creature · ROCK-bud

Rockbud

rockbuds

The default plant of Roshar: a bud that lives inside a stone shell and only opens in calm weather. would shred ordinary leaves; rockbuds wait them out.

Plants that hide in rocks so the storms cannot kill them.

Role: Common flora; food, fodder, and landscape
First introduced: Chapter 1 — Stormblessed
Most recently in view: Chapter 1 — Stormblessed

Look

Fist-to-melon-sized stone pods clinging to rock. After storms they unclench and put out vines or fronds. Fields of them look like a riverbed of fists.

Where

Almost every open surface outside Shinovar

Connected

Chull

Cremling