Shinovar
The Shinovar
The Shinovar (Otherwise known as the Shin) are a race of humans on the world of Roshar, currently featured within The Stormlight Archive. The Shin live far to the West, beyond mountains that break the torrent of the raging Highstorms. Because of this, the part of the world the Shinovar live in is a vastly different place, as the creatures there have not the need to adapting to survival in the highstorms. The land they live in has been described as "Slow" or "sluggish" compared to the rest of Roshar.
Physically, the Shin have been described as resembling young children.
Culture
The Shin live a relatively peaceful life, and by nature are a very humble people. Because of this, soldiers are considered relatively low on their social ladder, with Farmers being lavished like princes near the top.
The Shin find stone to be sacred, and consider the idea of mining into, or even walking upon it, to be a heresy. Because of this, metal is very valuable in Shin territory, with the Shin preferring soulcast metal above mined metal because of the inherent blasphemy in obtaining it.
When it comes to trading, and as a result of their humble nature, haggling with the Shin usually involves both parties devaluing their wares to the other, until an agreement can be reached.
A subsection of Shin culture is a sort of "slavery". Every slave has an oathstone, and whoever holds that stone is the master of that slave. Because of this, robbing someone of an oathstone effectively transfers ownership of the slave to that person. Anyone who picks up a weapon in Shin is required to be a warrior, who fall within this sort of slavery. Lower than those who are considered these sort of "slaves" are those who are called the truthless. What sort of offenses that are required to make one considered a truthless are currently unknown. The Truthless are considered to be completely worthless for trading purposes, and are not desired to be owned by any. Generally, any Shin who receives any sort of payment for a truthless are likely to dispose of the payment without making use of it (such as throwing it in a river).
Shin are known for raising and trading chicken, a species unique to this region of Roshar.