#luckspren

[imonlyhereforcrem]

Cosmere Inktober days 1 and 2

Day 1: White: Veil struggling with Horneater White in her white getup

Day 2: Bond: a mandra because they’re cool as heck

[someone-on-here]

Navani is wonderful, but I don't think she's a good person.

[curlytale]

Cosmere Inktober day 2: Bond

This prompt made me think of Skyeels and how they bond luckspren to help them fly.

[cosmereplay]

Heads up, I'm planning on reading and screaming about the preview chapters here! Also note I try my best to tag everything but I also have brain damage so safety not guaranteed.

If you are avoiding spoilers, block this blog or block these tags: #wat spoilers #wind and truth

Happy Stormlighting! May we all see only the info we wish for ⏩⏩⏩ (luckspren)

[lamaery]

Cosmere Inktober – 16 voyage What better prompt for a little bit of Dawnshard fanart?

[to-shards-you-say]

a luckspren wrote this

Maybe a chasmfiend ... can become a chasmfriend

[jewishicequeen]

They’re girlfriends, your honour.

Commissions | Redbubble

[luchibelle-throughthecosmere]

Dawnshard SPOILERS

ABOUT THE HORNEATERS, SPREN, GODS AND PACTS

"Blessings of spren," do the horneaters use the luckspren (aka mandras) to increase their strength and speed??

It looks like they somehow bond with the luckspren but they don't form a Nahel Bond with them because they aren't Radiant spren.

That explains why Rock could use a shardbow (aka grandbow) in Oathbringer to kill Amaram without the aid of a Shardplate to support the weight.

What in Adonalsium's name is The Ancient Pact of the Seven Peaks?

Cord says they made a path with other gods... Shards? Worldhoppers?

Did it happenned before, during or after the Horneaters asked those three powerful gods (the Gods of the waters, the Gods of the mountains and the Gods of the trees) for help?

My current theory is that the pact was one of the conditions they had to agree to in order to live there. They weren't granted that land around Cultivation's perpendicularity for free, surely there were some conditions.

Also, note that traditionally the first three sons aren't allowed to fight. Three gods, three shards, three sons. Is it somehow related to the pact?

As you can see my notes are just a bunch of questions and weird connections.

[flyingbooks42]

From left to right: Drlwan, Lopen (and rua), Rysn (and chiri-chiri), Cord (and a Luckspren), and Nikli

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

//FULL OF SPOILERS FOR THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVES

There’s a few things I forgot to talk about. Bastard children and/or people with heterochromia are not treated well at all, and slavery was until recently an accepted if distasteful practice. Human slaves are branded with the glyph-pair of the district of the princedom that forced them into chains. Khokh Linil is the glyphpair of the ruling Kholin family, Merem Khakh is the old glyphpair of the deceased Meridas Sadeas, formerly Meridas Amaram, may his soul suffer in Damnation for eternity. Ironically enough, the latter pair means Honor, Determination. Like he’d had a shred of the former…

Back on topic. Sas Nahn (somewhere in the Sadeas princedom) is the glyphpair that was formerly burned into the forehead of a famous Windrunner (the First Order of the Knights Radiant), alongside the glyph shash, meaning dangerous.

Remember when I said human slaves? It gets worse. Until the battle of Narak on Lightday Jesesabach (1173), all kingdoms across Roshar made use of these mindless-seeming humanoid beings we then called “Parshmen” for drudgery work. They cost more spheres—currency—than human slaves because of how useful they were. Then we found these Parshmen who could think in the Shattered Plains, whom we called “Parshendi.” After Narak happened, we now know them much better. The “Parshendi” are actually called Listeners, and the “Parsh” as a whole are called Singers. There’s a lot more to it, but basically they had lost their minds due to a particular evil spren getting captured.

We also do have giant monsters that use magic, though to a much lesser extent. We’ve got some regular animals like minks and chickens (birds) and horses, and these flying creatures called Skyeels, but everything else is what would be considered a crab. Tiny creatures we call cremlings? Crab. Our closest thing to a dog or rockruff or eevee, the axehound? Crab. Our working animals, the chull? Crab. Skyeels, Tai-na Greatshells of the Reshi Sea, and Chasmfiends such as were being hunted in the Shattered Plains all have a bond with a lesser Spren, a luckspren or mandra, that allows these beasts to fly in the Skyeels’ case and ignore the Square-cube law for the latter two. Tai-na greatshells are basically living islands, they’re so big.

Honestly, now that I think about it, the closest environment here to my home has got to be a coral reef that’s managed to survive in the open air.

- "the caste system"

Yes, the caste system. It’s based on, of all things, eye colour. People who have dark eyes, say, a deep brown, are classified under the Nahn tiers as common folk. People who have lighter eyes are classified under the Dahn tiers, starting from the reigning monarch down to folks who are just above the highest Nahn tier. I think it’s a relic of the old, pre-Recreance Knights Radiant? Basically, there’s these fancy weapons called Shardblades, and for whatever reason, when bonded and summoned, they turn darkeyed folks’ eyes bright. I find that whole thing very unsettling, and regardless of this detail, the caste system has no basis to exist in my opinion. Also, the Recreance is the day when, two thousand years ago, the old Radiants had given up their bond to their spren (sort of a little piece of a god that has sentience) for some reason.

[onlycosmere]

Interesting that the Listeners have a different name for luckspren. I wonder if there are other spren names that differ

[kelsi-ayylmao]

Feruchemon: How a Feruchemist can capture the spren of Roshar

First of all, spren are pokemon. This is a fact and I will not debate anyone on this topic. Second of all, this post is referring to the capture of non-sapient spren to make them bond to you. I guess some of this could be applied to the intelligent spren but that would be real shitty and probably less straightforward. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s actually talk about my theory. 

Thanks to Ishar, the ultimate mad lad, we know that bonds can be made against a spren’s will if you use Connection magic. So here’s what we’ll do. Step 1: Fill that Duraluminmind. We’re gonna need some Connection soon. Step 2: Find a spren you want. For the sake of this example we will use a mandra (or a luckspren if you’re less cool). Step 3: Tap that duralumin. You have now used your cool metal magic to bond that spren. 

You have a bond. You and the mandra are Connected. It’s made of investiture. You know what we do with investiture? Step 4: We put that shit in a Nicrosilmind. Now you can conveniently keep this spren on your person at all times. You could probably also take it off-world like this.

Well now you can use your mandra bond to... do something I guess. There’s probably something to do with this. It would be silly if I wrote all this without a clear idea of what the end result would be...

I guess you could ride them in the cognitive realm and get some lessened gravity in the physical realm? Yeah that’s good enough for me.

[if-one-of-us-falls]

i can't believe i didn't realize this until now! when they fall to the chasms, kaladin tells shallan about legends of spren that save people from falling as an excuse/ explanation to how they survived. i thought he made it up on the spot but there actually ARE spren like that! luckspren/mandras! these are the spren that pull ships in shadesmar and that help greatshells support their own enormous weight. they are the reason rysn survived her fall in her wor interlude. idk it might have been obvious but my mind is blown

[akingslion]

Luckspren

One thing I find so funny about the Stormlight Archive is that Brando Sando went absolutely HAM on the unnecessary worldbuilding details, to such an intense degree that nobody can keep track of them. Why did we forget how epic the skyeels are?? How come everybody ignores the fact that Roshar has three moons? There’s a group of people (the Natanatans) with blue skin and nobody has addressed it. And why did we stop talking about how, canonically, people on Roshar inherit a patchwork of their parents’ hair colors? Shallan outright said in the text that if she and Adolin had kids, their hair would be a mix of black, blond, and red– so why don’t any actual characters have colorful hair?? Branderson, you coward, I want a character with blue skin and rainbow hair

[chaos-is-my-lifeblood]

In Roshar, spren and greatshells/native fauna are a symbiotic relationship. And for the animals, I can definitely see what they’re getting out of it; being able to grow larger, or otherwise adapt to their environment. But what do the spren, immortal and nonsapient as they are, get out of it?

They get thought into existence, is what I think. Spren are not beings of the Physical Realm, which makes their anchoring in the Cognitive all the more relevant. Just as painspren are attracted to pain - likely as a habit that encourages humans’ associations between them and pain - so too do other spren seek their abstract niche to fill. 

So there is a type of natural selection even amongst the intangible, as creatures coevolve to supply each others’ demands. Some luckspren, the kind needed for fully-grown larkin, are more effective than normal luckspren. And it’s interesting to think about, because there is no dying or pressure, really, for the changes to occur. They just do.

[deoxydahlia]

Luckspren ⏩➡️🔀

alright cowboys, cowbabes, sluts, sexy bitches, and motherfuckers i just read dawnshard and that shit BANGIN holy s h i t