Spren finding Radiants

[brandon_w_palmer]

Something struck me as I was listening to RoW. Shallan thinking back on when the cryptics were following her in the library. Considering everything is reverse in shadesmar, were the spren following her in a boat? And for all the other radiant spren, they have to find their knight from a boat?

Edited December 13, 2020 by brandon_w_palmer
Correction

[Karger he/him]

2 hours ago, brandon_w_palmer said:

Something struck me as I was listening to RoW. Shallan thinking back on when the cryptics were following her in the library. Considering everything is reverse in shadesmar, were the spren following her in a boat? And for all the other radiant spren, they have to find their knight from a boat?

Welcome to the shard.  Spren don't need air so they could have just walked along the bottom of the ocean.  Also I am not sure they were entirely in the cognitive realm.  They could also use boats or just use Syl's method of going into the physical realm and kind of drifting toward their radiant.

[Weltall]

We've seen other instances of a spren already being in the Physical Realm before they interact with the person they're going to bond; Timbre is hanging around looking for her future bond partner (and then jumps to Venli after Eshonai's death) and we see multiple highspren observing the Skybreaker squires in OB.