Shattered Plains

[Voscaia she/her]

Just a question, and I apologize if it was asked and answered before: Is there a WOB how the Plains were shattered? The way they look in their symmetry made me think that the fight between Odium / Rayse and Honor / Tanavast might have taken place there and caused some collateral damage i.e. the shattering of the Plains. According to AU the similar fight between Odium and Ambition had devastating consequences for the Threnodite system...

[Weltall]

The most we've gotten out of Brandon is that he annotated someone's map with 'Great magic unleashed here' and an arrow pointing to the Plains. It's unlikely to be Odium's doing however, since one of the snippets of the listener's songs that we're given explicitly states that while humans blame them for it, they weren't the ones responsible.

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"They blame our people / For the loss of that land. / The city that once covered it / Did range the eastern strand. / The power made known in the tomes of our clan / Our gods were not who shattered these plains."

These songs were recorded around when the listeners fled during the False Desolation as a way of preserving their history after they transformed into dullform en masse and risked forgetting everything important. The song tells us that by necessity the Shattered Plains were created and Stormseat destroyed before the Recreance and before Honor's death. Likewise the humans seem to believe that Stormseat was destroyed during Aharietiam, per Navani's conversation with Shallan in WoR. While Honor's death was a protracted event, we know that he didn't finally die until after the Recreance and Honor was apparently mostly intact beforehand since we're told that previous generations of Radiants discovered the.truth and Honor was always able to talk them through it.

Edited December 7, 2020 by Ookla the Crimson King

[Numuhuku he/him]

I don't think it's too tricky to figure out what happened. We know that most of the Human's in the Roshan system fled their original home world after surgebinding left most of the planet wrecked. I think the Shattered plains were simply a micro example of what occurred on ashyn. High level surge binding transformed into weapons of mass destruction. What terrified the old Knights Radiant order into the recreance in order to abandon surgebinding powers.

[Chaos he/him]

You cannot mention RoW content outside its spoiler board. This topic can be moved there if you wish, then it will be allowed.

[Voscaia she/her]

@Chaos Aye, do it. I didn't realize that a RoW spoiler would be necessary in the further discussion...

[Chaos he/him]

Would you like me to move this to the RoW board? 

[Voscaia she/her]

17 hours ago, Chaos said:

Would you like me to move this to the RoW board? 

Yes