Vínculo Nahel

Vínculo Nahel
Relacionado con	Surgebinding, Honor, Cultivation
Mundo de origen	Roshar🐱︎
Universo	Cosmere

“ The Nahel bond is far more intimate a relationship. The linking of spirits. This is not a thing that should be done lightly, unsupervised. ”

— Notum

The Nahel bond is a connection between a sentient spren and a human or singer. This bond is a symbiotic relationship, granting the human participant the power of Surgebinding and the spren participant the ability to manifest into the Physical Realm and retain their mind. At least part of the bond is dependent on the use of Connection and Identity, since storing those attributes into a metalmind will affect the bond.

Originally, the Nahel bond granted power to individuals with no affiliation with one another. Eventually, the Knights Radiant were formed and the Surgebinders were gathered into ten different Orders of Knights, each Order's members bonded to the same type of spren.

A Nahel bond can theoretically be passed from one person to another, similar to that of a seon. In fact, this has happened a few times in the past.

Formation of the Bond

Spren seem to bond with people who share in their perspective or personality. However, some types of spren are more discerning than others when choosing their human partners. Additionally, some types of spren are more free-spirited and choose the humans that they bond with individually. Others are more organized and will choose a human to bond with by committee, then send one of their members to the chosen human.

Limitations of the Bond

Spren bond with people that share beliefs similar to the spren's own concept. As the bond progresses, the holder of the bond will move along a path bringing the holder's thinking more in line with the spren they are bonded to. Each Ideal said by the Radiant progresses the bond. Only the first Ideal is said by all Radiants, as the later ideals are Order specific. Lightweavers say Truths rather than Ideals. Without saying the words, the Radiant's ability to use Stormlight will not increase. If the Radiant stops acting according to their oaths, they will weaken or completely destroy the bond, which can result in killing the spren.

Powers Granted by the Bond

Surgebinding

Para más información, ver Surgebinding.

The Nahel Bond makes person a Surgebinder. This allows them to breathe in Stormlight, which grants numerous benefits, such as increased reflexes and agility, as well as incredible healing abilities. Moreover, Surgebindes can use Stormlight to fuel their usage of Surges. Each type of Radiant spren grants its Surgebinder two different Surges, with each Surge shared between two Orders of Surgebinders.

Resonances

Some Orders have additional, unique abilities known as resonances, that occur due to the combination of their Surges. Examples of such resonances are the Windrunners' increased number of squires, and the Lightweavers' mnemonic abilities. Rather than being directly caused by the Nahel bond, this is a result of the two Surges interacting to produce an effect together. While some Heralds benefit from the same resonances, others do not - for example, Jezrien will not have a large number of squires, because heralds do not get squires.

It's possible that the Bond also perfects innate skills of the user, without granting additional skills; for example, an expert spearman would become a spearman without equal, but wouldn't become a master swordsman. While this effect has been observed with Kaladin, it's uncertain whether it holds true for other Surgebinders or orders.

Shardblade

When the Nahel bond is at a sufficient strength, the bonded spren can instantly manifest itself as a Shardblade, which, unlike dead Blades, is capable of shapeshifting. Known forms range from strictly militant, such as a shield o a spear, to utilitarian, like forks, or plain rods. Moreover, while a human using a dead Shardblade must wait ten heartbeats before the summoning occurs, a living Blade will manifest instantenously.

While in Shardblade form, a spren can communicate with its partner telepathically. The exception to that is the Stormfather, who, while refusing to become a Blade, can communicate with his Surgebinder regardless of the physical distance, directly in their mind.

Benefits for the spren

While a sapient spren can cross over into the Physical Realm without forming a Nahel Bond, the transition leaves them only semi-sapient, with loss of self-awareness, memory and intelligence. By forming a Nahel Bond, spren are capable of regaining all those things, growing more like themselves the stronger the Bond is. However, with a few exceptions (such as the Stormfather), the spren must remain in close physical proximity to their partner to retain their mind.

Severing the Bond

The only known way to sever a Nahel bond is for a Surgebinder to act in a manner contrary to the limitations of the bond.^{[En debate][Falta cita]} This can kill the spren, sending them back to the Cognitive Realm. Revival is possible, but difficult. It is even more difficult for the spren to bond with a different person after severing the bond, and they will only do this if the person they originally bonded with is dead.^{[Falta cita]} While difficult, it is possible for a spren to safely break the bond on their own.

Notable Surgebinders and Spren

Surgebinder	Order	Spren type	Spren
Kaladin	Windrunner	Honorspren	Syl
Shallan	Lightweaver	Cryptic	Pattern
Jasnah	Elsecallers	Inkspren	Ivory
Renarin	Truthwatcher	unknown	Glys
Dalinar	Bondsmith	unique	Stormfather
Lift	Edgedancer	Cultivationspren	Wyndle
Stump	Truthwatcher	unknown	unknown
Malata	Dustbringer	Ashspren	Spark
Lopen	Windrunner	Honorspren	Rua
Teft	Windrunner	Honorspren	unknown
Drehy	Windrunner	Honorspren	unknown
Szeth	Skybreaker	Highspren	unknown
Hoid	Lightweaver	Cryptic	unknown
Venli	Willshaper	Lightspren	Timbre
Tien	Lightweaver	Cryptic	unknown
Ki	Skybreaker	Highspren	Winnow
Warren	Skybreaker	Highspren	unknown
Nale	Skybreaker	Highspren	unknown

Quotes

“Alakavish was a Surgebinder and yet the Nahel bond gave him no more wisdom than a regular man”

—Nohadon on the bond

“The responsibility of what we've been given — whether it be the crown or the Nahel bond — needs to make us better”

—Nohadon on the bond

Trivia

• The word "Nahel" is a Rosharan word that means "the bond to divinity", while the word "bond" was added to the term to avoid confusing readers.

Notes

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