Frustration Posted January 10, 2023 Author Posted January 10, 2023 4 minutes ago, alder24 said: Why no answer on interior? What first came to my mind is hollow Roshar. Well, I was looking at the continent on a globe projection earlier, and from a certain angle, it looks like a very large creature.
alder24 Posted January 10, 2023 Posted January 10, 2023 2 minutes ago, Frustration said: Well, I was looking at the continent on a globe projection earlier, and from a certain angle, it looks like a very large creature. Certain angle? It looks just like a rhino head with open mouth, from all angles!
IlstrawberrySeed Posted January 10, 2023 Posted January 10, 2023 Are you saying Roshar is actually a greatshell?
Frustration Posted January 10, 2023 Author Posted January 10, 2023 Just now, IlstrawberrySeed said: Are you saying Roshar is actually a greatshell? Yep. Move over dinosaur earth, I do hereby found the Greatshell Roshar Society. 1
alder24 Posted January 10, 2023 Posted January 10, 2023 38 minutes ago, Frustration said: Yep. Move over dinosaur earth, I do hereby found the Greatshell Roshar Society. I'm in! Will we get a tinfoil hat or should I make one for myself?
Frustration Posted January 10, 2023 Author Posted January 10, 2023 1 minute ago, alder24 said: I'm in! Will we get a tinfoil hat or should I make one for myself? You have to make it, but we will automatically soulcast it into aluminum for you. 1
cometaryorbit Posted January 10, 2023 Posted January 10, 2023 Roshar could have no tectonic activity but still have a core structure like Earth's, probably. The plate tectonics we have are more a crust/upper mantle thing. But this is very poorly understood in RL: I don't think anyone 100% knows why Venus doesn't have plate tectonics despite its bulk composition and mass being so much like Earth's. (Arguably Venus' crust is too thick, but our geological data on Venus is not very good.) Basically this is poorly understood enough that Brandon could justify it either way even with real world science. Roshar isn't nearly old enough for magnetic field habitability issues to matter, anyway. -- I really don't think an Earthlike core is Feruchemically valid iron. It's basically an alloy of iron, nickel, and other stuff. It's much less pure iron than steel is. 2
cometaryorbit Posted January 11, 2023 Posted January 11, 2023 7 hours ago, Frustration said: Why would he not be able to? He's able to pull them into the PR. Well, I suppose that wasn't well worded. He probably could steal those spren bonds under some conditions. But we don't, iirc, know what he had to do to set up those experiments with the spren. There might have been significant prep work involved. What I'm doubting is that he could just walk up to, say, Venli or Jasnah, tap them on their shoulder and steal their spren bonds just like that.
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