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== Culture ==
=== People ===
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Listeners wear a wide variety of clothing. They are often seen wearing robes,{{book ref|sa4|73}} shirts skirts and coats.{{book ref|sa4|68}} When listeners go out into a highstorm to adopt a new form they often wear loose robes. This is likely so that their clothes don’t get ripped apart during the transformation of their body.{{book ref|Sa4|86}} Listener men weave bits of uncut gemstones in their beard, these gemstones come from the [[gemheart]]s of chasmfiends.{{book ref|sa1|36}} Members of each family all wear different gemstones, so a Listener can recognise what family someone belongs to just by looking at the gemstones in their beard.{{book ref|Sa4|73}} They also wear bands on their braids, members of different families also have differently colored bands.{{book ref|Sa4|73}}▼
==== Relation to Freedom ====▼
Due to their history the listeners greatly value their freedom. Because of their fear of the gods, and their ancestors’ sacrifice, the listeners decided to assassinate king Gavilar of Alethkar. Although during the resulting war many listeners stopped caring about their origins. It is also important to the Listeners that everyone can choose their own form, and the [[Council of Five|Five]] cannot command people to choose a form.{{book ref|Sa2|i|4}}{{book ref|Sa2|i|11}} Some singers hate trapping spren, instead they prefer to go out into the highstorms themselves and attract the proper spren.{{book ref|Sa2|i|8}}▼
==== Funerary Practises ====▼
[[Listeners]] consider gemhearts sacred and personal, however a [[Fused]] mocks this, saying that gemhearts were just another part of a singer body.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}▼
Prior to the [[War of Reckoning]], the listeners were organized in tribe-like families that would vie for control of the ten cities along the western border of the Shattered Plains. There were roughly a dozen families.{{book ref|Sa4|73}} Some notable listener families include:
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Once raided by the Pure-Song family in an attempt to seize their weapons.{{book ref|sa4|45}}
▲==== Fashion ====
▲Listeners wear a wide variety of clothing. They are often seen wearing robes,{{book ref|sa4|73}} shirts skirts and coats.{{book ref|sa4|68}} When listeners go out into a highstorm to adopt a new form they often wear loose robes. This is likely so that their clothes don’t get ripped apart during the transformation of their body.{{book ref|Sa4|86}} Listener men weave bits of uncut gemstones in their beard. Members of each family all wear different gemstones, so a Listener can recognise what family someone belongs to just by looking at the gemstones in their beard.{{book ref|Sa4|73}} They also wear bands on their braids, members of different families also have differently colored bands.{{book ref|Sa4|73}}
▲==== Relation to Freedom ====
▲Due to their history the listeners greatly value their freedom. Because of their fear of the gods, and their ancestors’ sacrifice, the listeners decided to assassinate king Gavilar of Alethkar. Although during the resulting war many listeners stopped caring about their origins. It is also important to the Listeners that everyone can choose their own form, and the [[Council of Five|Five]] cannot command people to choose a form.{{book ref|Sa2|i|4}}{{book ref|Sa2|i|11}} Some singers hate trapping spren, instead they prefer to go out into the highstorms themselves and attract the proper spren.{{book ref|Sa2|i|8}}
▲==== Funerary Practises ====
▲[[Listeners]] consider gemhearts sacred and personal, however a [[Fused]] mocks this, saying that gemhearts were just another part of a singer body.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}
=== Songs ===
==== Paper ====
The Listeners have their own unique way of making paper. They make the paper from dried [[rockbud]] pulp following a harvest.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} These rockbuds are native to the unclaimed hills and shattered plains. Their paper is much rougher then human paper and varies in Color. Their paper is also textured and full instead of neat and sterile.{{book ref|WoR|i|4}} They also have a [[Song of Making Paper|song]] describing the process. This ensures that the Listeners never forget how to make it.{{book ref|sa4|45}}
=== Language ===
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