Order of Willshapers

The Order of Willshapers is an order of the Knights Radiant on Roshar. They form Nahel bonds with Reachers, also known as lightspren.
The Willshapers are Surgebinders who use the Surges of Transportation and Cohesion, and they are associated with the amethyst polestone.
== Philosophy ==
Willshapers generally subscribe to a philosophy that all people should be free to make their own choices. They focus on personal fulfillment, radical self-expression, and freeing those who are captive. The order tends to believe that any laws are a form of oppression in and of themselves, as opposed to the Skybreakers who believe that law can be oppressive if misused, and thus appears opposed to government as a concept.
The order is said to be quite varied, but members share a love of adventure, novelty, or oddity. They tend to attract builders, craftsmen, and other artisans.
In modern Vorin theology, they are associated with the number eight, the polestone of Amethyst, the Essence of Foil, and the Divine Attributes of Resolute and Builder.
== Ideals of the Willshapers ==
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 Willshapers all focus on individual freedom and liberty; the Willshapers champion self-expression and freedom of choice for all. Their oaths can be acknowledged by an unknown femalen voice or the Stormfather.
=== The First Ideal ===
=== The Second Ideal ===
== Abilities ==
The Willshapers use the Surges of Transportation and Cohesion. Like most Knights Radiant, the Willshapers have squires.
=== Transportation ===
Transportation allows the transfer of one's physical body into and out of the Cognitive Realm, a process sometimes known as Elsecalling. It works by creating a miniature perpendicularity that the Willshaper can go through. It is significantly easier to enter the Cognitive Realm using Elsecalling than it is to leave it. Willshapers are able to use this ability to worldhop. Willshapers are also capable of looking into Shadesmar without fully Elsecalling.
=== Cohesion ===
Cohesion allows them to alter the shape of solid objects in a way called Stoneshaping. This surge allows a Willshaper to make stone more malleable, like clay, or even a liquid. The Willshaper can then reshape the stone according to their desires. This surge also connects the Willshaper to the spren of the stone in a deep, fundamental way, though the full extent of this is not yet known.
=== Regals ===
When a Willshaper is also a Regal, additional abilities arise. Though there is a voidspren within the singer's gemheart, the Reacher keeps it trapped and protects their Willshaper from the voidspren's influence. This allows the Radiant to retain their form's abilities and switch between red and normal eyes at will, letting them blend in with Odium's forces. Regal Willshapers are able to use both Stormlight and Voidlight to fuel their Surgebinding. These Willshapers are also highly resistant to suppression fabrials that stop Radiants from Surgebinding.
=== Shardplate Abilities ===
Willshapers' Shardplate is formed of joyspren.
== History ==
Little is currently known about the Willshapers of old. Though the order tended to attract builders, craftsmen and other artisans, their membership tended to be varied in profession. They were also varied in personality, but generally enjoyed discovering new, unusual and strange things; they were also considered, by some, to be capricious and unreliable, making them somewhat frustrating to interact with.
Where the Windrunners were the protectors and the Stonewards the soldiers, the Willshapers were the liberators, both freeing those who were physically captive and aiding those who espoused new and radical ideas. They tasked themselves with building and supporting societies; they aided those who resisted tyranny and oppression. They were also literal builders -- in times of peace, they would use theirs powers to aid in constructing buildings and infrastructure, as well as training those who lived there; in times of war, they would fortify towns; and after the battle was over they, like their patron Herald, would travel to teach people of crafts such as bronzeworking or sanitation.
Much like the Elsecallers, they were considered to have an affinity for Shadesmar, suggesting that they might've also interacted with the spren nations on regular basis.
In the modern times, no human Willshapers have presented themselves so far; Venli appears to be the only person alive to have bonded a Reacher.
== Notable Willshapers ==
* Eshonai (bonded to Timbre)
* Venli (bonded to Timbre)
== Quotes ==
== Trivia ==
* The Willshapers were one of the first orders Brandon developed while building magic systems.
* The Willshapers would "probably be okay" with Adolin killing Sadeas.
* Getting a 100% Willshaper score on the Knights Radiant Quiz requires a set of answers detailed here.
== Notes ==
es:Orden de los Escultores de Voluntad