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== Appearance ==
{{image|Akinah by Reece Naidu.png|side=left|width=500px}}Akinah is located on a small island in the northern section of Aimia, somewhat near the large main island.{{book ref|sa3|i|4}} The city seems to have once been grand, with ornate buildings arranged in a tenfold symmetry radiating out from a round central hub.{{File ref|Four_Cities.jpg|Kabsal's Cymatics notes}} This tenfold symmetry is connected to ten being an important number on Roshar.{{wob ref|8614}} From above, the city looks like a flower with radiating petals.{{book ref|sa3.5|4}}
The island features dark, tall rock formations along its center that look almost like the walls of a city{{book ref|sa3|i|4}} and uniform buildings in the "tips" of the flower petals as seen from above.{{book ref|sa3.5|15}} The ruined city—which [[Rushu]] speculates is fake, concealing the real city which sank into the [[crem]] years ago—is covered with crem and the rocky beach around the city is cluttered with the corpses of dead [[greatshell]]s and deceptive, fake gemhearts.{{book ref|sa3.5|15}}
=== Protection Storm ===
A terrible and persistent storm - an unusual weather pattern - bolstered the island’s defenses {{book ref|sa3.5|1}}, but had been weakened by 1174.{{
Sleepless hordlings in the form of giant sea monsters also protected the island.{{book ref|sa3.5|17}}
=== Rysn's Expedition ===
Five months after Vazrmeb’s doomed expedition to the island, [[Yalb]], now crewing for a Thaylen military vessel, spotted a ghost ship limping along at sea. Revealed to be ''[[First Dreams]]'',{{book ref|sa3.5|prologue}} the ship's discovery prompted [[Navani]] to issue a request and a reward for another ship to travel investigate the region where Akina’s ruins were rumored to be found. Rysn accepted the mission some two months after the discovery of ''First Dreams'' in the hope that bringing [[Chiri-Chiri]] to Akinah would restore Chiri-Chiri’s failing health.{{book ref|sa3.5|1}} With a full crew, the incognito Dysian Aimian [[Nikliasorm|Nikli]], [[Lopen]], [[Huio]], [[Cord]], Rushu, and Chiri-Chiri, Rysn began the ''[[Wandersail (1174 ship)|Wandersail]]'s'' voyage to Akinah.{{book ref|sa3.5|4}} The expedition wildly exceeded expectations, yielding the Akinah Dawnshard, a fact known only to the Dysian Aimians, Rysn, and Cord; the location of the Oathgate, which
== Notes ==
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