Ryshadium
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True. I was imagining them as unaware that their planet was round, but obviously that's not the case for many, many reasons, so my query is kind of nonsensical. As for what we are missing on the map, we obviously got sidetracked. I have no ideas, nor any ideas on which map we are supposed to be looking at.
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Any thoughts on the large red gem in the center and how it correlates to the center of the surge binding chart?
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Let's talk about Kaladin's attitude in WoR.
Ryshadium replied to eveorjoy's topic in Stormlight Archive
I posted this elsewhere, but I'll repost it here: I felt Kaladin's arc was a very realistic portrayal of someone coming to terms with a significant life change, and an eventual acceptance that his worldview was perhaps skewed. It was kind of like growing up, and I appreciated that he was able to accept not only who he is, but that light eyes aren't all bad. It's the person, not the eye color that matters. Kaladin is my favorite character right now. He's very real and relatable. He makes mistakes, he avoids, and he doesn't know how to accept the reality that he's basically going to become that which he's hated his whole life. He basically sabotages himself just so he doesn't have to become a light eyes. That's heavy stuff to deal with. It is no wonder he's psychologically damaged and finds constant rain to be depressing. -
Re: the ever moving rosharShell I don't know how one goes about espousing things, but that may be worth espousing. To Veil: Darn magic always ruining my dreams of sailing the open, stormridden seas. That being said, I bet Jasnah absolutely knows where the origin is.
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It's late, my kids are asleep, and the sky is awake, so I'm awake. And in the mood for both unreasonable and uneducated conjecture.
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Someone should take a sailing ship east and find out I am still curious how rosharians are aware of their place on the globe, cartographically speaking.
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I like this idea. It makes a great deal of sense. I don't have much to add, just that the Voidbringing chart has line connections that look like lightning, which connotates storms, obviously, so I see a correlation there too. Any ideas on the identity of the woman on the chart and how she might relate?
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Kaladin is extremely bright. In fact, I feel like an important aspect of his characterization is that he sees that he is better than many light eyes in many ways but society doesn't allow him to explore that as an option.
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Interesting question regarding the storms. Do they fully disappear before hitting Shonovar or do they go around the mountains into the sea? Does Aimia get hit by them? Was it established that it's one continual storm or is that conjecture. The people of Roshar clearly have an expected origin point to the east. Do they know what that is? Thy are adept enough to know that there is half a planet northward based on their maps, maybe they have a knowledge of the origin point too.
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Maybe Honor and Cultivation shacked up over there and the nightwatcher is the lonesome child caring for her lovesick senile mother. Perhaps honor was buried near there, and that's why the nightwatcher hangs out in that valley?
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Is Roshar roughly supposed to be earth sized? Also, incredible work guys!! I'm amazingly impressed.
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The vaulted ceiling thing I was trying to say a few pages ago, but you illustrated what I was getting at much more clearly!
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Ym was my favorite new character. I was sad to see him go. Kaladin and Dalinar remain my favorite, I felt Kaladin's arc was a very realistic portrayal of someone coming to terms with a significant life change, and an eventual acceptance that his worldview was perhaps skewed. It was kind of like growing up, and I appreciated that he was able to accept not only who he is, but that light eyes aren't all bad. It's the person, not the eye color that matters. Dalinar's arc was similar in some ways, an acceptance that he is no longer the Fighting brute, but rather a thoughtful and caring leader who makes the hard choices a leader has to make. Both their stories were in many ways about self acceptance, and I thought both rang very strong and true. Shallan is not my favorite, and I was less interested in her story. I wanted to like her more than I did. I was frustrated particularly with her scenes with Kaladin. I felt like he should have "won" more against her. I also felt like I was more curious about the people that Shallan interacted with vs Shallan herself. Eshonai's story was ok for me. I saw where it was going early on, so it wasn't surprising , but I greatly appreciated the insight into the listeners and their world . I look forward to more of that. Elkohar interests me greatly - he was surprising to me. His self awareness towards the end was both brave and horribly depressing at the same time. Kaladin and Dalinar remain the backbone of the series for me. Their characters seem to be the most fully realized and I root for them even when they make choices or decisions I disagree with.
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Is that because of what peter mentioned earlier? One is a map from a round world perspective and one is a flat, smaller and flattened section? Apologies I'm trying to understand how this works so I can potentially assist in the future. Thanks!
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Could you use two different geographical points to determine it? Or estimate? The different lines hit different recognizable points on the frost lands map, you could use those as reference points?
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You should be able to extrapolate the distance between longitude lines right? We have 3 I think? Or does the spherical shape make that hard and that's why you're cranky about this? *i say you as if it's the easiest thing ever when on fact I clearly have no idea what I'm talking about so deepest apologies.
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You can join me at the back of the class.
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That's my kind of crazy.
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Wouldn't lower on the map mean a higher latitude number since we're in the southern hemisphere? Or am I losing my mind?
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So New Nanatanan is right near the Prime Meridian? We can call it Greenwich from now on.
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That's really neat. It gives me a much better perspective on what is going on. Spatial relations were never my thing. Can we use this to create longitudinal lines on a "globe" vs the flat map? Does it matter?
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Well, there is the question I saw floating around about the metal in the fabrials! Really, though, just cracking some pots since I'm inept at this map stuff.
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It would certainly explain why Nazh is running around annotating maps only on Scadrial and Roshar Nope. We have already been told that Roshar has a single continent. Brandon left it open though that there may be some smaller islands and such out there. But, the landmass on the maps is most of the landmass on Roshar. It was (mostly) a joke Would be quite the trick on Brandon's part if it were true though.
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Maybe Roshar is really the missing southern part of Scadrial.
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Thank you. Also, it's clear that I do not have a future in cartography. But I look forward to when you all figure it out for me, so thank you in advance.
