Life in Cosmere

[Bearer of Agonies]

We know that humans exist on multiple planets in the cosmere so is it possible that singers too exist on multiple planets? Or were they formerly humans whose dna was tampered by honor or cultivation and they exist only on roshar?

[+Oltux72]

1 hour ago, Mr Bear said:

We know that humans exist on multiple planets in the cosmere so is it possible that singers too exist on multiple planets?

They depend on forms. Hence they can settle only on worlds with Spren and a Highstorm. Most likely the answer to your question is negative.

[+Invocation]

I don't think they exist on multiple planets, but I'm also pretty sure they were there before Honor and Cultivation were too. If anyone was doing that kind of tweaking off a base genetic pattern, it probably would have been Adonalsium during his creation of Roshar. They might be loosely patterned off various fainlife things from Yolen, since the Shattered Plains and a few other things got moved to Roshar from Dragonsteel Prime. 

[Weltall]

On 4/17/2021 at 1:17 PM, Mr Bear said:

We know that humans exist on multiple planets in the cosmere so is it possible that singers too exist on multiple planets? Or were they formerly humans whose dna was tampered by honor or cultivation and they exist only on roshar?

The humans on Roshar (originally from Ashyn mainly) and the singers do not have a common ancestor (as we'd normally understand it) and predate the Shattering of Adonalsium. We know that most of what we see on Roshar came about through evolutionary processes and that Investiture speeds these processes up.

Since Adonalsium created the entire Rosharan System for some specific purpose, there's a very good chance that he either set things up so that something like the singers would emerge based on the starting conditions or he might have actively encouraged that result. This is based on a comment by Brandon that singer gemhearts are very similar to something seen with the Sho Del, from Yolen.