Lirin's hand Posted October 8, 2017 Posted October 8, 2017 Following on from 1) the shattered plains (Stormseat) reflect a cymatic pattern and 2) all the dawncities have cymatic patterns associated that are unique. Kabsal uses a plate to show the patterns of the major cities, does he have the beginnings of a weapon of mass destruction without even knowing it? Is the Shattered Plains the result of such a WMD: a big enough plate with a big enough gong (w/ magical enhancement, of course) in the exact center of the pattern? So if you get the tones right, you can destroy each major city with one calibrated attack? Perhaps this is what Dalinar saw in his vision of Kholinar: not just a "the end of the world" vision but the result of what an actual cymatic attack on the city would do. Makes me wonder when the cymatic connection was discovered, because that seems like a huge potential weakness to continue to build your population centers around.
thejopen27 he/him Posted October 8, 2017 Posted October 8, 2017 10 minutes ago, Lirin's hand said: Following on from 1) the shattered plains (Stormseat) reflect a cymatic pattern and 2) all the dawncities have cymatic patterns associated that are unique. In the Way of Kings, Shallan is told that the Dawnsingers carved the Paleneaum. Kharbranth is not symmetrical. I think similar cataclysm shattered all the places where cities follow cymatic patterns and humans (or listeners) built there cities over them. I don't think the Dawnsingers were super powerful beings, I think they were just the pre-Odium infected Listeners who aided the human refugees who fled to Roshar. The humans may think the Dawnsingers built those cities because either the Singers were already living there, or the formations were already there and the humans didn't know who could have made such magnificent structures, discounting giant, magical earthquakes or impacts.
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