The answer has more to do with the world I come from.
[She says, and reassures him, first;]
I feel comforted talking about about it. Roshar is very different from Earth, and a great deal of that has to do with the passing of the highstorms. Weather, on our world, circles the world; storms blow from the origin, and sweep the land in the one direction. Our cities are constructed sheltered by cliffs, in the sides of valleys.
The stormwall, if it hits up, will kill you. We tie criminals out in it to be judged by the Stormfather, and it's understood to be a death sentence. The plants have evolved to retract into polyps that can weld to the ground- the trees to lie flat when a wind picks up. The animals don't have fur, they have carapace. There is no earth on the ground, only stripped stone.
But we count on the storms, because when they pass, they leave us stormlight. Electricity, is the closest analogue I can think of; electricity, or perhaps magic? Something between the two.
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[She says, and reassures him, first;]
I feel comforted talking about about it. Roshar is very different from Earth, and a great deal of that has to do with the passing of the highstorms. Weather, on our world, circles the world; storms blow from the origin, and sweep the land in the one direction. Our cities are constructed sheltered by cliffs, in the sides of valleys.
The stormwall, if it hits up, will kill you. We tie criminals out in it to be judged by the Stormfather, and it's understood to be a death sentence. The plants have evolved to retract into polyps that can weld to the ground- the trees to lie flat when a wind picks up. The animals don't have fur, they have carapace. There is no earth on the ground, only stripped stone.
But we count on the storms, because when they pass, they leave us stormlight. Electricity, is the closest analogue I can think of; electricity, or perhaps magic? Something between the two.