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Aradanftw
Let's say you wanted to be the Mistborn equivalent of a Surgebinder, having all ten Surges, would the best way to do that to bond at least five Honorblades or can you bond more than one spren?
Brandon Sanderson
You could bond five Honorblades. That'd be the easiest way by far. Because convincing multiple spren to bond you is going to be really tough, so by far the easiest way is just to get... you'd actually need all ten Honor... No, you'd need five Honorblades for the five... Yeah.
Aradanftw
You'd have to get the right ones.
Brandon Sanderson
You'd have to get the right ones and then you'd have all ten.
Aradanftw
And then, there's nothing wrong with bonding five individual Blades? You don't have to have five arms?
Brandon Sanderson
You do not have to have five arms. You could bond five Blades if you wanted to.
Aradanftw
Really cool. Thank you.
Brandon Sanderson
Particularly Honorblades.
Aradanftw
They're special.
Brandon Sanderson
Mhm.
Questioner
Does gender play a role in how a spren chooses a Radiant?
Brandon Sanderson
It does but it is not a strict... It's just spren are going to have preferences like people have preferences and that does play into it but there's not really any sort of strict...
If you want to know narratively, behind the scenes, it tends to work to pair opposite genders together, because it just makes for better conversations and things like that. And it makes the cast fill out a little bit better with a little more variety. So that's why you see the writer side of me doing it, but in-world my kind of explanation is they have preferences.
Questioner
You mentioned earlier about Investiture with spren and concepts. You mentioned there's only a certain amount that there could be. Is it possible for a concept to not be popular enough, where that concept could die, those spren could die? Or would they change?
Brandon Sanderson
They would change over time. Which some of them would call death, be aware. When you are essentially an immortal piece of something that's become self-aware, it would be very traumatic. And an individual that's obtained sapience-level intelligence is going to resist that to the point that it would have to be something devastating on a catastrophic level to actually do it to them. They would call that death. Lesser spren wouldn’t call it death; they would just be changing over time. Any more than an atom becoming part of a new compound is gonna think that it died.
