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Spren within The Way of Kings


Tamzin Ashevai

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SPREN

within THE WAY OF KINGS

... larger spren could change shapes and sizes ... . Spren didn't use people's names. Spren weren't intelligent. The larger ones ... could mimic voices and expressions, but they didn't actually think. Many of the larger ones were invisible except to the person they were tormenting. (p. 54-55) Large spren ... could move small objects and give littlel pinches of energy. (p. 110) ... don't sleep ... . (p. 215) [Lose] interest in things quickly ... . (p. 219) Most spren don't have long memories. (p. 220) ... all spren are, in a sense, virtually the same individual. There's harmony in that. (p. 262) ... kind of odd and magical. (p. 340) ... could be very elusive. Sometimes, even the most common types ... would refuse to appear. ... there were ... spren you could find only during war. (p. 441) ... can feel temperature. [Though] not usually. (p. 514) Spren live in everything. Spren appear when something changes ... . They are the heart of change, and therefore the heart of all things. (p. 539) [When the living thing they inhabit is consumed or used up] they are freed. To return to wherever it is that spren live. (p. 540) There were supposed to be thousands of kinds of spren, many that people never saw or didn't know about (p. 689)

The spren change when [measured]. Before [they're measured], they dance and vary in size, luminosity, and shape. But when [a notation is made], they immediately freeze in their current state. Then they remain that way permanently ... . [if the figures are erased], the spren go back to being variable ... . Length, shape, luminosity. (p. 713) It's as if it knows ... that it has been measured. As if merely defining its form traps it somehow. (p. 714) Not all spren are as discerning as honorspren. (p. 849)

Alespren - … appear only when one is severely intoxicated. Appear as small brown bubbles clinging to objects nearby. [Potentially] … a drunken hallucination. … infrequently. (p. 441)

Angerspren - … boiling up from the ground … like small pools of bubbling blood. (p. 234) / … bright red … . (p. 253)

Anticipationspren - … like red streamers, growing from the ground and shipping in the wind … . (p. 106)

Bindspren - … dark blue and shaped like little splashes of ink, clustering … . (p. 796)

Captivityspren – (p. 442)

Creationspren - … of medium size, as tall as one of [shallan’s] fingers, and they glowed with a faint silvery light. They transformed perpetually, taking new shapes. Usually the shapes were things they had seen recently. Always of the same silvery color, always the same diminutive height. They imitated shapes exactly, but moved them in strange ways. They weren’t substantial … . [shallan’s] drawing gathered … them, pulling them by her act of creation … . (p. 118)

Deathspren - … hate water. It will keep them away. … mighty good at killing … . (p. 152) / … cannot be seen. (p. 153) / They were fist-size and black, with many legs and deep red eyes that glowed, leaving trails of burning light. They clustered … skittering this way and that. Their voices were whispers, scratchy sounds like paper being torn. Only the dying could see deathspren. You saw them, then died. Only the very, very lucky few survived after that. Deathspren knew when the end was close. (p. 554)

Decayspren – (p. 258)

Dungspren – (p. 540)

Fearspren – (p. 26) / … shaped like gobs of purple goo … . … drawn by … terror … . (p. 27) / … wiggling and violet … in the air. (p. 108)

Flamespren - … like insects made solely of congealed light. (p. 23) / … a bright fire would draw [them]. (p. 118) / … [one of] the most common types … . (p. 441)

Gloryspren - … like tiny golden translucent globes of light … attracted by [a] sense of accomplishment. (p. 188) / … like hundreds of spheres of light. (p. 382)

Groundspren - … pull … downward … everything … . (p. 688)

Honorspren - … discerning … . (p. 849) / Spirit of oaths. Of promises. And of nobility. (p. 913)

Hungerspren – They look like brown flies that flit … almost too small to see. (p. 49)

Laughterspren - … minnowlike silver spirits that darted through the air in circular patterns … . (p. 213)

Lifespren – They looked like motes of glowing green dust or swarms of tiny translucent insects. (p. 79) / … little green blips of light … small as spores … . (p. 162) / … silent … . (p. 767)

Logicspren - … in the form of tiny stormclouds … . (p. 120)

Musicspren - … tiny spirits taking the form of spinning translucent ribbons. (p. 22

Nightspren - … monsters of the dark. … dreaded … . (p. 592)

Painspren – … like small orange hands with overly long fingers … . (p. 47) / … glowing pale orange hand shapes, like stretching sinew or muscles … . (p. 254)

Passionspren - … like tiny flakes of crystalline snow, [floating] down in the air … . (p. 863)

Rainspren - … sat in puddles, like blue candles … . (p. 522) / … glowing with a faint blue light, shaped like ankle-high melting candles with no flame. They rarely appeared except during the Weeping. They were said to be the souls of raindrops, glowing blue rods, seeming to melt but never growing smaller, a single blue eye at their tops. (p. 620)

Riverspren - … could mimic voices and expressions, but didn’t actually think. (p. 55)

Rotspren - … tiny red … gathering around [a] wound. (p. 53) / … hate water. It will keep them away. (p. 152) / [lister’s] oil frightened [them] away … even better than soap and water. (p. 154) / … tended to cluster around the dead. … translucent … . (p. 394-95)

Starspren - … tiny pinpricks of light chasing after one another, zipping around like distant, glowing insects. They were rare. (p. 574)

Windspren - … amorphous, vaguely translucent. … devious spirits who had a penchant for staying where they weren’t wanted. … a ribbon of light without form. … often played pranks … . (p. 49) / They were impossible to tell apart. (p. 52) … larger spren could change shapes and sizes … . (p. 54) / … could mimic voices and expressions, but they didn’t actually think. (p. 55) / … could appear to those [they] wanted to … . (p. 318)

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