Quantus he/him Posted July 29, 2020 Posted July 29, 2020 Quote Questioner Do you have a term for a group of spren? Like a gaggle of geese, or something like that? Brandon Sanderson I have not come up with one. That's a great question; I have never considered it before. I would be taking suggestions. YouTube Livestream 13 (July 23, 2020) I stumbled across this recent WOB today, and I couldnt think of a better group of people to come up with suggestions. So lets discuss! I think that a single word for all spren groups would be too reductive, the whole point is that they are a vast and diverse ecosystem of different subspecies. So at the very least I think that warrants specific names for each of the Ten sapient Randiant Spren, though a couple generic terms of the lesser spren would be useful too. My first pass, just for a starting point: A Flight of Honorspren A Matrix of Cryptics A Court of Highspren A Grove of Cultivationspren A Stanza of Inkspren A Constellation of Lightspren A March of Reachers A Drama of Passions (ie. Syl's term for lesser emotion-spren) 6
Nathrangking he/him Posted July 29, 2020 Posted July 29, 2020 A Collective of Inkspren A Seal of Honorspren A Galaxy of Starspren A Wave of Lightspren A Conclave of Highspren A Bushel of Cultivationspren A Sequence of Cryptics A Explosion of Releasers
Frustration Posted July 29, 2020 Posted July 29, 2020 a mount of ashspren(for obvious reasons) an entangle of cultivationspren or We could go more outlandish/random
Spren of Kindness she/her Posted July 29, 2020 Posted July 29, 2020 A breeze of windspren. A corona of gloryspren (corona as in crown).
Gears Posted July 29, 2020 Posted July 29, 2020 A concept of spren [I think we need a general term for spren, not just the different species.] 3
Weltall Posted July 29, 2020 Posted July 29, 2020 A Page of Inkspren? [ducks] Okay, more seriously now: A Paragon of Honorspren A Zeal of Highspren A Destruction of Ashspren A Convocation of Cultivationspren A Gleaming of. 'Truthwatcherspren' An Array of Cryptics A Progression of Inkspren A Journey of Reachers A Stand of 'Stonewardspren' And for the Bondsmith spren as a groop 'A Tabernacle of Godspren' For some of the lesser spren: A Drunkenship of Intoxicationspren A Murder of Deathspren A Triumph of Gloryspren A Weight of Gravityspren A Chorus of Musicspren A Prism of Rainbowspren 2
Negative_Null They/Them Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 I like concept of spren, also would say an Investment of spren or an intent of spren. 1
Zelly Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 A blot of Inkspren A flight or Honorspren/ A cloud of Honorspren A shower of Starspren A flicker of Lightspren An array of Highspren / A pride of Highspren A briar of Cultivationspren A muddle of Cryptics A band of music spren 1
Truthless of Shinovar he/him Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 A horde of angerspren. A wave of fearspren. A storm of anguishspren. A buzz of anticipationspren. A flock of joyspren.
Windrunner2319 Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 I feel like as far as an In world term goes, Rosharans arent going to have different names for all the orders of spren, because they really arent that spren aware. They are learning more, but we can assume that In World a term already exists, (even if Brandon hasnt decided what it is yet) I also doubt the would use a very Cosmere aware term. I would suggest a Manifest of spren or a muster of spren 1
Rushu42 she/her Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 I like "manifest" as well. It isn't unreasonable that they have different words for types of spren, though. Even if they don't know exactly what they are, everyone seems to know of their existence, and of the significance of most basic types. Some ideas: A burst of Gloryspren A cloud of Cryptics A crawl of Fearspren A tide of Angerspren A gust of Windspren A storm of Creationspren
Quantus he/him Posted July 30, 2020 Author Posted July 30, 2020 9 hours ago, Windrunner2319 said: I feel like as far as an In world term goes, Rosharans arent going to have different names for all the orders of spren, because they really arent that spren aware. They are learning more, but we can assume that In World a term already exists, (even if Brandon hasnt decided what it is yet) I also doubt the would use a very Cosmere aware term. I would suggest a Manifest of spren or a muster of spren Honestly I was imagining a term that the different sapient spren species might have used for each other. Which now that I think about it opens the option for both complimentary and derogatory versions of these group terms! A Plug of Highspren (Derogatory) A Deceit of Cryptics (Derogatory) A Smear of Inkspren (Derogatory) 1
+Bzhydack he/him Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) Wing of Honorspren Satute of Highspren Balefire of Ashspren Field of Cultivationspren Formula of Cryptics Library of Inkspren Lighthouse of Lightspren Mountain of Peakspren Edited July 30, 2020 by Bzhydack
Halyo_Alex he/him Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 6 hours ago, Bzhydack said: Wing of Honorspren Satute of Highspren Balefire of Ashspren Field of Cultivationspren Formula of Cryptics Library of Inkspren Lighthouse of Lightspren Mountain of Peakspren Peakspren? Is that what you think the Stoneward spren are called? Or did that just get confirmed somewhere?
+Bzhydack he/him Posted July 30, 2020 Posted July 30, 2020 5 minutes ago, Halyo_Alex said: Peakspren? Is that what you think the Stoneward spren are called? Or did that just get confirmed somewhere? Wasnt confirmed, but i saw few theories about it. Yes, I think this will be the name for Stonewards spren.
Nirkatze Posted August 5, 2020 Posted August 5, 2020 New to the forum here, but I was excited by this topic from the livestream, and signed up. I just wanted to put forward: A Surprise of Spren I like all the specific spren ideas everyone has been floating around especially @Bzhydack's "Wing of Honorspren" and the derogatory ones are really funny! 1
DramaQueen she/he/neopronouns Posted August 6, 2020 Posted August 6, 2020 9 hours ago, Spren of Kindness said: A constellation of starspren. A cuddle puddle of hugspren!!! 1
Spren of Kindness she/her Posted August 6, 2020 Posted August 6, 2020 Just now, DramaQueen said: A cuddle puddle of hugspren!!! Not bad, not bad. Hmmm, a script of dramaspren? 1
DramaQueen she/he/neopronouns Posted August 6, 2020 Posted August 6, 2020 1 minute ago, Spren of Kindness said: Not bad, not bad. Hmmm, a script of dramaspren?
Frustration Posted August 6, 2020 Posted August 6, 2020 An pool of Frustrationspren. Yes it's intentional. 2
Halyo_Alex he/him Posted August 7, 2020 Posted August 7, 2020 8 hours ago, Frustration said: An pool of Frustrationspren. Yes it's intentional. It's working. REALLY WORKING.
+robardin he/him Posted August 7, 2020 Posted August 7, 2020 If there are only a few spren together I'd call it a sprenkling. 2
Yolenlightweaver Posted August 7, 2020 Posted August 7, 2020 Pokémon was genius. One Pokémon is a Pokémon. Many Pokémon would be like, "Look at all those Pokémon!" I vote spren would be singular and plural, or for the sake of losing my own sanity, we should call them sprens.
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