+Child of Hodor Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 (edited) In the latest Shardcast the idea of Iriali metallic hair being from dragons is discussed. https://www.17thshard.com/news/shardcast/shardcast-history-of-roshar-part-2-r474/ I would argue that they have metallic hair because they have Elantrian ancestry and Elantrians have metallic silver hair. https://coppermind.net/wiki/Elantrian#Physical_Changes Its also in their name Iri like the Ire who are world hopping Elantrians Kelsier meets in MB:SH. https://coppermind.net/wiki/Ire In addition people from that region tend to have Aonic-ish 3 letter names like Evi and Toh. Edited February 23, 2019 by Child of Hodor
RShara she/her Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 (edited) Elantrians have white hair and silvery skin. Quote Physical Changes Elantrians have "brilliant white" hair and "metallic silver" skin and appear to shine with an inner light. Edited February 23, 2019 by RShara 1
+ILuvHats he/him Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 (edited) But dragons have metallic silver skin, or eyes if they’re in human form. They’re not metallic gold colored either. So IMO the Elantrian theory has about as much merit as the dragon one when it comes to colors. Though I still like the idea of dragons better, especially because there’s more symmetry to the Iriali’s journey starting on Yolen. Quote Its also in their name Iri like the Ire who are world hopping Elantrians Kelsier meets in MB:SH. The correlation between the names is likely coincidence. Iri comes directly from the word Iriali, which doesn’t seem to have any Aonic roots. Edited February 23, 2019 by ILuvHats 1
RShara she/her Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 It also doesn't really seem like it's pronounced Aonically. Evi would be Eev-eye, and Toh isn't based on an Aon at all since it only has one vowel.
+Child of Hodor Posted February 28, 2019 Author Posted February 28, 2019 On 2/23/2019 at 0:39 PM, ILuvHats said: But dragons have metallic silver skin, or eyes if they’re in human form. They’re not metallic gold colored either. So IMO the Elantrian theory has about as much merit as the dragon one when it comes to colors. Though I still like the idea of dragons better, especially because there’s more symmetry to the Iriali’s journey starting on Yolen. The correlation between the names is likely coincidence. Iri comes directly from the word Iriali, which doesn’t seem to have any Aonic roots. Not colors, but metallic hair, dragons appear to grow armor in Dragonsteel prime. and they aren't Silver anymore because other people from other planets mixed in. Their golden hair "breeds true" kind of like the Royal Locks on Nalthis. Iri/Ire hell of a coincidence. Big departure from the Arabic inspired names Brandon has been using for most of Roshar. We don't know which name was derived from the other. Am I a Chicagoan because I live in Chicago or is it called Chicago because Chicagoans live here? They could have been referring to themselves as the Ire and it slowly morphed into the Iri and then they came to Roshar and called themselves Iri and where they settled became known as Iri and then people started referring to the people as Iriali because that's what is done for most of Roshar: Alethela - Alethi. On 2/23/2019 at 3:03 PM, RShara said: It also doesn't really seem like it's pronounced Aonically. Evi would be Eev-eye, and Toh isn't based on an Aon at all since it only has one vowel. They are a combination of people from 3 worlds who migrated over (likely) thousands of years I'm sure their accents & pronunciation morphed over time. No other nation on Roshar uses 3 letter names, where did they get it from? Again Iri, Ire, it's not the same, but very similar. There are traces of the different worlds, but distorted. Why are central/south american countries called 'Latin America'? Well long ago in central Italy there were people called the Latins who spoke Latin and they founded Rome and created an republic/empire that lasted 1,000 years before collapsing which led to the Dark Ages. Europeans lost most of the Roman knowledge, but their language remained rooted in Latin. Italian Chris Columbus found the new world for Europe and Italian Amerigo Vespucci mapped it. Europeans colonized it and today everybody there speaks a Romance language descended from Latin. The Latins didn't go directly there, but their influence was passed down. "... the life will be white as a sun at night!" - OB Ch.36 Evi is making a color metaphor like Zahel or Azure would. But it's weirder than their's. Sun at night, weirdness with day night cycles makes me think of Taldain. This is tenuous, but it could be. Stronger evidence for Taldain (or another Autonomy planet) would be their weird 3 autonomous monarchs set up. There is a queen who is in charge of Foreign policy, there is a monarch in charge of the justice system and one over domestic policy. They aren't like the US 3 branches that have check on each other, each has control over their sphere and that's it. Autonomy.
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