ”

— Words of Radiance, chapter 28, page 3

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