Editing Everstorm

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|related=[[Odium]]
|type=Weather phenomenon
|world=Roshar
|universe=Cosmere
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
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{{quote
|1=<span style='font-variant: small-caps'> They call for a storm. My opposite. Deadly. </span>
|2=The [[Stormfather]] to [[Dalinar]] during the Battle of Narak.{{book ref|sa2|83}}
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The '''Everstorm''' is a powerful weather pattern on [[Roshar]] similar to a [[highstorm]], but one that circles the world in the opposite direction. It was 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}}

== Description ==
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}} Much like the highstorm, the Everstorm 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}}

The inside of the Everstorm is completely dark, filled with ash carried by violent winds.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} This being said, even within a single passing, the conditions within vary greatly. Sometimes, there is no wind, only lightning; other times, it rains, and yet other, burning embers fall from the skies instead.{{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 has yet to make itself known.{{wob ref|12269}}

=== Frequency ===
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The Everstorm moves somewhat slower than a highstorm, roughly 120 miles per hour.{{wob ref|10231}} It takes roughly nine days to circle the entire globe, three of which it spends crossing the Rosharan continent.{{book ref|sa2.5|13}}{{book ref|sa3|35}} Its time of arrival does fluctuate slightly, and precise predictions can be inaccurate. Fortunately, its high visibility and lower speed 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 bring it to a full stop and hold it stationary for hours.{{book ref|sa3|111}} The one time the Everstorm was stopped like this, it eventually dissipated, but later returned to round the planet in its usual pattern.{{book ref|sa3|120}}{{book ref|sa3|122}}

== Influence and Magic ==
{{image|The Fused by jurassicpencil.jpg|side=left|width=300px|A [[Fused]] in the Everstorm}}

The Everstorm is a paramount threat to [[Roshar]]ans, mainly because of its destructive power and direction of movement. All structures and houses on the continent are built in a way that protects them from the westward-blowing [[highstorm]]s, while allowing for little protection on the leeward side -- the side the Everstorm now strikes from. This makes areas once thought safe, such as [[lait]]s and mountainsides, utterly defenseless.{{book ref|sa3|5}} The consequences of this are readily apparent after just a single passing of the Everstorm, with once-wondrous cities like [[Thaylen City]] ravaged and turned to rubble.{{book ref|sa3|59}} The advent of the Everstorm also threw off the normal highstorm schedule by about four months.{{wob ref|10231}}

When the Everstorm and the highstorm clash the effects are even more destructive, becoming more and more powerful until they pass by and return to normal.{{wob ref|9192}} Where the two meet, entire swathes of land can be destroyed, with whole 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, either accidentally or by the Stormfather's design, never passed each other over populated areas.{{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 with themselves while retaining abilities and use of [[Surge]]s of the Fused.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} In the previous [[Desolation]]s, the Fused would be sent back to [[Braize]] upon their bodies' death and return by an unknown means; during the [[True Desolation]] they return to Braize and instead return via 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 [[Singer#Forms|form]]. The seemingly random forms they take on are ordinary ones rather than Odium-fueled [[Regal]] ones.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}

== History ==
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|1=<span style='font-variant: small-caps'> The Everstorm. It is a new thing, but old of design. </span>
|2=The [[Stormfather]]{{book ref|sa2|89}}
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=== Predictions ===
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 occasions, 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}}

The storm first took shape in [[Shadesmar]], and its appearance was partly what drove some spren to begin searching out bonds to refound the [[Knights Radiant]]

=== Summoning ===
{{image|Venli-Coad.png|side=right|width=300px|[[Venli]] in [[stormform]]}}
{{for|Battle of Narak}}
The real possibility of summoning a storm was first put forth by [[Venli]] when researching [[stormform]].{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} After assuming the form, Eshonai confirmed it as a possibility, although she either believed or claimed to believe that what she suggested was an ordinary highstorm. Without consulting with the ruling [[Council of Five]], she planned for every able-bodied listener to take on the stormform and call the Everstorm into existence.{{book ref|sa2|i|11}}

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

The resulting Everstorm arrived from the west and clashed with the highstorm over Narak, leading to widespread destruction. Although Shallan managed to transport most of the Alethi units to [[Urithiru]], sparing them from the worst of the clash, those who did not make it onto the [[Oathgate]] platform in time were killed.{{book ref|sa2|86}}{{book ref|sa3|2}}

=== True Desolation ===
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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 restored [[Connection]] and [[Identity]] to the [[parshmen]], ending [[slaveform]].{{book ref|sa3|17}} In subsequent passings, the Everstorm 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 Thaylen shore before stopping it just outside 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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