Stormlight Archive Magic Systems

The Stormlight Archive has many magic systems.

Spren
Spren are tiny spirits that come whenever change happens. There are thousands of different types of spren but a few examples are rotspren, flamespren, and honorspren. The emotions and behavior of the spren vary, the honorspren show the most intellegance for example, while flamespren act like a flame, dancing and remaining in the same state, while changing at random.

Knights Radiance
The Knights Radiance is a legion of Knights with different abilities and Spren that aid them. With the bond of a spren the Knight Radiant is able to be given Surgebinding abilities. The Radiance is divided into different orders each have 5 different ordeals they have to speak in order to be given there full potential. The first ordeal is the same for each order: Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination. Each Order has 4 unique ordeals, accept for Lightweavers who only have the first ordeal.

Surgebinding
Surgebinding refers to a group of ten magic systems that stem from Honor and Cultivation, two of the three Shards of Adonalsium present on Roshar. Each of Surgebinding's ten systems revolves around 'binding' two natural 'Surges,' for instance Gravity and Adhesion, to the Surgebinder's will. Surgebinding is powered by Stormlight, and the ability is granted to humans through bonding with a Spren, a type of elemental spirit native to Roshar. There are ten surgebinding branches.

Each Order of the Knights Radiance are divided up by what kind of Surgebinding the person uses. For example Windrunners use both Adhesion and Gravitation, and Lightweavers use both Illumination and Transformation.

Orders of the Knights Radiance
There are 10 different Orders each with there own Ordeals wich go hand-in-hand with there Surgebinding abilities.


 * Lightweavers
 * Elsecallers
 * Windrunners
 * Skybreakers
 * Dustbringers
 * Edgedancers
 * Thruthwatchers
 * Willshapers
 * Bondsmiths
 * Stonewards

See the Orders of the Knight Radiance page for a more detailed explanation for each Order.