Difference between revisions of "Voidspren"

Voidspren are spren that, instead of being connected to either [[Honor]] or [[Cultivation]], are under [[Odium]]'s control. They are similar to other types of spren in many ways, such as their ability to bond with things in the [[Physical Realm]] and their various shapes and habits. However, these spren fight on the opposite side of the [[Desolations]], aiding Odium's goal to destroy the Rosharans[[Rosharan]]s and ultimately earn his freedom from [[Braize]]. Once they were entrapped by the [[Oathpact]], the voidspren would torture the present [[Heralds]] present in an attempt to get them to bend the bars of [[Damnation]] and release them back to Roshar.

Like the other types of bonding spren, voidspren can only bond to certain individuals during certain times. For many voidspren, the [[Everstorm]] is needed for the bonding process, likely because of its output of voidlight. The lesser spren that create [[Regals]] can bond during highstorms, likely because the Regals can't invest the [[voidlight]]. The bonding process in the previous Desolations is unknown since this is the first Desolation when Odium summoned the Everstorm.

These spren haven't shown any bonding abilities, and they serve Odium as guides and messengers. They appear as glowing yellow, shaped like windspren with eyes like a [[Shin]]. In order to put themselves at the height of humans on parshmen, they stand on a similarly colored pillar that rises from the ground. When they walk, another pillar will meet any moving foot, keeping them even.. These voidspren are seen guiding the multiple bands of newly made [[Voidbringers]] to settlements, cities and, in the case of Kaladin's group, to [[Kholinar]]. Any further purpose that theythese voidspren fulfill is unknown.

These spren are similar to the above spren in their color, being yellowish-white, but instead of appearing similar to windspren, these look more like "vivid yellow spheres cackling with energy." They are used during the [[Seige of Kholinar]] to locate any [[fabrials]] being used in the city. If a fabrial is turned on, these 'screamers' will wail, then start twisting over each other above the area, alerting a quickly-following [[Fused]]. The screamers can also sense when a [[Lashing]] is used, but not when a [[lightweaving]] is created. [[Pattern]] explains that he and [[Shallan]] are quieter than [[Syl]] and [[Kaladin]]. The screamers may be able to sense the output of stormlight, meaning that illusions aren't detectable because they burn through much less [[Investiture]] than a [[Lashing]].

[[Thunderclasts]] are giant stone monstrosities that are shaped like skeletons with angular, [[chasmfiend]]-like heads. Their voidspren are huge spren, roughly the size of buildings. They are "souls so warped, so mangled, they didn't seem singer at all,". To bond, they take the stone in the ground as their form, inhabiting it like a body. Then they literally rip themselves from the ground. It is unknown why these huge voidspren don't need a gemheart to inhabit.

| Spren have always been able to bond with them, [[Turash]]. It merely requires the right mindset and the right environment.

In previous Desolations, Odium hadn't learned to bond humans. But, while humankind was progressing on Roshar, Odium's knowledge was progressing on Braize. Somehow, Odium found out what was needed for voidspren to bond with man. First enveloping them in the [[Thrill]], he made Sadeas's soldiers in the Battle of Thaylen Field so willing to fight that they gladly excepted the voidspren that Odium then sent into their now open minds. These voidspren do not offer any surges, and, as far as was shown, only turns one to Odium's side of the conflict.

These are lesser voidspren who are capable of bonding during a [[Highstorm]], instead of the Everstorm. Two of their forms have been found so far; [[Stormform]] and [[Envoyform]]. Voidspren who create Stormform can take the form of either rolling lightning that moves across surfaces or a human shape with odd eyes. The shape of a voidspren which grants Envoyform is unknown, as the only singer in Envoyform is [[Venli]], and her voidspren is held captive inside her own gemheart by [[Timbre]].