Difference between revisions of "Honor"

Honor seeks to uphold oaths and agreements, and to bind things together. TheMany, such as the [[Fused]], consider himit to beextend theto goda 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 the proportion, only adhesion[[Adhesion]] is 'purely' of Honor.{{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}}

{{image|CultivationHonor and HonorCultivation by MLMarie MalandrinoSeeberger.jpg|side=right|width=250px|Honor and [[Cultivation]]}}

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}}

{{image|Dead Honor by ShuravfAri Ibarra.jpgjpeg|side=left|width=200px|Honor's death}}

Honor's death, however, was a protracted event.{{wob ref|8144}} Before passing away fully, Honor took some measures to help Rosharans in the future. Chief among them was leaving behind a series of visions to warn of the possibility of the [[True Desolation]], and to leave behind some information that might be helpful.{{book ref|sa1|75}} He prepared the [[Stormfather]] to be his inheritor, and gave him the task of choosing the possible recipients of the visions.{{book ref|sa2|89}} At the very end of his existence, Tanavast was still capable of communicating with humans, but by then he was raving and no longer supported the Knights Radiant.{{book ref|sa3|113}}

He died and becamehis Shard was Splintered shortly after the [[Recreance]].{{book ref|sa3|113}} Tanavast's [[Cognitive Shadow]] merged with the Stormfather, along with the largest portion of Honor's remaining power.{{wob ref|1671}} That remaining power is sufficient to keep Odium bound to Roshar, and the Oathpact ongoing.{{book ref|sa3|57}}{{wob ref|5186}}

{{image|Honor by Kyle Pearson.jpg|side=right|width=200px|Honor and the [[Stormfather]]}}

* InAccording to Brandon Sanderson, in ''[[wikipedia:Magic: The Gathering|Magic:The Gathering]]'' colors, Honor would be mono-white.{{wob ref|11057}}