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=== Military ===
==== Armament ====
Listener soldiers use Warform, this grants them strong carapace armor as well as increased strength.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} Though not as strong or resilient as someone with Shardplate, warform listeners wereare a real threat to regular human soldiers. Their strength allowedallows them to use heavy weapons like battleaxes, hammers, and sometimes clubs and swords.{{book ref|sa1|40}} They wereare also capable of jumping far enough to cross the chasms on the [[Shattered Plains]].{{book ref|sa1|27}}, somethingThe thatListeners onlyare thosealso withfond Shardplate couldof dobows on theand Alethitwo-handed sideslings.{{book ref|sa1|5565}}
 
The Listeners had multiple sets of [[Shardplate]] and [[Shardblades]], they gradually lost all of them during the War of Reckoning however.{{book ref|sa2|i|3}} Regular soldiers often wear simple garments that are tailored around their warform carapace. Some of them also wear long coates, although these aren’t worn into battle. The Listener general wears a cap on their skullplate and a tight red cloth as a cape.{{book ref|Sa2|i|4}}
==== Tactics ====▼
==== Hierarchy ====▼
The Listener military is commanded by a general, who is also the warform representative in the [[Council of Five]]. During the [[War of Reckoning]] Eshonai served as general.▼
 
▲==== Tactics ====
Unlike the Alethi, the listeners had a single unified army. Their society was governed by the [[Council of Five]], whose members each represented one of the five [[Singer#Forms|singer forms]] that the listeners used. The Council member who used [[warform]], which is the singer form used by listener warriors, served as the general of the army.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}
WhileA theynotable alsoaspect used archers just like the Alethi,of the listeners' combat strategy alsois involvedtheir usinguse of '''warpairs'''{{book ref|sa1|26}}, or pairs of warriors who foughtfight side by side as partners. These listener warpairs would jumpmove around the battlefield in coordinated maneuvers and attack enemy troops with heavy weapons from multiple directions.{{book ref|sa1|28}} While warform listeners were able to jump the distance between plateaus.▼
 
At some point during the war, Eshonai became the warform member among the Five and started leading the fight for survival against the Alethi. She also possessed the listeners' only remaining set of Shardblade and Shardplate, and used these in addition to warform during battle.{{book ref|sa1|68}}{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}
 
 
▲While they also used archers just like the Alethi, the listeners' combat strategy also involved using '''warpairs'''{{book ref|sa1|26}}, or pairs of warriors who fought side by side as partners. These listener warpairs would jump around the battlefield in coordinated maneuvers and attack enemy troops with heavy weapons from multiple directions.{{book ref|sa1|28}} While warform listeners were able to jump the distance between plateaus.
 
[[Listener]]s also use two-handed slings to hurl head-sized rocks at Shardbearers, these rocks can quickly damage Shardplate, with a single blow being enough to make cracks in an unharmed section of Plate.{{book ref|sa1|65}} The Listeners also use shortbows to harry and weaken their enemies.{{book ref|sa1|17}}
 
▲==== Hierarchy ====
▲The Listener military is commanded by a general, who is also the warform representative in the [[Council of Five]]. During the [[War of Reckoning]] [[Eshonai]] served as general.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}
 
=== Architecture ===
Prior to the [[True Desolation]] the Listeners were technologically behind the rest of [[Roshar]]. They lived in huts made from hardened crem over frames of shell, which were huddled on the leeward side of lumps of stone to protect from [[highstorm]]s.{{book ref|WoR|i|4}} These buildings were fragile and would often be destroyed by highstorms, although the Listeners would simply rebuild them.{{book ref|WoK|45}}
 
 
Raw gemstones in beard. Soldiers wear simple garments tailored around their warform carapace. Long Coates, but not for battle. Generals wear caps/helmets on their skullplates and tight red cloths. Some singers hate trapping spren, instead preferring going out into the highstorms and attracting the proper spren. Measure time by the rhythms, movements and half movements. They live in huts made from hardened crem over frames of shell, which are huddled on the leeward side of lumps of stone. During the war of reckoning many listeners no longer cared about their origins. Forms couldn’t be commanded, everyone was free to choose. They sometimes tie their hair in braids, binding them together with ribbons. The Listeners grow and prune Shalebark, although they do it for decoration. They have stories of the [[Unmade]]. The listeners make paper from plants native to the unclaimed hills and shattered plains, this paper is much rougher and varies in Color. Their paper is textured and full instead of meatneat and sterile.{{book ref|WoR|i|4}} When a highstorm is close the people prepare their homes, this includes stuffing rags under their doors, shoving bracing boards into position and pounding large wooden blocks into their open windows.
 
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