Sylphrena

The Stormlight Archive

First appears in The Way of Kings.

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The Stormlight Archive

Summary spoilers for the whole series

An honorspren, called Syl, made by the Stormfather long before the Recreance. Her first knight died in his only battle and she survived the Recreance by losing herself. She later follows Kaladin in the guise of a windspren, bonds him as a Windrunner, nearly dies when his oaths break, and returns to claim him. She travels with him into Shadesmar, to Celebrant.

Book by book 13 events

Before 3 events, spoilers
  1. The Stormfather shapes Sylphrena as one of a handful of honorspren, and she soon bonds a kindly elderly Knight Radiant, Relador. source
  2. Relador dies in his only battle; Syl, unready for the bond, loses herself and sleeps through the Recreance, which spares her. source
  3. After a thousand years the Stormfather finds her and brings her home, but she slips out and enters the Physical Realm among the windspren to follow Kaladin. source
The Way of Kings 5 events, spoilers
  1. Kaladin, a slave in Tvlakv's caravan, first notices her as an ordinary windspren and she begins asking him questions. source
  2. Sent to Bridge Four, Kaladin asks her name and she learns that she has one. source
  3. She guards Kaladin from deathspren with a blade of light while he recovers from being left out in a highstorm. source
  4. Syl bonds Kaladin and affords him the Surges of Adhesion and Gravitation as a Windrunner. source
  5. She admits that she is an honorspren and not a windspren. source
Words of Radiance 2 events, spoilers
  1. As Kaladin's broken oaths weaken the bond, she strains to give him Stormlight in his fall into the chasm. source
  2. Kaladin, who believed he had killed her, stands against Moash; Syl returns, claims him, and he speaks the Third Ideal. source
Oathbringer 2 events, spoilers
  1. She tells Kaladin about Relador and that she lost herself when he died. source
  2. In Celebrant she is nearly lost to the honorspren, but her cry brings a ship's crew to take her and her party aboard. source
Rhythm of War 1 event, spoilers
  1. She recalls how Relador's death made her sleep through the Recreance. source
Connections spoilers

Allied with

Kaladin

Wields

Kaladin

Travels to

Shadesmar, Celebrant

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