RShara Posted April 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 I dunno. I mentioned fractals, weathering/crem buildup in regards to the highstorm directions, and galactic cores pages ago and didn't get any responses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryshadium Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 Oh good, someone's gotten somewhere. My brain fried and I had to take a mental holiday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aheerema Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Wait, which post is getting closer??? Maybe Peter upvoted the post? Can we see which posts someone has upvoted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryshadium Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 It was right after someone posted about tesselations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara Posted April 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 So you could fit another Roshar alongside any other Roshar and have them fit perfectly? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryshadium Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 That would be amazing. Someone test it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara Posted April 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Nope didn't work. Although Thaylena matched up pretty well with Purelake. Also Roshar really looks like a hurricane if you spin it fast enough My "eye" was somewhere in the Reshi sea though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryshadium Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Have we talked about Roshar itself moving instead of the storms themselves moving? Side note, my phone now accepts Roshar as a proper noun. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara Posted April 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Yeah, and Brandon confirmed that the continent drifts over millennia as the east is worm away and the west is built up. Which led me to the question of how it built up in the same way all the time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryshadium Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Roshar is one scientifically confusing planet. Has anyone ever asked him what's in the northern hemisphere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yamahako Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 My post about the world being a drain had 4 upvotes, though I can't see who made them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kheran Posted April 8, 2014 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Hello everyone So I just read all the pages and found a lot of interesting things said ( I up-voted them, of course ). And I while staring at the Roshar, I noticed something rather peculiar : the shape of the archipelagos.They are perfectly aligned along ellipses. And symmetrical.Let me show you : Do you see what I mean ?The ellipse #1 has a little offset though, and ,in my opinion, due to the Highstorms themselves, the same phenomenon can be seen with Earth sand dunes, which can travel quite some distance every year ( drifting ? ).Ellipses #2 and 3 have an identical "twin", offsetted themselves a little as well, located at the same distance of the center of symmetry.How to explain the differences in topology, Roshar not being symmetrical ? Well : wind erosion and sedimentation of crem. The Unclaimed Hills and the Frostlands are the result of this, the highest pressure being on the Hills, where the wind is the strongest and the crem more abundant due to be the first landmass hit by the Highstorms. And thousands, hundreds of thousand, millions ( ? ) of battering made them a very rugged terrain. The Frostlands are a part of what hit the Hills also, but in a "smoother" way, maybe due to the fact that there was nothing behind but water/sea, nothing to pile on, like the archipelagos from the origin of time. And Iri, Babatharnam and Rira are the results of sedimentation. The Reshi sea and the Purelake, if I'm right, will be landmasses in the future, due to the same phenomenon. Shinovar is the oddball there, because of its protection, like a big valley between those two mountain ranges. I'm pretty sure the Roshar of Old must really look like that country, with dirt, grass, trees ,Earth-like. And no, I'm not a geologist Food for thought, my friends, food for thought PS : once again, I'm sorry if there are grammatical/spelling errors, English not being my native language 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara Posted April 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Awesome find, Kheran! Upvote for you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humph Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Unfortunately, the "ellipses" only work in the map projection. They would not work on the globe of Roshar. This is because, as one moves from the equator, the map gets more and more stretched out to project a 3-D portion of a globe onto a 2-D projection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maresia Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 What if Roshar is a "garbage patch" of sediments and crem? I think Yamahako is onto something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arin Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 I have been looking at the map of Roshar from the Silver Kingdom, the map of Shadesmar and the current map of Roshar. They are not the same. The map of the Silver Kingdom and Shadesmar match. The current Roshar map does not. There are many more islands in current Roshar. I speculated earlier that it had something to do with the living islands we saw in WoR. They seem to have almost blocked off the Reshi Sea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HydrogenAlpha Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 How could would it be if the islandshells formed a dam to dry out the Reshi sea ? Could happen every Desolation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codetoast Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 I think the amount of crem/erosion can be seen in WoR to be rather small. Based on the couple times crem was cut through with a shardblade to reveal stormseat buildings in such, we can see that it can't be a very deep layer of crem and stormseat was last occupied a long time ago. the amount of difference between the two maps over 4000 years may not be unreasonable. Also islands that are no longer present could have been lost for other reasons than tectonics/erosion as they could be living greatshells. They probably just swam away. I feel like the geography only changes dramatically during a desolation. Which the last one happened a long time ago. Perhaps during the last desolation...A giant storm raged creating the current landscape. Also, lets talk about the coriolis effect. storms in the southern hemisphere rotate counter clockwise I think which is similar to the way roshar continent appears to be rotating. If you were to drain an ocean or the result of a major flooding, would it drain clockwise in the southern hemisphere. If roshar's continent is made of deposits, i think it more likely storm deposits then drain deposits. Also... they mention the horneaters holy waters are a hotspring. I am not a geologist but I thought hot springs were created by the water being heated by magma under the ground which brings us to the same dilemna of no tectonic movements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara Posted April 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 I'm almost certain Roshar rotates the opposite way that Earth does, from my post a few pages back, and someone else's post more recently.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codetoast Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Even so, I think a storm more likely then a drain. There would have to be a whole lot of pressure difference in the drain to create a vortex large enough to rotate a whole continents worth of sediment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burke Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Roshar the land-mass is in the southern hemisphere. The land-mass is highly symmetrical. Sailors never stray very far from shore for fear of highstorms. Is there another land-mass on the opposite side of the planet? (ie. Northern hemisphere, shifted longitudinally by 180 degrees). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShara Posted April 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 (edited) According to Brandon, the Roshar supercontinent is the only significant landmass on the planet. Someone on page 25 got close, I just can't figure out what, since a lot of it had been posted before. Argh this is drivibg me nuts! Maybe Roshar is in the shape of the Everstorm and a highstorm crashing together? Maybe it was formed that way? That's why Urithiru/highest mountains are in the center--either they're the eye, or the peak wheere the storms hit? Edited April 8, 2014 by RShara 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poolboy Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 Maybe the whole continent was created using a giant splatter art turntable 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yamahako Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 But the everstorms are a new thing never before seen aren't they? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottos Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 On the ideas of fractals and Roshar draining at the Pure Lake, these two concepts made me think of Pattern. If I remember correctly, Shallan comments on how Pattern's pattern spirals in on its self in increasingly complex patterns. This make me wonder if there is a connection between Pattern's shape and the shape of Roshar. Could the same force that causes Pattern's shape be the same force that shapes Roshar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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