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{{Magical Entities
|magic=[[Surgebinding]], [[Fabrial]]s
|appearance=varies
|world=Roshar
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
}}
{{quote| Spren appear when something changes—when fear appears, or when it begins to rain. They are the heart of change, and therefore the heart of all things.| [[Hesina]] to [[Kaladin]]{{ref|b|sa1|c|37}}}}
'''Spren''' are a type of magical entity that live on the planet [[Roshar]]. They are a combination of the powers of the [[Shard]]s [[Honor]] and [[Cultivation]]. Some are more of Honor; others, Cultivation; the rest are a mixture of the two.{{ref|?|747|5| Are all spren that can Nahel Bond called honorspren or just Windrunner spren?}}
===Flamespren===
{{quote| Tiny flamespren danced around [the torches], like insects made solely of congealed light.| The Way of Kings: Prologue{{ref|b|sa1|prologue}}}}
A common type of spren that appear around fire. They appear as tiny insects made of congealed light.{{ref|b|sa1|prologue}} They will often dance around flames, constantly changing in size, shape, and luminosity like the flames themselves.{{ref|b|sa1|i|8}}
The [[Ardent]] [[Geranid]] was studying flamespren when she discovered that if she measured them in someway the spren seemed to be "stuck" by that measurement.{{ref|b|sa1|i|8}}
===Gloryspren===
{{quote| Below, his men cheered, sending up calls that rose above the Parshendi war chant. Gloryspren sprouted around him.| The Way of Kings: Chapter Sixty-Five{{ref|b|sa1|c|65}}}}
A type of spren that appears around people experience pride in their accomplishments. They appear as golden orbs of translucent light.{{ref|b|sa1|c|12}}
===Gravityspren===
A type of spren mentioned in [[Navani's notebook]]. They can be captured in gems of a certain cut and used in fabrial machines.{{ref|[[:File:Navani1.jpg| Navani's Notebook: One]]}} Possibly another name for groundspren.
===Greatshell Spren===
A type of spren that has a symbiotic realtionship with greatshells, they, in part, enable them to grow to such large sizes.{{ref|?|977|158| What are the smoke-y spren that appear around a dead chasmfiend?}} They look like tiny tongues of smoke, such as those from snuffed candles. They only appear leaving a greatshell's corpse after it has been killed.{{ref|b|sa1|c|15}}
The [[Tai-na]] of the [[Reshi Sea]] have an extraordinary variant of spren, referred to as the "soul" of the greatshell by the [[Reshi]], that allow them to grow to truly gargantuan sizes. These "souls" will sometimes show themselves to people and do such things as slowing a person's fall.<ref name=rysn />
===Groundspren===
A type of spren to which Rosharans attribute the pull of gravity.{{ref|b|sa1|c|49}}
===Heatspren===
A type of spren mentioned in [[Navani's notebook]]. They can be captured in gems of a certain cut and used in fabrial machines.{{ref|[[:File:Navani1.jpg| Navani's Notebook: One]]}}
===Honorspren===
:''Main Article:'' [[Honorspren]]
===Hungerspren===
{{quote| As he spoke, he attracted a few hungerspren. They looked like brown flies that flitted around the man's head, almost too small to see.| The Way of Kings: Chapter Two{{ref|b|sa1|c|2}}}}
A type of spren that appears around people experiencing extreme hunger. They appear as tiny brown flies that flit around the hungry person.{{ref|b|sa1|c|2}}
===Lifespren===
{{quote| A few lifespren—tiny, glowing green specks—floated around the shalebark mounds. Some danced amid the rifts in the bark, others in the air like dust motes zigzagging up, only to fall again.| The Way of Kings: Chapter Thirty-Nine{{ref|b|sa1|c|39}}}}
A common type of spren that appears around plant-life, particularly just after highstorms. They look like "motes of glowing green dust or swarms of tiny translucent insects."{{ref|b|sa1|c|3}}
===Logicspren===
{{quote| There were said to be logicspren—in the form of tiny stormclouds—who were attracted to great arguments...| The Way of Kings: Chapter Seven{{ref|b|sa1|c|7}}}}
A rare type of spren that appear around great arguments. They take the appearance of tiny stormclouds.{{ref|b|sa1|c|7}}
==Possible Spren==
===Captivityspren===
A type of spren theorized to exist by Axies to appear around people in captivity. Despite being imprisoned numerous times he has never observed him leading him to doubt their existence.{{ref|b|sa1|i|5}}
===Dawnsingers===
According to the Ardent [[Kabsal]], the [[Dawnsingers]] were "kindly spren sent by the Almighty" to care for mankind after being expelled from the Tranquiline Halls.{{ref|b|sa1|c|
===Voidbringers===
During the Era of Solitude on Roshar, most people living in cities believed the [[Voidbringer]]s were a type of evil spren.{{ref|b|sa1|c|
==External Links==
* [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/04/way-of-kings-spren-catalogue| The Complete Spren Catalogue]
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