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|location=[[Iri]] (on Roshar)
|'world=[[Roshar]], [[Lumar]]
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
}}
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{{for|Iri|their nation on Roshar|pre=This page is about the people across the cosmere}}
The '''Iriali''' are an ethnicity of people in the [[cosmere]].
== Appearance and Anatomy ==
The Iriali have metallic golden-blond skin and hair that breeds true.{{book ref|sa1|i|5}}{{book ref|sa2|i|2}}{{book ref|tress|2}} They mostly have yellow eyes.{{book ref|sa2|20}} They have had what most would consider to be inhuman ancestry, depending on what is considered human.{{wob ref|11884}}
== Culture ==
The Iriali worship a god they call "One". According to this belief, the One knew everything but had experienced nothing. And so the One became Many in order to experience all things. As each experience is different, it brings completeness to the One. Eventually, all will be gathered back in when the sum of land is attained and they will once again become One. Every person is a different mind of a single being experiencing different lives. As Many, they need ignorance. Each fragment of the One’s mind has its own body with different passions and inclinations. They exist in variety to experience all kinds of thought. That means some people must know and others must not. Just like some people must be rich and others poor.{{book ref|sa2|i|2}}
== History ==
As part of their worship of One, the Iriali believe that they are part of something they call the "Long Trail," a series of seven Lands which all must be "attained" before they will become One again. The Fourth Land is [[Roshar]],{{book ref|sa2|i|2}} which they arrived on from somewhere besides [[Ashyn]] and separately from the rest of humanity.{{wob ref|1516}}{{wob ref|9551}} One of the subsequent{{ref|group=fn|name=LumarTimeline|text=The Iriali departed Lumar three hundred years prior to the start of ''[[Tress of the Emerald Sea]]'', which—given the technology available at the time, Hoid gaining access to AonDor, and Sazed having released the kandra—takes place after at least the first half of ''[[The Stormlight Archive]]''. Since the Iriali were also on Roshar for thousands of years prior to the beginning of ''Stormlight'', the only way the timeline can be arranged is with Lumar coming after Roshar.}} Lands is [[Lumar]], which they seemingly vanished from overnight about three hundred years before [[Hoid]] gained access to [[AonDor]] from [[Riina]].{{book ref|tress|2}}
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