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Jarescot
Jasnah is married? I may have misread it, but I'm pretty sure she refers to her husband in the negotiations
Brandon Sanderson
I think you might be mistaking Jasnah and Navani, as Navani refers to her husband (Dalinar) during negotiations. Jasnah doesn't appear on screen, though she does have a few lines via spanreed.
It's a little confusing because by this point, Dalinar and Navani have started using king/queen for themselves in reference to Urithiru as a separate kingdom. Jasnah is queen of Alethkar, but Navani is also Alethi and a queen--but not of Alethkar...so once in a while, I found alpha/beta readers getting tripped up by the terminology.
Phantine
So Dalinar dropped his 'I must never be king' resolution? Kinda weird, that felt like an Oath to me.
Brandon Sanderson
You're referring to young Dalinar realizing that he couldn't want the throne, lest it lead him to turn against his brother? I didn't intend that to be a capital O oath.
For what it's worth, in the months after Oathbringer, he realized that as long as he wasn't putting himself on the same level as the others, they would worry he wanted more. So being named king was a way for him to calm the coalition.
FirstSelector
Was the Nightwatcher the spren that powered the Urithiru fabrial?
Brandon Sanderson
Nope!
Chroma
If Urithiru was real, would you live in it?
Brandon Sanderson
No.
Ben McSweeney
Just to illustrate the full scale of the Atrium, I extended this up a bit. :)
It makes the repetition more severe, but that's to be expected since all I did was copy-paste the tiers up to the seventh level. This still gives us a decent idea of the full height of the open space, though. And of course that space continues out along the avenue from the fifth tier down, with skylights in the ceilings and hanging towers at the end of each level, creating a sort of inverted staircase effect that I really ought to try and paint sometime (I find the scale a bit dizzying myself, though).
Isaac and I briefly wondered whether there ought to be microclimate problems with an open area this big, rain falling from condensation collecting at the top, but we figure the Tower's automated environmental systems deal with that for the most part.
fletchershair
So, they're all in... Urithiru, and that's safe from the Everstorm, right? Because they're trying to get everyone there, right?
Brandon Sanderson
It is definitely safer than the Shattered Plains.
fletchershair
So what makes it safer? Is it just the location?
Brandon Sanderson
They are on the east side of a mountain. It's coming from the other direction. They also think they might be high enough to be over the storm, judging based on the fact that Kaladin was able to hop over it, so he knows generally how high up they go.
Questioner
Does Cusicesh the Protector have anything to do with the third Sibling at Urithiru?
Brandon Sanderson
See, you gave me too much wiggle room there. Because "anything" is a really broad term. So I could say yes, but not in the way you're thinking.
Questioner
Okay, hmm I have to rethink my theory then.
Brandon Sanderson
I'll say probably not the way you're thinking.
Questioner
Is Urithiru a means for our characters getting between planets?
Brandon Sanderson
Getting to the Cognitive Realm would be the first step in getting between planets for most of the ways that people move. So, you could say yes.
Ben McSweeney
If I recall rightly (it's in my notes somewhere) the height is 15' per level. Only a variance of 3', but it adds up. I feel like 17S did this same math a while back but it's probably buried by now. Could be worth digging up to compare notes though.
We do have numbers, I went to some pains to try and get the drawing to represent them correctly. Your estimates are a little high I think, and you might be discounting the amount of internal space given to non-residential function (giant elevator atrium, for instance), but I think you're in the right zone.
Questioner
Was Urithiru created by Honor?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
WeiryWriter
So in a recent conversation I brought up the relationship between the names of Urithiru and Ur (the ancient Mesopotamian city-state), in retrospect I realized that I was treating the similarity of names as a given but I don't think you have ever been asked about it. Was the reference intentional on your part from the outset (i.e. starting with the idea to reference Ur), or did it arise coincidentally as you played with the linguistics of Roshar (i.e. stumbling across the "ur-" syllable and going "I can work with that!")?
Brandon Sanderson
Ur was part of it, certainly. But it was more the second--I was playing with things, and liked the feeling of Ur in part because of the ancient our-world references.
Joe ST
Is Urithiru a spaceship?
Brandon Sanderson
It is not, no, good question. I've never been asked that before. It's very Sim City, though.
Joe ST
It's a new theory, they're thinking, is it one of the floating cities from--
Brandon Sanderson
From Ashyn, yeah. Boy, that would be hard, it is so big. But, I suppose, magic, you know. But no, it is not...
Questioner
Is the Breakaway inspired by Korean outdoor markets?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes... Night markets, right?
Questioner
Does the deterioration of Urithiru have anything to do with the fact that the Sibling is asleep?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Questioner
Is Urithiru originally from Roshar, or did it come from somewhere else?
Brandon Sanderson
Ah, great question! It was built on Roshar...
