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So now that WaT came out and we've seen more of radiant plate I've noticed a small trend in the armours, firstly we have seen four different orders of plate, Windrunners, Lightweavers, Stonewards and Elsecallers. Now for the Stormwall and Jasnah we haven't seen much beyond a single battle scene for each of them and that never focused on them and/or their plate and even with Kaladin and Shallan we havent seen all too much but one thing I did notice was radiant plate having unique powers:

Windrunners: Plate more easily protects others
Reasoning: We see this during the battle for Urithuru, Kaladins plate flying around the battlefield easily wrapping around others and working with them this belief was reinforced for me when we had the scene in WaT of Shallan testing her plate, Brandon specifically shows how Shallans plate, while being able to be put onto someone cant really move with them.
I think this could be for two reasons, no.1: Windrunners are all about protection so it makes sense for their armour to be better at protecting or no.2 Since the armour spren is Windspren it might just lend to their natural mobility over other spren.

Lightweavers: Plate appearance and structure can be easily changed
Reasoning: In the same scene mentioned above of Shallan testing her plate we see how Shallan wants certain changes to her plate made and her plate responds, now this could possibly work for all plate and i do believe that all plate can change slightly but i think that Lightweavers plate might have more possibilities with this, maybe even changing their plate to look like alternate orders.
This keeps up with the idea above as it fits in with the Lightweavers order being illusionists or even due to their armour spren being creationspren.

Stonewards: Much larger plate
Reasoning: When the stormwall is shown it specifically details how massive his plate is how hes looming over even other shardbearers, this I think applies to the stonewards, while we dont know too much about their order we do know their all about being a bulwark on the battlefield so being a literal walking tank fits into that theme a lot, it also makes sense as Stonewards do seem the most militant order, I cant think of a reason why bindspren would manifest larger plate other than a more psychological view of seeing a massive shardplate fighting would probably rally soldiers.

Elsecallers: ???

I couldn't find anything about Jasnah's plate that would imply unqiue abilities beyond her dampening her plates light, this could be the power but it'd be a bit disappointing after seeing the above ideas, you could say its for blending in, like Jasnah did, but that only makes sense on modern Roshar with Non radiant plate, maybe it could be used for stealth missions? But at that point dont summon the plate, if anyone has an idea for Elsecallers and even the other orders i'd love to hear.

 

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