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|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
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== Appearance and Nature ==
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|Even after all these centuries, seeing a thunderclast up close made Kalak shiver.
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Thunderclasts are enormous stone beasts, easily five or six times
The thunderclast proper, however, is a [[Cognitive Realm|Cognitive]] entity of some kind, significantly larger and more twisted than a [[Fused]] soul. When seeing one in a vision, Dalinar assumes that it is a spren{{book ref|sa2|4}}, but during the Battle of Thaylen Field [[Venli]] assumes it to be a [[singer]] soul. She was not entirely correct, as thunderclasts are different from Fused.{{wob ref|15730}} When they desire to take on a physical form, they sink into the stone and animate it, ripping themselves out in the humanoid form.{{book ref|sa3|115}} As such, they retain some qualities of the material they take on, like the color or a covering of moss or fungus.{{book ref|sa2|4}}
== Abilities and Attributes ==
▲{{image|Thunderclast Bota.jpg|side=right|width=300px|[[Renarin]] confronting a thunderclast at the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]].}}
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|Thunderclast! Hammers! Ready hammers!
Despite their enormous size, thunderclasts have no problems staying upright, and can swing their body around with incredible force, easily toppling regular fortifications.{{book ref|sa3|116}} Though brute force is their greatest strength, they're also capable of precise actions such as throwing boulders,{{book ref|sa3|83}} or carrying regular [[Fused]] in their hands without crushing them.{{book ref|sa3|116}}
Although warped and twisted,
== History ==
{{image|Killing Thunder.jpeg|side=right|width=350px|[[Szeth]] attacking a [[Thunderclast]]}}
While it's unknown for how long they've been in [[Odium]]'s service, thunderclasts date back to the [[Desolation]]s of old, even back to [[Nohadon]]'s times.{{book ref|sa1|60}} People back then knew to look out for them, and sent out hunting parties, although only [[Knights Radiant]] were capable of fighting them.{{book ref|sa2|4}} They were powerful enough to pose dangers even to the [[Herald]]s, with [[Kelek]] in particular dying to them several times.{{book ref|sa1|part=prelude}} After the [[Aharietiam]], however, thunderclasts passed on into myths. By the [[Era of Solitude]], there were numerous stories about [[Voidbringer]]s with bodies of stone, likely as a cultural memory of the thunderclasts.{{book ref|sa1|3}}{{book ref|sa2|51}}
Thunderclasts appeared a few times in [[Dalinar's visions]]. When he met [[Nohadon]], he saw numerous corpses of them littering the battlefield and, in a separate vision in which he participated in a hunt for a corrupted spren on the [[Purelake]], he witnessed one rip itself out of the ground.{{book ref|sa1|60}}{{book ref|sa2|4}} However, they didn't make their proper debut in the modern era until the [[Siege of Kholinar]], when at least one thunderclast participated in the main attack, easily breaking down the city wall and decimating numerous buildings in its wake.{{book ref|sa3|83}}{{book ref|sa3|epilogue}}
In the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]], Odium called two
== Known thunderclasts ==
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