surgebinding (wor spoilers)

8/9/2019 Surgebinding (WOR Spoilers)

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So, post Words of Radiance, we have a much better grasp of Surgebinding. It

turns out that a lot of what know up until now can be improved upon.

Firstly, better names for the surges. Some of them felt a little bit o, and in

some cases weve been using the names of one of the eects of the surge for

the surge itself !See" #rowth, for e$ample. Its actually the surge of %rogression&.

'hey now feel far more like a list of universal forces.

What we know now is that the ten surges are as follows"

Adhesion" 'he Surge of %ressure and (acuum

Gravitation" 'he Surge of #ravity

Division" 'he Surge of )estruction and )ecay

Abrasion" 'he Surge of Friction

Progression" 'he Surge of #rowth and *ealing !Regrowth&

Illumination" 'he Surge of +ight, Sound, and (arious Waveforms

Transformation" 'he Surge of Soulcasting

Transportation" 'he Surge of otion and Realmatic 'ransition

Cohesion" 'he Surge of Strong -$ial Interconnection

Tension" 'he Surge of Soft -$ial Interconnection

Stormlight is looking to be the most complete healing so far in the osmere.

apable of /$ing long0term problems, such as lost limbs and poor eyesight. -lso

can heal Shardblade damage.

*onorblades 1 -s we suspected before the release, thanks to the previews,

*onorblades grant a more ine2cient form of the Surges associated with their

*erald. 'he bearer drains Stormlight at a far faster rate, which Syl describes as

dangerous.

While were !at this point& unsure of the dangers, I think that looking at theSoulcasters !'he people doing it, not the fabrials& in the -lethi warcamp is

interesting. 3%rolonged use of the Soulcaster had transformed the eyes so that

they sparkled like gemstones themselves. 'he womans skin had hardened to

something like stone, smooth, with /ne cracks. It was as if the person were a

living statue4 !%g 567&.

'heyre the only characters !other than the proto0Radiants and S8eth& who are

regularly using Stormlight. Id ha8ard a guess that theyre using far more of it

than even S8eth, considering that he only uses his for havoc, while theyre busy

feeding entire armies and creating buildings.



Orders of the Knights Radiant

Windrunners -dhesion #ravitationSkybreakers #ravitation )ivision

Releasers !3)ustbringers4& )ivision -brasion

9dgedancers -brasion %rogression

:th ;rder %rogression Illumination

+ightweavers Illumination 'ransformation

9lsecallers 'ransformation 'ransportation

<th ;rder 'ransportation ohesion

Stonewards ohesion 'ension

67th ;rder 'ension -dhesion

We also know the remaining three orders are the Willshapers, the =ondsmiths

and the 'ruthwatchers !-lmost entirely from the e$cerpts from Words of Radiance

in the epigraphs&.

Willshapers 1 ost likely to be <th ;rder, as they have access to Shadesmar and

theyre listed as having an a2nity for the spren along with the +ightweavers and

9lsecallers !epigraph to hapter :>&. 'hat most likely comes from the Surge of

'ransportation, since both 'ransportation and 'ransportation are heavily tied to

Shadesmar !With 9lsecallers, the ;rder with both, having the strongest tie&.

=ondsmiths and 'ruthwatchers arent elaborated upon much in the book.

*owever, I think its a reasonable to put the 'ruthwatchers as the :th order !with

access to %rogression and Illumination& and the =ondsmiths as the 67 th order

!with access to 'ension and -dhesion&.

Ill be honest though, Im doing that purely by the natures of the Radiants of

those ;rders, and the nature of their Spren !'he Stormfather is very close to Syl,

without being ?uite the same, after all&. @m in particular sounds like a

'ruthwatcher though.

Im left with very little clue whats gone on with Renarin though. *es shown

some abilities that make me wonder whether hes actually bonded to a

(oidbringer. -lternatively, hes doing the same thing as %attern, the

Stormwardens and 'aravangian !at his smartest& 1 Asing intellect, pattern0

spotting and mathematics to make accurate predictions logically, rather than

using magic to actually see it. Im not sure how that applies to %rogression and

Illumination !although, as I said, it is the close to what %attern, a ryptic does&.

;f course, if this is what is going on, then itd e$plain why the 'ruthwatchers are

said to have not spoken about what they do. If I were engaged in something that



was remarkably similar to (oidbinding, Id de/nitely keep it ?uiet, no matter how

benign it might be in reality.

Finally, were told that one of the ten didnt engage in the Recreance, but instead

3said they would not abandon their arms and fee, but instead entertained great

subteruge at the expense o the other nine”.

I suspect that whichever order did this, went on to found the Stone Shamans.

Itd e$plain their knowledge, their trove of *onorblades and their ability to

reclaim S8eths *onorblade if he died 0 =eing the only people with Surgebinding

and living Shards would give you one hell of an advantage in the aftermath of

the Recreance.

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