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| A few anxietyspren, like twisting black cross shapes, appeared around Rysn.

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|A single awespren, like a ring of blue smoke, burst out above him, spreading like the ripple from a stone dropped in a pond. Shallan had seen such a spren only a handful of times in her life.

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|He thought he could faintly make out tiny spren, dark blue and shaped like little splashes of ink, clustering around the place where the rock met the wall.

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|It appears I'll have another chance to search for captivityspren.

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|Concentrationspren rippled in the air like waves overhead.

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|Her drawing gathered about a half-dozen of them, pulling them by her act of creation just as a bright fire would draw flamespren.

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|Only the dying could see deathspren. You saw them, then died. Only the very, very lucky few survived after that. Deathspren knew when the end was close.

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|She noticed something sweeping through the air above her. She cringed, looking up to find large, birdlike creatures circling around her in Shadesmar. They were a dark grey and seemed to have no specific shape, their forms blurry.

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|...instead watching a pair of flamespren dance along one of the logs. These seemed vaguely human, with ever-shifting figures.

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|Long, grey, like a tattered streamer of cloth in the wind. It wound around him, fluttering.

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A rare type of spren that looks like a grey streamer, seemingly attracted to the feeling of resignation or deep sadness. One of [[Syl]]'s aunts hunts them in a manner similar to a greatshell hunt.{{book ref|sa3|5}}

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|Below, his men cheered, sending up calls that rose above the Parshendi war chant. Gloryspren sprouted around him.

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|As he spoke, he attracted a few hungerspren. They looked like brown flies that flitted around the man's head, almost too small to see.

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A type of spren that appears around people experiencing extreme hunger. They appear as tiny brown flies that flit around the hungry person.{{book ref|sa1|2}}

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|A few laughterspren—minnow-like silver spirits that darted through the air in circular patterns—began to zip about them.

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|A few lifespren—tiny, glowing green specks—floated around the shalebark mounds. Some danced amid the rifts in the bark, others in the air like dust motes zigzagging up, only to fall again.

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|Musicspren zipped through the air around [the drummers], the tiny spirits taking the form of spinning translucent ribbons.

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|Painspren swarmed the ground, like small orange hands or bits of sinew, reaching up from the ground amid the blood of the fallen.

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|Passionspren, like tiny flakes of crystalline snow, floated down in the air around them.

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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}} In the [[Physical Realm]], they look like small flakes of snow.{{book ref|sa1|61}} In [[Shadesmar]], they are long flying spren with mustaches and graceful bodies. They have the ability to eject tiny crystalline shards that float down and vanish.{{book ref|sa4|29}}

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|[Rainspren] were said to be the souls of raindrops...

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|[The Purelake] was filled with tiny fish, colorful cremlings, and eel-like riverspren.

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|It was the time between moons, and so he was lit mostly by the firelight; there was a spray of stars in the sky above. Several of those moved about, the tiny pinpricks of light chasing after one another, zipping around like distant, glowing insects.

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|Wavespren danced atop the tips of whited caps across a field of shimmering blue.

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|Windspren were devious spirits who had a penchant for staying where they weren't wanted...

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