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 was an order of the Knights Radiant on Roshar.

The Windrunners were Surgebinders who used the two Surges of Adhesion and Gravitation, and they absorbed Stormlight from gems by inhalation. The combination of these two Surges resulted in the three Lashings. These powers were gained by bonding with an honorspren. 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 a Order with over a hundred members, and a considerable number of 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 know as "Feverstone Keep".

Known Windrunners

• Kaladin

Ideals of the Windrunners

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.

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

The Third Ideal

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

— The Third Ideal of the Windrunners

Powers

The Windrunners use the Surges of Adhesion and Gravitation. The combination of these two Surges resulted in the three Lashings.

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.

Other abilities

Stormriding

Kaladin displayed the ability to ride the Highstorms, 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.

(unnamed ability related to followers)

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 and may explain the reference to them having 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