Order of Windrunners

The Order of Windrunners is an order of the Knights Radiant on Roshar.
The Windrunners are Surgebinders who use the Surges of Adhesion and Gravitation, and they are associated with the sapphire polestone. They form a Nahel bond with honorspren. Windspren form their Shardplate. The combination of Adhesion and Gravitation results in the three Lashings.
== Philosophy ==
Those who join the Windrunners generally subscribe to a philosophy of protection, particularly defending innocents or those who are unable to protect themselves. The order believes in structures of command, team dynamics, and the importance of a strong squad. They are very militaristic by nature. They tend to attract those who seek to protect the defenseless, but also enjoy action and fighting for what they believe in.
== Ideals of the Windrunners ==
The Ideals of the Knights Radiant, also known as the Immortal Words, are a set of rules by which the Radiants live. The First Ideal is shared by all of the orders, and is used as a motto for the Knights Radiant as a whole. Each of the orders then have an additional four Ideals that are unique to that order. The Ideals of the Order of Windrunners all focus on protecting the innocent and defenseless. Whenever a Windrunner speaks an Ideal, a glyph forms from ice at their feet, due to their order's closeness to the Bondsmiths on the Double Eye. Their oaths are generally acknowledged by the Stormfather.
=== The First Ideal ===
 
=== The Second Ideal ===
The modern Windrunners consider those of the Second Ideal to be more than a squire, but not a full Windrunner.
=== The Third Ideal ===
This oath focuses on protecting others despite one's caveats, but the exact wording varies from individual to individual. It must be spoken before a Windrunner can manifest their honorspren as a Shardblade. In addition, the Windrunner gains the ability to take on squires.
=== The Fourth Ideal ===
A major component of this oath is forgiving oneself for previous failures, and accepting that one cannot save everyone, while continuing to fight to protect them regardless of the possibility of failure. Upon achieving this Ideal, a Windrunner gains their Shardplate, which is formed of windspren.
=== The Fifth Ideal ===
This oath focuses on accepting self care, that in order to continue to protect others that one has to first protect themselves.
== Abilities ==
The Windrunners use the Surges of Adhesion and Gravitation. The combination of these two Surges resulted in the three Lashings. Someone wearing Shardplate is immune to Lashings, but any objects that they are touching can be affected. Using a combination of Adhesion and Gravitation, a Windrunner could theoretically exit orbit. They have been noted as having traveled at at least 200 mph. While flying, Windrunners are able to lessen the force of the wind, and can also create a channel to keep groups of people close together.
Like most Knights Radiant, the Windrunners have squires, with their Resonance allowing them to have many more squires than other orders.
Unlike other Radiant orders, Windrunners will "explode with power" when they speak oaths, due to their order's proximity to the Order of Bondsmiths.
=== Adhesion ===
Adhesion creates an extremely powerful temporary bond between two objects.
; Full Lashing:
Using the Full Lashing, a Surgebinder can pool Stormlight into an area. All objects that subsequently touch this area will be bonded to the object, sticking them there and hindering their movement. The bond ends when the Stormlight runs out.
=== Gravitation ===
Gravitation allows the Windrunner to change the direction and strength of an object's gravitational attraction. 
; Basic Lashing:
The Basic Lashing allows a Surgebinder to bind people or objects to different surfaces or in different directions, effectively changing the direction that gravity pulls them.
; Reverse Lashing:
By using the Reverse Lashing, a Surgebinder can increase the gravitational pull of an object, allowing the infused object to pull nearby objects toward it. The Surgebinder must maintain contact with the object to Reverse Lash it. Items that are airborne are pulled more strongly towards the infused object.
=== Resonance ===
Due to a combination of their two surges, Windrunners have new, secondary effects, known as the Resonance. The Windrunners' Resonance is strength of squires, which allows them to have many more squires than other orders. Their squires are also more powerful than those of the other Orders. A squire can perform their own Lashings and heal themselves, but only when their Windrunner is nearby. Squires can use Stormlight effectively within thirty miles of their Windrunner, and their maximum distance was fifty miles. Squires will lose access to their powers in an hour or two after the Windrunner leaves.
=== Shardplate Abilities ===
Windrunner Shardplate is comprised of windspren, and glows a vibrant blue. It can be controlled to armor other people when they need protection from a Shardblade. The windspren can also be used to create barriers that deflect stormwinds.
== History ==
=== The Ancient Radiants ===
Before the Recreance, the Windrunners primarily worked as scouts and special forces teams, and often used the Surge of Gravitation to deliver a team of Radiants on a secret mission. Though they were very similar to conventional soldiers, and had an appreciation for command structures and team dynamics, the Stonewards were generally considered the best soldiers, though the Windrunners did dispute that claim at times. Nevertheless, they also focused the most on mastering their weapons. As a result of their resonance, they had the most squires of all the orders.
Around the time of the Recreance the Windrunners were an order with over a hundred members, and a considerable number of squires. They also reportedly had some issues with the Order of Skybreakers. At the beginning of the Recreance a large number of Windrunners along with many Stonewards abandoned their Shardblades and Shardplates before the fortress known as Feverstone Keep, which was recorded in one of Dalinar's visions.
=== The Refounded Windrunners ===
During the Battle of the Tower, the bridge leader Kaladin said the second Ideal of the Windrunners, becoming the first Windrunner since the Recreance. After he swore the third Ideal, the other members of Bridge Four became squires, and many of them eventually initiated Nahel bonds of their own. Dalinar's coalition often uses them as guards for important people, for the transportation of people and goods, and as scouts.
As a result of both their past as bridge crews in the army of Torol Sadeas and Kaladin's military training, the refounded order of Windrunners is well organized and maintains a strong military structure. They have ranks for squires, such as CP4 (Commission Placement 4), as they decided to have ranks that someone could earn while advancing as a squire. They felt it would be good to promote squires to different ranks. The Windrunners' resonance has led many of the bridgemen, as well as some others, to become squires, making the Windrunners one of, if not the, most numerous of the modern orders. About a year after the Battle of Thaylen Field, the order had roughly three hundred Windrunners, with about fifty full Windrunners.
Having a Windrunner on board a vessel was considered by Thaylen sailors to be a good omen.
=== Reforging of the Oathpact and the Night of Sorrows ===
Following the Reforging of the Oathpact on , Kaladin Stormblessed replaced Jezrien as the Herald of Kings and the Patron of the Windrunners.
The Night of Sorrows, which occurred contemporaneously with the Reforging of the Oathpact, led to all Stormlight on the planet being drawn away and left inaccessible. The full effects this would have on the Knights Radiant are currently unknown.
== Known Windrunners ==
* Kaladin (bonded to Sylphrena)
* Teft (bonded to Phendorana)
* Lopen  (bonded to Rua)
* Drehy (bonded to Talla)
* Skar
* Sigzil (bonded to Vienta)
* Huio (bonded to Caelinora)
* Punio
* Leyten (bonded to Ethenia)
* Lyn
* Laran
* Mela
* Relador was a historic Windrunner from before the Recreance (bonded to Sylphrena)
* A significant number of original Bridge Four and Bridge Thirteen
*Garith was a historic Windrunner who led the Radiants as a whole in the years between the abandoning of Urithiru and the Day of Recreance. After the imprisoning of Ba-Ado-Mishram and the Singer's loss of forms, including his lover, Shmone, and a vision from Honor showing the Radiants destroying Roshar he led the abandoning of oaths in Feverstone Keep for the Windrunners and the Stonewards, being the very first to do so.
== Quotes ==
== Trivia ==
* Getting a 100% Windrunner score on the Knights Radiant Quiz requires a set of answers detailed here.
== Notes ==
== References ==
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