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== Geography and Agriculture ==
==== Geography ====
The listeners used to live in the [[Unclaimed Hills]], very close to the [[Shattered Plains]]. Some listener [[Listener#Families|families]] occupied the circular craters near the western edge of the plains, while others spent their lives living in the wilderness around these craters. Many listeners believe that the
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=== Foreign Policy and International relationship ===
==== Alethkar ====
The listeners have a
After the Alethi king [[Gavilar]] revealed to one of the listeners, [[Eshonai]], that he was going to return their gods the listeners decided to assassinate him.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}} The assassination attempt was successful, and the Alethi highprinces [[Vengeance Pact|swore]] to destroy the listeners. This started the [[War of Reckoning]], a war between the Alethi and the listeners. The War of Reckoning went on for six years and eventually ended in the [[Battle of Narak]].{{book ref|sa2|81}}
=== 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, spears and sometimes clubs or swords.{{book ref|sa1|40}}{{book ref|Sa4|45}} They are also capable of jumping far enough to cross the chasms on the [[Shattered Plains]].{{book ref|sa1|27}}
Most of the steel weapons owned by the listeners are either of [[Alethkar|Alethi]] origin or have been passed down from parent to child starting at the abandonment of the old gods.{{book ref|Sa4|81}} The listeners are also fond of bows, which are made from horn,{{book ref|sa1|55}} and two-handed slings,{{book ref|sa1|65}} although bows were viewed as to deadly to wield against other listeners.{{book ref|sa4|68}} Some listeners carry large shields called [[stormshield]]s when going out into a highstorm, however it is unknown if this type of shield is also used in combat.{{book ref|Sa4|88}} It is considered the duty of each warrior to care for his ancient weapon and make his own arrows.{{book ref|Sa4|45}} These arrows are fletched with painted [[scragglebark]].{{book ref|sa1|65}} The listeners also use blowguns to hunt small game, these blowguns are deadly enough to hurt humans.{{book ref|sa2|43}}
The listeners had eight sets of [[Shardplate]] and eight [[Shardblade]]s,{{book ref|sa4|68}} although they gradually lost all of these during the War of Reckoning.{{book ref|sa2|i|3}} It is considered forbidden for these shards to be wielded against other listeners, they were originally used only for [[greatshell]] hunts, although they were also used to fight the [[Alethkar|Alethi]] during the [[War of Reckoning]]. Before this war it was tradition that when one of the proper eight listener cities was conquered the defeated family would relinquish their shards to the victors.{{book ref|sa4|68}}
==== Funerary Practises ====
The listeners revere their dead, even going so far as to endanger the living to preserve the corpses of the fallen. For example, they would take roundabout paths of attack to avoid their fallen while fighting on a battlefield.{{book ref|sa1|57}} They find it horrible to touch their dead, and will fervently attack anyone who does so.{{book ref|sa1|56}}{{book ref|sa1|62}} Listeners also consider their gemhearts sacred and personal.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}
Listeners are buried in a ritual called a sky burial, although it is not completely clear what this entails.{{book ref|sa4|109}}
=== Families ===
=== 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
==== Drums ====
The listeners make music using drums. These drums are considered crude
=== Language ===
Eshonai took the form, and when she returned to the Five, she proposed to transform every listener to stormform, to summon a storm against the Alethi. However, [[Zuln]] didn't agree, and she convinced [[Abronai]] to disagree as well. So, Eshonai went to the listeners and proclaimed that the Five could not forbid someone from taking a form if they wished to, and that she would take everyone who wished and transform them into stormform. She gathered the people that refused to transform, and put Thude to guard them. They fled into the chasms, and Eshonai let them, because they would be killed in the next highstorm.{{book ref|sa4|i|11}}
At the [[Battle of Narak]] on {{Rosharan date|1173|10|10|3}},{{book ref|sa2|79}} the final confrontation between the listeners and the Alethi Highprinces, the listeners in stormform sung a terrible song. It formed the [[Everstorm]] and with it, the [[True Desolation]] began.{{book ref|sa2|84}}
=== The True Desolation ===
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