A3s1r92
Are the Tai-na from the Reshi Isles related to cremlings and other greatshells? How big do you think their gemhearts would be?
Brandon Sanderson
They are related, and their gemhearts are...well, I'll leave that to your imagination.
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Questioner
Is it only greatshells that have gemhearts, or do all crustaceans on Roshar have some sort of gem inside? And if it is only greatshells then are their unique decayspren related to this fact?
Brandon:
They're not only greatshells, but not ever crustacean has a gemheart, at least not of the style that would be of any relevance to you. Some have the same sort of chemistry going on in their body, they're just too small to have it coalesce into a gemheart. And the gemheart is related to how-- particularly the greatshells, can grow to get so big.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
Are the Reshi Islands animals or spren?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
The greatshells are animals. The actual Islands are islands.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
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Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
They can communicate with each other. So, there's at least one answer-- with the spren-- Yeah, but it's not-- you don't really communicate with spren in the same way.
Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
Can they get, like, Odium- or Cultivation- or Honor-oriented spren to kinda animate them?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
No, that's not quite how it works.
Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
The intelligence in the eye of the chasmfiend, I was wondering. Or on the santhid rescuing her.
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
It's more, like, does a flower communicate with a bee. That's a similar sort of thing we're looking at here.
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Blightsong
Have larger landgoing greatshells existed above a chasmfiend?
Brandon Sanderson
Larger than a chasmfiend... the ones that wonder around out in the islands of Reshi could go on land. So yea, it is possible that there are larger ones. They do better in the water, because of how big they are, but the high oxygen, low gravity, and symbiotic bonds with the spren allow some mega fauna that is just really large and just could exist on earth, so yea.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
The Reshi Island greatshells, are they born in the ocean?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
Yes... In the ocean may be an extreme term for it.
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A3s1r92
Are the Tai-na from the Reshi Isles related to cremlings and other greatshells? How big do you think their gemhearts would be?
Brandon Sanderson
They are related, and their gemhearts are...well, I'll leave that to your imagination.
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Lurcher
What happens when a Reshi island dies?
Brandon Sanderson
So, it becomes that big old shell, and eventually-- shells, they last a long time, but people are gonna move off of it.
Lurcher
Will people try to get the gemheart?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, people will try to get the gemheart.