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[inlovewithwords]

Many thanks to Kippur for helping me settle on this.

In Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive, there are ten orders of magic wielders called Knights Radiant. Every order comes with a different goal, philosophy, set of characteristics, and type of person it attracts.

More information on them is here: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/the-ten-orders-of-knights-radiant/.

To take a quiz instead of just reading a lot of stuff and eyeballing it, you can go here: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/official-knights-radiant-order-quiz/

What Order would your character be? Or you, if you're feeling it.

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[behind_me]

Gamora is a Windrunner.

The order tends to attract 'big sibling' types, who want to look out for the defenseless--but also those who enjoy action and want to fight for what they believe in. Windrunners tend to be the most like conventional soldiers, believing in structures of command, team dynamics, and the importance of a squad of brothers and sisters.

WELP.

[behind_me]

AND I got the same for both Fives and Dick. So, big sibling protect-the-innocent types is my type and no one's surprised.

[mane_event]

I got Willshaper for Simba, but not sure how I feel about it fitting:

Many among the Willshapers are warriors focused on freeing those who are captive, and others are focused on radical self-expression. The Willshapers contain many gregarious and even flamboyant characters who make their own way, taking the path they chose. They are united through a love of building, but some consider building of society to be more important than the building of structures.

I guess Simba is about resisting tyrnany by fighting Scar? IDK

[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine got Edgedancer, which seems pretty spot-on for her...

Edgedancers are known as being caring and graceful. Among the Knights Radiant, they see it as their duty to care for the common people, and are often less interested in war than they are about trying to improve the daily lives of the common folk. Often, a mid-sized town would have an Edgedancer or two on permanent assignment, where they'd use Regrowth to provide healing and would work for the common good of the town.
Edgedancers tend to be among the more religious of Radiants and is the order where you're most likely to find former religious leaders who end up bonding a spren. During war times, they often act as the mobile medics, eschewing actual combat to heal or pull out the wounded or those trapped in terrible situations. However, there are some renowned for their graceful and skilled prowess in combat, occasionally used as scouts or special forces troops in conjunction with a team of Windrunners or Skybreakers. One should never assume the Edgedancers are in any way base just because they often ignore high society; they are renowned as some of the most refined and graceful Radiants.

[zenigatcha]

Zenigata is 69% - Windrunner / Stoneward and both of these REALLY fit him, but I think Windrunner is very accurate. He's here to do the right thing and protect who/what he can, but never entirely letter of the law.

Zuko is... well, Windrunner, but Stoneward is a much further second.

Took it for Lan Zhan, too, and... he was a pretty even Windrunner/Edgedancer split.

Look I have a type, okay.

[chanter1944]

Sariel is probably closest to an Edgedancer, with a few Windrunner tendencies.

I, on the other hand, am probably some kind of Lightweaver/Windrunner hybrid who stinks at open subterfuge. This is harder to figure than other classifications, somehow.

[fairy_fixit]

Haha, Fairy Fixit got Willshaper with a score of 63
You are a Willshaper which gives you access to the Surges of Transportation and Cohesion. Transportation allows you to travel between the Cognitive and Physical realms. Cohesion allows you to alter the shape of solid objects.

The Willshapers have a reputation for attracting builders, craftspeople, and creators to the Radiants.
Transportation, haha. But it's not like the only one she got, her score for Dustbringer was really close (maybe on the lower end of 63?), which might be coming from the side of her that is okay with strategic teleporter "accidents" happening. Lightweaver and Elsecaller were also very close.

Amascut got Lightweaver, which uhhhh... well, she isn't a heroic character or even an antihero, so of course she breaks things meant for protagonists. She only got a 53 on Lightweaver though and Lightweavers do espionage and subterfuge, so maybe it isn't so broken. She got a -6 on Bondsmith, so yeah, I feel that is fair.