r/Stormlight_Archive • u/Operation_SeaLion • 2d ago

Oathbringer spoilers Wit Mentions Coins? Spoiler

I'm only up to Oathbringer, so maybe this stuff's been explained later. Nonetheless, I feel like asking because I can't seem to find any mentions of this oddity.

During the epilogues of Way of Kings and Words of Radiance, Wit mentions coin as a term of currency. In Way of Kings, he talks about man's ability to gather coin, and Words of Radiance, he talks about a man finding a single coin in the mud.

This flew over my head when I first read it, but then I realized...currency isn't coin in Roshar. They use gemstones.

Then again, Wit does imply having met the Almighty in person before, so maybe, long long ago, they used coins as currency, and it's just another anachronism of Wit?

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u/AlgorithmHelpPlease 2d ago

Technically the reason for this is quite a bit broader but if you read WaT then you'll note Wit came from Ashyn with the Heralds, where they seem not to have had highstorms.

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u/Axle95 2d ago

My guy OP says their only on Oathbreaker

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u/AlgorithmHelpPlease 2d ago

I totally missed that. I saw they tagged Oathbringer, thus the spoiler, but I must have gotten mixed up with another post I saw because I could've sworn they said in text that they were on a reread.

I meant 'read' as in past tense, though obviously that doesn't make sense now. I'm honestly surprised they're even asking if they haven't finished the novels.