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== Philosophy ==
The Dustbringers believedbelieve that great power requires a strong will to control it, and their oaths wereare designed to teach them control their destructive power. While their powers couldcan be used to destroy large swaths of land, they preferredprefer to work in a more controlled and nuanced manner. Most Dustbringers are thinkers who likedlike to take things apart to figure out how they workedwork. They often object the people who only focusedfocus on the destructive side of their powers, as they feel that it is impossible to create something without understanding how its pieces work. The order also attracts foolhardy-but-brave soldiers who triedtry to control the destructive nature of war to protect innocents.{{wob ref|13774}}
 
== Ideals of the Dustbringers ==
There are fiveThe Ideals of the Knights Radiant, also known as the [[Immortal Words]], and are a set of rules by which the Radiants live. The First Ideal is shared by all of the orders, and is used as a motto for the Knights Radiant as a whole. The four remaining Ideals are unique to each order.{{book ref|sa1|59}} The Ideals of the Order of Dustbringers all focus on responsibility and controlling one's power, and wereare designed to teach lessons about the nature of power and the responsibility that comes with it. Unlike members of most of the other orders, the Dustbringers could notcannot access all of their [[Surgebinding]] powers until they hadhave sworn some of the higher oaths.{{wob ref|13774}}
 
=== The First Ideal ===
Before the [[Day of Recreance]], many Dustbringers preferred to be known as Releasers because of the similarity between "Dustbringers" and "[[Voidbringers]],"{{epigraph ref|sa2|36}}{{wob ref|13774}} though that name never really became widespread.{{wob ref|3607}} This naming preference may have been influenced by their spren, as [[Spark]] apparently passed it on to [[Malata]].{{book ref|sa3|24}} The Dustbringers were often misjudged by people because of the destructive nature of their powers,{{epigraph ref|sa2|36}} and even some of their fellow Knights Radiant felt they were "on the edge" and did not get along with them.{{wob ref|11988}} The Skybreakers, who often made sure the Radiants didn't abuse their power,{{wob ref|13773}} were particularly concerned about the Dustbringers, despite the fact that the two orders had much in common.{{wob ref|11988}}
 
Historically, the Dustbringers often functioned as sappers, engineers, and strategists for the Knights Radiant.{{wob ref|13774}} During the final battle of the [[Last Desolation]], they used their powers to great effect, resulting in burnt plants and corpses and smoldering rock.{{book ref|sa1|part=prelude}} In one of [[Dalinar's visions]], a Dustbringer and several of her squires hunted a [[spren]] that had been corrupted by [[Sja-anat]] and then fought a [[thunderclast]].{{book ref|sa2|4}}.
 
The only known [[ashspren]] to initiate a [[Nahel bond]] since the Recreance is Spark, who bonded Malata. Many of Spark's friends were killed in the Recreance and she only objectives with the bond are to get revenge and break things; this attitude has led Malata to side with the [[Diagram (group)|Diagram]] and [[Odium]].{{book ref|sa3|107}} It is unclear whether other ashspren and Dustbringers would take a similar path.
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