CtrlAltDepressed Posted December 14, 2024 Posted December 14, 2024 So we know that Retribution attempted to recall all the spren, and the new oathpact now protects their lives. My question is, who exactly is protected by this? Are the unmade and Voidspren included in this protection?
wormotif Posted December 14, 2024 Posted December 14, 2024 No clear evidence on the protection, but it looks it covers everything he was planning to absorb: Quote Nothing happened. As he tried to draw the spren toward him, the power refused to absorb them. They are protected, his powers said. And we do know what spren he was planning to absorb - it's all spren that have at least some Honor & Odium in them, but it doesn't include the Unmade, I think: Quote Now to deal with the spren, pieces of the old Honor. Remnants, dangling threads, and a possible problem in years to come. If he could be undermined, it would be by them. [Taravangian] breathed in, reaching to draw all spren—of Odium, and of Honor—to him. Those only of Cultivation he’d have to find and— Quote Cultivation has been freed from the planet, and runs, fearful of what she has done. Honor and Odium combine. Retribution will absorb all of the power, and will create weapons from it. New Unmade. Terrible Unmade. Emphasis mine in both cases. So it's quite clear that he's planning to grab all of the spren that he can. It seems that the Unmade (despite being spren) aren't included in this since he's planning to make more. He could be planning to absorb the existing, unreliable ones and make an all new cast, but it's not clear if he actually has that power - if he did, why not re-absorb Ba-Ado-Mishram earlier to prevent her from being a viable candidate for Odium? There could be other reasons (maybe the imprisonment prevented him from doing so). I think that's an open question. But it does seem clear that Voidspren are also protected by the new Oathpact. 2
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