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== Philosophy ==
The Dustbringers believe that great power requires a strong will to control it, and their oaths are designed to teach them to control their destructive power.{{wob ref|16454}} While their powers can be used to destroy large swaths of land, acting like artillery, they prefer to work in a more controlled and nuanced manner.
Most Dustbringers are tinkerers who like to take things apart to figure out how they work. They often object to those who only focus on the destructive side of their powers, as they feel that it is impossible to create something without understanding how its pieces work.{{wob ref|13774}} This desire to understand how things work applies to people as well, with them wanting to deeply understand people to know how to incite or avoid certain emotional responses.{{wob ref|16454}} The order also attracts foolhardy-but-brave soldiers who try to control the destructive nature of war to protect innocents.{{wob ref|13774}} They also tend to have the most variety among the Radiant orders.{{wob ref|14995}}
== Ideals of the Dustbringers ==
=== The Second Ideal ===
The Second Ideal of the Dustbringers is focused on self mastery.{{wob ref|13774}}
== Abilities ==
=== Division ===
[[Surgebinding#Division|'''Division''']] gives Dustbringers the ability to cause objects to burn, degrade, or turn to dust. They appear to have a great amount of control over this ability, as [[Malata]] engraves a table using this Surge. Division also works on living flesh.{{book ref|sa3|107}} Dustbringers do not have access to the Surge of Division until later Ideals.{{wob ref|13774}} Restricting access to Surges based on oaths is rare among the orders and few do it. The only other order currently known to do so are the [[Skybreakers]], who share the Surge of Division.
=== Abrasion ===
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|And when they were spoken of by the common folk, the Releasers claimed to be misjudged because of the dreadful nature of their power; and when they dealt with others, always were they firm in their claim that other epithets, notably "Dustbringers," often heard in the common speech, were unacceptable substitutions, in particular for their similarity to the word "Voidbringers." They did also exercise anger in great prejudice regarding it, though to many who speak, there was little difference between these two assemblies.
|''[[Words of Radiance (in-world)|Words of Radiance]]'', chapter 17{{epigraph ref|sa2|36}}
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Before the [[Day of Recreance]], many Dustbringers objected to the name of their order, as they felt it was too similar to "[[Voidbringers]]," and encouraged others to instead call them "Releasers,"{{epigraph ref|sa2|36}}{{wob ref|13774}} though most people still referred to them as "Dustbringers
Historically, the Dustbringers often functioned as sappers, engineers, and strategists for the Knights Radiant.{{wob ref|13774}}{{wob ref|16450}} 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 first 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 claims that her only objectives with the bond are to get revenge and break things; this attitude appears to have played a role in Malata's acceptance of the [[Diagram (group)|Diagram]]'s decision to side with [[Odium]].{{book ref|sa3|107}} It appears that at least a few other ashspren have initiated bonds since Spark did, but it is unclear whether any of them and their Dustbringers will also decide to side with Odium.{{book ref|sa3.5|3}}
[[Dalinar Kholin|Dalinar]]'s coalition may be beginning to suspect that not all Dustbringers are loyal to their cause, as [[Lopen]] asked
== Notable Dustbringers ==
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