Chadolin Kholin

I’ve read everything in the cosmere except Tress I’m pretty sure. So I’m fully caught up with Stormlight, except for the Book 5 excerpts.

Sorry, I’m new to this site, I don’t really understand how the spoiler tags function. Is there a way for me to change the spoiler tag to all cosmere?

Thanks! This makes a lot of sense. I guess that then begs the question, why are there no other mammals native to Roshar?

Something that I’ve been curious about since the start of the series is the physiology of the listeners. They’re described as having carapace, and when Kaladin removes the carapace from one of them in the chasms, he notes how unlike their anatomy is to that of humans. But he doesn’t really go into detail as to why it’s different. We know that they have breasts in mate form, which leads me to believe they could be mammals, but it’s also noted that all of the very few mammals that live on Roshar came over with the original humans from Ashyn. However, the fact that humans and listeners could breed (the horneaters and herdazians both have listener ancestry), seems to indicate that they could be mammals. Is their skin more lizard like, or soft and hairy? The males are mentioned to have beards, but the listeners describe their hair as “hair strands”, so is it the same physiologically as human hair? Ar e there any WOB or in-book quotes that would clarify this?