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[[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, 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}}▼
▲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}}
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.
▲Raw gemstones in beard. 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 neat 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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