Strange Question, but...

[Holsety]

What's a "sun of rain" like? I haven't read the 2nd chron's recently, just glanced up at the "today's sun is" thing, and I realized that I really need to brush up on my understanding of sunbane classification.

[Cameraman Jenn]

In prediction mode, if you are asking in reference to Hollian, the sun has a blue ring cast around it. In actuality it means that when the sun rises on the new day it brings clouds and torrential downpour to the land. Granted, you can't see the sun for the clouds but it rises nonetheless. Does that help?

[Holsety]

In prediction mode, if you are asking in reference to Hollian, the sun has a blue ring cast around it. In actuality it means that when the sun rises on the new day it brings clouds and torrential downpour to the land. Granted, you can't see the sun for the clouds but it rises nonetheless. Does that help?

Yes. But there isn't any weird stuff like "THE WATER MELTS YOUR SKIN (AND IT'S PAINFUL TOO)!" or "RANDOM SEA MONSTERS ATTACK YOU!" ? Or is it just "floods are bad and makes travelling, moving, etc hard and not fun"? I remember that the sun where lots of stuff grows has some sort of drawback; like, I think I remember there being something bad about the sun of fertility, where stuff grows. Was it that wounds don't heal and become infected? Or maybe that was the sun of pestilence...argh. I dunno.

[High Lord Tolkien]

Just rain.
But a lot of rain.
So much that you can hardly see in front of you!
Falling so hard that it hurts your skin (if I remember correctly).
I never got the impression that the people of the Land feared a Sun of Rain though.
But I imagine they didn't get much work done outside though.

[ramus]

When rereading the books a few years ago, it amazes me how like todays weather climates the books are. Whether this is coincidence or me reading to much into it, but as I look out the window I see myself saying "Hmm today will be a sun of fertility", or "Todays sun is the sun of rain", at which point it pisses down.

[variol son]

I always got the impression that the Sun of Rain was a lot like a Desert Sun - very inconvenient, but not horrifying. When Linden is absorbing the Sun-Bane she absorbs every drop of violence or something along those lines, so maybe thats what it is supposed to represent.

[Relayer]

I pretty much agree with that. The sun of fertility was like the plants being raped to force them to grow way too fast and too big. Pestilence of course, would just suck. But rain and desert didn't seem horrifying, just a big hassle.

One thing I wondered though. With that much rain, there should be much more dramatic erosion... ie canyons, gullies, etc. It didn't seem like the riverbed of the Mithil or the White were much different than they would have been prior to the Sunbane, and there should have been massive areas of badlands where too much water had run off. Not to mention massive areas of flooding. Oh well, SRD isn't a geomorphologist