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Hello everyone, I am Nightstar The Bright. I really enjoy reading Brandon Sanderson’s books, sometime after I read them all I began editing the Coppermind.
Hello everyone, I am Nightstar The Bright. I really enjoy reading Brandon Sanderson’s books, sometime after I read them all I began editing the Coppermind.


Notable pages I created or heavily edited.
Notable pages I reworked
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* [[Court of Gods]]
* [[Court of Gods]]
* The [[Iridescent Tones]]
* [[Iridescent Tones]]
* [[Hanald]]
* [[Listener]]
* [[Duladel]]
* [[Duladel]]
* [[Pahn Kahl]]
* [[Pahn Kahl]]
* [[Jah Keved]]
* [[Fjorden]]
* [[Fjorden]]
* [[T'Telir]]
* [[T'Telir]]
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*[[Final Empire]]
*[[Final Empire]]
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! The following part is a rework of the Listener page !


! The following text is a collection of the information about Alethkar!
The '''listeners''', called the '''Parshendi''' by the [[Alethi]], are a group of [[singer]]s on [[Roshar]].


Every city has a little huddle of buildings for caravaneers and the likes. Also large stormbunkers to house armies or multiple caravans.{{book ref|sa3|45}} many small villages have a central cistern to catch rain water and filter out the crem. Alethi is used widely throughout the eastern world to make the underscript of a book. Also, lots of Alethi epics, which are famous even outside Alethkar.{{book ref|sa3|i|2}}
Prior to the [[True Desolation]], they lived on eastern Roshar, near the [[Shattered Plains]]. During the [[War of Reckoning]], they inhabited the city of [[Narak]]. After the arrival of the [[Everstorm]] and the start of the [[True Desolation]] the remaining Listeners left Narak, roaming around on the Shattered plains.


== Geography and Agriculture ==
==== Geography ====
The Listeners lived in the [[Unclaimed Hills]], very close to the [[Shattered Plains]]. Some Listener [[Listener#Culture|families]] occupied the circular craters near the western edge of the plains, while others spent their lives living in the wilderness around these craters.


- Slavery -
{{image
A slaver must provide the reason someone was sold into slavery when he sells the slave, it is illegal to lie.{{book ref|sa1|4}}
|Narak by Connor Chamberlain.jpg|side=right|width=350px|Narak, the home of the Listeners during the War of Reckoning}}


After the assassination of King [[Gavilar Kholin]] the Listeners fled to the Shattered Plains, after this event they began inhabiting the city of [[Stormseat|Narak]].{{book ref|WoR|i|1}} After the end of the [[War of Reckoning|war]] and the [[Battle of Narak]] the remaining Listeners roamed around the Shattered Plains for a while.


==== Agriculture and Animal Husbandry ====


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== Politics ==
The composition of the Five has changed over time as more [[Singer#Common forms|forms]] are discovered. At first, the Five were all in [[dullform]], and later, after the discovery of [[workform]], the members of the council were all in workform. When [[nimbleform]] was discovered, the Council changed to being made up of one member of each form. The Council had pondered whether to add another representative for each newly discovered form, but the discovery of [[stormform]] and the subsequent [[Battle of Narak]] meant that there was never an opportunity to do so.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}


Even low altitude much higher then a coinshot can reach.
=== Composition ===
{{for|:category: Council of Five|a full list of those in the group|Category: Council of Five}}
{| class='infobox sortable' align=center
! Form !! Name
|-
| Dullform || [[Zuln]]
|-
| Mateform || [[Abronai]]
|-
| Nimbleform || [[Chivi]]
|-
| Warform || [[Eshonai]]
|-
| Workform || [[Davim]]
|}

== Culture ==
<!-- TODO: Mention Jaxlim's position as a keeper of songs somewhere -->
=== Families ===
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. Some notable listener families include:
;;{{anchor|First-Rhythm}}First-Rhythm
The family of [[Eshonai]], [[Venli]], [[Thude]],{{book ref|sa4|57}} [[Bila]],{{book ref|sa4|57}} and likely also [[Rlain]].{{book ref|sa4|81}} They were thousands strong around the time Eshonai first met with King [[Gavilar]]'s expedition and boasted a noble heritage, though it had been many years since they had controlled one of the ten cities.{{book ref|sa4|45}}
;;{{anchor|Living-Songs}}Living-Songs
The second family approached by the First-Rhythm family after the discovery of warform in their attempt at unification of the listener tribes.{{book ref|sa4|68}}
;;{{anchor|Pure-Song}}Pure-Song
Known to have raided the Fourth-Movement family out in the wilderness, away from any city, in an attempt to steal their weapons. This action earned them the scorn of other families.{{book ref|sa4|45}}
;;{{anchor|Fourth-Movement}}Fourth-Movement
Once raided by the Pure-Song family in an attempt to seize their weapons.{{book ref|sa4|45}}

=== Songs ===

{{expand}}

In order to remember their history and important skills the listeners remembered them via songs, each to the beat of a different rhythm of Roshar. The known songs are as follows:

{{columns|
* [[Song of Histories]]
* [[Song of Listing]]
* [[Song of Making Paper]]
* [[Song of Mornings]]
* [[Song of Revision]]
* [[Song of Secrets]]
* [[Song of Spren]]
* [[Song of the Fallen]]
* [[Song of Wars]]
* [[Song of Winds]]
}}

=== Language ===
;;Terms in the listener language
* essai -- human-lover (literally "hairy"){{book ref|sa4|60}}
* narak -- exile
* neshua kadal -- Knight Radiant
* ulo mas vara -- monster of the chasms/chasmfiend

;;Listener Concepts translated into Alethi
* long sleep -- the long span spent in dullform
* lull -- the time the Alethi call "The Weeping"
* Rider of Storms -- the Stormfather
* stormpause -- the span between two highstorms

;;Phrases and Idioms
See [https://coppermind.net/wiki/User:King_of_Herdaz/Curses_and_Phrases#Singer.2F|Listener Curses and Phrases]

=== 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 are a real threat to regular human soldiers. Their strength allows them to use heavy weapons like battleaxes, hammers, and sometimes clubs and swords.{{book ref|sa1|40}} They are also capable of jumping far enough to cross the chasms on the [[Shattered Plains]].{{book ref|sa1|27}} The Listeners are also fond of bows and two-handed slings.{{book ref|sa1|65}}

The Listeners had multiple sets of [[Shardplate]] and [[Shardblade]]s, 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 ====
A notable aspect of the listeners' combat strategy is their use of '''warpairs'''{{book ref|sa1|26}}, pairs of warriors who fight side by side as partners. These listener warpairs move around the battlefield in coordinated maneuvers and attack enemy troops with heavy weapons from multiple directions.{{book ref|sa1|28}}

[[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}}

==== Organisation and Hierarchy ====
The Listener army is divided into multiple divisions, each a hundred and twenty-eight in number. These divisions have their own name, and may sometimes be made up of of different forms entirely, an example of this is the Storm division, a division made entirely of Stormforms. During wartime the Listeners also have many warpair scouts, usually from a single division, roaming around, searching for any sign of their enemies. Near the end of the War of Reckoning the entire army was around seventeen thousand Listeners, or 133 divisions, strong.{{book ref|Sa2|i|11}}

The Listener military is commanded by a general, also called a warleader, 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}} Beneath the general are a number of lieutenants, it is likely that these lieutenants control a division each.{{book ref|Sa2|i|11}}

=== 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}} Before the start of the War of Reckoning some of the Listener families occupied the 10 circular craters near the western edge of the plains, but they were eventually forced to move to the center of the Shattered Plains.{{book ref|WoR|i|1}}

=== People ===
==== Fashion ====
Malen Listeners often have uncut gemstones woven into their beards.{{book ref|WoR|i|4}}


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. 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]]. 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.

every half year the Listeners do an accounting of the population, counting their numbers and determining if the forms are balanced. They have roughly 37 thousand people.

=== Crafts ===
==== 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}}



== Other ==
Malen listeners grew beards, which they thread through beads infused with [[Stormlight]].

The listeners learned how to capture spren in gemstones by watching humans, then working out the process for themselves. This allowed them to change forms much more reliably. Before capturing the spren they wanted for the form, there was a chance a listener would end up in a form they did not want.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}

The listener language is descended from the [[Dawnchant]] and is related to the [[Shin]] and [[Unkalaki]] languages.{{wob ref|3977}}

Listeners are considered an adult by age 10. {{book ref|sa4|83}}





! The following part is a rework of the [[Arelon]] page. !

'''Arelon''' was the northwestern-most nation on the continent of [[Opelon]] on the planet [[Sel]].

== Etymology ==
The exact meaning of the name ''Arelon'' is unknown. However it is known that the name stems from [[Aon]] Are, which means ''Unity, Cohesion''. Due to this it is likely that the meaning of the name ''Arelon'' has something to do with Unity and Cohesion.

== Geography and Ecology ==

=== Geography ===
==== Location ====
Arelon lies on the western edge of a continent called [[Opelon]]. Arelon is bordered by the [[Fjorden|Fjordell]] to the east, the [[Duladel|Dula]] to the south east and the [[JinDo]] to the south.

==== Notable Features ====
The country has two major rivers running through it, these being the [[Aredel River]] and the [[Kalomo River]].{{map ref|Sycla}} {{map ref|Arelon}}

==== Climate ====
Duladel is made up of a number of climates. A part of Duladel is made up of the Dula Steppes, these Steppes have many caves. Duladel also has many swamps.{{book ref|Elantris|53}} |D}}

=== Climate ===
Duladel is made up of a number of climates. A part of Duladel is made up of the Dula Steppes, these Steppes have many caves. Duladel also has many swamps.{{book ref|Elantris|53}}

=== Capital ===
Before the [[Reod]] the capital city of Arelon was Elantris, the magical shining city home to the Elantrians who ruled the nation. After the fall of Elantris the nearby city of [[Kae]] became the capital for a short period of ten years and then after the invasion of Arelon, and the reconstruction of Elantris, New Elantris became the new capital.

== Government ==
Before the Reod, Arelon was ruled by the Elantrians as a theocratic nation{{book ref|Elantris|7}}. They were worshipped as deities by virtue of their magical abilities. Although the Elantrians were regarded as gods by many of the citizenry, other religions existed and were not contested by the Elantrians.{{book ref|Elantris|46}}

After the collapse of Elantris due to the Reod, the wealthiest and most powerful merchants rose up and seized control of the nation.{{book ref|Elantris|6}} The merchants then became the new nobility, the capital city moved from Elantris to one of the surrounding towns, [[Kae]], and the head of the merchants guild [[Iadon]] was crowned as king, the new government ruled that someones nobility was directly tied to their wealth, which lead to the reinstatement of a form of slavery of the peasant class as all the nobles struggled to gain more wealth and so rise in rank.{{book ref|Elantris|8}} In addition to barons, counts, and dukes,{{book ref|elantris|11}} the system also had lesser titles like Kimeon (and its feminine version, Kimess) and Tore.{{glossary ref|Elantris|K}}{{glossary ref|Elantris|T}}{{ref|text=These titles are found only in the ''Elantris'' glossary from [[Brandon Sanderson|Brandon's]] website.}} This system of government was incredibly unstable and it is believed that even without the [[invasion of Arelon]] the government would soon have collapsed.

After assuming the throne, King [[Raoden]] made the nobility lords of Elantris and charged them with distributing food and seeing to the needs of remote places.{{book ref|elantris|epilogue}}

{{anchor|Deo}}
The currency used in Arelon is the Deo. It is named after Aon Deo.{{book ref|elantris|part=ars}}

=== Plantations ===
After the [[Reod]] and the Fall of Elantris, King [[Iadon]] established a plantation system in order to control Arelon. Peasants were bound to a plantation in a practice similar to serfdom. Each plantation was named for a different Aon. Due to the competitive nature of Arelene noble status, the peasants were often poorly treated, as the nobles were anxious to retain their titles.{{book ref|elantris|11}}

{{columns|
*Aha Plantation
*Aor Plantation: The plantation [[Diren]] worked on before being taken by the [[Reod]].{{book ref|Elantris|18}}
*Are Plantation
*Daa Plantation
*Deo Plantation
*Edo Plantation
*Ehe Plantation
*Ena Plantation
*Eno Plantation
*Eon Plantation: Operated by Count [[Eondel]].{{book ref|Elantris|11}}
*Eshe Plantation
*Iad Plantation
*Ial Plantation: Operated by Duke [[Roial]].{{book ref|Elantris|11}}
*Ido Plantation
*Ien Plantation
*Kaa Plantation
*Kai Plantation
*Kie Plantation: Operated by Lord [[Waren]]'s father.{{book ref|Elantris|14}}
*Mai Plantation
*Nae Plantation
*Opa Plantation
*Ore Plantation
*Rii Plantation
*Sao Plantation
*Seo Plantation
*Tii Plantation: Operated by Baron [[Edan]].{{book ref|Elantris|11}}
}}

== Invested Art ==
Some people of [[Aonic]] heritage, residing in Arelon would be struck by a phenomenon known as the [[Shaod]] and would gain the ability to draw [[Aon]]s, which when drawn correctly, could produce a magical effect. These symbols were strongest when used close to the city of Elantris and inside of Arelons borders. Each Aon also resembled some of the landscape of Arelon. The central Aon that was required to draw all others was a basic map of Arelon itself.{{book ref|Elantris|46}}

== Trivia ==
* In the first published edition of ''[[Elantris (book)|Elantris]]'', the term "Arelish" was used to describe things originating from the nation of Arelon. This was changed in the tenth anniversary edition of ''Elantris'' such that "Arelene" is now used as the nation's demonym and adjectival form.

== Notes ==
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Revision as of 11:47, 26 May 2024

Hello everyone, I am Nightstar The Bright. I really enjoy reading Brandon Sanderson’s books, sometime after I read them all I began editing the Coppermind.

Notable pages I reworked

! The following text is a collection of the information about Alethkar!

Every city has a little huddle of buildings for caravaneers and the likes. Also large stormbunkers to house armies or multiple caravans.[1] many small villages have a central cistern to catch rain water and filter out the crem. Alethi is used widely throughout the eastern world to make the underscript of a book. Also, lots of Alethi epics, which are famous even outside Alethkar.[2]


- Slavery - A slaver must provide the reason someone was sold into slavery when he sells the slave, it is illegal to lie.[3]


———————————— This part is about Scadrian airships


Even low altitude much higher then a coinshot can reach.

  1. ↑ Oathbringer chapter 45#
  2. ↑ Oathbringer interlude I-2#
  3. ↑ The Way of Kings chapter 4#
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