Let's be Radiant [WAT SPOILERS]

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

1 minute ago, KnightSkye said:

Hey guys. 

I am having a really hard time. I probably will be for the next several months to a years or more. 

My oaths are being challenged. I feel I have been betrayed be someone I trusted with everything. A comrade. A fellow Windrunner I know irl. I am in the dark and it feels like they have betrayed their oaths, and I can't get to them to help in any way. 

My oaths are feeling very hard to keep.

Death looks more appealing than Life.  I am Weak, and have lost all my reserves of Strength.  The Journey looks to hard, and to painful to walk, and I care very little for the Destination right now. 

 

 

I just... Wanted to say something. Ask for support. Cause you all also k kW the strain of keeping oaths. And most people don't.

Oof

*hugs*

That's rough, I'm sorry

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

4 minutes ago, KnightSkye said:

Hey guys. 

I am having a really hard time. I probably will be for the next several months to a years or more. 

My oaths are being challenged. I feel I have been betrayed be someone I trusted with everything. A comrade. A fellow Windrunner I know irl. I am in the dark and it feels like they have betrayed their oaths, and I can't get to them to help in any way. 

My oaths are feeling very hard to keep.

Death looks more appealing than Life.  I am Weak, and have lost all my reserves of Strength.  The Journey looks to hard, and to painful to walk, and I care very little for the Destination right now. 

 

 

I just... Wanted to say something. Ask for support. Cause you all also k kW the strain of keeping oaths. And most people don't.

*hug*

[SpartanBrigade He/Him]

24 minutes ago, KnightSkye said:

Hey guys. 

I am having a really hard time. I probably will be for the next several months to a years or more. 

My oaths are being challenged. I feel I have been betrayed be someone I trusted with everything. A comrade. A fellow Windrunner I know irl. I am in the dark and it feels like they have betrayed their oaths, and I can't get to them to help in any way. 

My oaths are feeling very hard to keep.

Death looks more appealing than Life.  I am Weak, and have lost all my reserves of Strength.  The Journey looks to hard, and to painful to walk, and I care very little for the Destination right now. 

 

 

I just... Wanted to say something. Ask for support. Cause you all also k kW the strain of keeping oaths. And most people don't.

*hug*

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

2 hours ago, KnightSkye said:

Hey guys. 

I am having a really hard time. I probably will be for the next several months to a years or more. 

My oaths are being challenged. I feel I have been betrayed be someone I trusted with everything. A comrade. A fellow Windrunner I know irl. I am in the dark and it feels like they have betrayed their oaths, and I can't get to them to help in any way. 

My oaths are feeling very hard to keep.

Death looks more appealing than Life.  I am Weak, and have lost all my reserves of Strength.  The Journey looks to hard, and to painful to walk, and I care very little for the Destination right now. 

 

 

I just... Wanted to say something. Ask for support. Cause you all also k kW the strain of keeping oaths. And most people don't.

That is... rough.

I'm sorry.

[ChipsAHoid He/Him]

8 hours ago, KnightSkye said:

Hey guys. 

I am having a really hard time. I probably will be for the next several months to a years or more. 

My oaths are being challenged. I feel I have been betrayed be someone I trusted with everything. A comrade. A fellow Windrunner I know irl. I am in the dark and it feels like they have betrayed their oaths, and I can't get to them to help in any way. 

My oaths are feeling very hard to keep.

Death looks more appealing than Life.  I am Weak, and have lost all my reserves of Strength.  The Journey looks to hard, and to painful to walk, and I care very little for the Destination right now. 

 

 

I just... Wanted to say something. Ask for support. Cause you all also k kW the strain of keeping oaths. And most people don't.

*hugs* 

Sorry you have to go through that. 

[Denissimo He/him]

9 hours ago, KnightSkye said:

Hey guys. 

I am having a really hard time. I probably will be for the next several months to a years or more. 

My oaths are being challenged. I feel I have been betrayed be someone I trusted with everything. A comrade. A fellow Windrunner I know irl. I am in the dark and it feels like they have betrayed their oaths, and I can't get to them to help in any way. 

My oaths are feeling very hard to keep.

Death looks more appealing than Life.  I am Weak, and have lost all my reserves of Strength.  The Journey looks to hard, and to painful to walk, and I care very little for the Destination right now. 

 

 

I just... Wanted to say something. Ask for support. Cause you all also know the strain of keeping oaths. And most people don't.

[Honors Spectral Image She/her]

10 hours ago, KnightSkye said:

Hey guys. 

I am having a really hard time. I probably will be for the next several months to a years or more. 

My oaths are being challenged. I feel I have been betrayed be someone I trusted with everything. A comrade. A fellow Windrunner I know irl. I am in the dark and it feels like they have betrayed their oaths, and I can't get to them to help in any way. 

My oaths are feeling very hard to keep.

Death looks more appealing than Life.  I am Weak, and have lost all my reserves of Strength.  The Journey looks to hard, and to painful to walk, and I care very little for the Destination right now. 

 

 

I just... Wanted to say something. Ask for support. Cause you all also know the strain of keeping oaths. And most people don't.

*huuuuuggggsdss*

[TruthwatchingRadiant He/Him]

You will be warm again. I don’t say this as one of Hoid’s quotes. It is truth.

The path is may be hard to walk, and the Journey may be longer than long, but you’ll make it to your Destination. And that’ll make the arrival there, and the hardships it took, all the more worthwhile.

[Vielence She/Her]

15 hours ago, KnightSkye said:

Hey guys. 

I am having a really hard time. I probably will be for the next several months to a years or more. 

My oaths are being challenged. I feel I have been betrayed be someone I trusted with everything. A comrade. A fellow Windrunner I know irl. I am in the dark and it feels like they have betrayed their oaths, and I can't get to them to help in any way. 

My oaths are feeling very hard to keep.

Death looks more appealing than Life.  I am Weak, and have lost all my reserves of Strength.  The Journey looks to hard, and to painful to walk, and I care very little for the Destination right now. 

 

 

I just... Wanted to say something. Ask for support. Cause you all also know the strain of keeping oaths. And most people don't.

Been there.  It won't always be like that. I promise. 

*hugs and sends much choc and baked goods*

[al_lan_mandragoran]

Good friends and good times are like stars. You can't always see them, but they will come out again.

 

I can stand in the rain, knowing that behind the dark and tumultuous, the sun still shines. 

 

At the moment, these might seem like empty platitudes, but that doesn't make them any less true. 

[AlastorBM He]

I really like these posts. Just a little context: I've been familiar with Sanderson's work for a while now. I started and almost finished Cosmere just a year and a half ago.
In the Stormlight Archive, I found the same values and ideas I carry, especially the first ideal.
I took the test a year ago and now a couple of times, getting Bondsmith twice and Windrunner once. I think it's pretty accurate. I like to mediate, talk things through, and work for the common good.

I had thought of them for the Cosmere RPG and for tattooing, here they go.

"Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination"

"I will unite instead of divide. I will unite minds, hearts, and wills."

"I will take responsibility for the pain I feel, and for the pain I've caused. I will make it meaningful, make it useful. I will make it make me a better man."

I'd done this about the fourth before I had any idea, thanks to the RPG, but I'm not far off the mark.
"Even if I can't sustain them, the bonds I create never die. I trust that what's true endures, even when I let it go."

I have the fifth but... let's just say that although it's something I can be, I don't think I'm totally worthy yet.

I do think that even though there are only three great sprens who would make you part of the order, I'd be happy being a squire.
And I wouldn't know which spren would go with these ideals, ha!
Have a great week, radiants!

 

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

3 minutes ago, AlastorBM said:

I really like these posts. Just a little context: I've been familiar with Sanderson's work for a while now. I started and almost finished Cosmere just a year and a half ago.
In the Stormlight Archive, I found the same values and ideas I carry, especially the first ideal.
I took the test a year ago and now a couple of times, getting Bondsmith twice and Windrunner once. I think it's pretty accurate. I like to mediate, talk things through, and work for the common good.

I had thought of them for the Cosmere RPG and for tattooing, here they go.

"Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination"

"I will unite instead of divide. I will unite minds, hearts, and wills."

"I will take responsibility for the pain I feel, and for the pain I've caused. I will make it meaningful, make it useful. I will make it make me a better man."

I'd done this about the fourth before I had any idea, thanks to the RPG, but I'm not far off the mark.
"Even if I can't sustain them, the bonds I create never die. I trust that what's true endures, even when I let it go."

I have the fifth but... let's just say that although it's something I can be, I don't think I'm totally worthy yet.

I do think that even though there are only three great sprens who would make you part of the order, I'd be happy being a squire.
And I wouldn't know which spren would go with these ideals, ha!
Have a great week, radiants!

 

Art thou thine first Bondsmith?

[AlastorBM He]

48 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Art thou thine first Bondsmith?

Maybe? I should read all the posts. They make me very curious.

[Honors Spectral Image She/her]

@KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren I believe we may have our first bondsmith do you know?

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

1 hour ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Art thou thine first Bondsmith?

I do believe so!

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

2 hours ago, AlastorBM said:

I really like these posts. Just a little context: I've been familiar with Sanderson's work for a while now. I started and almost finished Cosmere just a year and a half ago.
In the Stormlight Archive, I found the same values and ideas I carry, especially the first ideal.
I took the test a year ago and now a couple of times, getting Bondsmith twice and Windrunner once. I think it's pretty accurate. I like to mediate, talk things through, and work for the common good.

I had thought of them for the Cosmere RPG and for tattooing, here they go.

"Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination"

"I will unite instead of divide. I will unite minds, hearts, and wills."

"I will take responsibility for the pain I feel, and for the pain I've caused. I will make it meaningful, make it useful. I will make it make me a better man."

I'd done this about the fourth before I had any idea, thanks to the RPG, but I'm not far off the mark.
"Even if I can't sustain them, the bonds I create never die. I trust that what's true endures, even when I let it go."

I have the fifth but... let's just say that although it's something I can be, I don't think I'm totally worthy yet.

I do think that even though there are only three great sprens who would make you part of the order, I'd be happy being a squire.
And I wouldn't know which spren would go with these ideals, ha!
Have a great week, radiants!

 

Welcome!

And yes, this is our first Bondsmith!

[Born of Mist He/Him]

I am 90% certain that my brother is a stoneward in disguise.

Edited August 13, 2025 by Born of Mist

[Through The Living Ash he/him]

I just ran out of all my rep here. 

I know the words of my next ideal, but I don't think I can live up to them yet. 

[AlastorBM He]

On 8/12/2025 at 12:20 AM, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

And yes, this is our first Bondsmith!

I was surprised, I thought there would be more! So my words are accepted?

[Vielence She/Her]

Hello,

I believe that I am ready to say the Words.

 

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

 

[ChipsAHoid He/Him]

11 minutes ago, VieB13 said:

Hello,

I believe that I am ready to say the Words.

 

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

 

CONGRAAAAAAAATS

[Honors Spectral Image She/her]

1 hour ago, AlastorBM said:

I was surprised, I thought there would be more! So my words are accepted?

Yes they are congrats

1 hour ago, VieB13 said:

Hello,

I believe that I am ready to say the Words.

 

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

 

YYAYAY congrats 

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

6 hours ago, AlastorBM said:

I was surprised, I thought there would be more! So my words are accepted?

Yes, your Words are acceptedd.

6 hours ago, VieB13 said:

Hello,

I believe that I am ready to say the Words.

 

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

 

Congratulations!

But, uhh... I think you already said those Words?

Am I missing something?

Edited August 14, 2025 by KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren

[SourCandyLime He/Him]

I was writing a prologue, in an attempt to cope with me reaching out to someone from my past and still not getting a response, and then I swore my next ideal. 

"I will hold my ground, So that those who need me know where I am."

I am now an edgerunner of the 5th ideal, and Quasar and Quanta agree that it is time for my blade. Cant't wait to design it, considering what I can do with two spren!

Here's the prologue for those curious.
 

Prologue: Holdup

The field He stood on was blank. Lovely. Now he wouldn't have any visual distractions from the lack of anything. Not like he wanted time to move faster or anything. Thunder rolled from the distance and basic analysis led to the conclusion that it would be a while. Even better. The void stretched before him like a chasm. He couldn't go any further. He didn't dare reaching, as loosing his balance would be the end of him as He knew it.

She was right there, in his sight. He had found her after all these years. She couldn't seem to hear his shouts through the void. Just a response, that was all He needede from She. Alas, the silence grew louder, oppressive, making the far distant thunder louder and louder, while still farther and farther. He stood, steadfast and strong against the invisible wall that was his dedication. It held him up from falling into the chasm. She was RIGHT THERE. But He was too far to reach She. How long could this be? Would she notice him on the other side? Yet he stood.

No thought of himself, two weeks had passed without a need or want other than for She to respond. Then the Chasm twitched and was smaller. Had she heard? No, She hadn't heard yet, but the thunder... The lightning was on the horizon. Was the moment soon at hand?

More time passed, 3 Days later the void twitched again. The monster inside it screamed, its home being collapsed around it. He was so close to She, but that wall, that CURSED WALL of dedication and grit prevented him from jumping. All the advice He had ever been given held him at bay, Jail and guard, this wall had no cares for He.

The void was almost closed, and that wall, He knew he could destroy it and attempt a leap, but the voidic space was too liminal. He had no way to messure the jump.

So, planting his feet, He stood stronger. His spren from roshar, Quasar and Quanta buzzed around him, honor spren and cultivation spren. The Edgerunner was never pushy about people reaching back. They merely held their ground, so people knew they could grab on. So he stood, and his blade took form in his hand. "I will hold my ground, So that those who need me know where I am." The void twitched again, but this time, he moved closer to She. He stood, and was ready for whatever was next.

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

8 hours ago, SourCandyLime said:

I was writing a prologue, in an attempt to cope with me reaching out to someone from my past and still not getting a response, and then I swore my next ideal. 

"I will hold my ground, So that those who need me know where I am."

I am now an edgerunner of the 5th ideal, and Quasar and Quanta agree that it is time for my blade. Cant't wait to design it, considering what I can do with two spren!

Here's the prologue for those curious.
 

Prologue: Holdup

The field He stood on was blank. Lovely. Now he wouldn't have any visual distractions from the lack of anything. Not like he wanted time to move faster or anything. Thunder rolled from the distance and basic analysis led to the conclusion that it would be a while. Even better. The void stretched before him like a chasm. He couldn't go any further. He didn't dare reaching, as loosing his balance would be the end of him as He knew it.

She was right there, in his sight. He had found her after all these years. She couldn't seem to hear his shouts through the void. Just a response, that was all He needede from She. Alas, the silence grew louder, oppressive, making the far distant thunder louder and louder, while still farther and farther. He stood, steadfast and strong against the invisible wall that was his dedication. It held him up from falling into the chasm. She was RIGHT THERE. But He was too far to reach She. How long could this be? Would she notice him on the other side? Yet he stood.

No thought of himself, two weeks had passed without a need or want other than for She to respond. Then the Chasm twitched and was smaller. Had she heard? No, She hadn't heard yet, but the thunder... The lightning was on the horizon. Was the moment soon at hand?

More time passed, 3 Days later the void twitched again. The monster inside it screamed, its home being collapsed around it. He was so close to She, but that wall, that CURSED WALL of dedication and grit prevented him from jumping. All the advice He had ever been given held him at bay, Jail and guard, this wall had no cares for He.

The void was almost closed, and that wall, He knew he could destroy it and attempt a leap, but the voidic space was too liminal. He had no way to messure the jump.

So, planting his feet, He stood stronger. His spren from roshar, Quasar and Quanta buzzed around him, honor spren and cultivation spren. The Edgerunner was never pushy about people reaching back. They merely held their ground, so people knew they could grab on. So he stood, and his blade took form in his hand. "I will hold my ground, So that those who need me know where I am." The void twitched again, but this time, he moved closer to She. He stood, and was ready for whatever was next.

Congratulations!