CosmereQuestioner Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Do we know what caused the 10 craters on the Shattered Plains where the 10 Alethi war camps are set up? Both pictures of the Plains have exactly 10 (no extras or empty ones) in a semi circle besides the plains. My thoughts were that these may have been landing points for the heralds when they came before the desolation? Falling at speed like a meteor... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagerunner he/him Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 I had always thought they were artificially created using Soulcasters. They seem far too regular to be natural. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosmereQuestioner Posted August 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 I don't think they were...the description from thescene where bridge 4 gets their tattoosite says: "The 'warcamp' was really a city, built up inside the craterlike rim of some enormous rock formation." Which to me says it's a bit big to soul cast, or at the least impractical (and seemingly to them, natural). I assumed they moved to the shattered Plains and found them convenient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata he/him Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) 46 minutes ago, CosmereQuestioner said: My thoughts were that these may have been landing points for the heralds when they came before the desolation? Falling at speed like a meteor... This would be nice, but we saw how the Herald arrive on Roshar...Therefore is really unlikely. Actually the Craters's origin is quite a mistery....I can't find a likely origin, just weak ideas In the end, we know too little about the event that Shattered the plains to speculate about the craters... Edited August 31, 2016 by Yata 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Master Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Didn't they say that the craters were built as satellite cities by the original people of Natanatan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nervousnerd he/him Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 11 minutes ago, Sand Master said: Didn't they say that the craters were built as satellite cities by the original people of Natanatan? I believe that Shallan may have mentioned that she believed that. Also, the Ghostbloods found that secret hideout with a basement that was already present. Seems to confirm that something was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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