[OB] Radiant Spren Population

[KnightRadiant301]

What is the population of the Radiant Spren in Shadesmar? What was it before The Recreance?

This question has been bugging me for a while now; lets take Honor Spren for example. They have been trying to take over Shadesmar, and they own several cities there. Along with this they've been waging war against the other "Radiant" Spren. So owning this much land and cities I'd estimate their population at least at 100,000 or so. This would probably be accurate or similar to the population of Honor Spren before the Recreance; as it was said that it took them a long time to get back to where they were population wise before.

The Order of Windrunners who they bonded to, had over a 1000 members at its height; however even assuming they had this number during the recreance. So they betrayed their oaths only 1000 oaths would have been broken, so only 1000 spren killed. 

However it is said that The Recreance decimated population's of these spren and it took them centuries to recover. 1000 spren is nowhere near the benchmark of 100,000 is stated earlier. Yes it would have been a very big deal to the spren, yet it shouldn't have had the affect that it had.

What does this imply for the Spren Population?

 

[Calderis he/him]

At their height, the Radiants only numbered in the low thousands. Windrunners seem to be among the most numerous, and at Feverstone keep, we see a total of 200 Windrunners to 100 Stonewards... 

This may not have been all of them, but I'm sure it was a pretty decent chunk for both orders. 

The Spren are immortal. Long lived species tend to reproduce infrequently. 

Overall I think your overestimating their numbers by a couple of orders of magnitude. 

Edited August 26, 2018 by Calderis

[CrazyRioter she/her]

Pattern also says in WoR there were fewer sapient spren at the time then there are now, probably because Honor was still alive and not Splintered.

Edited August 26, 2018 by CrazyRioter