The Wanderer Posted October 17, 2019 Posted October 17, 2019 Found this in the nature reserve behind my house. The word must have an English origin
Calderis he/him Posted October 17, 2019 Posted October 17, 2019 Only definition I can find anywhere outside of here is an informal shorthand for "crematorium"
+ILuvHats he/him Posted October 17, 2019 Posted October 17, 2019 Maybe it was someone’s name. Imagine having Crem as a last name and then reading SA.
Zelly Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 Possible derivation from "cream"? cramum derives from a Welsh word cramen, meaning ‘scab’ or ‘crust’, and Collins charts its origins to Breton’s crammen, meaning ‘skin’ or ‘surface’ (Crem collecting on surfaces and hardening?) May also be an offshoot of cream referring to something cream like in texture and color? Got a lot of pale clay in that reserve?
Hakusho Slick he/him Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 A quick Google reveals CREM stands for "CAMP Responsive Element Modulator." CAMP stands for Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate, which is a cellular messenger molecule, and Responsive Element Modulator refers to a gene that codes for parts of it. This is some ADVANCED molecular biology here. Brandon is definitely dropping some hints as to what Mother Cultivation is up to on Roshar... Unless there's yet another deeper level I'm not seeing here...
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