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'''Roshar''' is the native name for the planet on which ''[[The Stormlight Archive]]'' is set. It is also the name of the supercontinent on which the main events of the series take place{{17swob ref|post|42186|It is a supercontinent|date=26 September 20121128}}. People from Roshar are called Rosharans.{{17swob ref|post|42111|Selish, Scadrian, Nalthian, Rosharan.|date=26 September 20121075}}

At one point in Roshar's past there were no large landmasses.{{redditwob ref|books|2ytg2h|ct4lirw|text=I asked you at Minicon if Roshar had always been the only large landmass on the planet and I think you said that there was once no large land mass on Roshar. Did I hear you correctly?|site=Reddit|date=Jul 15th, 20153556}} The supercontinent was designed by Adonalsium, following the shape of a Julia set (a mathematical formula that gives a geometrical pattern when given a seed number). {{redditwob ref|stormlight_archive|54umkn|d85ty23|text=The slice of the Julia Set was the one that stuck with me as feeling perfect for Roshar. As the continent was specifically grown by Adonalsium, you now know the seed that was used in-world to create it.|site=Reddit|date=Sep 28th, 20163953}}

Rosharan fauna have adapted to their unique environment in a number of interesting ways. Lower than usual gravity allows some of the native creatures to grow spectacularly large.{{qawob ref|532|3|Did you have to do lots of research?|date=Sep 16th, 201010243}} There are crustaceans (ranging from tiny crabs to lumbering chulls) and molluscs that retreat into their shells during the highstorms. Others have dens or pupate. There are also creatures, like the warm-blooded [[sarpenthyn]], that vaguely resemble a tentacled mollusc with no shell and can ooze into the cracks between rocks.

It is easier for animals on Roshar to attain some degree of sentience because of something to do with Cultivation.{{urlwob ref|url=http://kogiopsis.tumblr.com/post/130672195244|site=Kogiopsis' Tumblr|text=They're one of a few Rosharan animals with a degree of sentience. It's easier on Roshar for this to happen. (Kayla, to clarify: Because of Cultivation? Brandon: Yes.)|date=Oct 7th, 20152792}}

The Rosharan calendar is divided up into ten months, with ten weeks each. Both the months and the weeks are named after the numbers on the [[Ars Arcanum]], and are sometimes combined into abbreviations. Such abbreviations have the full name of the month and two suffixes, for week and day. Each week is five days, so the year in Roshar is 500 days, ultimately defined by the time between two [[Weeping|Weepings]].{{book ref|sa2|46}} Although the Rosharan year is 500 days long, these days are shorter than on Earth and a Rosharan year is equivalent to 1.1 Earth years.{{17swob ref|post|89705|Roshar year is 1.1 Earth years|date=25 January 20143781}}{{17s ref|post|49011|Length of Roshar days and years|date=12 February 2013}} As an example Chachel means it's the third day of the week.{{book ref|sa1|46}} Interestingly, Kaladin, who gets paid once a week, refers to payday as "third pass"{{book ref|sa1|14}}. Presumably, this means that another way to talk about days of the week is by saying first, second, third, fourth or fifth pass.