Where are Ryshadium from?

[Mushroom Catalog he/him]

Questioner

Where in Roshar do Ryshadiums come from?

Brandon Sanderson

That's a RAFO. I will answer it soon.

Questioner

Will we find out in Stormlight 3?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah.

 

Well, Stormlight 3 has happened now... do we know and I just don't remember? The coppermind doesn't have it...

[RShara she/her]

1 hour ago, Subvisual Haze said:

They're from Adonalsium, and were likely part of the planet/system originally when Adonalsium created it.  This was before Honor/Cultivation/Odium and human presence on the planet, all those came post Adonaslium shattering.

Rhyshadium are native Rosharian creatures, and we can tell this because they're specially adapted to survive in Roshar's environment (spren bonding for any purpose is a Rosharian ecology trait as is hard carapaces to protect from the highstorms).  This was also the clue starting us in the face all along that humans are the invasive species on Roshar, and Singers are the original residents: innate spren bonding and hard shells in the Singers.

Normal earth horses are the invasive species brought to Roshar from another planet during one of the large human migrations.  (This is what Renarin meant when he mumbled to Adolin that "they don't belong").

I'm sorry, but this is wrong. I mean, Ryshadium don't change forms, don't have carapace, don't pupate, have fur, red blood and only four legs. They very much don't resemble any native Rosharan life-form.

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Questioner

I'm really curious about Ryshadium. Is there something bigger about them?

Brandon Sanderson

It's not super-huge. They are non-native species who have started to form spren bonds like native species do. So, a symbiotic bond with a spren has started happening. Ryshadium are horses that have done that, basically. You could say that humans have done the same thing. Non-native species that have started to form spren bonds. The Ryshadium are the only other non-native species that that has started happening. Like the chasmfiends have a symbiotic relationship with the spren that they have, the Ryshadium have a spren.

It's not as visible, but it is there.

Idaho Falls signing (July 21, 2018)

 

Edited May 28, 2019 by RShara

[The Wanderer]

3 hours ago, Subvisual Haze said:

They're from Adonalsium, and were likely part of the planet/system originally when Adonalsium created it.  This was before Honor/Cultivation/Odium and human presence on the planet, all those came post Adonaslium shattering.

Rhyshadium are native Rosharian creatures, and we can tell this because they're specially adapted to survive in Roshar's environment (spren bonding for any purpose is a Rosharian ecology trait as is hard carapaces to protect from the highstorms).  This was also the clue starting us in the face all along that humans are the invasive species on Roshar, and Singers are the original residents: innate spren bonding and hard shells in the Singers.

Normal earth horses are the invasive species brought to Roshar from another planet during one of the large human migrations.  (This is what Renarin meant when he mumbled to Adolin that "they don't belong").

Ryshadium are nothing more than the horses originally brought from Ashyn after it was destroyed by the humans at the time. They, over time, managed to form bonds with spren, like Skyeels and Chasmfiends with mandras/luckspren. The spren they bond with are theorized to be musicspren, due to them being seen at their hooves while they were observed by Dalinar in west Alethkar- although he noted it was rare to see them that far west, perhaps saying they are not usually  found in Alethkar

[Karger he/him]

We see a herd of them in Dalinar's flashback and we know that they come from west of Alethakar.  We also know that they were changed via symbiosis with a spren.

[RShara she/her]

Do you mean originally or currently? Originally, they were just horses brought over with the humans, that have started to form spren bonds.

[Weltall]

Yeah, there's the conversation early in the book between Adolin and Renarin when the latter comments that the normal horses don't fit with Roshar's ecosystem, foreshadowing what we learn from the Eila Stele. The Ryshadium were horses that managed to adapt over time via spren bonds.

[Karger he/him]

1 hour ago, Subvisual Haze said:

Rhyshadium are native Rosharian creatures, and we can tell this because they're specially adapted to survive in Roshar's environment (spren bonding for any purpose is a Rosharian ecology trait as is hard carapaces to protect from the highstorms).  This was also the clue starting us in the face all along that humans are the invasive species on Roshar, and Singers are the original residents: innate spren bonding and hard shells in the Singers.

No they are not.  Hoid is surprised when he finds how the Rhyshadium have come into being and we know that he visited Roshar many years ago before his current stay.  This indicates that they are normal horses who have adapted to the Rosharan climate.

[Wander89 he/him]

I always imagine the Ryshadium choosing their riders much like the Tsaheylu bond a Na'vi uses in Avatar.

[Subvisual Haze]

edit: Yes, thank you to everyone for repeatedly informing me that I am very wrong.  Please consider me suitable chastised.

They're from Adonalsium, and were likely part of the planet/system originally when Adonalsium created it.  This was before Honor/Cultivation/Odium and human presence on the planet, all those came post Adonaslium shattering.

Rhyshadium are native Rosharian creatures, and we can tell this because they're specially adapted to survive in Roshar's environment (spren bonding for any purpose is a Rosharian ecology trait as is hard carapaces to protect from the highstorms).  This was also the clue starting us in the face all along that humans are the invasive species on Roshar, and Singers are the original residents: innate spren bonding and hard shells in the Singers.

Normal earth horses are the invasive species brought to Roshar from another planet during one of the large human migrations.  (This is what Renarin meant when he mumbled to Adolin that "they don't belong").

Edited May 28, 2019 by Subvisual Haze

[Ripheus23]

The Rhyshadium are descendants of the Horses of Rohan and the Ranyhyn of the Land. This proves they were created by the Shattering of Adonalsium, since only during the Shattering would the boundary between the cosmere and other spheres of reality have been most thin, hence magical horses from different universes quantum-tunneled into each other, inside of the Shattering, fusing into the Rhyshadium.