Stormgate he/him Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 What are skyeels? In a WoB I tried and failed to find, Sanderson says the dragon-looking things on the Surgebinding chart are something we've seen before. My guess: Skyeels. So what do we know about them? Are they spren? Can people eat them? I think they may possibly be able to do something like the Listeners do, shifting form, given the pictures on the Surgebinding chart don't look much like skyeels, at least the heads.
Rakei Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 There is in either tWoK or WoR a drawing ostensibly by Shallan which illustrates skyeels (which just look like regular eels) The image on the surgebinding chart, looks much more like the chasm-fiends, again a there have been two drawings of them one in each of the books.
Stormgate he/him Posted December 10, 2015 Author Posted December 10, 2015 They looked more like serpents than chasmfiends.
DSC01 he/him Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 The dragon-looking things are larkins. That's what Nalan used to suck out Lift's Stormlight and also what Rysn was given as a gift after she jumped off the Reshi island.
Stormgate he/him Posted December 10, 2015 Author Posted December 10, 2015 That makes a lot more sense. What do they do with the Stormlight, though? Cultivation's magic system, perhaps? (I'm thinking Surgebinding is Honor, maybe the larkins are Cultivation's, and fabrials are the combination)
DSC01 he/him Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 That's a really good question. I actually never thought of what they did with it. I just figured it was getting sucked out and returned to the source Here, by the way, is the page from Shallan's notebook on skyeels (they aren't crustacean-y): http://coppermind.net/w/images/Skyeel.jpg
Vander Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 You know what I've always wondered about Skyeels? What do they do during Highstorms? I mean, they don't have a crustacean shell and resemble normal eels, and as far as I know are gentle-weather fliers. So... what? Do they nest or something? ... You know, I think I'll start a thread on this.
Vander Posted December 11, 2015 Posted December 11, 2015 Fly above it, maybe? Hmm... perhaps. Then that raises the question of their cold-resistance. As eels are usually mucus covered, that mucus could freeze within a higher part of the atmosphere. Also, was their flight duration ever accounted? As in, do they have to take a break once in a while, or do they spend their lives in flight?
DSC01 he/him Posted December 11, 2015 Posted December 11, 2015 Check the picture I linked above. They definitely land sometimes; although, it is apparently rather ungainly. As for a mucus layer, probably only if they're amphibious, I would think.
Blightsong he/him Posted December 11, 2015 Posted December 11, 2015 I would just like to point out that the creatures on the double eye seem to have legs and claws. I doubt they are serpents.
Vander Posted December 11, 2015 Posted December 11, 2015 Check the picture I linked above. They definitely land sometimes; although, it is apparently rather ungainly. As for a mucus layer, probably only if they're amphibious, I would think. Hmm... good one. I think that solves that issue, then.
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