Difference between revisions of "Summary:Rhythm of War"

Venli islooks surveyingin on the listener scholars she has organized and is using as a front for the discoveries that Ulim gives her, andthen wewanders learnthrough the city, which is unusually busy now that the listener families have united. Ulim complains about the difficulty of bringing inover new voidspren, and Ulimhe mocks Venli for how little she knows about the humans and their capabilities. He also chastises her when she defends her ancestors; ifand theythen hadn’texplains abandonedhow Ulim’sOdium's people, they would have ended up as slaves like the Parshmen. Ulim says that wasn’t their fault; that that theyforces were stuck on Braize, unable to return because of Taln, when the Unmade decided to start a war without them. It was led by Ba-Ado-Mishram, who gave out forms of power to all of the listenerssingers, becoming connectedConnected to them. Whenso Ba-Ado-Mishramthat becamewhen the humans captured her, the listenerssingers lost part of themselves. Venli returnsarrives home and finds her mother upset because she can't remember some of the songs, and. Venli comforts her and starts her reciting the first song. She decides to do what Ulim says because she believes she must in order to avoid slavery under the humans. They decide to manipulate Gavilar into bringing the listeners to Kholinar, which Venli believes will be enough to intimidate themher people into taking on forms of power.