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| We are uncertain the effects this will have on the parsh. At the very least, it should deny them forms of power. Melishi is confident, but Naze-daughter-Kuzodo warns of unintended side effects.
| Drawer 30-20, fifth emerald{{epigraph ref|sa3|81}}
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It is possible that a Bondsmith's powers are responsible for the act that robbed nearly every singer of their minds and .{{epigraph ref|sa2|58}} During the [[False Desolation]] a strike team of Radiants attacked the Unmade [[Ba-Ado-Mishram]], who had Connected with the singers centuries after [[Aharietiam]]. The Bondsmith Melishi's goal was to use his abilities to imprison Ba-Ado-Mishram within a perfect gem to deny the enemy forms of power and [[Voidlight]].{{epigraph ref|sa3|80}} This attack was apparently successful at imprisoning the Unmade,{{book ref|sa3|prologue}} but perhaps inadvertently{{epigraph ref|sa3|81}} the singers Connected to the Unmade had a piece of their soul ripped out, rendering them into the servile parshmen.{{book ref|sa3|17}}
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As Bondsmith spren have been described as shadows of gods, some hold that these spren are in some way be directly related to or associated with the Shards worshiped as gods on Roshar. This might explain why Bondsmiths are said to only bond specific spren, and also why there is a maximum total of three Bondsmiths at any given time, due to the the three Shards relevant to Roshar. Indeed the [[Stormfather]] and the [[Nightwatcher]] are Bondsmith spren{{book ref|sa3|111}} that are associated with [[Honor]]{{book ref|sa3|108}} and [[Cultivation]]{{book ref|sa3|114}} respectively. It has been suggested that the third Bondsmith spren may be the mysterious [[Sibling]],{{book ref|sa3|111}} but even still the nature of this unknown spren remains unclear. As Odium is the third major Shard influence Roshar, it is possible that this third Bondsmith spren is associated with Odium in some way, even perhaps symbolically. However the concept of a Bondsmith that represents or is related to the enemy of the [[Knights Radiant]] is somewhat self-contradictory. Alternatively, it may be a spren that represents a balance between Honor and Cultivation.
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