Difference between revisions of "Everstorm"

|type=Weather Invested weather phenomenon

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

The '''Everstorm''' (Alethi: [[File: Kalak.svg|20px]] [[File: Modern zeras.svg|22px]] romanization: ''Kalazeras'', lit. ''Eternal Storm''){{file ref|Alethi_Glyphs_Page_1.jpg|Alethi Glyphs Page 1}} is a powerful weather pattern on [[Roshar]] similar to a [[highstorm]], but one that circles the world in the opposite direction. It has beenwas 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}}

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 excerciseexercise 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}}

The Everstorm movestravels somewhat slower than a highstorm,at roughly 120 miles per hour.{{wob ref|10231}}, about a third the speed of a [[Highstorm]]. 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.

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 lesserlittle protection on the leeward side -- the very 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-wonderouswondrous 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 as the two storms feed from each other, 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 passpassed 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 their own personality, abilities and use of [[Surge]]s of the Fused.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} While inIn 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 insteadreturn cometo backBraize toand 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 [[Parshmenparshmen]] 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]]. WhatThe form this is appears to beseemingly random, althoughforms they seemtake toon all beare ordinary ones rather than Odium-fuelledfueled [[Regal]] formsones.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}

|2=The [[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 occassionsoccasions, 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 itthe song mustn't be allowed to be finishedfinish 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 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 brokerestored the[[Connection]] and [[ParshmenIdentity]] outto ofthe [[parshmen]], ending [[slaveform]].{{book and,ref|sa3|17}} inIn 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 ThayelnThaylen shore before stopping it just outoutside 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}}