Editing Everstorm

|type=Weather phenomenon

|2=The [[Stormfather]] to [[Dalinar]] during the Battle of Narak. {{book ref|sa2|83}}

The '''Everstorm''' is a powerful weather pattern on [[Roshar]] similar to a [[highstorm]], but one that circles the world in the opposite direction. It has been summoned by [[stormform]] [[listener]]s during the [[Battle of Narak]] at the end of the [[War of Reckoning]].{{book ref|sa2|89}} The period in which it passes over a given area is sometimes referred to as the 'Evernight'.{{book ref|sa3|72}}

Where regular [[highstorm]]s are commanded by the [[Stormfather]] and carry with them [[Honor]]'s [[Investiture]], the Everstorm is of [[Odium]]. It travels from west to east, opposite the direction of traditional highstorms.{{book ref|sa2|89}} The Everstorm's clouds are black, and it strikes with red lightning. It lacks a stormwall at the front, and carries neither debris nor [[crem]], only billowing smoke and darkness.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} Vertically, the Everstorm is topped by a layer of clouds. Much like the highstorm, it doesn't reach high enough to threaten [[Urithiru]], though even up there, its passing is accompanied by a wave of unnatural cold.{{book ref|sa3|4}}

Past that initial wave, the Everstorm is nearly completely black, filled with ash carried by violent winds.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} This being said, even within a single passing, the conditions within the Everstorm vary greatly. Sometimes, it carried no wind, only lightning; other times, it rains, and yet other, burning embers fall from the skies.{{book ref|sa3|58}} Where the Everstorm's lightning hits appears to be under either Odium's or some other entity's control, as it's capable of targeting individual buildings.{{book ref|sa3|59}}

Just what commands the Everstorm is uncertain. [[Pattern]] suggests it's a spren of some kind serving Odium.{{book ref|sa2|60}} Odium himself can excercise a level of control, stopping the storm at will.{{book ref|sa3|111}} Whether there is some separate entity commanding the Everstorm is left ambiguous, and if such a spren exists, it's yet to make itself known.{{wob ref|12269}}

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The Everstorm moves somewhat slower than a highstorm. It takes roughly nine days to circle the entire globe, and three to cross the Rosharan continent.{{book ref|sa2.5|13}}{{book ref|sa3|35}} This being said, its time of arrival does fluctuate slightly, and precise predictions can be inaccurate. Fortunately, its high visibility and slow movement give the people of Roshar plenty of time to seek shelter.{{book ref|sa3|77}} It is not yet clear whether the Everstorm's frequency is affected by the time of the year or other variables.

Odium is capable of altering the Everstorm's speed as he desires. He can accelerate it, pushing it to go around the planet in as little as five days. He can also halt it to a full stop and hold it in place for hours.{{book ref|sa3|111}} The one time the Everstorm was stopped like this, it eventually dispassated, but later return to round the planet in its usual pattern.{{book ref|sa3|120}}{{book ref|sa3|122}}

The Everstorm is a paramount threat to the inhabitants of Roshar, mainly because of its destructive power and direction opposite to highstorm. All structures and houses on Roshar are built in a way that protects them from the westward-blowing [[highstorm]]s, while allowing for lesser protection on the leeward side -- the very side the Everstorm now strikes from. Areas once thought safe, such as [[lait]]s and mountainsides, are utterly defenseless against a force as potent as an Everstorm blowing east.{{book ref|sa3|5}} The consequences of this are readily apparent after just a single passing of the Everstorm, with once-wonderous cities like [[Thaylen City|Thaylen]] ravaged and turned to rubble.{{book ref|sa3|59}}

When the Everstorm and the highstorm clash, the effects are even more destructive, as the two storms feed from each other, becoming more and more powerful until they pass by and return to normal.{{wob ref|9192}} Swathes of terrain can be destroyed, with entire plateaus of rock launched high into the sky.{{book ref|sa2|86}} To be on the ground when the two storms meet is a death sentence.{{book ref|sa3|4}} Fortunately for Rosharans, after the [[Battle of Narak]] the two storms never clash over populated areas, either accidentally or by Stormfather's design.{{book ref|sa3|37}}

The Everstorm has numerous magical effects. It attracts [[stormspren]] and, presumably, other [[voidspren]].{{book ref|sa2|81}} It also carries the [[Fused]], souls of long-dead [[singer]]s who serve Odium in numerous lives.{{book ref|sa3|38}} Through an Everstorm, the Fused can possess any singers who open themselves up to them, killing the original mind and replacing it, while retaining their own personality, powers and use of [[Surge]]s.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} While in the previous [[Desolation]]s, the Fused would be sent back to [[Braize]] upon their bodies' death, during the [[True Desolation]] they instead come back to the Everstorm, allowing them to be reborn as many times as there are singer bodies available for them.{{book ref|sa3|38}}

Finally, the Everstorm releases any [[Parshmen]] who come into contact with it from [[slaveform]], restoring their [[Identity]] and [[Connection]].{{book ref|sa3|17}} Such reawakened singers take on a non-slave [[form]]. What form this is appears to be random, although they seem to all be ordinary ones rather than Odium-fuelled [[Regal]] forms.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}

|2=[[Stormfather]] {{book ref|sa2|89}}

The Everstorm did not exist prior to the [[True Desolation]], although the underlying mechanisms were already in place.{{book ref|sa2|89}} Its arrival was, however, predicted multiple times by the end of the [[Era of Solitude]], both in numerous [[Death Rattle]]s and in [[Dalinar's visions]]. On most occassions, it was listed alongside with the True Desolation and the Night of Sorrows.{{book ref|sa1|5}}{{book ref|sa1|75}} [[Renarin]] likewise had numerous visions about the Everstorm's arrival, though without its name, complete with a precise countdown to its coming.{{book ref|sa2|4}}

As Alethi forces approached [[Narak]], the listeners awaited them and began singing a song that would summon the Everstorm. [[Rlain]] warned [[Dalinar]] that it mustn't be allowed to be finished under any circumstances, leading Dalinar to order [[Adolin]] to stop it.{{book ref|sa2|81}} Adolin and his forces launched an attack on the listeners leading the song, and although they managed to slaughter the singers and defeat Eshonai, they were too late.{{book ref|sa2|83}}

The Everstorm then became a new regular fixture of Roshar's weather system, coming in regular nine-day intervals.{{book ref|sa3|35}} In its first passing, it devastated numerous cities in its wake, with particular focus on [[Thaylen City]], which Odium was preparing for an upcoming battle.{{book ref|sa3|58}} It also broke the [[Parshmen]] out of [[slaveform]] and, in subsequent passings, allowed the [[Fused]] to enter the [[Physical Realm]].{{book ref|sa3|17}}{{book ref|sa3|i|6}}

Odium brought the Everstorm with him to the [[Battle of Thaylen Field]], using it to bring his fleet closer to the Thayeln shore before stopping it just out of the city.{{book ref|sa3|111}} Following the battle, the Everstorm dissipated, although it later returned back to its regular cycle.{{book ref|sa3|120}}{{book ref|sa3|122}}

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