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'''Chasmfiends''' are enormous [[greatshell]]s native to the chasms of the [[Shattered Plains]] on [[Roshar]].{{book ref|sa1|12}}
== Appearance and Biology ==
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Chasmfiends are the largest known land animals on [[Roshar]]: at least twenty feet wide, six times the height of an adult man at their peak, and over twice as long.{{book ref|sa2|72}}{{file ref|name="journal"}} They are long and narrow, with a flattened, split tail reminescent of that of a crayfish.{{file ref|name=journal}} Like most of Rosharan fauna, they're crustaceans, with a carapace exoskeleton covering their entire body. The carapace is dark violet (though it's possible that other colors can also occur), and extremely durable, being able to withstand even a hail of arrows.{{book ref|sa1|13}} It covers the beast's back in a series of interlocking, upside-down-V-shaped plates with horn-like protrusions growing on the edges.{{file ref|name=journal}} Beneath it, the chasmfiend's blood and gore is purple, and smells of mold.{{book ref|sa1|13}}
A chasmfiend's head is triangular, narrowing down to a point like an arrowhead.{{book ref|sa2|70}} Inside the long jaw, its mouth is circular, surrounded by several rings of sharp teeth. Flanking it is a pair of smaller mandibles, which the chasmfiend can use to manipulate objects and pick up food.{{file ref|name=journal}} The mouth allows the chasmfiend to vocalize; it makes roars that sounds like four bellowing trumpets playing at the same time. The chasmfiend's eyes, set above the jaw, are glassy and green.{{book ref|sa2|70}} Its nostrils are located slightly behind the eyes; they allow the chasmfiend to smell its prey.{{file ref|name=journal}}
=== Gemheart and spren bonds ===
Some solutions have been proposed to mitigate this; primarily, reducing the number of hunts and even breeding chasmfiends in captivity for their gemhearts.{{book ref|sa2|49}} However, with the arrival of the [[Everstorm]], those plans, as well as the hunts themselves, have been put on hold as a bigger threat in form of the [[Voidbringer]]s occupied the attention of the armies that would normally hunt chasmfiends.{{book ref|sa3|50}}
== Culture ==
[[File:Chasmfiend old.jpg|thumb|right|300px|<center><small>by [[Greg Call]]</small></center> An ancient depiction of a [[Voidbringer]], based on a chasmfiend]]
Chasmfiends are deservedly considered to be the deadliest predators on [[Roshar]] by the [[Alethi]]. Prior to the [[War of Reckoning]], they were considered legendary, with people rarely venturing out into the Plains to hunt them.{{book ref|sa1|28}} Back then, to kill a chasmfiend was extremely rare; king [[Gavilar]] has never slain one, though not for lack of trying. As the War progressed, however, much of the mystique surrounding them has been stripped away, though they are still understood to be extremely dangerous.{{book ref|sa1|12}}
=== Sayings and idioms ===
There are numerous saying involving chasmfiends; likely, those developed during the War. They include:
* Even a chasmfiend stops fighting when it's been decapitated{{book ref|sa1|22}}
* Trying to choose which claw of the chasmfiend would crush you{{book ref|sa1|30}}
* Fight like chasmfiends{{book ref|sa1|56}}
* Acting like a chasmfiend ate their mother{{book ref|sa2|24}}
* As if they had turned into a chasmfiend{{book ref|sa2|33}}
* Like three children attacking a chasmfiend with sticks{{book ref|sa2|33}}
* I’d sooner flirt with a chasmfiend{{book ref|sa2|55}}
* Rats have a better chance fighting a chasmfiend{{book ref|sa2|85}}
=== Religion ===
Prior to and during the [[War of Reckoning]], it was a common belief among the [[Alethi]] that the [[listener]]s considered the chasmfiends their gods.{{book ref|sa1|13}} This was an assumption made by early explorers, and one that was never thoroughly investigated; as such, near the end of the war people like [[Shallan]] came to doubt it.{{book ref|sa2|54}} In fact, even prior to his death, [[Gavilar Kholin]] was aware that the listeners did not, in fact, worship the chasmfiends; however, with the war that occured soon after, there was never the time for that to become common knowledge, and so the misconception persisted.{{book ref|sa3|prologue}}
Chasmfiends have also had their place in the [[Vorin]] religion. Ancient depictions of [[Voidbringers]] were often based off of chasmfiends, leading some to believe that chasmfiends may've been either Voidbringers or part of Voidbringer forces. However, [[Jasnah Kholin]]'s research suggested that the much more likely option was that the artists who originally depicted Voidbringers, who lived generations after the last [[Desolation]], did not know what chasmfiends looked like, and so used the most terrifying creature they knew of -- the chasmfiend -- to approximate.{{book ref|sa1|28}}
With the arrival of the [[True Desolation]], it became apparent that the chasmfiends being depicted as Voidbringers came from the historians conflating them with [[thunderclast]]s, another massive creature. Thunderclasts and chasmfiends share very few physical characteristics; most notably, their enormous size and the shape of the head. However, they are killed in very similar way, by slicing at their legs with [[Shardblade]]s.{{book ref|sa3|120}}
== Notes ==
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