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{{!character
|image=Syl.jpg
|species=Honorspren
|world=Roshar
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
}}{{!spoilers|book=sa3}}
{{quote
| I bind things, Kaladin. I am honorspren. Spirit of oaths. Of promises. And of nobility.
== History ==
=== Creation & Early Life ===
Sometime before the [[Day of Recreance]], [[Honor]] passed on the responsibility of creating [[honorspren]] to the [[Stormfather]], who only created a handful of spren at first, among these was Sylphrena. Sylphrena formed a [[Nahel Bond]] with a human who died before the Recreance, saving her from the fate of her brothers and sisters, who were all destroyed and turned into [[deadeye]]s by the [[Knights Radiant]] abandoning their oaths. The loss of her human sent Syl into a deep slumber that lasted thousands of years, during which time the Stormfather only created ten other honorspren, who in turn created the next generation and so on, making Syl one of only eleven living spren created by the Stormfather. Sylphrena was found asleep by the other honorspren, who gave her the moniker of The Ancient Daughter. Some time after awaking, around 1770, she felt drawn to Kaladin because of the way he treated children while a squad leader in [[Amaram]]'s army and, though the other honorspren told her not to go, ran away to the [[Physical Realm]]. This escape caused the honorspren to put a sizeable bounty on bringing Syl back to their capital, [[Lasting Integrity]].{{book ref|sa3|102}}{{book ref|sa3|108}}
=== Meeting Kaladin ===
Leaving [[Shadesmar]] made Sylphrena lose most of her cognitive ability, becoming a mostly mindless spren and acting like most [[windspren]], which are considered a sort of cousin to honorspren.{{qa ref|979|29|Are all wind spren really just unbonded honor spren?|date=Apr 15th, 2013}} During this time, Syl closely followed Kaladin from his time at Amaram's army, during his battle with [[
When Kal was sold as a slave to Amaram's army he was sent to [[Bridge Four]] to be a bridgeman under [[Gaz]] due to his ''sash'' brand. He was then immediatelly sent to his first bridge run, without any preparation or equipment and forced to assault the [[Parshendi]] while carrying a bridge. When the run is over Kaladin tried to help the other bridgemen but was too tired and just collapsed unconscious, when the other bridgemen left, he was almost left behind, but Syl called his name and urged him to get up and move.{{book ref|sa1|6}} During his time in Bridge Four Sylphrena becomes increasingly more aware and intelligent and recovers some of her memore from her life in Shadesmar. Kaladin, however got more and more depressed at his situation and eventually, Syl was unable to bear seeing Kal in this state and told him she would leave, but would come back soon. Sylphrena, reminded of how Kaladin had felt hope when he kept the blackbane, went to look for more of the plant. However, her absence made Kal get even more depressed and drove him to go take his life at the [[Honor Chasm]], where Syl finally came back, carrying a leave of blackbane and explained to him that she thought it would make him feel better. This innocent gesture ironically gives Kaladin the will to live again and he leaves the chasm resolved to become bridge leader and save all the other men of Bridge Four.
== Trivia ==
* In an earlier version of The Way of Kings, Syl was named "The East Wind."{{wob ref|2251}}
* Sylphrena originally came from an unpublished Cosmere work called ''Climb the Sky''.{{wob ref
* Sylphrena's name is inspired by the word "sylph", or air spirit, and "sylphlike" can be used to describe a slender young woman, both of which fit Syl to a certain degree.{{wob ref
== Notes ==
{{qa ref |date=2012-09-22|836|26|Is that bond a Nahel bond?}}
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