Crem

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Crem
por Marie Seeberger
Tipo	Sustancia
Mundo de origen	Roshar
Universo	Cosmere

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El crem es un tipo de sedimento de Roshar que transporta la lluvia de las altas tormentas.

Apariencia y propiedades

El crem es una sustancia marrón claro, parecida a los sedimentos. Cae junto con las fuertes lluvias durante las altas tormentas, mientras que las lluvias más ligeras de los Llantos no lo arrastran. Da al agua de las tormentas un sabor metálico. Su consumo puede causar enfermedades, lo que hace que el consumo de agua de las altas tormentas no sea seguro, pero después de un día, se deposita en el fondo del recipiente, lo que deja el agua limpia por encima. Cuando se seca, puede convertirse en polvo. El agua mezclada con crem se conoce como aguacrem. El limo de crem (un barro más espeso formado por agua mezclada con crem) tiene un olor desagradable. El crem acumulado y densamente empaquetado forma la piedra de crem, de color marrón tostado.

Highstorms cause crem buildup on all structures, whether unnatural or natural, such as buildings, plateaus, and even corpses. Unless cleaned regularly, everything on Roshar eventually becomes covered with crem, and any overhangs will grow crem stalactites. In fact, the entire continent is slowly "migrating" leeward, thanks to the highstorms depositing crem as they travel.

Despite being above the storms, even Urithiru has some crem built up on the Oathgate platforms. This is because the height of highstorm varies periodically, sometimes being higher than Urithiru.

Crem is currently influenced by Cultivation, despite predating her.

Applications

Ecology

Crem is utilized by native Rosharan flora as source of nutrients, as well as structural reinforcement. Jella trees absorb crem to strengthen their wood against highstorms. Shalebark feeds on crem, and lavis polyps grow from seed-crem (which can be presumed to be crem mixed with lavis seeds).

Rosharan fauna derive the minerals used to grow gemhearts from drinking crem-infused water.

Human uses

Crem is one of Roshar's most versatile materials. Historically, humans have used it in construction, in the form of bricks. Crembrick buildings can be found even in the present day, and some cities, such as Kharbranth, have walls plastered with crem for insulation. Singers, too, utilize crem and stone as building materials.

To filter crem out of rainwater, the people of Roshar use storm cisterns, which can do so automatically. The crem filtered out of water is often used as clay. Among others, the people of Sesemalex Dar are renowned for their expert crem pottery.

Crem is also utilized in farming. When growing lavis, crem is added as fertilizer. It's also used when deworming fields to close the holes after removing worms, so that no new pests can infest the field again.

In scholarship, crem can be used for geological and archaeological dating, by measuring the strata and the crem buildup. However, this isn't practical in areas that experience strong winds, as crem pools unevenly there.

In culture

Crem is a go-to derogatory term for most Rosharans, and features in a number of insults, such as "cremstained", "crem-crusted" or "the crem of something". The small crustaceans of Roshar are collectively called cremlings; this, too, is used as an insult. This being said, while it is generally considered a nuisance, Rysn finds crem superior to Shinovar soil, if only slightly.

One of Roshar's "where babies come from" myths claims that they are crafted from crem clay.

Trivia

• The word "crem" is a transliteration, rather than translation, of the Rosharan word for it.

Notes

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