Scars of Hathsin he/him Posted November 21, 2023 Report Share Posted November 21, 2023 (edited) Spoiler It has been a while since I have posted here. So we know Roshar is one supercontinent, but do they have tectonic plates, and would one day the continents split up. Can someone answer my question? @alder24 @Argenti @Treamayne Edited November 21, 2023 by Scars of Hathsin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treamayne Posted November 21, 2023 Report Share Posted November 21, 2023 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Scars of Hathsin said: It has been a while since I have posted here. So we know Roshar is one supercontinent, but do they have tectonic plates, and would one day the continents split up. Can someone answer my question? @alder24 @Argenti @Treamayne No Tectonic plates, but the landmass does move. WoBs: Spoiler Quote FireArcadia Does the world map in The Way of Kings show all of the landmasses of Roshar? Does that make the continent on Roshar a Pangaea-like supercontinent? And as I think about it, are there tectonic plates on Roshar? Brandon Sanderson It is a supercontinent. I won't say there is NOTHING out there, but (unlike Scadrial) there is not another full continent. Plate tectonics are not a factor on the supercontinent. 17th Shard Forum Q&A (Sept. 26, 2012) Quote Rybal (paraphrased) How did you come up with the geography on Roshar? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) The geography on Roshar was developed as a natural outgrowth of the highstorm, which was the first concept for Roshar, which was inspired by the storm of Jupiter, which was me wanting to tell a story about a world with a continual magical storm. And then I built the ecology and all of these things up from that. Roshar had to grow up--I had to find a mechanism by which stone was deposited by rain, because I felt that the constant weathering over that long of a time would leave no continents. So the crem was my kind of scientific-with-one-foot-in-magic hack on keeping the continent. So the continent does drift. They don't have plate tectonics. The continent actually moves as it gets weathered on the east and gets pushed that direction over millennia of time. Words of Radiance Washington, DC signing (March 20, 2014) Quote Questioner Does Roshar have plate tectonics? Brandon Sanderson Roshar does not have plate tectonics, good question. Questioner Well when I met you in Orem, I was asking about frequencies. And you said it was more the shape of the plate-- The frequency. We've got no plate tectonics, we've got people who like to sing. Brandon Sanderson Good question. Now the weird thing that we would have is with the crem, we have to do some weird geology gymnastics, because Roshar is moving... Roshar, the continent of Roshar, it's moving, right? As it gets weathered and things like this. Making Roshar actually work requires some really interesting scientific gymnastics. But one of them is I just didn't think plate tectonics, or even volcanoes and things, is just not something that is going to work on Roshar the way that I built it. So I just stayed away from all of that. It's a pangaea. Questioners Is the pangaea built up of crem? Brandon Sanderson It's a pangaea built up of crem. Rubix Over a long time-- Brandon Sanderson Well no, because it was created at first. Bystander And then crem was on top of it? Brandon Sanderson ...The whole idea that this is a fractal-- The whole point of that is, somebody built this. Somebody built this using mathematics that you know. They said "Oh. Boom. Bing!" and grew themselves a continent. Firefight release party (Jan. 5, 2015) Quote Questioner (paraphrased) Has anyone figured out what the secret in the map was, in Words of Radiance? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Yeah, they have. That it's modeled after the Julia Set. Which is meant to indicate that Roshar was designed specifically. AndrewStirlingMacDonald (paraphrased) Did it happen through crem buildup? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) No. Shadows of Self Boston signing (Oct. 14, 2015) Hope that helps Edited November 21, 2023 by Treamayne SPAG 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argenti he/him Posted November 21, 2023 Report Share Posted November 21, 2023 58 minutes ago, Scars of Hathsin said: Hide contents It has been a while since I have posted here. So we know Roshar is one supercontinent, but do they have tectonic plates, and would one day the continents split up. Can someone answer my question? @alder24 @Argenti @Treamayne Like Treamayne said, no tectonic movement , but the crem builds up on one side and wears down on the other. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyKaizen he/him Posted November 27, 2023 Report Share Posted November 27, 2023 On 11/20/2023 at 10:29 PM, Ookla the Silver said: Like Treamayne said, no tectonic movement , but the crem builds up on one side and wears down on the other. So, the entire continent is moving directly towards the Origin? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argenti he/him Posted November 27, 2023 Report Share Posted November 27, 2023 46 minutes ago, JohnnyKaizen said: So, the entire continent is moving directly towards the Origin? I think it's moving away, but it is a sphere so it doesn't matter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treamayne Posted November 28, 2023 Report Share Posted November 28, 2023 19 hours ago, JohnnyKaizen said: So, the entire continent is moving directly towards the Origin? 19 hours ago, Ookla the Silver said: I think it's moving away, but it is a sphere so it doesn't matter. To me, the real question is if Origin moves with it (i.e. a defined distance from the continental coasts, or a specific geographic coordinate) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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