Physical Realm
Astronomy is all the space objects in the cosmere, including shardworlds and minor shardworlds, suns, stars and moons.
Planets
Greater Roshar
see Greater Roshar
Greater Roshar is a solar system.
Roshar
see Roshar
Roshar has a gravity of 0.7, a year 500 days long, with each year being 1.1 earth years. The planet consists of one large super continent.
Moons
Roshar has three moons. The first moon is Salas. It is violet, and is the smallest moon. The middle moon is Nomon, which is a bright, pale blue. And the final moon is Mishim, which is small and green.
Ashyn
see Ashyn
Ashyn is a minor shardworld[1] That has sentient life.
The book The Silence Divine is set here.[1] The magic system involves people who gain magical powers from diseases.[2]
Ashyn is mostly barren, with a few fertile patches.[1] It currently has no shard.[3][4]
Braize
see Braize
Odium settled on Braize, although he is still effecting Roshar. Braize is unlikely to get its own books, but scenes from The Stormlight Archive will be set on Braize.[citation needed]
Braize is known to the Vorin people as Damnation.
Shardworlds
Yolen
see Yolen
Yolen is home to three sentient races[5] and was the origin of all humans in the cosmere.[6] The original sixteen shardholders were from Yolen.[7]
Vax
see Vax
Nothing is known of Vax, its peoples, or any Shards that may or may not be located there. All that is certain is that it has a manifestation of Investiture.
Nalthis
see Nalthis
On Nalthis, T'Telir is the capital city of Hallandren and its bordering mountain state of Idris. The jungles are situated in a large valley surrounded by mountains and a sea.
Moons
A single moon orbits the planet.
Scadrial
see Scadrial
Earth like, Scadrial orbits a yellow sun.
Several other planets are in this system.
Sel
see Sel
An Earth-like Shardworld, Sel was inhabited by humans and artificially created beings called Seons and Skaze. The planet was the location of Elantris. Sel was dominated by the Fjordell Empire, with Arelon and Teod being the only remaining free nations. All these nations (except Teod which is located on a continent to the north) were situated on the continent of Opelon (named Sycla by the Fjordell Empire).
Sel orbits a yellow star.
Moons
Sel has a single moon
Minor Shardworlds
A minor shardworld is a[citation needed]
First of the Sun
see First of the Sun
First of the Sun is a minor shardworld consisting mainly of an large ocean and island systems[citation needed]
Threnody
see Threnody
Threnody is the minor Shardworld that contains the Forests of Hell. It is the setting for the story Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell. It has many features that are similar to Earth, including forests, mountains and oceans. Silver seems to be a fairly common resource on the planet, but because of its importance to survival, it is still finite and valuable.
Stars and Constellations
Starbelt
The Starbelt is an unusually bright patch of stars in the sky of Threnody.[8] It is useful for navigation in the Forests of Hell during the night; the light usually filtered through the trees fairly well.
The Starbelt is the same patch of unusually bright stars that is visible from Scadrial.[9] It is visible from other worlds in the Cosmere as well.[10]
Taln's Scar
Taln's Scar is a great swath of red stars that stand out against the white ones.[11]
The Tear
The Tear is a particularly bright star in the Rosharan sky. It's name comes from the single tear shed by Reya in Rosharan Mythology.[12]
Notes
- ↑ a b c Q&A at Spokane Barnes & Noble
— 17th Shard forums - 2013-08-09# Cite error: Invalid<ref>tag; name "17s-post-62280" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid<ref>tag; name "17s-post-62280" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Yes—one is The Silence Divine, a world like ours where you gain magic by diseases
— Theoryland - 2009-11-07# - ↑ This is a world that does not currently have a shard.
— Theoryland - Mar 22nd, 2014# - ↑ Did Ashyn ever have a shard?
— Theoryland - Mar 12th, 2015# - ↑ Were the original sixteen shardholders all human?
— Theoryland - 2014-3-21# - ↑ Where did humanity originate?
— Theoryland - 2012-09# - ↑ Were all the original sixteen Shardholders from Yolen?
— Theoryland - 2014-03-21# - ↑ Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell#
- ↑ There is a very bright star patch
— Theoryland - 17 October 2008# - ↑ Visible from other worlds as well.
— Reddit - 12 March 2015# - ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 2#
- ↑ Words of Radiance chapter 31#