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11 minutes ago, Fourth Of The Night said:

From Calamity Chicago Signing

Emphasis added by me. Larkin are native to Roshar. They are a flying Cremling-like creature.

As, I see, that settles it then. Still I wonder what did they want dead larkin for. 

"What is it?" Rysn demanded.

"Why we came here", Vstim said. "The thing we trade for, a treasure that very few know still exist. They were supposed to have died with Aimia, you see. I came here with all these goods in tow because Talik sent to me to say they had the corpse of one to trade. Kings pay fortunes for them."

He leaned down. "I have never seen one alive before. I was given the corpse I wanted in trade. This one has been given to you."

"By the Reshi?" Rysn asked, mind still clouded. She didn't know what to make of any of this. 

"The Reshi could not command one of the larkin", Vstim said. "This was given to you by the island itself. Now drink your medicine and sleep."

Larkins must be really special if kings paid fortunes for them. I reckon they must do something special for the money. Even if they're dead. So clearly kings don't pay fortunes for them as pets. 

Also species native to planets have the habit of spreading their habitats, even if they evolve in the meantime. So even if the larkin was endemic to Aimia, I would expect it to see somewhere else too, not just confined to that place and willing to die with it. The distance between Aimia and continent looks flyable. Moreover, just because they were said to have died with Aimia doesn't mean that's where they're from. 

We also know that merchants do travel through the perpendicularity of Roshar and at least some must've gotten to the Drominad system.

And the larkin was given to Rysn by an island, a living one, which is too much of a coincidence for the Brandonverse. 

If Aimia was always so isolated, maybe there's a gate on it to allow larkin trafficking. 

5 minutes ago, BeskarKomrk said:

I'd have to go back and look at Rysn's Interlude in WoR

Me too, that's what I was thinking. 

I wouldn't be surprised to see something from First of the Sun here though, after all Roshar is the great crossroad.

1 hour ago, BeskarKomrk said:

Chiri-Chiri is a larkin, which comes from Aimia originally.

We know that from books or WoB? I don't recall if I read this. 

If it comes from Aimia, do you know if it's found there in this exact form? If its origin is uncertain, can it be that it ate Patji worm?

Isn't Chiri-Chiri coming from Patji? Where else would an invested bird be coming from?

1 minute ago, Argent said:

Yahoo intentionally informed the maintainers of the DMARC protocol (which is a way for email clients to determine what a valid email domain looks like) to blacklist a ton of Yahoo domains, likely due the massive password leak they experienced recently. You can read a little more about it here, but I think it would be wise to look into moving to a different email platform...

Time to give up these jerks for good then! I can't believe they would strike at their users because of their own incompetence. Actually I can believe that but it's still awful. Thanks for sharing that info!

Thanks everyone! I used the contact form but I think I found the problem. I re-read the failure delivery and it seemed to complain about my email address, on a ymail domain, which is basically a newer Yahoo domain. This is the error:

Hi everyone,

Just tried to write an email to Brandon using the contact form on his website and very promptly got a mailer daemon with failed delivery in my inbox. Is this form supposed to work? Or is another method currently in use?