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Thunderclasts are enormous stone beasts, easily five or six times tallerlarger 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 kind[[singer]] ofsoul. The potential thunderclasts are far more powerful than their [[VoidsprenFused]] kinsmen, and much more twisted, to the point where they barely resemble their species. When onethey desiresdesire to take on a physical form, itthey sinkssink into the stone and animatesanimate it, ripping itselfthemselves out ofin the stone in its humanoid form.{{book ref|sa3|115}} As such, thethey body retainsretain some qualities of the material they take on, like the color or a covering of moss or fungus.{{book ref|sa2|4}}

InIt's onepossible that there are other types of Dalinar's[[Cognitive visions,Realm|Cognitive]] heentities seesthat acan redcreate thunderclasts, as a [[spren]] is also seen at one point plunging into the ground right before a thunderclast rips itself out.{{book ref|sa2|4}}

Although warped and twisted, thundercasts seem to retain some level of personality, enough so to answer to names and have a concrete sense of their gender. While they can obey commands, however, they do not seem capable of communicating themselves.{{book ref|sa3|117}} However,They theyare cancapable of producemaking earth-shaking roars and trumpeting sounds to express their emotions, though.{{book ref|sa3|120}}

HammersDespite being made of the same material as their targets, they do not crack, and it seems they cannot be destroyed by ordinary means, although hammers are given as a viable option for combating thunderclaststhem.{{book ref|sa3|116}}{{book ref|sa2|4}} Another optionviable way to deal with them is to cut them up with [[Shardblade]]s to the point where they're no longer mobile, although this carries significant risk to both people and their surroundings. [[Nightblood]] can kill them for good.{{book ref|sa3|117}}

ThunderclastsWhile it's unknown for how long they've been in [[Odium]]'s service, thunderclasts date back to the [[Desolation]]s of old, includingeven back to [[Nohadon]]'s times.{{book ref|sa1|60}} HumanPeople forcesback 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 dangerdangers even to the [[Herald]]s, with [[Kelek]] havingin beenparticular killeddying byto onethem inseveral a past Desolationtimes.{{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 severala 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 diddidn't make their proper notdebut 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}}