User:Arook/Bonds

Bonds are connections between entities in the Cosmere that exist outside the Physical Realm. Depending on the Shard world, its type, and its constituent entities, the Bond will provide different things. Bonds are typically formed between entities with greater-than-normal Investiture(i.e. Spren) and other entities, allowing them to gain enhancements of some form. It is unknown if a person with only innate Investiture is able to create a Bond. Bonds are not limited to connections of entities with greater-than-normal Investiture to innately invested entities; they can also be made between two entities with greater-than-normal Investiture.

Types of known Bonding Entities

Spren: Entities of the Cognitive Realm

Sapient Awakened entities in an inorganic host: Intelligent inorganic entities created through the use of Breath.

Seons: Intelligent entities with connections to AonDor

Aviar: Birds infested with symbiotic worms native to the Pantheon

Bonds By Shard World

Roshar Bonds

The Nahel Bond: This Bond is between a human and a Spren. The Nahel Bond Provides access to the System of magic known as Surgebinding to the human, while granting intelligence to the Spren. There are ten known forms the Nahel Bond can take, each giving access to two different Surges. See Surgebinding and Nahel Bond for more information.

Listener Bond: The Listeners (Parshendi) can bond a with Spren, and this grants the Listeners a Form (physical and mental change). Not all Spren grant a unique Form most Spren give the listeners Dull Form. Without a Spren Listeners exist in what is known as Slaveform (Parshmen). Listeners in Slaveform have very little mental capacity and are extremely docile. Dullform Gives more free will and a small increase in mental capacity, Slave and Dull Form are physically similar. Listeners can not become Surgebinders but Forms of power exist that grant abnormal abilities to the Listeners. See Listener for more information on Forms.

Shard blade: Shardblades are able to bond with people through the use of charged gemstones. The gem is placed in the hilt of the blade and after a week of constant contact the blade is bonded, and can be dismissed from and recalled to the Physical Realm. Once bonded the blade can be dismissed and recalled by syncing with the user's heart to the blade, ten heart beats are required. A person's iris will lighten during the bonding process. Surgebinding is not granted by this bond.

Void Bonds: Nothing is known at this time about Voidbinding.

Lesser Spren Bonds: Non-intelligent Spren are able to form bonds with humans This Bond does not grant Surgebinding.

Other Spren Bonds: Certain spren bond with native life on Roshar enhancing them and granting ability to the animals. Confirmed animals to have these bonds are Chasm Fiends, chulls, and Sky eels.

Honorblades: Do not bond with humans in the way that Shard blades do.^{[citation needed]}

Sel Bonds

Seons: A Seon is able to create Bonds with people and Elantrians. Little is know of this Bond other than that the Seon follows and helps the person it is bonded too, functioning in a servant position to the owner of the bond. This Bond does not provide an innate ability to find the human connected to the Seon. Seons will automaticaly seek out a new person to bond with following the death of its master; often the new master has been prearranged. During the time of the Reod while the Shaod was unable to finish forming an Elantrian from a human, any Seon Bonded to a Elantrian lost its mind and would float around the city, often near their master. This Bond grants new unknown powers to the members of the Bond while on Roshar and is very similar to a Nahel Bond.

First of the Sun Bonds

Aviar: Aviar form bonds with people and grant a specific power Based of the type of Aviar bonded. Aviar are granted their ability if raised on one of the pantheon islands and consume a worm native to the island. See Aviar for more information. Has no known effect on Roshar.

Nalthis Bonds

Sapient Awakened entities in an inorganic host: Only known entity of this kind is Nightblood. Nightblood is a sentient sword made using 1000 breath and the command to destroy evil. It makes a bond with anyone it wishes to communicate with and is able to read their minds and speak directly into their mind. Distance appears to be a factor but this may be a limitation of the mind of Nightblood and not its ability. Any one who is able to wield Nightblood and survive Bond's with the blade to a greater degree and is no longer repelled by or abnormally drawn to kill with it.Template:Annotation ref This bond may grant additional powers on Roshar.

Scadrial Bonds

No Bonds are known of on this shard world.

Of note is that by using Hemalurgy, bonds my be stolen and given to a new person.

The effect of bonds while on Roshar

Some bonds from other shardworlds are able to grant unknown abilities to the members of the bond similar to but not the same as Surgebinding while on Roshar. This effect is a function of the magic that deals with the Nahel Bond other bonds of similar type are treated like a Nahel bond.