Caballeros Radiantes

The Knights Radiant, were an organization of ten consecrated Orders, possibly centered at Urithiru on Roshar. It is commonly believed that they betrayed mankind on the Day of Recreance, and were then referred to as the Lost Radiants. Their symbol was golden hourglass shape, of eight spheres connected with two at the center.

History

According to legends, the Heralds founded the Knights Radiants and gave them Shardplates and Shardblades to protect mankind against the Voidbringers during conflicts know as as Desolations. For centuries they maintained their duty to watch, combat and protect. Until eventually they abandoned their duty, on what is now known as the Day of Recreance and possibly even turned against their wards, as some legends say.^{[Falta cita]} It has been centuries since the fall the last Radiant, today only legends of the Lost Radiants and their Shardblades and Shardplates remain.

Radiant Orders and Powers

Symbols of the Ten Radiant order and their Surges

The Knights Radiant comprised of ten different Orders, some of which had several hundred members. They lived and recruited across Alethela, the Silver Kingdom who had to maintain the arts of war. The radiants share a bond with spren, who are related to their powers. Each Order had two Surges associated with it, and each Surge was used by two different Orders. Scholars associated the ten Orders with the Ten Essences as well.

The Knights Radiant used Shardblades and Shardplates, which were etched with glyphs and glowed a different color according to the Order they were a part of. Among the orders were Windrunners, Stonewards, and Dustbringers. Two of the Orders shared the power of Soulcasting, from the Surge of Transformation^{[Falta cita]}.

Among the orders their Powers included, the ability to ride the storms, walk on walls, Regrowth (heal), make stone melt and said to move great distances in a single heartbeat, command the sunlight (according to Teft).^{[Falta cita]}

Order of Windrunners

An order of Radiants who used two primary types of Surgebinding, manipulating gravity and atmospheric pressure. The combination of these two Surges resulted in three separate powers which were known as the Three Lashings. The glow of their Shardplate was blue.

Order of Stonewards

The glow of their Shardplate was amber. With the combination of topaz and heliodor fixed in metal, one could regrow flesh and bone. The combination was called a Regrowth; however, this may be a kind of fabrial and not a power of the Order.

Order of Lightweavers

This order surely has to do with Lightweaving, a magic system shared on both Roshar and Yolen. They perhaps deal with illusions.

Order of Skybreakers

Dustbringers

Could apparently burn things, mostly combustible items, though occasionally rock.

Soulcasting

The art of changing one substance to another was a radiant power, that were used by two Orders. A Soulcaster is both the person who Soulcasts and the fabrial that replicates its effect. The ability was derived from using stormlight trapped in gemstones to transform one thing into one of the Ten Essences, depending on what gemstone was used.

Ideals

Para more information, ver Immortal Words.

The Ideals by which the Knights Radiant lived, known as The Immortal Words, serve as a guide to them for how they were to live their lives. The First Ideal was the same for every order. While the four later Ideals were said to be different for every order. These Ideals were based off of book of Way of Kings.

First Ideal

“Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.”

—The First Ideal of the Immortal Words

As explained by Teft:

Life before death

The Radiant seeks to defend life, always. He never kills unnecessarily, and never risks his own life for frivolous reasons. Living is harder than dying. The Radiant’s duty is to live.

Strength before weakness

All men are weak at some time in their lives. The Radiant protects those who are weak, and uses his strength for others. Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

Journey before destination

There are always several ways to achieve a goal. Failure is preferable to winning through unjust means. Protecting ten innocents is not worth killing one. In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Second Ideal

"I will protect those who cannot protect themselves." This was the second Ideal of the order of the Windrunners. These words were spoken once, by Kaladin, during the Battle of the Tower after Sadeas's betrayal. Syl proded Kaladin almost desperately begging him to say them, and Kaladin thought, "[He] was amazed to realized he did know [them], even though they had never been told to him." What caused his spontaneous knowledge of the words is not clear.

Vorinism

In Vorinism, the fall of the Knights Radiant was called the Day of Recreance.

Vorinism taught that the Knights Radiant betrayed the people. It was taught that their powers were not real, but elaborate tricks, and that they only pretended to have a holy calling. The "evidence" for this was that the powers could not be reproduced.