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{{Shardworld
|map=Ashyn.jpg
|shards=None
|magic=Unknown, disease-based
|books=[[The Silence Divine]]
|system=[[Rosharan system]]{{map ref|Roshar system}}
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
}}
{{unpublished|book=tsd}}
{{quote
|From [[Khriss]]'s essay on the [[Rosharan System]]{{au ref|roshar}}
}}
'''Ashyn''' is a planet in the [[Rosharan system]]
== Geography and Ecology ==
In the past, Ashyn was largely Earth-like, with animals such as birds and horses, and plants like grapes.{{wob ref|12702}}{{wob ref|12228}} Although it is not known what the ecology of Ashyn was precisely like, it likely closely resembled the [[Shinovar]] region on [[Roshar]], as the plants and animals there are ones brought by the original refugees.{{book ref|sa3|113}}
An ecological catastrophe in the past has destroyed most of the planet, annihilating its biosphere.{{epigraph ref|sa3|115}} In the present day, the planet is mostly barren, with a few fertile patches.{{wob ref|9847}}
== Population ==
Ashyn is sparsely populated by humans. There were far more of them in the past, although whether their presence on the planet predates the [[Shattering]] is uncertain. At some point, they used the [[Dawnshard]]s and/or [[Surgebinding]] to destroy most of Ashyn.{{epigraph ref|sa3|115}}{{book ref|sa3|113}} Some people fled the destruction and traveled to the neighboring planet of [[Roshar]], while others stayed in small pockets of habitable land.{{wob ref|8243}} In the present day, this land includes the floating cities Ashyn is known for.{{au ref|roshar}}
For modern Rosharans, Ashyn is a mythical place, known only as the [[Tranquiline Halls]].{{wob ref|8496}} On Ashyn, there are in turn some people who are aware of Roshar.{{wob ref|11741}}
== Magic ==
Ashyn currently has no [[Shard]], but [[Odium]] possibly spent time there as he followed the Ashynites to [[Roshar]].{{wob ref|6646}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|117}} Like most of [[Rosharan system]], the planet is 10-centric.{{wob ref|2745}}
The magic of Ashyn is disease-based. As the bacteria and viruses there seek to keep their hosts alive, they provide them with access to supernatural abilities, which differ depending on the disease. The Ashynites harness this by deliberately infecting themselves to gain various powers.{{wob ref|1862}} Very little is known about the specific forms of magic granted by the illnesses, though one has been described. It causes hearing loss while allowing its host to manipulate gravity and as such, is crucial to the funcitoning of Ashyn's flying cities, as they are kept aloft by conclaves of people infected with it.{{wob ref|12271}}
Ashyn's magic system was not originally sickness-based.{{wob ref|11304}} The [[Eila Stele]] mentions humans using the powers of [[spren]] and [[Surge]]s, suggesting that the shift to bacteria and viruses as the focus of the magic might've happened after the cataclysm.{{epigraph ref|sa3|115}}
== Trivia ==
* The earliest reference to Ashyn, though not under that name, can be found in Brandon's blog post from March 10, 2006. Back then, he considered it the sillier of his two ideas for magic disease stories, the more serious one of which would involve a doctor combating an illness with various magical effects on its victims.{{wob ref|7584}}
* The symbiotic relation between the bacteria and their hosts is similar to that of the [[Aviar]]s and the worms that grant them powers from [[First of the Sun]], albeit here the humans interact with the magic-granting microorganisms directly rather than through intermediaries.
== Notes ==
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