Tronador
| Tronador | |
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 por Matthew Johnson
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| Tipo | Piedra animada |
| Racional | Sí |
| Mundo de origen | Roshar |
| Universo | Cosmere |
“Those aren’t stones. They’re creatures. ”
Los tronadores son gigantescos monstruos de piedra de Roshar que sirven a Odium durante las Desolaciones.[2][3]
Aparencia y naturaleza
“Even after all these centuries, seeing a thunderclast up close made Kalak shiver. ”
Los tronadores son enormes criaturas de piedra, fácilmente cinco o seis veces más grande que una persona, con tan solo sus manos midiendo dos metros.[1][2] Toman la forma de un esqueleto humanoide, con extremidades que terminan en dedos puntiagudos con forma de garra. En sus pechos, tienen unas protuberancias parecidas a costillas, y tienen crestas a lo largo de sus espaldas.[4] Sus cabezas son estrechas con forma de flecha, con brillantes ojos rojos.[4][5]
Sin embargo, el tronador en sí es un tipo de entidad cognitiva, significantemente más grande y retorcida que el alma de un Fusionado. Cuando ve a uno en una visión, Dalinar supone que es un spren[4], pero durante la Batalla de la Explanada Thayleña Venli supone que es el alma de un cantor. Venli no estaba del todo en lo cierto, ya que los tronadores son distintos a los Fusionados.[6] Cuando quieren tomar una forma física, se submergen en la piedra y la animan, arrancandose de ella con forma humanoide.[3] Como tal, retienen ciertas cualidades del material que usan, como el color o si está cubierto de musgo o hongos.[4]
Abilidades y atributos
“Thunderclast! Hammers! Ready hammers! ”
Despite their enormous size, thunderclasts have no problems staying upright, and can swing their body around with incredible force, easily toppling regular fortifications.[7] Though brute force is their greatest strength, they're also capable of precise actions such as throwing boulders,[8] or carrying regular Fused in their hands without crushing them.[7]
Although warped and twisted, thunderclasts seem to retain some level of personality, enough so to answer to names and have a concrete sense of their gender. While they can obey commands, however, they do not seem capable of communicating themselves.[9] They are capable of making earth-shaking roars and trumpeting sounds to express their emotions, though.[10]
Despite being made of the same material as their targets, they do not crack, and it seems they cannot be destroyed by ordinary means, although hammers are given as a viable option for combating them.[7][4] Another viable way to deal with them is to cut them up with Shardblades to the point where they're no longer mobile, although this carries significant risk to both people and their surroundings. Indeed, Adolin theorizes that killing thunderclasts was in fact the original purpose of Shardblades, an idea mirrored by Szeth's thoughts on them.[11][10] Nightblood can kill them for good.[9]
History
While it's unknown for how long they've been in Odium's service, thunderclasts date back to the Desolations of old, even back to Nohadon's times.[1] People back then knew to look out for them, and sent out hunting parties, although only Knights Radiant were capable of fighting them.[4] They were powerful enough to pose dangers even to the Heralds, with Kelek in particular dying to them several times.[2] After the Aharietiam, however, thunderclasts passed on into myths. By the Era of Solitude, there were numerous stories about Voidbringers with bodies of stone, likely as a cultural memory of the thunderclasts.[12][13]
Thunderclasts appeared a few times in Dalinar's visions. When he met Nohadon, he saw numerous corpses of them littering the battlefield and, in a separate vision in which he participated in a hunt for a corrupted spren on the Purelake, he witnessed one rip itself out of the ground.[1][4] However, they didn't make their proper debut in the modern era until the Siege of Kholinar, when at least one thunderclast participated in the main attack, easily breaking down the city wall and decimating numerous buildings in its wake.[8][14]
In the Battle of Thaylen Field, Odium called two singer souls -- Kai-garnis and Yushah -- to create thunderclasts. After Yushah broke through the wall, he sent her after the Thaylen Gemstone Reserve while Kai-garnis went to assist the Fused in taking the Thaylen City Oathgate. Both were eventually defeated; Yushah was destroyed permanently by Szeth with Nightblood,[15] while Kai-garnis was immobilized by Renarin and fled her stone body.[9][10]
Tronadores conocidos
Notas
- ↑ a b c d El camino de los reyes capítulo 60#
- ↑ a b c d Preludio al Archivo de las Tormentas#
- ↑ a b Juramentada capítulo 115#
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Palabras radiantes capítulo 4#
- ↑ Juramentada capítulo 84#
- ↑ YouTube Spoiler Stream 4
— Arcanum - 2022-06-16# - ↑ a b c Juramentada capítulo 116#
- ↑ a b Juramentada capítulo 83#
- ↑ a b c Juramentada capítulo 117#
- ↑ a b c Juramentada capítulo 120#
- ↑ El camino de los reyes prólogo#
- ↑ El camino de los reyes capítulo 3#
- ↑ Palabras radiantes capítulo 51#
- ↑ Juramentada epílogo#
- ↑ Idaho Falls signing
— Arcanum - 2018-07-21#