"In a manner of speaking. In simple terms, I was a historian. But what I studied was the history of the Desolations on Roshar. I had been trying to reconstruct what happened, the powers that humans used to fight back against the forces that rose against us."

She allows, quickly;

"I come from a world that faced periodic cataclysms, where understanding would be lost. We haven't ever recovered the things we once knew, millenia ago. Does your world have spren?"

He strikes her as a kind of spren, honestly.