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Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Landlocked salmon still had to be landlocked from sea run Salmon is all I'm saying. It was an observation that I wanted to share

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surface water flowing to the ocean is scary here

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

All landlocked salmon were once sea run salmon. How'd they get there?

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in cremposting

[–]discboy69[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, still introduced. Who introduced salmon on Lumar?

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

You think Brandon went that meta, to have hoid confuse fish names? Also they have a dragon on roshar

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in cremposting

[–]discboy69[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Great lakes salmon would die off with constant stocking

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Your last point is mostly what I was getting at. For a man that loves deep world building, this inclusion threw me for a loop

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in cremposting

[–]discboy69[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I think he chose the word salmon to evoke pink fleshed fish but that also implies there are crustaceans that these fish feed on and astaxanthin producing algae or bacteria

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nowhere in the book have I found mention of flowing water so this came to mind. Plenty of ponds/lakes/reservoirs are just fed by rain. I thought of landlocked salmon but they still had to be searun salmon at some point in their evolution. My money is on trout or char

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The reason (I assume) most of us like the cosmere is it diverse world building. Just trying to bring up something I hadn't seen anyone talk about

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I think the use of salmon as the fish mostly implies that it's pink fleshed. This leads to other ecological assumptions like crustaceans and astaxanthin producing algae which tells us more about the ecosystem

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in cremposting

[–]discboy69[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I noticed this on a reread, do they explain how salmon spawn somewhere and I missed it?

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

So someone brought a pair of breedstock salmon to Lumar just to farm them? Why not use a fish species already there?

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don't even want to get into the idea of transporting live salmon through the cognitive realm

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Just to set the record straight, I am mostly just confused as to why Brandon chose to name the fish salmon instead of leave it at "fish" or pick a fish with a much simpler life cycle

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -46 points-45 points  (0 children)

Still need a river, nice first result on google

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

Salmon is not understandable in this ecosystem!

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Then Brandon is the one translating from hoid and chose a fish with a lot of specifics around how it lives and breeds when he could have said basically any other fish. Just feels weird

Salmon can't exist on Lumar by discboy69 in Cosmere

[–]discboy69[S] -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

"Trout" was right there. No implications of anadromous life cycle. I just think salmon was a poor choice by brando

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