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Could a listener be a squire?
Brandon Sanderson
That is a RAFO.
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goody153
Since Order of the Windrunner has many members apart from the knights can the other non-knights member also possibly use gravitation ?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO
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Questioner
At the end of Words it was talking about--I think, Teft was talking about how Bridge 4 was lighting up during the battle. So are they affected by Kaladin? Or are they going to become...
Brandon Sanderson
So, they are what we call squires right now.
Questioner
Okay, so they are squires.
Brandon Sanderson
So yes. They are affected by Kaladin, right now.
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Questioner (paraphrased)
How about the other way around? Can a Parshendi bond a Knights Radiant spren?
Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)
Historically, the Parshendi were not made Knights Radiant, or the parshmen weren't.
Questioner (paraphrased)
Can they become squires maybe?
Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)
Historically they did not, but it's not impossible.
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Questioner
Lopen. Is he a squire, or does he actually have a spren?
Brandon Sanderson
He’s a squire. You’ll find out a lot more about what the squires are in the upcoming book. For most orders, squire were knights radiant potentially in training, so you can see what happens in the next book.
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Questioner
In the original Knights Radiant, when they had squires, were all of the squires destined for bonding spren?
Brandon Sanderson
No... Many stayed squires forever and that was okay.
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Nazh8
What does CP4 stand for? A bunch of people on 17th Shard are wondering about it.
Brandon Sanderson
There's nothing really exciting here, I'm afraid. It's a rank, like E6 or the like in the American military. Only the Windrunners use these, as they decided on ranks that one could earn while advancing as a squire. The old stories say that some squires never advanced to full Windrunners, and it felt it would be good to continue to promote these individuals to different ranks within squirehood. It stands for Commission Placement.
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Storm Cellar
Do squires always bond the spren of their Knight's order? Or can they attract a different type of spren?
Also, was it normal for someone to serve their whole life as a squire?
Brandon Sanderson
They can attract a different spren.
It was indeed normal, depending on the order and the person.
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Argent
There is a person on the forums who noticed that Shallan has this awesome Memory thing going on, Jasnah seems to have a really powerful, kind of, geolocation thing going on, Kaladin is a really good fighter - are those just their traits, or is there something supernatural going on?
Brandon Sanderson
There is something supernatural going on. Each Order... Well, how about this. If you look at the scholar interpretations, there are some scholars who think that these things are not supernatural, in the past, and some who said they definitely are. But many, if you look, many Lightweavers had powerful mnemonic abilities.
Argent
So it's definitely tied to the Orders?
Brandon Sanderson
It's tied to the Orders. Now, I am not going to say that you've got them all 100% correct, but each Order, there are things that come with Order, things that do not add up from simple the "you get this power plus this power," there is something else going on. And I would say that for Windrunners, watch the number of squires and the power of the squires... is abnormal for the Windrunners.
Argent
And each Order's squires are somehow different from the other Orders'?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeeeaaaah... some Orders don't have them, [that] is the difference.
Argent
But some have more?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah.
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Questioner
I know Hemalurgy [has to go to mix and match powers], would it be possible to use Feruchemy for Connection to hack into multiple Knights Radiant, kind of act as a Squire to more than one at the same time.
Brandon Sanderson
Great question! I think you could make this work. I think it would take a little bit of legwork, but I think what you're wanting to do could indeed work. More likely in that case though, you could probably be a Squire to multiple Orders. *Hesitantly* Yeah...I think that would work, but I don't think it's the easiest way to do what you want to do. I think there are easier ways.
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Ray745
You have stated that each Knights Radiant Order gets their own unique ability, for lack of a better word, due to the combination of their Surges. For instance, you have stated this ability for the Windrunners is strength of squires. My question - is this due to the Nahel bond, or just inherent in the Surges combining. Would a non-Radiant get these abilities from the Honorblades, or would they be out of luck due to no Nahel bond?
Brandon Sanderson
Good question! The unique abilities have more to do with the powers interacting, same as how Twinborn will often manifest some odd side effects of the powers interacting. But there are limitations. For example, Jezrien didn't actually have any squires, as none of the Heralds did.
#12
Questioner
Did Lopen bond a spren or is he a squire?
Brandon Sanderson
As of right now, Lopen is a squire.
Questioner
Okay, as of right now. So it's a potential RAFO.
Brandon Sanderson
Uh, I answered your question exactly. *questioner laughs* That's not a RAFO, that's an exact answer to the question you asked.