#airsick lowlanders

[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

what's wrong babe you've barely touched your special-horneater-recipe stew on your oathbringer-speared-through-table with your just-sworn-the-third-ideal-shard-spoon

[oul2001]

Numuhukumakiaki'aialunamor [Rock] be like: Flatearthers

[butwhybother]

I have thoughts about a WoB on oxygen levels on Roshar that's worrying me a little.

Roshar has high oxygen level. Okay, we knew that. Rock often calls others people "air-sick lowlanders" and it's just a joke about how strange other people are. Right?

But then, throw in the bit about high oxygen level doing "weird things to people as well" and I start to wonder, maybe "air-sickness" is real. Maybe the oxygen-rich air is hurting people's health (physical or mental) somehow. Maybe Unkalaki observed this and they know that thin mountain air is better for health, long-term.

[phendorana]

lowlander (derogatory)

[rockthesteweater-blog]

...is he doing the jumpy stoppy thing again?

[actionreplaymyregrets]

suddenly he burst out laughing; it looked odd, like a rock laughing.

LAN YOU BEAUTIFUL PERSON

[squirenonny]

Long ago, the Unkalaki--my people, ones you call Horneaters--did not live in peaks. They lived down where air was thick and thinking was difficult. But we were hated.

WoR, chapter 46

Consider for a moment that Horneaters have Parshendi blood. That Rock's story has other Listener parallels--the Unkalaki asking their gods (the spren) to change their physiology; Horneaters having the ability to see spren, but Rock avoiding Kaladin's questions about why.

Now consider the quote above.

"Airsick lowlander" could very well be a euphemism for slaveforms/parshmen, or at least the dullforms who had lost all their other forms after the last Desolation.

[kogiopsis]

there's nothing quite so hilarious as watching students from SoCal and Hawaii react to snow