Mist spren origins

[Sky Breaker]

So I have been thinking about radiant spren lately and mist spren and ash spren keep standing out to me and I think I have an idea why they’re so different. My theory is that they weren’t originally imagined by rosharans but were originally imagined by scadrains. The reason I think this is because every other sapient spren resembles something common to roshar like how peak spren look like the horn eater peaks and the cultivation spren look like vines, but on a world where they use spheres instead of fire and don’t get much mist, it doesn’t make much sense that they would have ash spren and mist spren which is why I think they are if not from at least imagined by the people of scadrial. And when you think about it this way it makes much more sense like it explains why ash spren seem like the are more like splinters of ruin more than cultivation or honor. Another thing is that the mist spren seem to embody mystery and that could be explained by the mystery and taboo surrounding the mists on scadrial.      
 

 

   Also mist spren have masks that look like southern scadrians *mike drop*

[Werewolff Studios he/him]

49 minutes ago, Sky Breaker said:

So I have been thinking about radiant spren lately and mist spren and ash spren keep standing out to me and I think I have an idea why they’re so different. My theory is that they weren’t originally imagined by rosharans but were originally imagined by scadrains. The reason I think this is because every other sapient spren resembles something common to roshar like how peak spren look like the horn eater peaks and the cultivation spren look like vines, but on a world where they use spheres instead of fire and don’t get much mist, it doesn’t make much sense that they would have ash spren and mist spren which is why I think they are if not from at least imagined by the people of scadrial. And when you think about it this way it makes much more sense like it explains why ash spren seem like the are more like splinters of ruin more than cultivation or honor. Another thing is that the mist spren seem to embody mystery and that could be explained by the mystery and taboo surrounding the mists on scadrial.      
 

 

   Also mist spren have masks that look like southern scadrians *mike drop*

Really interesting point about the masks! Hadn't noticed that before.

For me though, I don't think the appearance of the spren themselves are terribly unusual. The Rosharans still use fires fairly regularly. Spheres don't cook things after all, plus we see flamespren a decent number of times through the series. 

In addition, the amount of moisture that fills Rosharan air (especially after a highstorm) would have ample opportunity to generate mists. There's also a lot of water in general, meaning early ocean mists would be fairly common.

Now, does that mean there's no connection with Scadrial, the literal mist planet? I suppose we'll have to wait and see...

Interesting theorizing though!