Sarpenthyn

This page or section contains spoilers for Words of Radiance!

This information has the ability to potentially ruin elements of the plot for the reader. Proceed with caution if you have not read this book.

Sarpenthyn is a family of animals on Roshar that tend to be found in the western half of the continent. The specimen in the menagerie in the warcamps is much larger than the species Shallan had previously seen in Jah Keved. It is warm blooded and resembles a slimy lump of flesh with two bulbous eyes and four long tentacles. When Shallan provoked it, the sarpenthyn inflated and raise two of its arms threateningly. The lack of a defined form allows it to squeeze into the cracks between rocks to shelter from the highstorm.

“Devil Rock captured in Marabethia. The locals claim it is the reborn vengeful spirit of a child who was murdered.”

— The plaque on the Sarpenthyn cage

Notes

This page is probably complete!

This page contains most of the knowledge we have on the subject at this time.
It has yet to be reviewed.