Roshar
Roshar | |
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Shards | Honor, Cultivation |
Investitures | Surgebinding, Old Magic, Voidbinding |
System | Greater Roshar |
Universe | Cosmere |
Roshar is the native name for the planet on which The Stormlight Archive is set. It is also the name of the supercontinent that the main events of the series take place on[1].
Nations
Roshar's population categorizes their history into a number of epochs. Most notable is the Silver Kingdoms Epoch, or the Heraldic Epoch, when the Knights Radiant kept the peace. They protected Roshar from their home, the great city of Urithiru. The Silver Kingdoms are:
In the the modern era, the Era of Solitude, the current division of countries and regions in Roshar are:
Calendar
The Rosharan calendar is divided up into ten months, with ten weeks each. Both the months and the weeks are named after the numbers on the Ars Arcanum, and are sometimes combined into abbreviations. Such abbreviations have the full name of the month and two suffixes, for week and day. Each week is five days, so the year in Roshar is 500 days, ultimately defined by the time between two Weepings.[2] Although the Rosharan year is 500 days long, these days are shorter than on Earth and a Rosharan year is equivalent to 1.1 Earth years.[3][4]
Abbreviation | Month | Week | Day |
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Chachanan | Chach | Nan | Nan |
Jesachev | Jes | Chach | Vev |
Kaktach | Kak | Tanat | Chach |
Roshar's surface gravity is, at 0.7g, significantly weaker than that of Earth. This (in part) is responsible for the native creatures growing so large.[5]
Celestial Bodies
Roshar has several notable heavenly bodies, such as the moons. The first moon is Salas. It is violet, and is the smallest moon. The middle moon is Nomon, which is a bright, pale blue. And the final moon is Mishim, which is small and green. The Shin call the moons the Three Sisters, and call each moon by its order. So Salas is the First Sister, Nomon the Second Sister and Mishim, the Third Sister.
There is also Taln's Scar, which is a great swath of red stars that stand out against the white ones. Some people believe they can determine the personality of some one based on the position of Taln's Scar on their seventh birthday.
There are two other inhabitable planets in Roshar's system, which is known as Greater Roshar: Braize and Ashyn.[6]
Wildlife
Roshar has a unique spectrum of native life. There's a number of human subspecies, and various other kinds of mammal. Lots of stranger molluscus and arthropodic types of creature such as Greatshells and things.
Notes
- ↑ It is a supercontinent
— 17th Shard forums - 26 September 2012# - ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 46#
- ↑ Roshar year is 1.1 Earth years
— 17th Shard forums - 25 January 2014# - ↑ Length of Roshar days and years
— 17th Shard forums - 12 February 2013# - ↑ Did you have to do lots of research?
— Theoryland - Sep 16th, 2010# - ↑ Correct spellings (by Eric)
— 17th Shard forums - 09 August 2013#