Lunamor she/her Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 I don’t know if this has been said before, but I saw that Roshar has a higher level of oxygen than normal Cosmere planets, so that means that everyone but the Horneaters could literally be airsick lowlanders. 2
IcaroRibeiro he/him Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Yes, that's why the gravity is smaller. He stated he did it in order to create big animals to Roshar fauna
CrazyRioter she/her Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Well the gravity isn't smaller because the oxygen level is higher, he did both because he wanted big crustaceans. Though they still need their magic symbiosis with the spren to survive.
Dalakaar he/him Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Ditto, made the same connection. In Arcanum Unbounded they mention that fire reacts unexpectedly as well which is another reason stormlight is used more frequently than torches/lanterns. I remember world-building about 16 years ago and trying to come up with various reasons for super-sized chitinous creatures. I just decided that they had an endo and an exo skeleton on my old world to support their size along with, you got it, more oxygen. Funny thing, before I had ever heard of GRRM I had a massive walled off section in the middle of an industrial plains/hills type continent that was always winter and full of undead. I found the concept of undead in winter to be quite the brutal double-whammy.
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