Difference between revisions of "Honor"

Honor seeks to uphold oaths and agreements, and to makebind things bindingtogether. Many, such as the [[Fused]], consider it to extend to a cosmic sense of justice and order, as well as the natural laws of the universe.{{book ref|sa4|31}}{{wob ref|16003}}{{expand}}

Surgebinding is a magic system derived from both Honor and [[Cultivation]].{{wob ref|1640}} To utilize it, a person must bond a higher spren, which allows them to inhale Stormlight and use it to control [[Surge]]s, a set of ten fundamental forces, although a single spren bond allows access to only two of them.{{wob ref|7663}} Some bondsSurges favor Honor, and others Cultivation, although theonly proportion,[[Adhesion]] and whether there are Surgesis "'purely"' of one or the other, is still under speculationHonor.{{wob ref|10649}}

Apart from spren bonds, Honor can also grant the use of Surgebinding through the [[Honorblade]]s, weapons made out of his Investiture.{{wob ref|1572}} Like spren, each Honorblade grants access to only one pair of Surges; in fact, Surgebinding came to beabout as spren attempted to imitate the Honorblades.{{wob ref|7989}}

The Shard of Honor was created, like all others, at the [[Shattering]] of [[Adonalsium]], and picked up by [[Tanavast]]. Though the Shards had an agreement to go their own separate ways, he and [[Cultivation]] traveled together to the [[Rosharan system]].{{epigraph ref|sa3|39}}{{wob ref|1169}} However, whatever the actual text of the agreement, Honor did not consider his actions to be breaking it, or exploiting a loophole in it.{{wob ref|10835}} The reason for that could be that Tanavast and Cultivation's[[Koravellium vesselAvast]] were romantically involved.{{wob ref|2786}}

Honor is well- known among the Rosharan people, and worshippedworshiped as a god.{{book ref|sa1|75}} [[Vorinism]] calls him the '''Almighty''' and claims that he's the only deity, considering worship of [[Cultivation]] to be pagan.{{book ref|sa3|29}} He's believed to be the creator of both Roshar and humanitymankind.{{book ref|sa1|7}} In the Vorin tradition, he has ten names, the last of which, Elithanathile, is only used by [[ardent]]s, the Vorin priests.{{book ref|sa1|7}} It's said he resides in the hearts of all people.{{book ref|sa1|45}} As it's commonly believed that perceiving him directly would cause one to burst into flames from his sheer glory, he's typically represented by a divine prism with ten facets.{{book ref|sa1|7}}{{book ref|sa1|33}}

Honor is also worshippedworshiped in [[Azir]] and the surrounding countries, though there he's known simply as God.{{book ref|sa3|122}} The [[Singersinger]]s worshippedworshiped him and Cultivation once, before the arrival of [[Odium]].{{book ref|sa3|111}}