Zacharis

1. Their attributes include resolute and having pain literally become your armor is something that would take mighty resolve. 2. I just want to see Taln surrounded by painspren that become his honorplate.

This is the closest I can come to solving the 'shardplate spren' query. Any correction or insight is appreciated. Sl. No. Order of Knight Radiant Radiant spren Shardplate spren 1 Bondsmith Stormfather/Nightwatcher/Sibling Gloryspren 2 Windrunner Honorspren Windspren 3 Lighweaver Cryptics Creationspren 4 Elsecaller Inkspren Logicspren 5 Edgedancer Cultivationspren Lifespren 6 Truthwatcher Mistspren ? 7 Dustbringer Ashspren Firespren 8 Willshaper Lightspren rockspren(?) 9 Skybreaker Highspren ? 10 Stoneward Peakspren Painspren

Dawnsingers were not using true surgebinding, it was something different.

So, I've an idea for the timeline human arrival on Roshar to 1st desolation and further. Prior to human arrival, singer and spren lived in symbiotic relationship similar to Nahel bond but not exactly the same. The dawnsingers moulding stones in RoW are example of it. Spren used to get similar congenition in physical realn as radiant sprens get. Singers had similar powers to radiants but in an unchained and larger scale. (I think that's what void-bringing is unbound spren-singer power). When humans arrive, Roshar was remade slightly to make Shinovar and humans were said to not to move over. Humans being humans, did start expanding, specially given that we know Ishar was ambitious before madness took him, he would have trued to extend his reach. That's where Nale rose to power as someone who opposed Jezrian and Ishar in terms of expanding. When they start expanding, spren ask the singers to not use void-bringing on humans. That's they betrayal of singers and why they left singers. (Listeners and new singers think spren betrayed but Leshwi's reaction shows singers were the ones to betray.) In a desperate situation, singers force spren to use void-bringing and spren break off all access to singers. Odium takes benifit of this situation and offers to create the fused and give forms of power. He also turms some very powerful sprens into Unmades (That's the reason Leshwi's generation was the Fused generation. Her grandmother saw the coming of humans, her parents saw the first expansion and used void bringing. Leshwi's generation was complicit in the betrayal and then accepted Odium for survival. After the coming of fused and the heralds saw death at large scale at fused hands and are forced to create Oathpact. This desolation had the longest gap ( after this 4500 year gap from the last) and was marred with battles between singers and men but without spren supporting either side. Upon the next return of fused spren start forming Nahel bond suprising Honor and Heralds. (TWoK, Stormfathers mentions that they were surprised by occurence of Radiants). Urithiru was carved during this desolation.

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