Spren
The spirits of Roshar.
Spren are spirits drawn to emotions and natural phenomena on Roshar. Windspren follow high winds as ribbons of light, painspren appear around wounds and gloryspren form a halo around someone who has done something hard; they are so common that many people ignore them, and thousands of kinds are thought to exist.
Quick Facts
- Sapient spren can
- Bond humans
Lore & Background
Spren linked to higher concepts are sapient and can bond with humans, granting the powers of Surgebinding. Major bonded spren include Kaladin's honorspren Sylphrena, Shallan's liespren Pattern, Jasnah's inkspren Ivory, Lift's cultivationspren Wyndle and the Sibling, the spren of Urithiru.
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