Weltall Posted July 23, 2018 Posted July 23, 2018 17 minutes ago, eleventh of the moon said: I am both confused and thankful. So, if space between worlds doesn't matter, then why are there so many people from warbreaker in stormlight, yet none from any other world? The Warbreaker characters are more prominent simply because they play a bigger role in the story and they have very specific reasons for being on Roshar. For example, Vasher is there because it's easier for him and less distasteful to get Stormlight to feed his Divine Breath than it is to feed on Breath every week. But we've seen characters from every major world on Roshar as well as some mystery worldhoppers we can't currently identify. All of them have reasons to be there even if we're not certain of them yet; the Seventeenth Shard trio for example is looking for Hoid and Nazh is doing field research for Khriss.
StrikerEZ he/him Posted July 24, 2018 Posted July 24, 2018 15 hours ago, eleventh of the moon said: Mind Blown Yeah, the Cosmere tends to do that to you when you first discover it.
eleventh of the moon he/him Posted July 25, 2018 Author Posted July 25, 2018 well, i have known about the cosmere for a long time, I just didn't know everything was so interconected in it.
Calderis he/him Posted July 25, 2018 Posted July 25, 2018 44 minutes ago, eleventh of the moon said: well, i have known about the cosmere for a long time, I just didn't know everything was so interconected in it. It's... Crazy really. Here's a pretty good wob that has a mention that Nalthis has storming customs for worldhoppers. Quote Questioner [PENDING REVIEW] We started out in the earlier books knowing that there's this Hoid guy, he's a worldhopper and worldhoppers exist. And then we've kind of been given more and more. In Secret History it said you'd be surprised about the economy you've ended by destroying the Perpedicularity - what amount of people are travelling between worlds? Hundreds? Thousands? Billions? Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] Thousands. Questioner [PENDING REVIEW] Is it like vacation? Or is it like - Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] Well, I wouldn't call it [vacationing] Questioner [PENDING REVIEW] Is it the frontier? Or is it from where you could go? Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] It depends on the roadway. Let's say you look at frontier era America. How hard was it to get to England? It was really far away, but it was actually relatively safe and common to do this. How difficult was it to get to Boise, Idaho? That's harder, but you know how to do it. How easy was it to get to, let's say, the Hawaiian Islands? You're starting to get into like, the question comes here, certain pathways are more traveled. There're going to be caravans, there're going to be guides. There're going to be safe travels between certain places that are done commonly enough that if you are in the know and are in the right place you can be like "I wanna buy passage here." And you go there, and you can have a reasonable expectation that you're going to make it to where you're going. Other places, you say, "I wanna go here", and they're like, "Yeah, I've known someone who tried that and they never came back. Not taking you." So, where you're going, where you're trafficking, Khriss gives you some indications of which ones are easy to get to and which ones are commonly visited. I would recommend that if you want to go on vacation in the Cosmere, like, "I want to go somewhere different," go to Nalthis. Nalthis is great to go to, right? They even have customs that you can go through. You can like, arrive, and things like this. Don't go to Sel. Sel is not good to go to. Sel is really dangerous to go to. There's a dead Shard--two of them--in the Cognitive Realm that will destroy you. Other places, Scadrial, used to be a lot easier to get to. Roshar, depends which era you're talking about. Sometimes it's pretty easy to go to. Those nice Horneaters will treat you like a god and feed you food. However, right now, it might not be a good time to try to visit Roshar. source 1
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