![]() Such a spren can be brought back to life if the Radiant returns to abiding by the Oaths, and re-swears them. If the Radiant who broke their Oaths is not yet at the point where they would acquire a Shardblade, the spren simply seems to disappear. However, there are stages to spren death, and it's not necessarily one-way. Spren with a Nahel Bond can die if their bonded Surgebinder breaks their Oaths to an untenable degree. Spren do not need to sleep, but they can die, becoming a deadeye. Functioning įor more information about spren death, see Deadeye. The cognitive ideals that create spren are similar to those that determine the appearances of the Returned on Nalthis and the plausibility of Forgeries on Sel, and are based off of human perception. However, while comparable entities exist on other worlds - most notably, seons and skaze - the sheer amount of spren created is unique to Roshar. Their tendency towards sentience, which can be seen both in Shard-derived spren and Adonalsium-derived spren, is a result of cosmere-wise phenomenon of Investiture attaining sentience when left on its own. These spren are still very much of Cultivation, however. These are Splinters of Adonalsium itself that it left behind intentionally and that have attained sentience on their own since then. Some spren predate the arrival of Honor and Cultivation to Roshar, and perhaps even the Shattering. All of them are based off of an "Ideal" in the Spiritual Realm for example flamespren are all based on an "Ideal of Fire." Over time, those ideas and concepts, imprinted upon scraps of Investiture, become personified as an external entity, becoming spren. In the Cognitive Realm, loose Investiture left behind by the Shards comes alive, shaped and given cognizance by the ideas and concepts of the collective experience of sentient creatures. ![]() Spren are generally personification of certain cognitive ideals and concepts as such, they come into being in the realm of thought, the Cognitive Realm. ![]() They vary vastly in size, with the smallest being the size of a thumbnail, while the largest can dwarf buildings. There are said to be thousands of different kinds of spren, each named for a different type of phenomenon. Most spren are splinters of Honor and Cultivation, or a mixture of both that leans towards either one Shard or the other. In the strictest sense, however, spren are splinters of one or more Shards, with a single spren being composed of one or more types of Investiture. A skilled person can "manifest" a bead, making it take the form of its Physical counterpart. In Shadesmar, they usually take the form of small beads, akin to spheres that serve as Roshar's currency. These "spren" can be spoken to in the Cognitive Realm and bribed with Stormlight, which forms the basis of Soulcasting. Those Cognitive aspects are based on how the objects are viewed by the surrounding entities and how long they've been the way they currently are. Among those are Cognitive aspects of objects. Entities such as Shards, Cognitive Shadows and other beings from beyond the Physical Realm would be considered spren by the Rosharans. For Rosharans, the term "spren" has broad application.
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