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There is a bright patch of red stars visible from some of the Shardworlds, called Taln's Scar on Roshar, Red Rip on Scadrial and Starbelt on Threnody. There have been theories on whether it had something to do with the Shattering of Adonalsium, as well as associating it with Investiture corruption due to it being red Found this interesting WoB: Redshift occurs when stars are moving away from your point of view due to the rapid expansion of space. Did something happen that caused an entire stellar region to get pushed outwards? The Red Rip being related to the Shattering seems more and more likely...

So in BoM, near the end the "Rep Rip" is mentioned as being in the sky. I think this could have something to do with Trell, given that it is depicted as surrounding the planet and its Immortals have red eyes. It's even mentioned twice, one on page 84: "By the starlight- which was bright tonight, with no clouds and the Rep Rip low on the horizon-..." and in the Epilogue, in the Wax section, right before he looks at the memory: "...though the skyscraper was tall enough he thought he could see stars and the Rep Rip through that mist..." At the very least, this is a new feature of Scadrial's sky that I don't think has been mentioned before.