Roshar Rhythms Question

[KalaDANG he/him]

My question kind of stems from this quote in Oathbringer. 

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"When Kaladin awoke on the ship in Shadesmar, the others were already up. He sad, bleary-eyed on his bunk, listening to the beads crash outside the hull. There almost seemed ... a pattern or rhythm to them? or was he imagining things?"

So, that seems to imply that the beads are vibrating and moving with the rhythms. Do the Rhythms resonate through the cognitive realm, vibrating the beads, similar to Kabsal's sand plate, but on a much larger scale?

 

Edited August 10, 2018 by KalaDANG

[KalaDANG he/him]

Coooooooool! So Roshar’s rhythms resonate through the entire cosmere! That’s awesome. So in your WoB it confirms that the rhythms are a direct connection to the spiritual realm. So the rhythms come from there and it just resonates through the realms?

[Calderis he/him]

Not only the Cognitive, and not only on Roshar. 

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Questioner (paraphrased)

Could a Soother prevent a listener from attuning a given rhythm?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

No. A coppercloud could, but I hadn't thought about emotional allomancy interacting. See, the rhythm isn't your emotion and doesn't determine your mood. It is a direct connection to the spiritual realm. So I guess soothing could make it harder just like it makes anything harder, in the same way that driving a car would be harder. [recording starts here] And so, for the same reasons that you can, um, it is possible that a coppercloud can play with it. Not a normal power of a coppercloud, but you’ve seen them do stuff similar.

Footnote: Question was cut off in recording, first bit reproduced from memory
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Questioner

If you took a Parshendi... And they were born outside Roshar and never visited Roshar in their lives, would they hear the Rhythms <>?

Brandon Sanderson

Would they hear the Rhythms beyond Roshar... If you took one that was not born on Roshar, would they feel the Rhythms off-Roshar or just Rhythms in general?

Questioner

Rhythms in general.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, they would sense <them>.

Questioner

<> beyond Roshar?

Brandon Sanderson

What they are sensing... it's something that permeates the Cosmere but on Roshar has specific way of <>

Questioner

<is it the same thing that Soothers and Rioters are using?>

Brandon Sanderson

Now you're straying into RAFO territory <with your question/good question>...

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