Surgebinding

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Surgebinding
by Isaac Stewart
Related to	Honor
Type	End-Positive
World of Origin	Roshar

Surgebinding is a manifestation of Investiture on Roshar. A Surgebinder can manipulate natural forces locally known as Surges. Each Surgebinder has access to two adjacent Surges shown in the Knights Radiant table. This results in three powers which can be used by Investing, or infusing as known locally, objects or people with Stormlight.

Prerequisites

Surgebinding is not innate to Rosharans. They gain the ability depending on their actions. It is thought that the Divine Attributes in the Ten Essences table determine if one can become a Surgebinder as well as which Surges they will be able to manipulate. These behaviors attract the attention of one of the ten spren that give access to Surgebinding. The spren and the Surgebinder, then, forms a Spiritual bond known as Nahel bond locally.^{[citation needed]}

Which Surges the Surgebinder can manipulate depends on with what kind of spren he or she forms a Nahel bond.

Order
Name	Windrunner	Skybreaker	Dustbringer	Edgedancer	Truthwatcher	Lightweaver	Elsecaller	Willshaper	Stonewards	Bondsmith
Spren	Honorspren	Highspren	unknown	unknown	unknown	Cryptic	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown
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Abilities

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Pressure

Full Lashing

Full Lashing temporarily creates an extremely powerful bond between two objects. To use this ability, the Surgebinder infuses an object with Stormlight, then presses another object to it. Most object would break apart before the bond holding them together would.

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Gravitation

Basic Lashing

Basic Lashing alters an object's or being's spiritual gravitational bond to the planet below, instead temporarily linking it to a different object or direction. It allows the Surgebinder to run up walls, send objects or people flying off into the air. Advance user of Basic Lashing can make himself or herself lighter by binding only a portion of his or her mass upward. Binding a quarter of one's mass upward effectively halves that person's weight. Similarly, it is possible to use multiple Basic Lashings to make a being's effective weight higher.

Reverse Lashing

Reverse Lashing creates a bubble around an object that imitates its spiritual link to the ground beneath it. In effect, this makes the infused object pull other objects towards itself. It is much harder for Reverse Lashing to affect objects touching the ground, where their link to the planet is strongest. Objects falling or in flight are the easiest to influence. Other objects can be affected, but the Stormlight and skill required are much more substantial. It is unknown whether this ability manipulates gravitation or a combination of gravitation and pressure.

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Growth

Growth

Growth accelerates organic growth to tremendous speeds. The Surgebinder can infuse the seeds to a plant with Stormlight and in seconds, it will become fully developed. It is unknown if this ability only works on plants.

Regrowth

Regrowth is the power of healing.

Illumination

Lightweaving

Lightweaving deals with illusions.

Transformation

Soulcasting

Soulcasting transforms any material into one of Surgebinder's choice. Transforming something into the pure form of an Essence is quite easy. Soulcasting requires the corresponding gemstone for the Essence the Surgebinder is trying to transform into. Soulcasting something into blood, for example, requires a garnet infused with Stormlight.^{[citation needed]} The process may leave the gemstone shattered, although the larger the gemstone the less likely it is for that to happen. The mass of an object remains the same when it is Soulcast. It may not be possible to create gemstones with Soulcasting.

Known Surgebinders

• Kaladin
• Szeth-son-son-Vallano
• Lift
• Ym
• Shallan Davar
• Jasnah Kholin

Knights Radiant

For more information, see Knights Radiant.

Knights Radiant are an organization of Surgebinders who live by the Immortal Words. They comprise of ten different orders. Each order consist of Surgebinders who have access to the same two Surges.

Notes

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