Spren are like small elementals that appear around certain events, ideas, or abnormalties. They tend to be ignored and are thought not to be intelligent, except for Kaladin 's Honorspren, Syl . The Spren are not fully understood, and are being studied by Axies the Collector, and Geranid.

Contents 1 Types of Spren 2 Effect of Spren 3 Characteristics of Spren 4 References

Types of SprenEdit

Name	Color	Description	Notes
Anger	Red	Small pools of boiling blood
Anticipation	Red	small red streamers growing from ground.
Bind	Dark Blue	tiny, dark blue and shaped like little splashes of ink	Attracted when Kaladin was affixing the stone to the wall [1] {C {C Appear around a full lashing
Captivity			being studied by Axies the Collector
Creation	Silver	finger-length, silvery, transform perpetually into new shapes.	Appear when creating something (Ex: illustrations)
Cold			From Navani's Notebook
Death	Black	fist-size and black, with many legs and deep red eyes that glowed, leaving trails of burning light.	Deemed theoretical by many. Can not be seen except by someone near death, seen by Kaladin when he almost died.
Decay			mentioned by Syl once [2]
Drinking ??		small brown bubbles clinging to nearby objects.	Alespren, sudspren, Intoxicationspren? Appear when one is severely intoxicated, studied by Axies
Dung			Most likely does not exist, told by Tien as a joke [3]
Exhaustion[4]
Fear	Violet	shaped like globs of purple goo
Flame	Red	"like insects made solely of congealed light"	Continually change size, size fixed if they are measured and the measurement recorded, begin to change size again if the record is erased.[5]
Glory	Gold	tiny golden translucent globes of light.	Often seen around victorious participants of combat
Gravity			From Navani's Notebook
Ground			they pull things down[6]
Heat			From Navani's Notebook
Hunger		brown flies that flitted around the man’s head, almost too small to see
Honor			Spirit of oaths, promises, and nobility. Kaladin's spren, Syl, is an Honorspren - They bind things [7]
Laughter	Silver	minnow-like silver spirits that dart through the air in circular patterns.
Life	Green	tiny, glowing green specks
Logic		the form of tiny stormclouds	they are attracted to great arguments
Luck		dozens of these tiny spren accompany skyeels	Probably not their true name.[8]
Music		take the form of spinning translucent ribbons
Night			they are dreaded for some reason[9]
Pain	Orange	Small, spindly hand shapes with long fingers.
Passion[10]		like tiny flakes of crystalline snow	May only be applied to a feeling of strong love
Rain	Light Blue	glow with a faint blue light, shaped like ankle-high melting candles with no flame
River		eel-like, one of the largest spren
Rot	Red	small and red, like tiny insects crawling over wounds.
Seamonster		It takes the shape of a large jet of water. The center is of the deepest blue, like the ocean depths, though the outer edges are a lighter shade. It has height of at least a hundred feet.	It is named Cusicesh, the Protector. The spren comes out of the water at the same time every day. It is unknown kind of spren. It makes people feel drained after they see it.
Star		tiny pinpricks of light chasing after one another, zipping around like distant, glowing insects.	They are rare.
Symbol/Glyph		creatures with the twisted heads	Shallan sees them in her drawings. They bind to her by being told a powerful truth.
Wind	Blue	one of the largest spren	Apparently, regularly play pranks on people, it's possible that what are thought to be windspren by many are lost honour spren.
Unknown	Silver	Tiny, near-invisible whisps of smoke, like a candle that had its flame just snuffed out.	Floating out of a freshly killed chasmfiend 's body.

Effect of SprenEdit

Whilst many spren appear to do nothing but gather around whatether they are named after, some people think that the spren cause the things they're named after rather than the other way around, for instance many think that rotspren cause someone to be ill, as opposed to gathering as a sign that there is an infection. This is likely incorrect though, based on some of what Syl says to Kaladin when she reveals that she is an honorspren. *citation needed

However, spren do appear to be significant with relation to the various powers that are called surge binding which appear to be available to people who are bonded by a spren, in the way that Syl is bonded with Kaladin. (need page number for Dalinor's vision with Nohadin)

Characteristics of Spren Edit

Spren are typically amorphous and often change in size, luminosity, and shape. However, Geranid with her husband Ashir found that a spren will stay the same size after being measured if that measurement is recorded. This rule holds true even if the person performing the measurement does not know weather or not the measurement is being recorded. The cause for this is unknown.

References Edit