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I don’t know about spren naming conventions, but I’m pretty sure the Veden naming system is basically the same as the Alethi naming system since they’re both Vorin.

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I guess it depends on the spren type. Cryptics are just numbers, but honorspren have a Latin or Greek feel to me. Sylphrena, Borea, Notum, Phendorana... 

A lot of the other spren names are just nicknames as well, like Timbre, Pattern or Ivory. Maybe Spark as well. 

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Veden is being described as so close to Alethi that if you can speak one you can understand the other. Almost closer to dialects than naming conventions

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Darn, I was typing up a long reply and the board ate it, or there were two topics and the one I started posting in was removed or something.. Okay, quick recreation instead.

Honorspren: There's a bit of a wind theme going with known names, as Sylphrena sounds like sylph or sylphid, a wind spirit, and Notun and Borea are very close to Notos and Boreas, the Greek names for the South and North Winds. We've got a few that don't fit this pattern though, so far as I can figure out.

Pattern: As mentioned, their real names are composed of lots of numbers and 'very hard to say', so they're probably all going to be like Pattern and between them and their Radiant they'll decide on a name for the sake of convenience. With a sample size of one, we can't really say there's going to be any pattern at work, pun not intended.

Reachers: We have two names to work with and no clear pattern. Timbre is readily understandable but that's what Venli called her and we can't assume other Radiants bonded to Reachers would give their partners names with a similar theme, my guess is that most would go by the actual names.

Cultivationspren: We have two names to work with but no clear pattern.

Glys: We don't know what kind of spren he is and we've got no way of deducing a theme (if there is one) from a single name.

Inkspren: We have one name to work with and Ivory picked it for himself as a symbol of rebellion so it's doubly impossible to puzzle out a naming convention from that.

Ashspren and Highspren: We have one name each here and in these cases there is at least the seed of a potential pattern since 'Spark' fits with the Dustbringer's focus on destruction and 'Winnow' with the Skybreakers' job of separating the innocent and the guiilty, but we'd need more examples to say whether this is a theme among them or just a coincidence.

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