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little correction, see source for what Venli thinks ~~~~
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Thunderclasts are enormous stone beasts, easily five or six times larger than a person, with their hands alone being six feet long.{{book ref|sa1|60}}{{book ref|sa1|part=prelude}} They take a skeletal, humanoid form, with long limbs that end with spiky, clawed fingers. On their chests, they have rib-like protrusions, and there are ridges running along their backs.{{book ref|sa2|4}} Their heads are narrow and arrow-like, with glowing red eyes.{{book ref|sa2|4}}{{book ref|sa3|84}}
 
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 [[singerFused]] 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 ==
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 singer[[Cognitive soulsShadow | Cognitive Shadows]] -- [[Kai-garnis]] and [[Yushah]] -- to create thunderclasts. After Yushah broke through the wall, he sent her after the [[Thaylen Gemstone Reserve]] while Kai-garnis went to assist the [[Fused]] in taking the [[Thaylen City]] [[Oathgate]]. Both were eventually defeated; Yushah was destroyed permanently by [[Szeth]] with [[Nightblood]],{{wob ref|10440}} while Kai-garnis was immobilized by [[Renarin]] and fled her stone body.{{book ref|sa3|117}}{{book ref|sa3|120}}
 
== Known thunderclasts ==
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