Lightspine

From the deleted Tor chapter about Jasnah's escape (posted in one of comments above) it seems clear that the attackers left the knife in her body (she could still feel it), which means they couldn't have been stealing something from her. In addition, if the attackers had given it to her so she could gain an attribute and be more easily influenced by... something (Harmony not present), it ultimately would have failed as epilogue Jasnah does not still have knife sticking out of her chest.

No, I meant another time, when he said scientists had observed spren attracted to large objects.

I was thinking the side spren for sky breakers might be those star spren that were mentioned once.

I'm sure it was pretty clear anyway that the parshendi bond to spren by being closer to the cognitive realm, not by using gemhearts. Another example of this I think would be the skyeel: they almost definitely do not have gemhearts, yet those same spren follow them around.

Thanks! Are you sure those are gravityspren? I remember those being mentioned as something different. (I think it was Kaladin or someone thinking about Szeth and mentioning spren attracted to large objects)

They are already bonded to the spren who follow them around, making this possible. Scary thought: the Everstorm making stormspren bond with chasmfiends, and storm form chasmfiends all over the shattered plains. Prob wouldn't work like that. I just thought of another theory: on Scadrial, Ruin is able to control people who have been pierced by metal, and people bonded with stormspren are controlled by Odium. What if this also works for whatever spren chasmfiends bond to? Those allow them to grow to such size, and looking at the Greatshells in the Reshi Sea, it looks like they could be related in some way to Cultivation. The prelude specifically mentions red, orange, and violet blood. Three types. Red for men, fighting for Homor, Orange for the forces of Odium... Purple for the chasmfiends fighting for... Cultivation, controlled by their spren bond?

So during the prelude to the Stormlight Archive, there is a slight clue as to the nature of the parshendi because it mentions orange blood spilled across the battlefield. I think there is another clue because it mentions purple blood in the same phrase. The only creatures on Roshar known to have purple blood are chasmfiends, this seems to indicate that they participated in Aherietiam. (I'm new to this site so things like this may have been pointed out already) Thoughts? I have a crazy thought myself so I'm seeing if you guys have better. (This is also backed up by the depiction of a chasmfiend labled as a Voidbringer.)