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It may be possible that there are larger categories of spren. When accused of being a [[Voidbringer]] Pattern retorts that "[he] is no voidspren..." From this it has been extrapolated that the divisions of spren may have two axis: their power level and their source.

The power axis has been addressed above and has 3 main anchor points (though if graphed spren would likely form a spectrum). These points would be the common spren (those who embody/personify the effects of human conciesness) Bondspren (those capable of forming a [[Nahel Bond]] with a human and depend on this bond for sentience while outside of [[Shadesmar]]) and Godspren (also capable of forging a [[Nahel Bond]], but who have great power in or influance over the physical realm even without it)

 

It should be noted that so far a number of times spren have been called Gods or as Syl put it "a tiny part of one." And Sanderson has confirmed that spren are slivers. If it is assumed that the desolations began to occur before Odium killed Honor than it is likely that the Heralds first formed the Knights Radiant before Honor shattered entirely. This would imply that spren, at least Bondspren, where present in the world before Honor shattered. If this was true of Honor than it was/is likely true of Cultivation as well. These protospren present before Honor's death would be the equivalent of the piece of Preservation within each [[Scadrial|Scadrialan]].