Griffin

I know I'm just wonderring what the criteria for a KR is. I mean do they HAVE to be broken? Or are most Spren that are bonding doing so after they already should have found and bonded the person. I remember reading that some were panicked by the realization that another desolation was coming. Some of these bonds are acts of desperation in an attempt to survive since they were so reticent after the betrayal. Or there is a more poetic explanation escaping me.

Well ... being broken in one way or the other seems to be a prerequisite for investiture to take a hold on you, doesnt it? Yeah I'm slightly confused on this particular point myself. [spoilerS] Shallan had pattern when she was just a little girl before she killed her mom. So how broken could a child not exposed to any particular traumatic event that we know of be? Now I seem to remember Syl saying to Kal 'silly, they were all like that' when he was talking about himself compared to the old radiants. Now it could be that Spren notice individuals and watch them and attach themselves when the chance for investiture arises after said break, but then that wouldn't explain Shallans ability to call pattern as a shard blade at that time. So now I'm not sure which is true, though I still think you have to be broken in some way to become a radiant.