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Shin
Shinovar · people of Shinovar
Shin of Shinovar: a sheltered western land of grass and beyond the mountains. Farmers outrank warriors; walking on stone is forbidden to most. Large round eyes, pale skin.
Grass, , round eyes; soldiers at the bottom, farmers at the top.
- Role
- A pastoral people who revere those who add (farmers) and look down on those who take away (soldiers). Traders come to them for .
- Home
- Shinovar
- First introduced
- Prologue — Prologue: To Kill
- Most recently in view
- Prologue — Prologue: To Kill
- Last mention
- Interlude 4 — Rysn
Look
Pale, round-eyed, often dark-haired. Farmers in simple clothes among grass that behaves like grass in stories, not like Roshar's storm-hiding plants. They do not look like in white.
As observed
Reserved with outsiders. Strict about stone and status. Warrior is a low calling; farmer is a high one. They trade, but they do not become eastern.
Where
Shinovar: a wide, storm-sheltered country west of the Misted Mountains. Grass that does not pull away; soil and stone treated as holy in different degrees.
