Difference between revisions of "Song of Listing"

The '''Song of Listing''' is one of the songs detailing the oral history of the [[listener]]s on [[Roshar]]. It recounts many of the [[Singer#Common_Forms|common forms]] that listeners were once able to take. It it not known to mention any of the "forms of power" granted by bonding a [[Voidspren]], which are covered by other songs such as the [[Song of Secrets]]. The song has at least 91 stanzas, and [[Eshonai]] notes that the old songs recount "hundreds" of forms.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}▼

By the time of the [[War of Reckoning]], the Listeners had rediscovered nimbleform, warform, and workform after generations of research.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}{{book ref|sa3|i|7}} Scholars continued to research the secrets to unlocking other forms known from the song such as artform and mediationform.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}} With the advent of the [[True Desolation]], the listeners regained access to forms that had been abandoned. The [[singers]] who had previously been enslaved as the parsh were given at least a dozen options of forms after they were freed, and are seen using various forms including artform and scholarform.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}▼