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I've been hearing a lot of people touch on the topic, but I want to open it up for real. Besides Shallan's memory-taking (more of an inwardly manifested talent?), we now have a WoB about Kaladin's "unique ability": Q: I said since Shallan has a unique ability of Memory from her blended surges, is fighting what Kaladin has? A: No. His unique ability is "Strength of Squires". Aside from exploring what "Strength of Squires" means (affects third parties more than Kaladin?), or how this will be epic, I want to explore a couple other things. Firstly, when Brandon says 'unique ability', does this refer to only Kaladin, or will this ability be common to the Windrunner order (another way to look at it is will it be easy to find Shallan's order because they all have memory tricks)? Secondly, does every Knight have a unique ability, or only a few of them? Finally, what abilities do you expect our Knights-dawning have? I like lists. Edit: With respect to recent comments on the thread, I'm going to try expanding this theory a bit. I'll fall in with the speculation that both orders and individual knights have unique strengths, and start hypothesizing some of them. Naturally, we only have one example from some orders, so it's too early to tell if the ability could apply to the order or specific Knight, or even if such structure exists: Windrunners - Strength of Squires - Kaladin: Visions of flying over Roshar (from Stormfather?) Skybreakers - Ability to judge innocence - Szeth (Aspiring): To Be Determined Dustbringers - To Be Determined Edgedancers - To Be Determined - Lift: Food --> Stormlight (from Nightwatcher?) Truthwatchers - Visions of truth (?) - Renarin: To Be Determined - Ym: Unknown Lightweavers - Mnemonic abilities - Shallan: Taking memories - Elhokar (?): To Be Determined Elsecallers - Sense of direction (?) - Jasnah: To Be Determined Willshapers - To Be Determined - Eshonai (?): I find the spren that bothers her in stormform suspicious WOR p. 711 Stonewards - To Be Determined Bondsmiths - Innate bond with Honor (?)- Dalinar: Feels a powerful trust for Kaladin. Possible subconscious recognition of oaths made/spren bonded. Note: The visions that Gavilar and Dalinar had were given by the Stormfather's choice, and are not an ability. This may apply to Kaladin also. Additionally, it would be good to know if non-radiant shardbearers can hear their swords scream when a radiant touches it at the same time (Relis heard screaming when Kaladin caught his blade WOR p.672). “There came also sixteen of the order of Windrunners, and with them a considerable number of squires, and finding in that place the Skybreakers dividing the innocent from the guilty, there ensued a great debate.” “The considerable abilities of the Skybreakers for making such amounted to an almost divine skill, for which no specific Surge or spren grants capacity, but however the order came to such an aptitude, the fact of it was real and acknowledged even by their rivals. ” —Words of Radiance, chapter 28, page 3 Is "such" referring to the ability to debate, or Implying that Skybreakers are uniquely able to judge innocence from guilt. Thoughts? Anyone I missed that we know had/has a bond with a spren? I'll edit them in.
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What ability from The Stormlight Archive would you choose? Windrunning? Soulcasting? Shardblade? Shardplate?
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