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{{quote|True Surges are of both Honor and Cultivation{{ref|text=Note that Adhesion is not considered a True Surge by singers, since it is of Honor alone.}}—Cultivation for life, Honor to make the Surge into natural law. Things must fall to the ground, so they created Surges to make it happen.
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'''Surgebinding''' is a prime manifestation of [[Investiture]] on [[Roshar]]. Surgebinders can manipulate ten fundamental forces locally known as Surges, with each Surgebinder having access to two of the Surges with overlap between them, by infusing objects or beings with [[Stormlight]].{{wob ref|4515}}{{wob ref|7663}} Each Surgebinder's Surges come in a set combination, for example, it is possible to have the Surges of Progression and Illumination or Progression and Abrasion, but not Progression and Gravitation.
==== Honorblade ====
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'''Honorblades''' are the ten Shardblades that the Almighty originally gave the Heralds. Each of these Blades gives its wielder the ability to manipulate two Surges just like the Nahel bond, [[Jezrien]]'s Blade giving Adhesion and Gravitation, and so on. They can be wielded by anyone, and they do not require the safeguards the spren do to avoid people abusing these powers. Honorblades consume far more Stormlight than the Nahel bond, in fact a dangerous amount to the wielder. They also do not grant the additional abilities of the Nahel bond
==== Nahel Bond ====
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The Surge of Adhesion can be manipulated to bind things together.{{book ref|sa2|part=ars}} The two orders of Knights Radiant with access to this Surge are the Bondsmiths and the Windrunners. Honorspren and windspren can use it, very weakly.{{wob ref|3260}}
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== Trivia ==
* "Surgebinding" is used as a catch-all term for any manifestation of Investiture by many Rosharans, and not just the ten Surges.{{wob ref|14347}}
* The Surges as well as their names, far predates the Knights Radiant.{{book ref|sa4|i|1}} Surges existed on Ashyn prior to humans' arrival on Roshar, albeit without being restricted by Honor.{{book ref|sa4|111}} Back then [[Nahel bond]] wasn't discovered and humans could Surgebind without Oaths.{{book ref|sa4|76}} [[Ishar]] was the first person that Odium tricked into experimenting with Surges.{{book ref|sa4|111}} After Ashyn was destroyed by over-powerful Surgebinding and humans fled to Roshar, Honor started to put certain restrictions on it, but with Honor Splintered, at least some of these restrictions are starting to lax.{{book ref|sa4|111}}
* Rayse stated that the Shards of other worlds will find out about the power of Surgebinding and a war will start when this happens.{{book ref|sa4|112}} What form will the Surgebinding of other worlds take is unknown.
== Notes ==
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