Duskshard he/him Posted February 1, 2014 Posted February 1, 2014 Szeth stood out enough at the feast for Jasnah to notice him, she saw him again after the balcony collapsed and he had Lashed himself to the wall. Knowing he was the one who killed her father I doubt she's likely to ever forget him.
aheerema he/him Posted February 4, 2014 Posted February 4, 2014 Chapter 1 Is the wind spren taunting Shallan only a wind spren? Will she see more spren now? How close is Rock to bonding a spren? From Chapter 1 excerpt on Tor (emphasis added): She took off her shoes, then climbed up over the railing as instructed. Had it been this windy before? She had a moment of vertigo, standing there with socked toes gripping a tiny rim, dress fluttering in the coursing winds. A windspren zipped up to her, then formed into the shape of a face with clouds behind it. Storms, the thing had better not interfere. Was it human imagination that had given windspren their mischievous spark? This sounds an awful lot like the image of the face that Kaladin saw during the highstorm when he was strung-up above the barracks. I think this is just something the wind spren emulate because they see the face during highstorms. Syl says that the windspren are her cousins, and that she is only honourspren who came, in Chapter 9: “I am the only honorspren who has come,” Syl said. “I…” She seemed to be stretching to remember. “I was forbidden. I came anyway. To find you.” “You knew me?” “No. But I knew I’d find you.” She smiled. “I spent the time with my cousins, searching.” “The windspren.” “Without the bond, I am basically one of them,” she said. “Though they don’t have the capacity to do what we do. And what we do is important. So important that I left everything, defying the Stormfather, to come. You saw him. In the storm.” The hair stood up on Kaladin’s arms. He had indeed seen a being in the storm. A face as vast as the sky itself. Whatever the thing was—spren, Herald, or god—it had not tempered its storms for Kaladin during that day he’d spent strung up. Syl's statement doesn't preclude the possibility that other honourspren have come since she left Shadesmar, however, I don't think this windspren is an honourspren. Instead, I think its action is shown to demonstrate the awareness of spren and to remind us of how connected spren are to the experiences of Roshar. 4
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