Urithiru gem archive
| Urithiru gem archive | |
|---|---|
| City | Urithiru |
| World | Roshar |
| Universe | Cosmere |
| Featured In | The Stormlight Archive |
The Urithiru gem archive is a collection of gems bearing encoded messages left by the ancient Knights Radiant. It is hidden in a wall of a former library in the basement of Urithiru.
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Discovery[edit]
Shallan, chasing a Midnight Essence created by Re-Shephir, leads a group of soldiers into the basement of Urithiru. They find a room filled with decaying books: the trove of information that Jasnah hoped to find in Urithiru. It has been there so long, however, that the books inside turn to dust when touched.[1]
Eventually, the debris is cleared out and, under Navani's direction, the room becomes a scholarly institute and research center.[2] Renarin, after apparently talking with Glys, somehow causes a tile on the far wall to pop out, revealing a drawer containing a strangely-cut ruby. Jasnah infuses the gem with Stormlight, and Shallan and Pattern realize that the vibrations made as the Stormlight escapes encode a message. Renarin then sends a surge of Stormlight into the wall, causing every tile in it to open, revealing hundreds of hidden drawers.
Contents[edit]
There are hundreds of drawers behind the white tiles in the library wall, each containing one or more gems; each gem, after being infused, produces a sequence of buzzes that encodes a message. The epigraphs of Part Three of Oathbringer contain the messages from some of the gems.
Trivia[edit]
- In the entrance chamber of the level containing the gem archive, there is a depiction of a person hovering in front of a large blue disc. This bears some similarity to the depiction of Devotion's Perpendicularity in the hidden room under the Elantris meeting house.
