Difference between revisions of "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 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 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 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 [[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]]. WhatThe form this is appears to beseemingly random, althoughforms they seemtake toon all beare ordinary ones rather than Odium-fueled [[Regal]] formsones.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}