Could the Kandra still make little mistwraiths?

[+Oltux72 he/him]

I am referring strictly to the ability, not the intention or ethics. Can they? If so, how?

[Quantus he/him]

Possible but unnecessarily problematic.  Mistwraiths are a breeding race with a lifespan of about 50 years, any of which can be turned into Kandra with Blessing spikes.  In a pinch kandra can revert to Mistwraiths so presumably they could then breed, but doing so for any length of time puts their minds and memories at risk of being lost.    No idea if they can breed without first removing their spikes.  They do not currently know the secret of making more Kandra Blessing Spikes so they cannot actually increase their population (without divine intervention).

 

 

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Brandon Sanderson

Chapter Eighty - Part Two

Sazed Sees Mistwraiths

I worry that I didn't get to show mistwraiths very much in this book. It's not that big of an issue—they're only a minor world feature, and are only tangentially important. Still, they're a part of the kandra past and culture, and I want readers to understand what they are and what they have to do with the kandra life cycle.

Remember, all of the kandra save for the First Generation were born first as mistwraiths. That race of creatures breeds true, and has only a fifty-year lifespan. They die off, but birth new members. Taking one of those new members and adding spikes to them, however, awakens them and brings them sentience. They're part human, just like the koloss who remember having once been human.

The Hero of Ages Annotations (May 27, 2010)