Rishir

Rishir was one of the northern Silver Kingdoms on Roshar. Valhav and Alethela bordered it to the south. Rishir's Oathgate is located in Kurth.
== Geography ==
=== Territories and Features ===
==== Territories and borders ==== 
Rishir lies in the north and eastern part of Roshar, stretching from Kurth in the west to Akak in the east. To the east and southeast, it borders Alethela while to the north, it borders the Steamwater Ocean and the Northern Depths. It also borders the kingdom of Valhav in the south and contains a number of islands close to Sela Tales. The capital city of Kurth, and the surrounding islands, are located very close to Iri. Rishir controls most of the islands in the Reshi sea.
==== Geographic Features ====
Most of Rishir lies on or in the Reshi Sea, a large island rich sea in the north of the continent. They control most of the islands in this sea. Rishir has a couple of large and noteworthy rivers running through it, with all of them located on the mainland. The kingdom has no mountain ranges of note.
== Culture ==
==== Writing and language ====
It can reasonably be assumed that the people of Rishir spoke multiple languages, including distant ancestors of modern day Herdazian and Reshi. The ancestor language of Herdazian belonged to the Vorin language family, which also contains the languages of the Alethi, the Thaylen, the Natan, and the Veden peoples. The men living on the Reshi Isles spoke a different language, which likely belonged to the Iriali language family. 
The people of Rishir wrote in the Dawnchant. After a while, they adapted the original Dawnchant script to fit their own languages and developed their own script. This process began with simple phonetic substitution, in which they used the Dawnchant to transcribe their own languages.
== History ==
=== Creation of Roshar ===
The land that would become known as Rishir was created at an unknown point before the Shattering by Adonalsium, along with the rest of Roshar and the Rosharan supercontinent over ten-thousand years prior to Vorin year . It is unclear how much the geography of Rishir has changed compared to the land at creation.
=== Pre-Human Arrival ===
Before humanity arrived on Roshar from Ashyn, the land that would come to be known as Rishir was inhabited by Singers. 
Circa -5825 in the Vorin calendar, humanity arrived on Roshar after fleeing Ashyn and were granted the land that would become Shin Kak Nish. After less than a generation, they headed an invasion, slaughtering some of the Singers and expelling them from their land, claiming it as their own, this included the land that would come to be known as Rishir. This history was lost to man until the discovery of the Eila Stele.
=== The Establishment of Rishir ===
Rishir was founded in the Silver Kingdoms Epoch. Due to the Desolations, the people of Rishir were constantly returned back to early technological levels, often to the point of having to make use of stone tools. Though they advanced each time with the help of the Heralds whenever they returned, often receiving this assistance from Kalak and his Willshapers. Old manuscripts and texts dating back to these times mention quick-spreading diseases in the east that killed tens of thousands, and it is likely that at least some of these diseases spread to Rishir.
Very early in the nation's history, the city of Kurth, was created and made into its capital. Kurth was eventually made into the home of the Rishir Oathgate.
==== Further Desolations ====
The Sixth Epoch lasted at least thirty-one years, and likely significantly longer, before its Desolation arrived. 
One of the many Desolations that struck the nation, along with the rest of Roshar, arrived in the year of the Eighth Epoch. This Desolation was heralded by the release of Midnight Essence in a small settlement in Natanatan. The length of this Desolation is unknown.
Another Desolation occurred later and ended circa -3333, during an unknown Epoch. This left society wounded and weak, forcing them into a period of recovery.
==== The Last Desolation (c.-3332) ====
The Last Desolation was a large scale Desolation which occurred circa -3332, around 4500 years before the True Desolation. This Desolation was particularly devasting due to the fact that it happened only a year after the previous Desolation, and thus society was weakened and still recovering. Tired of the Desolations and their torture on Braize, the nine Heralds still on Roshar refused to return to Braize, leaving Taln as the sole Herald on the planet for millennia.
After the Last Desolation, Desolations ceased to ravage the nation. Due to this, society was able to advance much further than ever before, giving them the strength to potentially resist any potential Desolation without complete societal collapse. The era heralded by the Last Desolation came to be known as the Era of Solitude.
==== After Aharietiam ====
At some unknown point in history, after Aharietiam, Rishir collapsed. 4500 years after the Last Desolation, the area that was ruled by Rishir had fractured into many kingdoms and tribes. Foremost among these kingdoms is the kingdom of Herdaz, but Kurth, the capital, was taken over by Rira and the Reshi isles declared themselves independent, with each island being ruled over by a different king.
== Notes ==
category: Silver Kingdoms