The Weeping

The Weeping, amongst unpredictable seasons on Roshar, is a consistent one. It marks the end of an old year, and the coming of a new one, with four weeks of constant rain. There are no highstorms during the Weeping. Gemstones cannot be infused during the Weeping, which can be problematic to the people of Roshar, and especially the Knights Radiant.
The Weeping is so consistent that it is used to determine people's ages.
In an off year in the thousand-day cycle of two years, the Weeping is a calm one.
Lightday is the single clear day in the middle of the Weeping. Every other year a highstorm arrives on Lightday, but it is otherwise free of storms. The years without the highstorm are known as Light Years.
Opposite the Weeping on the Rosharan calendar is Midpeace, also when there are no highstorms.
==Present Day==
Given the countdown toward what was once unknown to be the Everstorm, Kaladin confirmed to Syl that something is coming. That the countdown points right toward the Weeping.
After the Parshendi release the Everstorm, the Weeping alternately stops and restarts repetitively. It acts strange, like regular weather, rather than the long, mild highstorm it is supposed to be.
Newly ensconced in Yeddaw, Lift sees the occasional pinprick of spherelight in alleys, yet it is supposed to be the Weeping, when most spheres go dun.
In Urithiru, the Weeping has lasted far longer than it should have. Centuries - millennia - of careful records might now be obsolete. Once, that alone would have been a catastrophe. It threatened to ruin planting seasons and cause famines, to upend travel and shipping, disrupting trade. Unfortunately, in the face of the Everstorm and the Voidbringers, it is barely third on the list of current cataclysms.
==Characteristics==
Haspers, small two-shelled creatures, proliferate during the Weeping.
It is common for people to go to bed earlier than they normally do during the Weeping because there aren't many spheres to light their way outdoors.
==Notes==
According to Brandon, the Weeping is more related to the planet's orbital position than the moons' position.Book signing, Hoboken, NJ, 12/3/16
==Q&A with Brandon==
Q. In the world of Stormlight, we have the Weeping season, where there are no large storms, but we don't have any new Stormlight. How did the Knights Radiant deal in the past? Like, how did they handle this time?
A. Well, there's a couple of things, some are spoilery for the books. Large gemstones can keep the Stormlight, though. Some dealt without and just didn't have it. In some cases, they had the large gemstone reservoirs. It was a thing they planned for and there were a couple of other little hacks that are not obvious in the beginning of the series. So, you actually get a RAFO on that.iCon 2019, Tel Aviv, Israel, 10/15/19
==References==
Category:Seasons
Category:Culture