Surgebinding
| Surgebinding | |
|---|---|
| Related to | Honor |
| Type | End-Positive |
Surgebinding is a magic-system that can be found on Roshar. In accordance with every other magic system in the Cosmere, Surgebinding is a manifestation of Investiture.
Lore
During the events of The Way of Kings Surgebinding is poorly known by the Rosharian population. In previous times though, it was well known, due to the Knights Radiant who were practitioners of Surgebinding. The Ars Arcanum of the Way of Kings has some information about Surgebinding.
General Information
Surgebinding allows its practitioners to bind Surges. Surges are fundamental forces Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content. Binding a Surge describes the manipulation of the fundamental force, which produces the desired effect.
In order to Bind a Surge, the practitioner needs Stormlight. This means that the practitioner always needs infused gemstones. When Binding the Surge, Stormlight is used.
Access to Surgebinding
The ability to Bind Surges is not innate to native Rosharians. People are granted this ability depending on how they act.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content It is assumed that Surgebinding is the magic-system of Honor. So someone needs to act honorable to become a Surgebinder.
By acting honorable, one can attract an spren, that bonds with the relative person.[clarification needed] An effect of that bond is that the bonded person has acces to Surges.
Subclasses of Surgebinding
There are ten Surges. Every Surgebinder only has access to two of them. The combination of those two Surges makes him a special type of Surgebinder called an Order. There are ten of these Orders and each of these Orders shares his access to one Surge with the two adjacent Orders respectively.[clarification needed] The Knights Radiant were organized in ten Orders along these limitations.
- Windrunners
- The Windrunners were the first Order of Knights Radiant. They had access to the Surges 'Gravity' and 'Atmospheric Pressure'.Cite error: Invalid
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- Windrunners were able to breath in Stormlight and hold it for a limited time. When holding Stormlight, they were granted increased health regeneration, reflexes, speed and endurance. They also did not need to breath, the Stormlight did for that. Stormlight leaking from a human body could be seen by others.
- Stonewardens
- The Stonewardens were the ninth Order of Knights Radiant.[citation needed] Their Surges are currently unknown. However in one of Dalinar's visions, they seem to be able to appear out of nowhere[citation needed], which gives credence to the theory, that they have access to the Surge TravelCite error: Invalid
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- Soulcasters
- The fifth and sixth Order share the Surge which allows Soulcasting. That Surge may be Transformation.
- Dustbringers
- In the Prelude to The Way of Kings, Dustbringers have been mentioned. Those could be an Order of Knights Radiant.
Known Surgebinders
Kaladin has access to the Lashings. He is on his way to become a Windrunner.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content
Jasnah is able to perform Soulcastings.
Shallan is able to perform Soulcastings.
Szeth has access to the Three Lashings. Yet he is not going to become a Windrunner. Something different is happening to him.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content This may mean that Szeth is no Surgebinder.