Difference between revisions of "Stormseat"

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|ruler=[[Council of Five]] <small>(formerly)</small>

|occupied=[[Listeners]] <small>(formerly)</small>, [[Alethi]]

|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]

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|[[Song of Wars]], 55th Stanza{{epigraph ref|sa2|26}}

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== Geography ==

== Layout ==

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Little is known of the appearance of ancient Stormseat. Although the [[Song of Wars]] claims that the city "covered" the [[Shattered Plains]], the surviving images of it paint it as rather small, though it likely had numerous outbuildings and satelite towns.{{epigraph ref|sa2|26}}{{book ref|sa2|60}} Within the city itself, several landmarks could be distinguished, among them a tall tower in the very centre and the dais housing the city's [[Oathgate]] to the south-west of it.{{file ref|Stormseat Mosaic.jpeg|Stormseat Mosaic}}{{book ref|sa2|81}} It's known that Stormseat had a temple dedicated to the [[Herald]] [[Chana]], with a large mosaic on its leeward side.{{book ref|sa2|77}} If Stormseat was similar to other major cities of its era, like [[Kholinar]] and [[Thaylen City|Thaylen]], it's possible every Herald had a temple of their own within its walls.{{file ref|Thaylen City.jpg|Map of Thaylen City}}{{file ref|Kholinar.jpg|Map of Kholinar}}

 

Rather than excavating Stormseat, the listeners constructed their own settlement atop the city's bones. The rocky shelves have been transformed into barracks and homes, while carapaces of [[greatshell]]s form ramshackle houses. Inside, crem is used to create divisions and make separate rooms, with additional layer on the outer walls to provide insulation and stability. Mounds of former buildings serve as [[rockbud]] farms, while many houses grow [[shalebark]] on the outside. Both the homes and the farms are built in the shadows of the older structures, to protect them from highstorms.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}{{book ref|sa2|i|4}} This does not make them completely protected, however. As the highstorm arrives, the listeners stuff rags under the doors, set up support beams to prop up the walls, and close up the windows, hammering in large blocks of wood to secure them.{{book ref|sa2|i|5}}

 

 

=== Notable Landmarks ===

 

=== War of Reckoning ===

Though [[listeners]] have lived on the [[Shattered Plains]] since before the [[Aharietiam]], they made their home at the collapsed domes near the Plains' outer edge. It was only following the assassination of the [[Alethi]] king, [[Gavilar Kholin]], that they moved to Narak, as its remote location made it a better defensive position. Over the next five years, the listeners transformed Narak into a functioning city, building on top of the old structures.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} Though they might've been more spread out at the start, by the end of the [[War of Reckoning]], their entire nation lived there.{{wob ref|6513}}

 

[[New Natanan]] has attempted to get Stormseat for themselves; however, at the present they lack both the political clout and military power to enforce their claim.{{book ref|sa3|96}}

 

* [[Eshonai]]

* [[Venli]]

* [[Rlain]] lived in Stormseat prior to his assignment as a spy

 

== Trivia ==

== Notes ==

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