CosmereLight Posted January 27, 2021 Report Share Posted January 27, 2021 Is there a link between human and spren gender ? i.e Kaladin is a boy his spren is a girl... It always seems whatever the human is the spren is the opposite gender. Has this been discussed somewhere? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ba-Ado-Fisherman Posted January 27, 2021 Report Share Posted January 27, 2021 1 minute ago, CosmereLight said: Is there a link between human and spren gender ? i.e Kaladin is a boy his spren is a girl... It always seems whatever the human is the spren is the opposite gender. Has this been discussed somewhere? Lopen's spren is male. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yulyulk Posted January 27, 2021 Report Share Posted January 27, 2021 Some other same gender spren: Shallan - Testament Venli (and Eshonai before her) - Timbre Renarin - Glys Dalinar - Stormfather [tho the Bondsmith spren may be an unusual case. E.g. Navani is bonded to the Sibling, who has no gender at all] Brandon has been asked this question before: Quote little wilson Is the gender of a spren bonded to a surgebinder based on sexual preferences? Brandon Sanderson It-- A lot of people are curious about this one… Not strictly but there is an influence there. But it's not strict. In other words Renarin having a male spren does not necessarily mean-- zas678 What some think it means? Brandon Sanderson -what some thinks it means. How about this you are more likely to bond a spren of an opposite gender-- a spren who identifies as an opposite gender, because spren don't actually have gender. But you are also more likely, statistically, to like members of the opposite gender. Those things have a correlation. Whether they have a causation is not a thing I am canonizing. Bands of Mourning release party (Jan. 25, 2016) Quote Narkac KR seemed to have opposite gender spren. Why is Glys male then? Is there something hidden there? Brandon Sanderson More naturally, the spren is opposite gender but it doesn't have to be. It's not a indication necessarily of homosexuality, but sometimes it is, sometimes it's not. More often, you'll attract spren of the opposite gender, but spren genders are very fluid anyway. You're not supposed to read anything specific into that. Paris signing (Oct. 22, 2016) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sovereign Posted January 27, 2021 Report Share Posted January 27, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, CosmereLight said: Is there a link between human and spren gender ? i.e Kaladin is a boy his spren is a girl... It always seems whatever the human is the spren is the opposite gender. Has this been discussed somewhere? 2 hours ago, Ba-Ado-Fisherman said: Lopen's spren is male. In addition Timbre is female (Venli), Glys is male (Renarin), Tumi is male (Rlain), I'm sure there are others. Edit: removed most of the stuff from this post as @yulyulk covered it. Edited January 27, 2021 by The Sovereign 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewsTherinTelescope Posted January 27, 2021 Report Share Posted January 27, 2021 (edited) Narrative reasons, mainly: Quote Questioner Does gender play a role in how a spren chooses a Radiant? Brandon Sanderson It does but it is not a strict... It's just spren are going to have preferences like people have preferences and that does play into it but there's not really any sort of strict... If you want to know narratively, behind the scenes, it tends to work to pair opposite genders together, because it just makes for better conversations and things like that. And it makes the cast fill out a little bit better with a little more variety. So that's why you see the writer side of me doing it, but in-world my kind of explanation is they have preferences. Starsight Release Party (Nov. 26, 2019) Edited January 27, 2021 by LewsTherinTelescope 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosmereLight Posted January 27, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2021 thanks for the clarification. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halyo_Alex he/him Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 8 hours ago, yulyulk said: little wilson Is the gender of a spren bonded to a surgebinder based on sexual preferences? Brandon Sanderson It-- A lot of people are curious about this one… Not strictly but there is an influence there. But it's not strict. In other words Renarin having a male spren does not necessarily mean-- zas678 What some think it means? Brandon Sanderson -what some thinks it means. How about this you are more likely to bond a spren of an opposite gender-- a spren who identifies as an opposite gender, because spren don't actually have gender. But you are also more likely, statistically, to like members of the opposite gender. Those things have a correlation. Whether they have a causation is not a thing I am canonizing. Bands of Mourning release party (Jan. 25, 2016) This is kinda funny now that we know Rlainarin is a thing... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yulyulk Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 23 minutes ago, Halyo_Alex said: This is kinda funny now that we know Rlainarin is a thing... Ahh I know right? I suppose at this point bonding a Sja-anat spren is a better indication of homosexuality than a same-gender spren 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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