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A page from Shallan's sketchbook depicting her spren Pattern.

Artist Ben McSweeney
Translation forum topic,tumblr post
Book Words of Radiance
Series The Stormlight Archive
Source Brandon's site
File type Interior art

Translation[edit]

It appears to be made up of lines...? They're not exactly tendrils or tentacles, they don't grasp or reach… they just keep dividing and multiplying and combining into different patterns.

The lines always seem to be connected, either at the central root of the Pattern or by dividing off from a root line. Duplicate shapes mix and overlap and reduce by multiple divisions!

It almost seems to phase in and out between two and three-dimensional space. I think it prefers a surface to connect with, but I have seen it move through the air on rare occasions.

It certainly presents some sense of depth, but the Pattern doesn't appear to possess any consistent dimensions in terms of size.

I am almost certain that I have seen this Pattern somewhere before. It shares some resemblance with the creatures I observed in Kharbranth, but without the body and those strange robes. Is it possibly a child or servant of theirs?

—Note: The text was first decoded by 17th Shard user Rshara, and then modified by user: botanicaxu.

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current01:11, 11 April 2014Thumbnail for version as of 01:11, 11 April 20141,375 × 2,048 (312 KB)WeiryWriter (talk | contribs)A page from the sketchbook of Shallan Davar depicting her spren Pattern. Drawn by Ben McSweeney for ''Words of Radiance''.