Roshar Reader

Chapter 38 · reading

Shin chickens in soft grass

creature · CHICK-en

Chicken

chickens · Shin chicken

In Shinovar, small feathered farm animals. Everywhere else on Roshar, people use 'chicken' as the word for any bird — most of which they almost never see.
The Shin keep actual birds and call them what Alethi call every bird.
Role
Shin livestock; elsewhere, a word for 'bird'
Culture
Shin
First introduced
Interlude 4 — Rysn
Most recently in view
Interlude 4 — Rysn
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Look

Soft-feathered, two-legged, beaked. They look wrong to someone raised on and — too much skin, not enough shell.

Where

Shinovar paddocks; rare as a curiosity outside

Connected