So, I found these
So, I found these, which suggests that the Tai-na might not actually be bonded to Spren. In both of these, Brandon doesn’t confirm it, however. I think this suggests that they don’t, but for consistency, I can see why he’d make them bond Spren, even if they don’t need to.
In the case of needing Spren and such. I’m leaning towards Honor’s perpendicularity. We’ve been told that Honor’s perpendicularity was random, which doesn’t make sense
Mistborn spoilers, I’m not sure which book exactly though.
Plus, we have examples of people being wrong about this. We were told that Odiums perpendicularity was lost, yet several people knew where it was, and it was responsible for the Chasmfiends source.
I find it likely that Honors perpendicularity does one of two things:
A. It moves, that’s consistent with some stuff in the book, and makes sense with what we know. And the Tai-na can sense where it is, and travel to it much like the chasmfiends do.
There’s another WoB that states that they can go on land
And so I thinks it’s possible that they could do this, and this fits. My only concern is that people would probably see the Tai-na traveling for this.
B. This is what I think is likely, but has a few complications. So, basically, Honor’s perpendicularity doesn’t move, it’s somewhere remote like Odiums perpendicularity. I think this because perpendicularities don’t behave like this, and this is the only time this has happened. At least to a shard powered perpendicularity. Which leads to my second thing. Just like we have perpendicularities on Threnody acting weirdly, something similar happening on Roshar could potentially be happening, which people confuse with honors. And then the Tai-na just go to Honors actually one.
So, both of these have problems. The first with that people would probably notice greatshells wandering on land to perpendicularities, it’s not really something you can miss. The second theory has problems with the book slightly lying to us, and the unexplained part of where the random perpendicularities are coming from.
I personally think that the Tai-na dont have Spren bonds, but if they do, Honors perpendicularity seems likely to me