Surgebinding Powers

The powers granted by bonds with spren.

Surgebinding is the magic of The Stormlight Archive: some sapient spren can form a symbiotic bond with a human and grant them its powers. The Knights Radiant were an order of ancient Surgebinders.

Quick Facts

Fuel: Stormlight

Lore & Background

Surgebinders draw on Stormlight, the magical substance carried by the highstorms. In The Way of Kings Kaladin finds that consuming Stormlight gives him enhanced strength, speed and healing, and the assassin Szeth can affect gravity with Stormlight; in Words of Radiance Kaladin trains to master the powers of a Windrunner while Shallan uses her Lightweaver powers to survive.