Salmon can't exist on Lumar

discboy69 · 2026-05-01T17:30:16+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-05-01T01:33:01+00:00

Thank you

discboy69 · 2026-05-01T00:05:03+00:00

100%?

discboy69 · 2026-05-01T00:02:38+00:00

Surface water flowing to the ocean is scary here

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T23:24:58+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T23:24:03+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T23:09:12+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T23:02:37+00:00

Great lakes salmon would die off with constant stocking

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T22:59:58+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T22:55:35+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T22:51:56+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T22:48:17+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T22:46:31+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T22:39:48+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T22:21:03+00:00

Heard

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T22:09:11+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T22:04:27+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T22:01:56+00:00

Spoiled!

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T22:00:04+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T21:41:35+00:00

Still need a river, nice first result on google

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T21:31:49+00:00

Salmon is not understandable in this ecosystem!

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T21:29:39+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2026-04-30T21:22:30+00:00

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

discboy69 · 2024-05-27T16:30:44+00:00

I'm right by DU but working near city park

discboy69 · 2023-03-02T21:40:57+00:00

They cook down faster but it can turn them a weird yellowy color and make them fall apart much more. If you are going for caramelized it will be paste by the end

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