Wyndle
| Wyndle | |
|---|---|
| Species | Cultivationspren |
| Homeworld | Roshar |
Wyndle is a spren who is bonded to Lift on Roshar.[1]
Appearance & Personality
Wyndle usually takes the form of a vine that grows rapidly and follows Lift. This vine appears to be speckled with smooth flecks of quartz, but it does not glow with Stormlight. Wyndle can form a sort of face by curling vines around one another. After a time, the vine trail he leaves behind solidifies, becoming like crystal before crumbling into dust. Wyndle is invisible and inaudible to all but Lift, though the hordlings of the Dysian Aimian Arclo seem to be able to sense him.[2]
Wyndle seems to be quite proper and intelligent. He is a cautious spren, and often worries about Lift's strange behavior, particularly about her breaking into places just to steal food. Wyndle gets annoyed with Lift when she frequently calls him a "little Voidbringer," and it is not clear whether she is joking. Wyndle does not like being used to hurt people.[3]
After Lift stated the Third Ideal of the Edgedancers he can form a Shard weapon and has taken the appearance of a metal rod[4] and a shardfork.[5]
History
Wyndle was a gardener. He collected souls of chairs and grew them into grand crystals. He had some Winstels, a nice Shober, quite the collection of spoonbacks, even a throne or two.
He was asked by the Ring to bond with Lift, a decision Wyndle doesn't seem to like or understand.[6]
The night when the Azish kingdom was choosing a new Prime, Lift decided to help some thieves rob the palace and Wyndle helped her. She uses him to climb, spy and use regrowth to open doors. She seems to be pulling things out, when Nale comes for her. In the process of taking her, they kill the thieve partner she had just met Gawx. Lift is able to get to him and heal him before he is gone. The Azish believe Gawx had performed a miracle and make him Prime, he “pardons” Lift and Nale has to let her go.[1]
He seemed to be happy at the Palace while they were guests of honor of the new Prime Gawx. Regardless, he followed Lift to Yeddaw, where without understanding her plans, figures out they were following Nale, who she called Darkness.[6] Upon their arrival, Lift uses Wyndle to climb into places and spy on people. She created a diversion and later followed the guard Capitan who surely would have made a report on her. As expected Nale arrived and Wyndle finds out from Lift that his plan is to kill radiants. [7]
They trail him and surely he finds a girl who had surely bonded a spren and kills her with his shardblade. Lift tries to save her, but Wyndle explains that a shardblade kills faster making Lift’s timing late to bring her back. Lift continues to follow him and keeps using Wyndle to climb and spy until they find his quarters, where Lift eats his pancakes.[8]
Wyndle helps Lift get into the Grand Indicium, where she wanted him to read everything to find “weird” events. He explained there wasn’t enough time, so she went to steal some fancy clothes.[9] He took the form of a word she copied and showed to the scribes of the place who then wrote to Gawx and received his request to treat Lift with respect and do as she asked. [10]Though she was unable to find anyting useful, she does find one of Nale’s allies and follows them. Wyndle himself offers to spy on them and finds out they are about to go and perform the execution. {book ref|Edgedancer|16}}
When Lift confronts Nale, she speaks the words of her next ideal and transforms Wyndle into a weapon, which was just a silvery rod, that was enough to block a strike and she uses that time to convince him that the desolation has returned. [4]