Artes y Majestuosidad

Artes y Majestuosidad
Mundo de origen	Roshar
Universo	Cosmere

Arts and Majesty is an ancient work of Rosharan literature that has come to define the Vorin ideas of masculine and feminine arts. It defines certain topics and practices as masculine or feminine; the feminine arts are generally those that can be practiced with a single hand, while the masculine arts involve both hands, associating delicacy with women and brute force with men. The idea of the safehand comes from this distinction between one-handed and two-handed arts. In modern Vorin culture, practices that are not explicitly mentioned in the book (and are not too similar to ones that are) may be properly performed by anybody.

History

Arts and Majesty was written by a female artist well before the Day of Recreance. It may not have had much influence on culture before the Recreance; soon afterward, however, some men in power came across it and began emphasizing it to justify keeping Shardblades and Shardplate away from women. As retaliation, a movement of women caused writing and literacy to move into the domain of women.

The division between masculine and feminine arts became part of Vorin culture over the next few decades and remained solidly in place even thousands of years later, with the safehand and the femininity of writing being especially prominent in day-to-day life. Arts and Majesty itself also stayed well-known despite its age, at least among upper-class lighteyes. In some cases, the distinction between the arts moved beyond a mere cultural norm and gained religious overtones; men who could write, for example, could actually be seen as blasphemous and not just strange.

Arts

Unspecified

• horseback riding and the care of horses
• knitting
• singing

Feminine

• reading and writing
• painting and drawing
• science (e.g., zoology, botany, and natural history)
• logic
• playing musical instruments

Masculine

• combat (facetiously, "hitting things", according to Navani Kholin)
• tactics
• politics
• carpentry
• commerce

Trivia

• The idea of the safehand and the division between one-handed and two-handed arts arose from Brandon's fascination with different taboos across real-life cultures.
• LEGO building would probably be considered a feminine art; since it is difficult to do one-handed, though, it might end up being mostly done with two hands behind the scenes anyway.

Notes

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