2017年10月山神教條統整 Monthly WoB Roundup - October 2017 @ 山姆的寰宇小舖

The City of Bells is a true city-state. They have no real authority beyond the city itself, and they trade for everything they need. There aren’t Kharbranthian farmers, for example. If commerce were to fail, the city would flat-out collapse.

也如同本章(《王道》ch.3)所提示的，他們擁有自己的語言，但這和雅烈席語及維德語非常相似。其實，我將這三種語言視為雅烈席語的方言，學習其中一種的新字時，其實更像是在學習發音(雖然詞彙上還是有些差異)。我想它們的關係比起我們世界的西語和葡語更相近一點。

They do have their own language, as hinted at in this chapter, but it’s very similar to Alethi and Veden. I consider the three languages to really be dialects of Alethi, and learning one is more about learning new pronunciations as it is about learning new words. (Though there are some differences in vocabulary.) I would put them even slightly closer than Spanish and Portuguese in our world.

這個城市的起源談起來就沒那麼光榮了。卡布嵐司曾經是個海盜窩，是低端人口在羅沙早期在航行中的避風港。然而，幾十年過去，它發展成了一座真正的城市。但即便時至今日，它的領導人也承認自己並非世界強權---也恐怕永遠不會是。他們更傾向利用政治、貿易與情報遊戲將賈-克維德、雅烈席卡與賽勒那玩弄於股掌間以從中獲益。

The city origins are a little less proud than they’d tell you. Kharbranth was a pirate town, a harbor for the less savory during the early days of navigation on Roshar. As the decades passed, however, it grew into a true city. To this day, however, its leaders acknowledge that they’re not a world power—and might never be. They use games of politics, trade, and information to play Jah Keved, Alethkar, and Thaylenah against one another.

哈思維月之女韶卡和哈思維月之女艾里是兩個不同的人。

註：兩者都是雪諾瓦哲學家，彼此是姊妹。前者似乎是邏輯大師，而後者的研究跟兀瑞席魯有關。哈斯維月是她們的母親。

Shauka-daughter-Hasweth and Ali-daughter-Hasweth are two different people.

問及紗藍初抵卡布嵐司時看到兩個穿大衣的人是誰，得到RAFO。

RAFO about two people wearing trenchcoats that Shallan sees in Kharbranth.

並非所有的無實之人都會在放逐時得到榮刃。賽司是個特例。

Not all Truthless are given Honorblades when they are cast out. Szeth was a special case.

問及「最重要的話語」是什麼，RAFO。「這還沒被解答。」

RAFO as to what the "most important words" are. "That one's not answered yet."

瑞沙迪馬「在羅沙上與靈的共生關係有些微的授予性以至於讓牠們擁有了略勝一般野獸的智力」。

Ryshadium "are slightly Invested through a symbiotic relationship on Roshar that gives them better-than-average animal intelligence."

凱倫-阿爾斯壯(彼得的太太)討論了一下颶光系列的時間線。

註：這篇太有趣了XD 如果有夠多人要求看一下這篇的翻譯，我會考慮寫出來~

Karen Ahlstrom discusses the Stormlight timeline.

當一座雷熙島死掉的時候，甲殼會保留下來。最後上面的居民會搬走。有些人會試著拿到寶心。

註：如果覺得這很奇怪，請別忘記雷熙諸島是由一群稱為太納(Tai'na)的超大型巨殼獸組成的。

When a Reshi island dies, the shell will remain. Eventually people will move away. Some people will try to get the gemheart.

一些布蘭登已經對於未來颶光系列的情節的想法。

註：基本上，布蘭登是個計畫者(應該大家都知道了XD)，他已經寫完後面幾本書的草綱，但通常都還有很大的伸縮空間。

About how thought Brandon has put into the plot of future Stormlight books.

一個完全長成的燦軍可以治癒幾乎任何傷害。榮刃因為鍵結不夠深而無法達成相同等級的治療效果。

A full-blown Radiant can heal almost anything. Honorblades can't heal to the same extent because the bond isn't as deep.

有關紗藍這個角色的靈感。

About the inspiration for Shallan's character.

出處翻譯：卡布嵐司---<王者之路>第三章註解

我選擇用紗藍而非達利納作為第一部的另一個主角，是因為我覺得她接續在卡拉丁之後會更好。他準備前往的是更黑暗的地方，而她的發展相對明亮了些。

I chose to use Shallan as my other main character in Part One, rather than Dalinar, because I felt her sequence better offset Kaladin’s. He was going to some very dark places, and her sequence is a little lighter.

她是這本書中唯一的一個「新主角」。卡拉丁(當時是另一個名字)在《王者之路原作》就出現了，而達利納也基本上跟現在沒啥不同。然而，紗藍這個位置的角色卻從沒成功。這讓我得要花多點心力來替換加絲娜的護衛。

She is the only ‘new’ main character in this book. Kaladin (under a different name) was in Way of Kings Prime, and Dalinar was there virtually unchanged from how he is now. The character in Shallan’s place, however, never panned out. That left me with work to do in order to replace Jasnah’s ward.

紗藍的誕生出於我想要有個藝術家角色以便提供書中的素描圖。這是我一直以來都想做的事，但在第一版出現的時候沒有方法能讓我如願。如今我有了人脈跟資源完成這些畫作，它們就像來自達爾文這種自然歷史學家的筆記本中。

Shallan grew out of my desire to have an artist character to do the sketches in the book. Those were things I’d wanted to do forever, but hadn’t had the means to accomplish when writing the first version of the book. I now had the contacts and resources to do these drawings, like from the sketchbook of a natural historian such as Darwin.

另一件讓我興味盎然的事情是，早期時代的科學家擁有多廣的知識基礎。你可以當一個「科學家」並代表你已經研究過所有東西。在現代，我們傾向專業點，而我們的基礎就會變得越來越不全面。物理學家就可能對社會學完全不了解。

One of the things that interests me about scientists in earlier eras is how broad their knowledge base was. You really could just be a “scientist” and that would mean that you had studied everything. Now, we need to specialize more, and our foundations seem to be less and less generalized. A physicist may not pay attention to sociology at all.

古典的學者就不同了。你應該要懂語言、自然科學、物理、還有神學，就像這些全部都是一門學問一樣。紗藍就是我描寫這種人物的一個嘗試。

Classical scholars were different. You were expected to know languages, natural science, physical science, and theology all as if they were really one study. Shallan is my stab at writing someone like this.

有關純湖的垃圾怎麼處理。

註：簡言之，因為純湖人口少又沒有工業化，幾乎所有廢物都能被自然分解或被颶風帶走；事實上羅沙各地都有一點小問題，而許多廢棄物基本上就是被一層層的克姆泥蓋掉。雷熙島的居民就更辛苦了，太納的殼很難鑿開。但他們都會找到方法的。

About how waste in the Purelake is handled.

納拉自視為守序中立。(感謝〈軍團：膚淺〉譯者單哥指教XD)

Nale sees himself as Lawful Neutral.

非無實之人的雪諾瓦人也允許使用榮刃。

Non-Truthless Shin are allowed to use the Honorblades.

關於神將是否原生於羅沙，RAFO。

RAFO as to whether the Heralds are originally from Roshar.