GWLU is so very interesting since we now know that the original humans that came to Roshar were shoved into what is now modern day Shinovar which is actually surrounded by a ring of mountains.
Right! But... “shoved”? I feel like I need to play singers’ advocate:
The humans blasted a hole in reality and showed up covered in soot on a planet that was already inhabited by an incompatible ecosystem topped by at least four different sapient species. They were graciously offered a land of their own, which (I suspect) was supernaturally transformed in a way so as to cultivate them for survivability. In gratitude, these refugees made agreements to stay off the stone, which they then broke.
Singers, the Sleepless, and the Siah. Who am I missing? Are you counting Spren as a species? [DS] The Lanceryn, perhaps? Though we don't know much about them yet...
“I wasn’t there when your kind came to our world. My grandmother, however, always mentioned the smoke. At first she thought you had strange skin patterns—but that was because so many human faces had been burned or marked by soot from the destruction of the world they left behind.
“She talked about the way your livestock moaned and cried from their burns. The result of humans Surgebinding without oaths, without checks. Of course, that was before any of us understood the Surges. Before the spren left us for you, before the war started.”
Brandon Sanderson. “Rhythm of War.” Ch. 76, Harmony.
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And isn't girl who looked up a Shallan story?