Urithiru is a stormlight-sink (Minor spoilers)

[DiamondMind he/him]

Important to the discussion: The frequency of hightorms during WoR can be found here, courtesy of Cheese Ninja.

[darkanimereal1]

I agree that Urithiru is too high for the stormwall to reach. Again, Kaladin flying over the top of the stormwall, Szeth's comments, etc. If that's the case, then Urithiru would actually be the opposite of a stormlight sink--it wouldn't get any stormlight. That may explain the tariffs of people coming into/out of the city. If it's the KR capital, they need stormlight.

 

There is some problems with there being only one highstorm that needs to be solved.

 

First, why does the amount of time between highstorms differ? If it was only one it should always hit with the same time inbetween.

 

Secondly, the stormfather created/rushed the last highstorm so that it came during the weeping. How did he do this, if there is only one?

 

Not saying that there isnt jsut one - just saying those thngs need to be sovled;)

 

I've always been on the "one storm" boat. People have mentioned this already, but it's possible the storm is effected by other weather patterns around the globe. Especially if Roshar's planet is tilted and has an elliptical orbit such as Earth does, ocean currents and general temperatures would change depending on the season and could also affect the day-to-day trajectory of the storm. 

 

I've been wondering, too, about how the Stormfather managed to send the rushed highstorm. This, I think, is highly related to the question of what happens to the highstorms during the Weeping. We know it's a two year rotation (one year highstorm in the middle, one year no highstorm in the middle) and that the entire thing is a 1,000 cycle (which is interesting--why does this matter? Perhaps it has something to do with Roshar's orbit around its star? Or, even better, this could have something to do with a sort of switch within Roshar's make up, similar to how the Earth's magnetic poles switch back and forth slowly over time). If we can get some fairly solid theories on the Rosharan yearly cycle, we could maybe tackle the original question of how he was able to rush it.

[The Duke]

The 1000 year cycle stuck me as odd as well. For the reason mentioned above (what changes?) and another one;

Even if there is one, how would they know? they have to have at least two messurments to make a hypotesis probably quite a few more to make a sound theory. If we take into consideration how much knowladge from that time is lacking and/or currupted, how come they believe in such a cycle?

 

The only thing I can imagine would be remembered is something cataclysmic, or extremly significant. perhaps an extremly long storm lasting or days, or an extreme period without storms at all (like the weeping but scaled in months or even a whole year).