Kaladin_The_Stormblessed Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Is Roshar's water level draining? More islands in the archipelagos are appearing since the silver kingdoms epoch as well as the existing islands become larger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaladin_The_Stormblessed Posted August 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Know what I'm sleep deprived but underwater volcanoes might make more sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Extesian Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Are there? I hadn't noticed. Given there's no evidence that weather has significantly changed sufficiently to indicate an ice age, if this is the case I think it would simply be crem buildup over a few millennia. Roshar is not tectonically active so it wouldn't be volcanic but crem deposits serve a similar function in terms of elevating land mass. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllNsickly Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 No volcanos. No Tectonic Activity on Roshar. Good question, though. Especially since there is no tectonic activity to push mountains higher... Where is the water going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScavellTane Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 I guess thats what the highstorm is for, in part? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoolofwhool Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 34 minutes ago, IllNsickly said: Where is the water going? The highstorms probably are giant siphons when on the other side, sucking up water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllNsickly Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Highstorms aren’t consuming the water, though. They move it around, certainly, but I would imagine that on Roshar, all rivers still lead to the sea. The Purelake even has a drain of its own. No one is quite sure where it drains to, but it’s there. Storms don’t result in net-negative water, it’s going somewhere else. If the ocean levels have dropped enough to reveal substantially more landmass, there should be an equal volume of water somewhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calderis Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) The shape of Roshar's landmass is constantly changing. Quote Blightsong (paraphrased) Is Roshar, or has Roshar always been the only large landmass on the planet? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Roshar is.... *Brandon then paused and looked up, thinking very hard* Roshar has always been the largest landmass--as long as there has been land. Footnote: Brandon has said elsewhere that the continent of Roshar was created artificially.source Quote Boogalyhu34 I asked you at minicon if Roshar had always been the only large landmass on the planet and I think you said that there was once no large land mass on Roshar. Did I hear you correctly? I've been kicking my self for months for not recording that small q and a. Brandon Sanderson You heard me right. FatalTragedy Does this mean Roshar was once an archipelago? Brandon Sanderson Not necessarily. source Add in that the landmass is shaped like the shadow of a single "frame" of the Julia set and it's just.... Weird. Edited August 24, 2018 by Calderis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jofwu Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 11 hours ago, Kaladin_The_Stormblessed said: Is Roshar's water level draining? More islands in the archipelagos are appearing since the silver kingdoms epoch as well as the existing islands become larger. I assume this is based on the Silver Kingdoms map? I don't really think we can take that map too seriously when it comes to indicating minor islands. It's more artwork than it is a practical map. The continent is definitely changing on geological timescales, but I don't think there's anything serious going that matters in the context of the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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