Lasting Integrity

Lasting Integrity is the honorspren stronghold in Shadesmar on Roshar. It's also their capital city there.
==Location==
It's located to the southwest of the Cognitive Realm.
In the Physical Realm, Lasting Integrity sits on a cliff overlooking a northern bay that is part of the Astral Banks, which is a body of water in the Sea of Souls, and is a reflection of the country of Tukar.
==Description==
It is a fortress on a bleak outcrop of obsidian jutting out into the bead ocean. It is large and boxy, has high walls crafted of blue stone, and is positioned perfectly to defend a natural bay to the north. One even has to cross a bridge to reach the place.
Lasting Integrity is several hundred feet tall. It is hollow and has no roof. Rectangular and resting on the small side, all four of its walls are perfectly sheer, without windows. One can walk vertically on its interior walls.
==Characteristics==
There is a cache of perfect gemstones there.
The honorspren of this region like their rules.
The city does not have a hospital.
There are only a couple dozen humans there, but Pattern states to Lusintia that the honorspren won't let them come back in if they leave, so those that are there are basically caged there.
The honorspren there have little experience with humans.
==Structures==
*The Amphitheater - A locale where Adolin's trial takes place.
*The Library - A long flat building on the city's northern plane.
*The Statue Garden - Sixteen lives in a small building there located on the southern wall of the stronghold.
==Notes==
According to Brandon, the odd character, Sixteen, who lives in Lasting Integrity is a Scadrian transplant there.YouTube Spoiler Stream 5, 12/2/22
==Q&A with Brandon==
Q. Was Lasting Integrity inspired by Escher, or the movie Inception, or something else?
A. I'm sure that both Escher and Inception had a role in that. Absolutely. Though, curiously, I was writing these weird walk-on-the-walls things long before I saw Inception, so it's probably both kind of reaching toward the same dream-like state. One of my earliest stories involved this surface-specific-gravity stuff, and I read a little bit from a later story that did the same thing. (The story I read at the launch party, The Sixth Incarnation of Pandora.The Sixth Incarnation of PandoraRoW Release Party, 11/17/20) That dream-like quality. I wanted something about Lasting Integrity that said, when you got to it, "This is just not part of our world. This doesn't feel like it could be in the real world. The laws of physics are different here. And it's inhabited by beings that see the laws of physics in a different way." And that was what I was reaching for in creating that situation. Where my inspirations were? Probably all over the place. But Escher is definitely an inspiration there. And some of those descriptions in the Harry Potter books, of how the stairwells in Hogwarts work, I'm sure, were partially inspirations.YouTube Livestream, 2/3/21
==Speculation==
According to a reader, said cache of perfect gemstones in Lasting Integrity is going to be making an appearance in The Stormlight Archive, book 5, Knights of Wind and Truth.
==References==
Category:Cities
Category:Shadesmar
Category:Roshar (world)