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This page catalogs known types of spren. <!--Hide ToC?-->
 
=== Lesser Spren ===
Most spren, known as '''lesser spren''' or '''subspren''' are non-sapient.{{book ref|sa3|4}}
 
==== Alespren ====
|[[Axies]] the Collector{{book ref|sa1|i|5}}
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A rare type of spren that appear only in [[Iri]]. They are occasionally seen by people who are under the influence of alcohol. They look like small brown bubbles that cling to objects close to the observer. They were given the name "alespren" by Axies the Collector, a scholar who studies spren, after considering the name "intoxicationspren". The locals refer to them as sudspren.{{book ref|sa1|i|5}} They may also be called winespren.{{file ref|Rosharan Wines.jpg|Rosharan Wines}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Fifteen{{book ref|sa1|15}}
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A common type of spren that appear around people experiencing anger. They generally, have the appearance of pools of boiling blood bubbling up from the ground around the feet of the angry individual.{{book ref|sa1|15}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Six{{book ref|sa1|6}}
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A common type of spren that appear around people looking forward to something, or who are nervous about something. They appear as red streamers that grow out from the ground and blow in the wind. They often appear around soldiers directly before a battle.{{book ref|sa1|6}}
 
The streamer that appears in the Physical Realm is actually the tongue of the anticipationspren. The spren itself has a round bulbous body and is about the size of a human toddler. It will open its mouth and stick its tongue in the air when near feelings of anticipation.{{book ref|sa3|97}}
 
 
==== Awespren ====
|Words of Radiance: Chapter 78{{book ref|sa2|78}}
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A very rare type of spren that appear around people who are very awestruck. They take the form of a ripple of blue smoke spreading slowly outwards.{{book ref|sa2|78}} They usually appear above and around the awed person's head, like a halo.{{book ref|sa2.5|13}}{{book ref|sa3|4}} Most of the time, only a single one can be seen at once, though a whole group of people can attract several.{{book ref|sa3|24}}
 
 
==== Bindspren ====
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Fifty-Seven{{book ref|sa1|57}}
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Spren that appear around objects bound with a [[Full Lashing]]. They appear as small splashes of dark blue ink. Their relationship to the Lashings is not fully understood -- [[Kaladin]] believes they are what hold the objects together, while [[Sylphrena]] disagrees, saying they could be attracted to the Full Lashing Kaladin had created.{{book ref|sa1|57}}
 
|Axies the Collector{{book ref|sa1|i|5}}
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A type of spren theorized by Axies to appear around people in captivity. Despite being imprisoned numerous times he has never observed them, leading him to doubt their existence.{{book ref|sa1|i|5}} However, while imprisoned, Kaladin sees strange spren like taut wires crossing before him, which have been confirmed to be captivityspren.{{book ref|sa2|62}}{{wob ref|2111}}
 
|Oathbringer: Chapter 53{{book ref|sa3|53}}
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A type of spren that looks like ripples in the air, similar to a drop in the pond, although without the pond.{{book ref|sa3|104}}{{book ref|sa2.5|13}} They are rare in [[Alethkar]], but can be found in [[Urithiru]] and [[Tashikk]].{{book ref|sa3|53}}{{book ref|sa2.5|13}} They most commonly appear around people who are deeply focused on their task.
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Seven{{book ref|sa1|7}}
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An uncommon type of spren that appear around creative acts such as painting or drawing. They are of medium-size, about finger-length, and glow with a silvery light. They take the form of objects they have recently seen, but move them in odd ways, such as a table that rolls like a wheel.{{book ref|sa1|7}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Thirty-Eight{{book ref|sa1|38}}
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A type of spren that appears only to people near death. Very few people survive after seeing deathspren - due to this rarity some consider them not to be real.{{book ref|sa1|45}} They look like black, many-legged, fist-sized creatures, with glowing red eyes that leave trails of light when the deathspren moves. They whisper with voices like paper being torn.{{book ref|sa1|38}} [[Lirin]] said that deathspren are repelled by water.{{book ref|sa1|10}}
 
|Sylphrena to Kaladin{{book ref|sa1|17}}
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A type of spren referenced by [[Sylphrena]].{{book ref|sa1|17}} It appears that they are attracted to things that have been abandoned or neglected, as well as rotting food.{{book ref|sa3|25}}{{book ref|sa3|78}} They look like barnacles, and usually appear in large numbers, huddling close together.{{book ref|sa3|25}}
 
|Words of Radiance: Chapter Eleven{{book ref|sa2|11}}
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A type of spren that appear around exhausted people. In the Physical Realm, they appear as brown-colored jets of dust shooting up in the air.{{book ref|sa3|38}}{{book ref|sa3|49}} In Shadesmar, they seem indistinct yet also large and birdlike.{{book ref|sa2|11}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Six{{book ref|sa1|6}}
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A common type of spren that appear around people experiencing fear. They look like small, violet globs that crawl up from out of the ground and gather around the feet of the fearful.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}} They seem to be attracted to the highest concentration of fear in an area; people experiencing less fear will fail to attract fearspren.{{book ref|sa1|32}} In [[Shadesmar]], fearspren appear as eel-like creatures with stumpy legs, ridges on their backs, and long purple antennae: the antennae appear to be the part that visually manifest in the Physical Realm. {{book ref|sa3|89}}
 
|Oathbringer: Chapter Thirty-Six{{book ref|sa3|36}}
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A common type of spren that appear around and in fire. They look like tiny humanoid figures made of congealed light.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}}{{book ref|sa3|36}} They will often dance around, constantly changing in size, shape, and luminosity like the flames themselves.{{book ref|sa1|i|8}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Sixty-Five{{book ref|sa1|65}}
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A type of spren that appear around people when they experience pride in their accomplishments. In the Physical, they look like as golden orbs of translucent light,{{book ref|sa1|12}} while in the Cognitive, they take the form of avian-like creatures with bulbous bodies, long wings, and flowing tails, with a golden ball for a head.{{book ref|sa3|91}}
 
|Words of Radiance: Chapter Twenty-Eight{{book ref|sa2|28}}
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A relatively rare type of spren, usually accompanied to intense feelings of happiness or accomplishment.{{book ref|sa3|37}} They take form of a blue leaves or petals that rise around a person in a flutter, circling them or trailing behind as the person moves.{{book ref|sa3|4}}{{book ref|sa3|122}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Fourteen{{book ref|sa1|14}}
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A type of spren that appears in the presence of laughter. They have the appearance of small, silver minnows that dart in circular motions around those who are laughing.{{book ref|sa1|14}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Thirty-Nine{{book ref|sa1|39}}
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A common type of spren that appears around plantlife, particularly just after [[highstorm]]s. They look like motes of glowing green dust, or swarms of tiny, translucent insects.{{book ref|sa1|3}} In the Cognitive Realm, they look very similar, but they have tufts of white hair that ripple as the lifespren move.{{book ref|sa3|93}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Seven{{book ref|sa1|7}}
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A rare type of spren that appear around good and well-thought-out arguments. They take the appearance of tiny stormclouds.{{book ref|sa1|7}}{{book ref|sa2|35}} They seem to be quite rare, although they can often be seen in [[Azir]].{{book ref|sa3|65}}
 
==== Luckspren ====
{{for|Mandras}}
 
A type of spren that flies around [[skyeel]]s and some [[greatshell]]s. In the Physical, have the appearance of tiny, blue, arrowhead-like fish that dart around the skyeel in the general direction of its travel. It is commonly believed by Rosharans that they allow the skyeel to fly in some manner, but the accuracy of this belief is not known.{{file ref|Skyeel.jpg|Shallan's Sketchbook: Skyeels}}
 
In Shadesmar, luckspren are known as mandras. There, they are far larger, with long, sinuous bodies and arrow-shaped heads. They are often harnessed by various spren to pull ships through the seas of beads, as there is no wind to sail on. They have a habit of "dropping out", vanishing temporarily into the Physical Realm, and then reappearing in Shadesmar, necessitingnecessitating any single ship to have several mandras hitched to it.{{book ref|sa3|99}}
 
==== Musicspren ====
|The Way of Kings: Prologue{{book ref|sa1|prologue}}
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A type of spren that appear around musical performances. They have the appearance of spinning, translucent ribbons that whirl around the playing instrument.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}} A single, pure note is enough to draw at least one musicspren, if only for a short time.{{book ref|sa1|33}} They also seem attracted to [[Ryshadium]]s, suggesting that they might be the spren the horses bond with.{{book ref|sa3|26}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Forty-Seven{{book ref|sa1|47}}
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A common type of spren that appear around those experiencing pain. They have the appearance of sinewy, orange hands.{{book ref|sa1|1}} They crawl out of the ground and swarm the pained, latching on to the wounded areas.{{book ref|sa1|16}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Sixty-One{{book ref|sa1|61}}
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A type of spren that appears around those experiencing passionate feelings. This includes both intense love and more violent passions, like the [[Thrill]].{{book ref|sa1|61}}{{book ref|sa3|26}} They look like small flakes of snow.{{book ref|sa1|61}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Forty-Four{{book ref|sa1|44}}
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A type of spren that appears most often during the [[Weeping]]. The have the appearance of glowing, ankle-height, blue candles that, despite seeming to melt, never grow shorter, with a single eye at the top of their body. They often stand in puddles.{{book ref|sa1|44}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Interlude One{{book ref|sa1|i|1}}
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A common type of spren that appear in bodies of water such as rivers or the [[Purelake]]. They are often described as being eel-like.{{book ref|sa1|i|1}} They are among the larger varieties of spren and have the ability to mimic faces and expressions, as well as voices, often choosing to torment people while doing so.{{book ref|sa1|2}}
 
|Kaladin{{book ref|sa1|21}}
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A common type of spren that appear around infected tissue and rotting corpses.{{book ref|sa1|2}}{{book ref|sa1|27}} They have the appearance of tiny red, translucent insects that gather around infected wounds.{{book ref|sa1|21}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Forty{{book ref|sa1|40}}
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A rare type of spren that appear at night amongst the stars. They appear as small points of light that chase one another like insects.{{book ref|sa1|40}}
 
|The Way of Kings: Chapter Two{{book ref|sa1|2}}
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A common type of spren that appear in the presence of wind. As one of the larger types of spren, windspren are able to change their appearance at will, though they often appear as ribbons of light.{{book ref|sa1|2}} The leading edge of a highstorm is home to thousands of them.{{book ref|sa1|34}} They are also common at the tail of a highstorm, as if chasing after it.{{book ref|sa1|4}} They are a rare sight in Shadesmar, as they spend almost all their time in the Physical Realm. A windspren in Shadesmar is described as a pinprick of light trailing a long luminescense behind it, moving much like it would in the Physical Realm.{{book ref|sa3|108}}
 
 
=== True Spren ===
{{quote
|There are no foolish oaths. All are the mark of men and true spren over beasts and subspren. The mark of intelligence, free will, and choice.
|The [[Stormfather]]{{book ref|sa3|4}}
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'''True spren''' are spren with sapience and correspond to higher concepts. Several of them are capable of forming [[Nahel bond]]s.{{book ref|sa3|4}}
 
==== Ashspren ====
{{for|Ashspren}}
 
A type of sapient spren that forms Nahel Bonds with the Knights Radiant [[Order of Dustbringers]], granting them their powers.{{book ref|sa3|107}} Ashspren grant the [[Surge]]s of Division and Abrasion. In Shadesmar, they have a humanoid form with ash-white skin that falls away when the ashspren moves, revealing boness underneath before quickly growing back.{{book ref|sa3|102}} Their appearance is unknown, as they seem to have the ability to hide from both other humans and other spren.{{book ref|sa3|107}}
 
[[File:Pattern Animation.gif|thumb|200px|Drawings of [[Pattern]] ]]
{{for|Cryptic}}
 
Also known as liespren, Cryptics are a type of sapient spren that forms Nahel Bonds with the Knights Radiant [[Order of Lightweavers]], granting them their powers. {{book ref|sa2|3}} Cryptics grant the [[Surge]]s of Transformation and Illumination.{{file ref|TWoK Front Endsheet.jpg|Surgebinding Table}} They represent fundamental mathematical laws of nature, and truths that explain the fabric of existence.{{book ref|sa3|97}}
 
==== Cultivationspren ====
{{for|Cultivationspren}}
 
A type of sapient spren that forms Nahel Bonds with the Knight Radiant [[Order of Edgedancers]], granting them their powers. Cultivationspren grant the [[Surge]]s of Abrasion and Progression.{{book ref|sa2.5|2}} They appear in the Physical Realm as a growing vine with crystals, while in Shadesmar, they take a form of a humanoid seemingly made out of thickly-bound, thin vines and pieces of crystal.{{book ref|sa2|i|9}} They are generally considered the spren that express the purest form of Cultivation.{{wob ref|6276}}
 
==== Highspren ====
{{for|Highspren}}
 
A type of sapient spren that forms Nahel Bonds with the Knights Radiant [[Order of Skybreakers]], granting them their powers. Highspren grant the [[Surge]]s of Gravitation and Division.{{file ref|TWoK Front Endsheet.jpg|Surgebinding Table}}
 
In the Physical Realm, highspren are described as looking like black slits in reality, with white glowing stars shining through.{{book ref|sa3|98}} They seem to have their own settlements in Shadesmar and appear rather isolationistic, with none to be seen in places like [[Celebrant]].{{book ref|sa2|epilogue}}{{book ref|sa3|102}} Other spren consider them to be strict and rule-bound.{{book ref|sa3|107}}
 
==== Honorspren ====▼
[[File:Syl Portrait by Marie Seeberger.jpg|200px|thumb|<center><small>by {{a|Marie Seeberger}}</small></center> [[Sylphrena]], an honorspren]]
 
▲==== Honorspren ====
{{for|Honorspren}}
 
A type of sapient spren that forms Nahel Bonds with the Knights Radiant [[Order of Windrunners]], granting them their powers. Honorspren grant the [[Surge]]s of Gravitation and Adhesion.{{file ref|TWoK Front Endsheet.jpg|Surgebinding Table}} They are said to be quite "discerning" in deciding who they would bond with.{{book ref|sa1|60}} They are generally considered the spren that express the purest form of Honor.{{wob ref|6276}}
 
==== Inkspren ====
{{for|Inkspren}}
 
A type of sapient spren that form Nahel Bonds with the Knights Radiant [[Order of Elsecallers]], granting them their powers. Inkspren grant the [[Surge]]s of Transformation and Transportation.{{file ref|TWoK Front Endsheet.jpg|Surgebinding Table}} They look like small, human-shaped figures with ink-black skin and clothing, coated in what seems to be oil, with a mother-of-pearl or prismatic quality to their look.{{book ref|sa2|prologue}} They are capable of blending into shadows.{{book ref|sa2|prologue}}{{book ref|sa2|3}} In addition, they can change their size, but not their shape.{{book ref|sa3|47}}
 
==== Lightspren ====
{{for|Lightspren}}
 
A type of sapient spren that formed Nahel Bonds with the Knights Radiant [[Order of Willshapers]], granting them their powers. Lightspren grant the [[Surge]]s of Transportation and Cohesion. In the Physical Realm, they appear as glowing balls of light.{{book ref|sa3|120}} In Shadesmar, they appear as humans with metallic bronze skin and holes for pupils, like living statues. There, they are also known as Reachers.{{book ref|sa3|99}}
 
|Spren of [[Thaylen City]] Oathgate{{book ref|sa3|116}}
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Oathgate spren reside over the [[Oathgates]]. They take the form of enormous, statue-like humanoids, many times taller than a person, wearing armor and holding fittingly large spears. They always appear in pairs, with one being mother-of-pearl shimmering white, while the other is shimmering black.{{book ref|sa3|112}} They act and speak in concert, with no visible differences in their opinions or demeanor.{{book ref|sa3|116}}
 
The Oathgate spren facilitate transfer between Oathgates, with any pair being able to transport anything on the Oathgate's physical platform and in its control chamber between themselves and a matching Oathgate in either [[Urithiru]] or one other city.{{book ref|sa3|1}} Their existence is a crucial element of the Oathgates' functionality, as an Oathgate can be rebuilt so long as the spren are left uncompromised. It appears they are bound to the eleven gemstones that are used to operate the Oathgate.{{book ref|sa3|117}} While the Oathgate spren can be corrupted, this does not impact their ability to send travellerstravelers to uncorrupted ones.{{book ref|sa3|i|14}}
 
In the past, those spren also allowed people without the [[Surge]] of Transportation to travel to and from [[Shadesmar]]; however, [[Honor]] forbade it to them shortly before his death. While the Oathgate spren are highly regretful about it, they are physically incapable of disobeying his orders.{{book ref|sa3|116}}
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