speculation The Purpose of Greater Roshar

[+TheFoxQR]

This is something that makes sense to me, if I connect the dots a certain way. 

We know that the Greater Roshar System was created by Adonalsium itself. We know Roshar has a deadline, as the moons are not in a stable orbit, and even the continent may someday vanish.

And... we know that Preservation and Ruin created Scadrial. They created Humanity and all life on it, modeling it after Yolen. And we know that Preservation created Allomancy. But what if even that was modeled after something else? What if it had precedence in something that Adonalsium made before?

We know that in Allomancy, "burning" the metal doesn't produce the power directly. The molecular structure of the metal only acts as a key, and "burning" it simply exchanges the physical metal with Preservation's power, directly coming from the Spiritual. The molecular structural "key" then shapes this power, or the power is summoned in such a way that it does what it's supposed to do. In this Preservation "bound" the shapes of molecules into 16 different powers.

Next up, when Harmony first ascends, he gains an implicit understanding of the laws of Realmatic Cosmere. Moreover he foresees how these forces can be manipulated and used with the aid of Technology. But how does he convey these to his people? He creates an environment which allows them to learn and discover these on their own. He directly only gives them as much as they had before, and maybe a little extra depending on their struggles and needs at the time.

I have literally no evidence for what I'm about to say; this is speculation. However, what if something similar is going on in Greater Roshar? Adonalsium maybe had such an understanding of the laws of Realmatic Theory. Whether it foresaw its own Shattering and planned accordingly or not, it could also have a good idea of how those forces can be used, what advanced civilization may look like. What if Greater Roshar was to be something akin to the Elendel Basin, on a bigger scale? The Ten Gas Giants define Surges, which are implicit focii that bind investiture and make it manifest certain base laws of Realmatic Physics. Then, Roshar acts as a showcase. Adonalsium creates an investiture cycle that would naturally manifest these surges, and life would... uhhh.. find a way. If he accelerates growth of life here, this naturally becomes an epicentre of Cultivation. And maybe Honor too, depending on how things pan out.

The best thing about this is that it can work whichever way you fall on Adonalsium's foresight seeing his Shattering; it doesn't matter. If he foresaw it, Roshar is livable simply to facilitate whatever happens there during SA. If he didn't, maybe Adonalsium only saw that life would need a Garden like that to gain some understanding of the universe.

Edited July 5, 2019 by TheFoxQR